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The Global Abode

Room Ideas

Color ideas for the room you’re standing in

Room guides with a difference: every idea here is chosen to work inside a whole-home palette, so the color you love in the bedroom won’t fight the hallway outside it.

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The room-color rule of thumb

Before picking a color for any room, answer two questions: which way does it face? (north-facing rooms want warmth; south-facing can go cooler) and what can you see from the doorway? (every visible color must share the undertone family). Those two answers eliminate 90% of bad choices.

Coming soon

  • Living room paint colors that work with the rest of the home
  • Kitchen wall colors around cabinets and countertops
  • Calm bedroom palettes without the bland
  • Paint colors for small rooms that actually open a space
  • Home office colors for focus

Decorating room by room? Start with the system.

The Whole Home Paint Guide maps every room’s colors in advance, so each room you decorate already belongs.

Browse the color systems