Which wall paint colour goes with grey?

Are you looking for a new wall colour and want to add more colour to your rooms? But which wall paint matches grey, the shade of your couch, bed or carpet? Various colour shades come into question that not only match your grey furnishings but even visually emphasise them or develop special effects in combination.

In this article, you will find out which wall colour matches your grey furnishings, what effects you can achieve with a high-quality wall and ceiling paint and how best to combine the colours!

Which wall colour goes with grey? It all depends!

Which wall colour goes with grey depends first of all on your own personal taste. Because grey is a relatively neutral colour, combining a grey couch or a grey carpet with different wall colours is relatively easy.

The special feature of grey: the colour unfolds its very own effect depending on the rest of the room’s design. If you combine grey with white, the colour looks rather clean and reduced. Combinations with pink or mint, on the other hand, look very playful. Turquoise, yellow, or red look rather unusual and modern in combination with grey, while grey and green form a very stylish symbiosis.

Which wall colour is the best?

The question "Which wall colour goes with grey?" can be answered with various shades from white to yellow to black. But which wall colour is the best to give your vinyl floor in grey, the couch in anthracite or your light grey decorative elements the perfect stage? Basically, you should go for a wall paint with lots of high-quality colour pigments. An intensive colour strength immediately makes the colour and thus also the entire room appear much more valuable. A wall paint of opacity class 1, for example, is highly opaque and often has a more intensive colour tone. In addition, less paint is needed when repainting old wall paint.

With classic dispersion paints - which are traded as standard wall paints - a matt look is preferred today. A glossy surface, as with white latex paints, is rather unusual in living rooms such as the bedroom and living room. Silk matt surfaces alone have a warmer and softer feel and thus support a cosy atmosphere.

Green and grey - refreshing wall design

Grey and green make a very special couple. In particular, the trend colours sage green and mint can be excellently combined with grey and lend your room some freshness and youthful charm. A green wall colour comes in a wide variety of shades. Especially popular at the moment are wall colours that already have a slight grey tone to them. Which wall colour goes with grey therefore also depends on the undertone of the wall colour. Wall paint in grey-green can also be ideally combined with home accessories such as decorative cushions in other cool shades of green to create a tone-in-tone ambience.

Here, the wall colour PURO "C5001 5 Sage Green" by A.S. Création is combined with a grey upholstered chair to generate a refreshing but cosy atmosphere in the home office.

What about dark green?

The combination of grey and darker green tones such as emerald, fir or moss green looks much more elegant and sophisticated. Especially warmer of the darker green tones give anthracite and slate grey a pleasantly cosy but unusual touch. By the way, a wall colour in dark green and dark grey furniture can be perfectly combined with lots of dark wood and golden home accessories. For example, choose an oak-look vinyl floor or a stylish herringbone vinyl to go with your green wall colour. This creates a sophisticated and truly noble ambience.

The wall paint PURO "C6009 2,5L Gentle Lime" by A.S. Création can be perfectly combined with dark wood and furniture in anthracite. Fresh flowers additionally loosen up the atmosphere.

Grey and blue - a modern couple

Which wall colour goes well with grey if you are aiming for a rather modern and cool living experience? A wall colour in blue in combination with grey furniture often generates a rather cool and detached room image. For this reason, a combination with warm colours and golden home accessories is a good idea. For example, use a beige carpet, a warm wooden floor and yellow cushions to add some warmth to the room. Of course, the different shades of blue also bring very different effects that give your grey furniture different effects.

The Ice Bonbon wall paint from the Color Kitchen by A.S. Création brings a little gentleness into your rooms.

Wall paint in dark blue - a good partner for grey living elements?

In particular, a wall colour in light blue can be wonderfully combined with a light grey couch. But what about a wall colour in dark blue. The dark colour can often seem oppressive, but it is very popular, especially as a bedroom colour, because it reminds us of the night sky and can also have a calming effect.

Dark grey furniture in particular looks too heavy in combination with a dark blue wall colour. Again, choose rather light shades of grey to soften the heaviness of the blue colour. It is also best to use natural tones such as light wood to bring a little warmth into the interior. You will find both powerful and delicate blue tones in the Color Kitchen by A.S. Création, for example!

A wall colour in dark blue such as A.S. Création The Color Kitchen "TCK3005 Classic Cornflower" is also well suited for the bathroom with grey towels.

Combine yellow wall colour with grey furniture

It is clear that wall colour in sunny yellow in combination with grey furniture forms a rather unusual symbiosis. The cool note of grey with the very warm effect of yellow creates an unusual room image. Especially because yellow stimulates communication on a colour-psychological level, while grey appears rather static and detached. However, especially lighter and tinted wall colours in yellow can be combined well with grey. For example, the combination of light yellow and anthracite looks very stylish.

The wall paint PURO "C8009 2,5L Smooth Saffron" by A.S. Création also gives rooms with dark grey home accessories a summery look.

Conclusion

The question of which wall colour goes with grey cannot be answered with one single answer. Because grey is relatively neutral, you can be a little bolder in your choice of wall colour and let your preferences flow into it. You should always bear in mind that dark wall colours in combination with dark grey furniture should be somewhat loosened up by lighter and warmer colours. Cool wall colours should also be loosened up and warmed up a little with the help of natural colours and soft home textiles so that the room does not appear too cool and sterile.

We hope we have been able to help you choose the right colour and look forward to your visit to BRICOFLOR, the expert for walls & floors!