All the walls don’t need to match on your living room. An accent wall stands out, even if it doesn’t contrast sharply with the dominant wall color. Improve the decor at a room filled with neutrals by playing with tints and shades of almost-white and also the intense off-white hardened beige. A single light toast, chamois, heavy cream or antique white wall specifies your wall system or your sofa, and adds complexity to low-key decor.
Walls Made Visible
A pale neutral on every wall expands the space by making the walls vanish. If you’d like more definition on your living room decor, shift the palette slightly to **alternate a beige wall using a lotion one** — or select one, focal wall to cover at the unusual color. Three warm cream walls, surrounding a **fireplace wall painted the beige of unbleached linen** bring light to the room. The natural stone fireplace and chimney breast, a melee of variegated pale colors, blends effortlessly to the decor with the help of that beige-linen wall which picks up one shade from the rocks. Paint the ceiling and trim lotion in this room, to prevent a choppy mix of textures and similar, but not matching, colors.
Cappuccino and Cream
Beige can be any shade from suction foam to *cafe au lait*. Utilize the contrast between associated colors to paint three walls in the living room a rich, deep cappuccino — the color of the coffee, not the insubstantial whiter polyurethane. Then top off your confection using one creamy wall — a warm ivory with a great deal of yellow in a white with a hint of pink. All-natural and hardwood furnishings in the room are a soothing way for a spare, contemporary space. Polished antiques and gleaming upholstery material are emphasized at the matte **deep beige and cream** setting.
Tone-on-Tone
**White-cream and yellow-cream** are elegant on **interior walls and trim** at a living room with French doors which open out to a patio and a garden or woodland view. If the frames about French doors and sidelights or windows together that wall have been stained hardwood, paint the wall encircling them a warm, **very pale fawn**. The beige wall is not jarring at the soft area, but it will not blend the wood frames and also the character outside gently to the remainder of the room. **Match any curtains on the wall to this paint**, to break up the wall as little as possible and let your gaze to travel smoothly to this view. The creamy backdrop on the rest of the walls accommodates formal period furnishings and bespoke carpets, or more casual wood and woven pieces and a big sisal rug.
Tea-Beige, Ivory-Cream
The living room — with its high ceiling, neutral velvet furnishings, touches of tobacco and dark accents, and stone paver flooring — opens to your contemporary ivory-and-black dining room through doors. Paint the walls of the living room a barely there color, such as the pale, nearly **translucent beige of freshly brewed white tea**. But paint the ceiling, pocket doors and the wall about the exact same **creamy ivory** as the dining room. Keep wall decor to a minimum in the living room. After the pocket doors have been closed, they vanish seamlessly into the expanse of wall wall. When the doors have been open, the **living room flows, uninterrupted, in the dining room**. The result is serene and spare without being nourished.