I am planning to repaint my lounge and my wife has just brought some new curtains what colours would you ?

suggest I use. The curtains are an off white with dark green leaves and primrose flowers. Any suggestions ?? Its a rather high ceiling.

I am planning to repaint my lounge and my wife has just brought some new curtains what colours would you ?
Green can be tricky. If it's too dark of a green it can rob a space of light and feel too dungeon/deep-forest-like. And with lighter greens, if you aren't careful with the shade you may end up with something that reminds you of a hospital (like if there are too many blues making a more minty 70's color).



But I would probably suggest a very light green. another option to consider is to maybe use something more neutral and then use pillows and other accent items in your room to add colors that tie in with the curtains's colors.



You can also use sites like this one to test out various color pallets and ideas: http://www.colourlovers.com/



Maybe a super pale green (probably even paler) like this:

http://www.colourlovers.com/color/E5F5D5... (maybe too much yellow?) or

http://www.colourlovers.com/color/D1E6CE...

Would look good if there are say crisp white window or wall framings.



This is probably as dark as I'd go with green - which is fairly dark:

http://www.colourlovers.com/color/A0C38B...



And perhaps a beige-ish neutral that may have the smallest bit of green in it (this may still have too much green):

http://www.colourlovers.com/color/C0C4A9...



But generally speaking I would say you want to consider that the curtains are mostly? off white with a pattern with strong colors. I don't think you want walls too light/too similar to the off white of the curtains - where the background of the curtains fades into the walls. What happens then is that the curtains' patterns will be blaring out.



Instead, I think you want a color / tone that lets you see the curtain as the vertical rectangle - as a whole - that they really are. Green is such a strong color that even very light shades of it will contrast nicely with the off white of the curtains. And if you go too dark with green then the contrast is too much - too stark I think. Too jarring.



And with the neutral / beige-ish color I think you would need to go a little darker towards the medium range of darkness like the link above - because if its super light - it may too much like the off white to really offset it. Though if I were to err anywhere I'd err on the side of too light rather than too dark.



Hope this helps.
Reply:How about a lighter shade of green ? You could even do very subtle stripes with 2 lighter shades of green .
Reply:i think it would look good if you paint it the color of the primrose flowers or the dark green that the leaves are.
Reply:Mint.