What Color is Your "Maplewood Room"

Clearing out our sunroom and turning it into an office/lounge space for myself. If I can find a small enough lounger couch/sleeper sofa, it will also double as a guest room when my MIL comes to visit. Trying to decide on a paint color.

This is what I was thinking for a couch, but this one is too long.

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Woodwork is a dark chestnut. I was thinking a light grey or Navy Blue. Son says, "Mom it's a sunroom! It should be sky blue. DON'T paint it navy" My first idea was cranberry, but that color is kind of out these days isn't it?

Any input or photos of your maplewood room are very welcome! I stink at decorating!

It WAS a sunroom, not any more. Navy blue sounds just lovely..,

Here is my cousin's office/ sunroom. Other half is couch coffee table and TV.

Is the room warm enough in winter to serve as a guest bedroom? With windows on three walls, ours tends to be chilly. Jennifer Beds has lots of sofa or chair sleepers geared to smaller spaces. Popular paint colors these days appear to be gray with white trim, very crisp looking. Also grayish Blues -- navy not so much. Light colors make room appear larger.

We painted our sun room and/or plant room sunshine yellow! It lifts my spirit even in the dead of winter!

Cousin uses heaters in the winter. With the insidedoors left open year round. It certainly is a liveable space.

Mtierney, I LOVE your sunshine yellow. Absolutely gorgeous!

Ours also tends to be chilly from Nov-March, but it is over an uninsulated storage area. We extended the heating, so it is usable during the day, but I couldn't use it as a guestroom. That said, the room has windows on three sides (more window than wall space), and two sets of French doors flanking the outside fireplace wall (fieldstone). We used a light creamy ivory on the walls and painted the tongue-and-groove ceiling white as well. It is airy and we like it very much, but it isn't private enough or warm enough to be a guest room.

Ours is chilly in the winter (even after insulating the ceiling and under the floor through the crawl space), but with a small space heater it warms up nicely--I'm sure it would be fine for a night or two.

We still have white walls in ours--can't decide if it's going to be a playroom or an office in the long term--but I've thought about leaving the walls white (they're covered with kid artwork right now so it's busy!) and painting the ceiling a pretty soft blue.

Thanks Everyone! mtierney. I love the yellow and may consider it.

We used to have a wicker day bed/lounger thing in there and called it "Grandma's Room". My mom stayed in it for extended visits and swore she was comfortable. We did give her a lot of blankets in the winter and put in a space heater. She was always cold in my house in the day/evening, but never complained about the sunroom being cold. She has passed now and I have inherited my dad large desk. The rolled back/end of the wicker day bed is really too big for the room and is too short for anyone over 5' 5".

No one other than my mom stayed with us for long, but I still want a place for my MIL to be able to sleep when she visits. I would give her and FIL the master bedroom and bunk in with my kids, but her dog is arthritic and can't climb the stairs so the sunroom works for her too.

I was originally planning on doing a light tan in the livingroom, but am trying to convince my husband that a gray will work in there. I could use the same color or play with something a little bolder.

Thank you all for the input.

The trim color definitely changes the way colors look. I have a lot of grayish colors in my house with medium/dark wood trim. Because there are a lot of windows, the orientation of the room will also shift the color a lot. So whatever color you choose, I'd make sure to see how it works with the trim and at different times of day.

We use ours as an office and it is painted a light gray with white ceiling and dark floors/dark furniture. Photos are a little dark because took them at night with the overhead lights on using a cell phone camera that was not that great.

Another. And yes we need a small heater in the winter if the door to the dining room is not left open.

Here's a picture of half of our sunroom - the other side is currently storing some excess furniture and boxes of books, but you'll get the idea from this.

The link for the couch didn't work for me. What color are you thinking for the sofa? With dark chestnut trim I would be inclined to go with a lighter color for contrast, even though I personally love doing intense colors in sunrooms. I go against the conventional wisdom that strong colors make a small room look smaller, because I figure small is small, and no amount of light color is going to make it look significantly bigger. Plus, in a sunroom, you have so much light coming in and so much of the walls are actually glass or doorways that the paint color won't take up much of the wall surface. I like bold.

But, as I said, the dark trim would make a difference, and if the sofa is going to be darker also, you want to lighten up the walls. I like the light greys or "greiges" that are so popular these days.

So, what color are you going with for the couch?

We have forest green walls in ours. It looks AWESOME! Even though its a darker color, the room doesn't look small since the other 3 walls are mostly all windows. I bet navy blue would have the same effect and look really great too.

So did we, Oakland2, and we also loved it. But the carpet and furniture were lighter colors, and the trim was white. With dark trim and dark furniture, I'd have to see samples to know how I'd feel about it.

I'm going through similar decisions for our current family room, which is also in the nature of a sunroom or breezeway. It sits between the eat-in kitchen and the garage, with a wall of windows on one side with the door to the deck, and two large windows and a Dutch door on the other side. A third wall opens into the kitchen (12'-side arch) and the fourth has the door to the garage and a fireplace with a wood-burning stove insert. LOTS of light, not so much wall space. So I'm debating what colors to do in there, both for curtains and for paint. The trim is stained wood with a medium value of saturation. Tricky stuff.

@ Peggy, we have white trim but a dark sofa.

We turned ours into a TV room, it has two walls of windows, one wall of doors and one solid wall. Room and Board has couches in many small sizes and we found one that was a perfect fit.

Nice sectional and TV bench. We did something similar with one of our "Maplewood rooms" in the house in West Orange. A leather sofa filled one wall, and a built-in bookcase at the opposite end held the TV. We went with a caramel color for those walls, since the built-in was white and the sofa was dark brown.