What colors are your rooms painted?

Capt Lightning said:
Interesting, you ask what colours they are painted. Do you use wallpaper much? Nearly all my rooms are papered (with a fine texture), mainly in fairly neutral tones. Colour comes from dozens of paintings.

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Ooohh, I like that! I have wallpaper on the three story wall that goes from the basement to the top of the second floor, but, other than that, just the paint colors and my “art” which is my quilts hanging on most walls.
 
I made a terrible decorating mistake and wallpapered my master bath, many years ago. The ceilings are very high. It will cost a fortune to remove it. I'm living with it and will let the next person deal with it. I should have painted it a neutral color.

My master is sage green, foyer is a soft yellow, I have some kilim beige rooms and would like to paint the mudroom that color. Other rooms are grey, minty green, sand, and a red that is deeper than cherry. I am not afraid of color but I sometimes wish for a monochromatic room. All soft shades of the same base color sounds soothing to me. I think my guest bedroom comes closest to this.
 
My living room is in very pale lemon.. below the dado rail, and brilliant white above on 3 walls.. the back feature wall is lemon below, and red wallpaper above... and has large silver framed black and white pictures.. on it..

The rest of the house is in what they call Hessian ... shade of beige on the walls with white and baby pink accents in one room.. and chocolate brown and white accents in another ... No beige in my little office room which is brilliant white on 3 walls and light green on the feature wall

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My daughter re- did every room here ,over the years, and this is my dining room-she wanted a Southeast Asia look to it and even painted the ceiling a deep red.
The drapes are from India and she bought for me much of the stuff in this room.
She bought white birch chairs and re -painted them with glassy black paint. She also bought me most of the Blue Willow in the hutch and also the gold lined dining set on top shelf.

I have to make it more Christmas eee......

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Maybe I have a good photo of the back porch,too, as it extended the Asian look.
 
Capt Lightning said:
Interesting, you ask what colours they are painted. Do you use wallpaper much? Nearly all my rooms are papered (with a fine texture), mainly in fairly neutral tones. Colour comes from dozens of paintings.

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Lovely fireplace surround... Just requires a couple of train slates from Garden centre. Saves the carpet from from hot flying ashes ... Just FYI😀
 
hollydolly said:
My living room is in very pale lemon.. below the dado rail, and brilliant white above on 3 walls.. the back feature wall is lemon below, and red wallpaper above... and has large silver framed black and white pictures.. on it..

The rest of the house is in what they call Hessian ... shade of beige on the walls with white and baby pink accents in one room.. and chocolate brown and white accents in another ... No beige in my little office room which is brilliant white on 3 walls and light green on the feature wall

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When my kids were young I always let them do up their bedrooms how they liked. My son painted his room that same shade of green, then highlighted with street art type graphics. It was very cool.
 
As it was to be our OAP Pad, I've changed the colour scheme to Pastels with two exceptions.

  1. Living Room is tan with all natural wood furniture and a curtain feature wall of fireplace bricks.
  2. Kitchen is Moroccan yellow with Moroccan gold and white curtains, DH choices with amazing effect with morning until afternoon sunlight.
  3. Hallways are Sage Green with Waterfall feature curtains over doors (with our one extravagant item: our £16 charity shop find Chandelier).
  4. Main Bedroom is Silver with Black Iron Bed plus Storage Shelving, Pine Drawer System from IKEA and Pine IKEA Wall Closet with Steel Grey and Black curtains.
  5. Daughter's Bedroom is purple (a blend of her former pink blush room and her brother's light blue) with black iron bed and wall storage closet system.
  6. Bathroom reflects water colours, main windows curtains are white with blue water patterns.
  7. Two doors are decorated with patterned paper. Living Room has Platform 9-3/4 from Harry Potter. Bathroom door has extension bathroom items opening onto a beach with sunrise (it gives you a feeling that the hallway is longer. Very nice optical illusion), courtesy of DH.
Interior Designer Certificate was lost in post. To replace it would have costs more than a month's worth salary back then. However, it would have been useful when once munchkins went to school, I could have changed career... Sorry rambling...
 
My condo is small so the entire house is painted a cream color with accent walls. In the kitchen, living room and dining which are open to one another I have a light gray on a few walls. My guest room has the same gray on one wall. My bathroom and bedroom have a bright pink accent wall. These are totally different colors than I have used in the past.
 
Whew. So many retired elegant professional women and their sense of taste and style.

Make this po' boy feel like a farm hand out in the hot afternoon sun coming up to the pump near the big farmhouse, rinsing out his sweaty shirt and wringing it slowly above his head to let the beads of water run down before taking a long cool drink from the dipper.
 
I don't even know how to describe the color of the entire inside of our house. It was freshly painted before the previous owner put the house up for sale.

It's not a color I would have chosen, but I can live with it for a few more years.

Best I can describe it is grey with a touch of green. It's very neutral and rather restful.

I'm not sure what color I'd go for when repainting. The Spousal Equivalent would push for all-white, I know. I like a little color on the walls.
 
MarciKS said:
Every single room in my apt. is eggshell white. Landlord likely found it on sale. LOL! He asked me when he showed it to me if I minded all white and I told him no. I really don't. I find it kind of soothing.
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It's far easier as a landlord to just paint the whole house white, so when it needs renewing , it's simpler..We had one of our properties here in the uk painted white throughout, with dark grey carpeting all the way through for ease of cleanliness ..and for us to be able to just have it redone without any faff...whenever a tenant moved out..
 
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