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I need interior designers to help me!?

My mom has a country type of flavor when it comes to how her small 3 bedroom house looks. I want to paint her living room which is small. She loves covered bridges and lighthouse, and in that order. I want to give her 2 colors when I paint her living room but as I said she is scared of color. She loves the light her 3 living room windows bring. Anyone have ideas on if I should give her lighter or darker for the top color, and can someone recmond colors. Her rug is a light brown and her couch and one chair is deep green and her big arm chair is black. She likes a mix of things and doesn't buy things to match per say she buys things that are affordable. Please if you are an expert of interior design please help me! I need simple and fairly cheap ideas cause I am not spending more than $100 and would like to do this job on the cost of 2 perhaps 3 colors of paint and stencles, perhaps stencles. Can I do a chair rail for that budget? If so could I buy it already made for that budget or would I have to make it? Thanks!

Public Comments

1. brown would be your main wall choclate brown then i would go with a light blue for the rest of the walls.you would probably have to make your chair rail yourself.
2. I suggest sherwin williams colors "cascade green" and "netsuke," with the green below the chair rail. http://sherlink.sherwin.com/swapp/color_visualizer/index.jsp You can do a chair rail relatively cheaply with a wallpaper border instead of molding. As a bonus, you can get one with a lighthouse or other type of country style pattern.
3. First go look at all the great ref. photos on HGTV.com and get some ideas. The paint stores have samples of grouped colors that gp well together too-Martha Stewart paints for example-withroom photos. Think maybe patterned pillows or a throw to add in. I would go with one color because of all the colors in the furniture too- look on art.com and posters.com for posters to frame.
4. Benjamin Moore paints have what they call historical colors and they also have color swatchs to see which colors look well together. Another consideration is to let the stencil carry the different colors for the two things she likes, covered bridges and light houses. Go to a good paint store and speak with them they can really be a big help. There are also small test jars of paint for about $3.00 each that you can take home a test the colors on the wall and see how they look with the lighting both natural and artificial and the furniturw and carpet colors. Remember the color blends can be carried in the room different ways as I said earlier with the stencil, art work, throw pillows, window treatments, and accessories. I hope this helps.
5. If you have a Home depot in the area trying going there to book a interior decorator. Im pretty sure they are free to come to your house. Check out the website