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Two tone room colors with chair rail.
If you have high ceilings another example of this two tone technique might be to pair a bright coral with tan this time reversing the theme of light above dark.
When you have a chair rail it can be hard to figure out whether to use the same paint colour on the upper and lower portion of the walls or to do two different colours.
Living room large traditional formal and enclosed medium tone wood floor and brown floor living room idea in chicago with gray walls a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace chair rail is painted to match the wall color a tan grey and the crown molding and shoe molding are painted white.
By putting the bolder color above the molding above the chair.
When updating the room for my oldest son we painted above the chair rail a gray and painting white below the chair rail.
When neighboring color wheel hues share the same undertone such as greenish blue gray and sage green two tone walls display a gentle transition without a chair rail partition.
For example the base color can be applied onto the plain walls while the accent color is applied only onto the cornices wainscoting and trims.
The fourth bedroom has a chair rail with wainscoting under it.
Layout figure out whether the colors are going to be separated per wall or if they are going to be separated by a horizontal chair rail or wainscoting.