We’re in the slow process of tossing clutter and redecorating rooms, and I’m looking forward to repainting the kitchen probably next, which is a very pale green that’s been here for probably 20 or 30 years.
We started with the bedroom and bath, which was pastel blue and is now sunny yellow, and the bath a fire engine red sponged over a hunter orange. It’s extremely bold and yet because it’s such a small bath, it works.
I scared the ever-living fuck out of my wife when I told her I was doing our kitchen a deep chocolate-brown with a butter-yellow accents (soffits and such).
Turned out awesome. She loves it.
My front room, where I work (and surf the dope), is a neutral mint with dark wood furniture and decor.
And our back room (family room), is a pale green-gray, that feels earthy and warm.
Come to think of it, almost every room in this house are colors I ultimately picked. I blame it on the designer in me.
Also, I always go with flat paint when I can. It makes the walls look really clean and flat (hiding any imperfections). Any gloss or shimmer that will reflect light ruins and cheapens the look, IMHO.
So…you probably don’t agree with my post, huh? lol When a guy knows what he’s doing it IS fun to decorate together.
My walls are wood, aside from the bathroom, which I have painted off-white for brightness. It’s not a log cabin, but both the interior and exterior are unpainted wood.
Well, mostly white…
We have a large swath of wall with diagonal beadboard on it (70s!), and we painted that a soft dove brown.
The powder room is acid green.
The guest bathroom is aqua.
The master bath is exactly the color of Pepto Bismol (and I love it).
My daughter’s room has two pale pink accent walls.
One of these days, I’ll find the right shade of pale lime green to do an accent wall in the guest room.
And our bedroom… I’m lost. My mother-in-law forbade me from painting it any shade of pink (on my husband’s behalf), and I can’t think of much else that would work both with the pepto-bismol ensuite and with the other colors in the room. So it’s still white.
Oh–forgot to add, our media room is a lovely dark-warm hot chocolate color. It used to be the garage and is very separate from the rest of the house. It feels like a dark, cozy cave and I love it too.
Guest bedroom - bright yellow.
Master bedroom - light green.
Family room - two walls white, two walls bright orange.
Den - purple.
Master bathroom - spent a lot of time making the walls look like washed out gold like you would see on exterior walls of an old Italian villa. (Paint, wipe away, paint, wipe away…took hours to do.)
Guest bathroom - dark green, but with white towels, white shower curtain, white wooden framed mirror, white glass lights, white ceramic faucet handles. The contrast is great.
One wall in kitchen is purple.
Our last apartment was all black furniture and white walls. We had EVERYTHING black and white only - we liked the stark look and would then add just a red pillow in one room, or some other single bright color in each room. However, when we moved into the house, we were sort of done with black and white and went for loud, bright colors.
Shell Beige for my cabinets and most of my trim. Shell beige has a very slight pinkish hue like the inside of a shell
turquoise/aqua green in my bedroom. my kitchen has Wilson Art laminate in a gorgeous aqua green. they call it bottle glass
http://samples.wilsonart.com/p-623-bottle-glass-4901.aspx
living room has honey oak wainscoting with light creme walls.
Bathrooms Navajo White
Even in our bedroom which is a wood frame addition on our cabin, I did the interior in knotty pine planks. Can’t beat natural wood.
We just painted a couple weeks ago. We have an open floor plan, so pretty much everything but bedrooms, bathrooms, and my office are the same color, Glidden Mossy Green, which looks pretty close to Dried Thyme. Our trim is bright, glossy white, and it looks awesome.
The only other room we’ve painted so far is my office, which is Glidden French Gray (close to Storm Cloud), which also looks wonderful with the white trim, and the sheer white curtains and burlap roman shades I sewed.
The bedrooms and bathrooms are boring white, for the time being. That will hopefully change soon! I haven’'t decided where I’m going with the master bedroom and bath, but I might paint the other bathroom some form of yellow. The spare room will probably stay white until we have a kid and it becomes the kid’s room.
We live in a log house, so the walls are brown (wood) and white (chinking).
Brilliant white in the living room and hallway, with one dark red feature wall in the living room, buttercup yellow in the kitchen, burnt orange in my bedroom, green in the bathroom. My daughter’s room is a mix of brilliant white on most of the walls (it was 13 walls!) with one large wall, one small wall and the ceiling being black. It actually looks really, really good.
Maybe you could persuade you wife to let you have a feature wall.
You can see some of the walls in the album this picture’s a part of.
I HATE white walls. I do have kind of cliched colors, though - sage green living room, red dining room. Yellow kitchen, gray study, blue guest bedroom, dark taupe master bedroom and bathrooms. I like it.
Death to boring wall colors!
I like to keep the house colors cohesive, so I tend to pick three, then use them or shades of them in all the rooms, but often in different proportions. I usually use the rule of 60% one color, 30% another, 10% third.
I am in the process of painting with brown, bluish turquoise, and bright blue. For example, in the living room, the walls will be brown, the accent wall turquoise, and pillows blue and turquoise. In the kitchen, it is lighter turquoise on the walls, cabinets and floor brown, and accent pieces blue.
We’re painting now. Very, very, very light blue,with a darker blue trim. It’s really calming, makes the place look bigger, and surprisingly, actually does make you do a double take.
Everyone who has come in so far has gone “wow”.
The only place that’s going to be different is the bathroom, and it’s going to be a light brown to suit the floor and the bench top.
White walls mostly; I favor the “Shabby Chic” look (but try to tone down the “twee” factor). My bedroom walls are “Royal Silk” by Behr, which is a pale mauvish-rose.
I am thinking of going to a silvery pale blue - I like how that looks with white/crystal/silver, which is what I use in decorating. Just have to find the right shade.
Also - no discussion of paint colors is complete without this:
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I love many of the colour ideas expressed in the thread but I have to ask if everyone who has painted their rooms vivid or unusual colours then has to go and change all the furniture and furnishings (curtains, quilt covers, carpets etc).
We’re going to be repainting soon but I think I’ll be stuck with the same colour walls as before (light peach) because nothing else I can think of will go with the grey carpet, dark green leather sofa and chairs and the curtains, which have sage, peach and grey in them. The carpet is new, the sofa and chairs are new, so neither of those items will be replaced. I could stand to change the curtains but it all seems a bit difficult.
Our front hall and one wall of the living room are a lovely soft, pale orange. They were like that when we moved in. I never thought I’d like orange on the walls, but it’s such a warm, inviting color that we kept it. The rest of the house, as someone put it, looked like a make-up factory had exploded in it. All shades of paper bag brown, dark beige, chocolate, in an already dark, dreary townhouse. Our living room is a buttery yellow. The kitchen is also yellow. One kid liked her lavender room as is, and the boy painted his blinding lemon yellow. The master bedroom is a bright sky blue. The basement room is a tropical coral pink.
We had fun with the paint after many years of white walls.
Dark knotty pine in LR, cypress and pine in kitchen, orangey yellow plaster and cypress in bedroom, eggshell plaster and redwood in bathroom, 2nd bedroom blue beadboard.
The wood was there when I moved in, but I like the contrast of wood trim with eggshell walls.
When I was in high school, I went to visit a friend at his home.
His mother loved the color beige. I mean, she REALLY loved the color beige.
They had beige walls, beige carpet, beige furniture, beige lampshades, beige curtains, beige tablecloths and, just to make this house perfect, she had plastic covers over the sofa and living room chairs, over the lampshade and plastic floor runners down the hallway and one strip through the living room.
It was one of the most bizarre homes I have ever visited, but I have to admit, I have never forgotten what it looked like!