What colors are your rooms painted?

Some cornflower blue downstairs. Did have some plum/purple-ish upstairs (quite sophisticated at the time) but these days we're mostly surrounded by white (in varying shades of dinginess :LOL: ) because the light isn't great where we live. Seems to work for us anyway...
 
hollydolly said:
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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works for me so it wasn't a problem. i like the clean 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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That top colour is the main colour of our house. Itā€™s a very soothing colour and makes our house look bigger. I really like it.
Nice stairs. Nice woodstove too.
 
I once worked in a wallcovering design center. I began in the silkscreen room where we made samples of wallpaper designs. There was a wall with hundreds of jars of paint that to the untrained eye all looked like variations of beige. Before long I could tell the greens from the reds. Mixing colors was a great experience. Now you can see all the subtle colors in the sample rack at a Home Depot but this was back in the 80s.
 
Alizerine said:
I once worked in a wallcovering design center. I began in the silkscreen room where we made samples of wallpaper designs. There was a wall with hundreds of jars of paint that to the untrained eye all looked like variations of beige. Before long I could tell the greens from the reds. Mixing colors was a great experience. Now you can see all the subtle colors in the sample rack at a Home Depot but this was back in the 80s.
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Things have changed so much. Now you can walk into most hardware stores with a sample of the colour you want and they can instantly match it. Itā€™s amazing. We got some paint to match our exterior siding and it was an absolute perfect match.
 
All the walls in the house are white. The first painting was Benjamin Moore Decorator White upstairs and a slightly warmer colour in the basement. I had that in the last house too. When we repainted DH wanted that warmer colour upstairs too. I hate tolerate it but he lives here too and he never comments on how I decorate, so he really cared. Every wall has art on it for colour.
 
This is my back porch. Lots of Buddhas from my daughter- my psychology professor introduced us to the Philsophy of Buddha, still often studied in modern day psychology.
I dont think Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) ever imagined a religion would result from his life and his thoughts.

He had a very unusual life. He broke away from the Kingdom of Buddha while in his teens, and his horse was too fast for the guards who tried to catch him. He became shocked to see what had been kept from him by his parents.

He had the best food, clothing, entertainment, and he never knew how other people lived outside of the Kingdom Palace.
He saw poverty ,hunger, illness, and immense suffering, and the basic question he had was, why do humans suffer?

He suffered as well as becoming the Emaciated Buddha, eating only a few grains of rice every day, and very little water., as he practicedbackporchrugFransandcats 002.jpg transcendental meditation.
 
Widow of Vietnam Vet said:
This is my back porch. Lots of Buddhas from my daughter- my psychology professor introduced us to the Philsophy of Buddha, still often studied in modern day psychology.
I dont think Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) ever imagined a religion would result from his life and his thoughts.

He had a very unusual life. He broke away from the Kingdom of Buddha while in his teens, and his horse was too fast for the guards who tried to catch him. He became shocked to see what had been kept from him by his parents.

He had the best food, clothing, entertainment, and he never knew how other people lived outside of the Kingdom Palace.
He saw poverty ,hunger, illness, and immense suffering, and the basic question he had was, why do humans suffer?

He suffered as well as becoming the Emaciated Buddha, eating only a few grains of rice every day, and very little water., as he practicedView attachment 318960 transcendental meditation.
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Very nice! My son had a collection of small Buddhas. He studied many religions but followed none in particular.
 
Alizerine said:
Very nice! My son had a collection of small Buddhas. He studied many religions but followed none in particular.
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Not poking fun. I can imagine a guru character in one of those goofy spoof movies going by a name like Noonin P'Ticklar.
 

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