best wall color to go with antique white (creamy off-white) time?

[Anonymous]

I hope to start paining our living room soon. I've been painting the dining room for what seems like forever. In the dining room there is a ton of trim work including decorative molding. Now I really don't want to repaint the trim in the living room. The trim work is made up of basebords, 4 in crown molding, 2 windows and a set of french doors. I don't know the exact color of the trim, but it seems to match up best with Behr Antique white, which is like an extra creamy off-white. https://www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/23. Or maybe sherwin williams aged white.

I want the wall color to be pretty neutral and light. The room is south facing and rather dark (but large). What about painting the wall a shade or two lighter than the trim? Or is there another direction you think I should go? Or should I suck it up an repaint the trim? (I'd probably repaint the trim a lighter white -- like SW alabaster, which I'm using the dining room.)

The room is currently a light, but bright blue which is making hard to visualize anything else even with the larger sample boards I made.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I think it looks best when the trim is consistent throughout the level, unless it's a color in one room or another. If you painted the trim in the dining room a different shade of white, it might be best to bite the bullet and paint the living room trim to match.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it looks best when the trim is consistent throughout the level, unless it's a color in one room or another. If you painted the trim in the dining room a different shade of white, it might be best to bite the bullet and paint the living room trim to match.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it looks best when the trim is consistent throughout the level, unless it's a color in one room or another. If you painted the trim in the dining room a different shade of white, it might be best to bite the bullet and paint the living room trim to match.

This.

thanks for the feedback. The rest of the main floor has white trim and white walls that are a pretty close match to the trim color I am using in the dining room. So, painting the trim in the living room would probably improve the flow.