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we are painting our sunroom half tea colour and I am wanting to put a feature wall - have yet to convince DH aout it- so what colours would be nice for a feature wall.

Our Dining, kitchen and lounge are open plan with the sunroom , the kitchen has red bench tops and we have dark wood all the way thru the house (nice maghongy and rinu colours)

so what colours do you suggest??

BTW - I not particularly looking for a red feature wall more something that will go with it
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i was just thinking red, that was before you mentioned you had a lot of red in the house.

Are you after a dark or vibrant feature wall?

Our kitchen is like a sandy/tea colour and the off-white cupboards really stand out (makes the kitchen look huge when it is teeny tiny!

I've been having a play with the Resene website lately to see what colours go with what.
I just typed in "Half Tea" and this is what they suggest
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yeah i saw that Toni and didn't like their suggestions... I want a dark rather than virant colour (to convince Dh it can't be too in your face colour)
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neither did I to be honest.

How about Black? You could use white accessories to break it up?

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I like these 2 so far...



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Nelson Red
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umm black nope don't think he would go with that - hes a very traditional colour person
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also

Deep Chocolate

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I like the Slate brown.

How big is your sunroom? I'd be worried if you put a dark colour on there that it would make the room smaller.
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Nelson Red gets my vote

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its ummm medium but the feature wall will only be visiable from outside not from the dining/kitchen/lounge area. so it shouldn't make too much different in size of it
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That slate brown is nice - I thinky i shall go and get some test pots and doing a bit more test potting LOL....
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being a sunroom the darker colour might also make it too hot in the summer

Our's is painted cream and is always the warmest part of the house

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How warm is the room naturally? I'd want to try a (not too vibrant) lime green if it was a feature wall - just to be different!!
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i like the nelson red

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feature walls are out anyway...

why not do it in a textured wallpaper instead?!

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I like the Nelson Red Ann. Very nice
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Bizzy - i don't want to wall paper as its a hassle - but the rest of the house is going to be wall papered eventualy with textured wall paper as its got uneven gib underneath and would take ages to sand (I mean you will sand an sand and it still wouldn't be straight! - good ole houses for ya!)

Theres not alot of walls to paint thats why we decided to bite the bullet... yes it is the warmest in the house and the brightest which lights up the dining room as its got no windows so wanted to go with a bright colour as the main colour.

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I went get test pots in those colours I oput up and you know what because they all belong to the heritage collection - ther eis no test pots - whats with that!!! so i got some others to try. Looked at the Nelson red in their show rooma nd NOPE not keen on it now it looks totally different!
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ok so heres what I decided on (and brought the paint for)

Half tea on the walls
and Felix for the feature one

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**licks the screen**

Felix looks like really yummy dark chocolate.

Feature walls will always be in - especially in older houses where you can get away with it

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