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Styles · 4 guides

Modern Style Color Guides for Every Room

This page gathers our guides for modern interiors in one place. Each color was measured from a public-domain painting and comes with its light reflectance value (LRV) and the closest commercial paint matches. Start with the bedroom guide for calm, restful walls, choose the kitchen guide for colors that work with cabinets and counters, or open the whole-house guide to pick one palette that carries from room to room.

Contemporary Living Room Color Schemes Modern style Modern Bedroom Colors and Color Combinations Modern style Modern Kitchen Colors: A Palette Measured from Paintings Modern style Modern Paint Colors for Interior Rooms Modern style

Paintings these colors come from

The Child's Bath Mary Cassatt, 1893 Woman at Her Toilette Berthe Morisot, 1875–80 Two Sisters (On the Terrace) Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881 Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943) Gustav Klimt, 1899

More topics

Rooms
  • Bedroom 47
  • Living room 14
  • Bathroom 12
  • Kitchen 12
  • Hallway 3
Colors
  • Green 19
  • Blue 15
  • Grey 15
  • White 11
  • Neutral & beige 9
  • Pink 6
  • Red 5
  • Black 4
  • Yellow 4
  • Orange & terracotta 3
Light
  • North-facing rooms 7
  • Small rooms 5
  • Dark rooms 4
  • West-facing rooms 3
Styles
  • Modern 4
  • Coastal 3
  • Farmhouse 3
Exterior
  • House colors 32
  • Trim & shutters 5
  • Colors by roof 3
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