What color are your walls?

katiewhompus · March 2010

Your house/apartment walls that is. Our house has purple living room/hallway walls, camo green two toned dining room walls, and a funky teal kitchen. They need to be changed but I am color stupid with choices. Dh wants to do everything white but I don't want to do that either.

What do you have and what would you recommend?

ExpatPumpkin · March 2010

We're renting right now and the walls are white. In my townhome in Texas, however, I had the walls painted a matte eggshell.

shellydiane820 · March 2010

our kitchen is red and espresso brown.

Bedroom is cream and one wall with a dark charcoal.

Living room is still off-white from when we bought it.

Guestroom is a sand color.

crfische · March 2010

It's...uhh...blue? And kind of a tannish yellow in the kitchen/living room and red and sphinx in our bedroom and down stairs is a sagey green and like a chocolately purple, if that makes sense.

Celles · March 2010

Chocolate pudding, florida pink and fern. It sounds horrific but looks awesome -- if I do say so myself.

My friends have all complimented my walls, even the ones who looked at me in askance when I raved about the combination.

I'm a part-time pet sitter, so I see the inside of A LOT of houses. Most of my clients have painted their walls in earth tones: creams, dusty yellows, browns, greens -- maybe a red accent wall to spice things up It's a nice, safe look. But, personally, I prefer more dramatic combinations.

crfische · March 2010

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opalsky007 · March 2010

The kitchen is kind of a brownish gray. The master bedroom is the color of pea soup. The small bedroom is a pretty shade pale purpley blue. The rest of the house is stucco. I want to grab my landlady and shake her.

katiewhompus · March 2010

I am going to ask Home Depot if they have a chocolate purple

This kind of shows the dining room greens and kitchen teal. Dh said "I feel like I'm back in my military camo gear". I'm thinking of keeping the green and just doing a light tan/beige on top and same thing in the kitchen.

crfische · March 2010

Dude, I TOTALLY missed that you got a house! That's fantastic!!

lyndausvi · March 2010

living room/dining room, kitchen (all one room) are painted yellow. Bathroom a light blue and the bedroom is a seaform green.

These are all the colors I painted as a single woman 5.5 years ago. We plan on repainint, just have not gotten around to it.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · March 2010

Veddy, veddy nice, Fische.

My grandmother used to have these coral-pink walls in part of the house and mint green in the other part. It was horrific. The house was built in 1950 and she never changed the color scheme.

[Deleted User] · March 2010

how do y'all post bigger pictures?

maggyruth · March 2010

The duplex I'm in has a beigey shade in the living rooms and dining room with a color I can only describe as baby poop on the living room ceiling (it's a tray ceiling, so there is a layer of white between the beige and the baby poop.) The kitchen is a lovely burnt orange color (and I don't mean that sarcastically...it really is a great color)

When I owned a house, the living room was a lovely sagey green, the dining room was wine (very asthetically pleasing going from living room to dining room) and my master bedroom was a color called fig. It was a super deep purple with a tint of brown. I loved it and miss it. It turned my bedroom into a cave at night. I cried when I painted over it to sell the house.

When I move into FI's apartment, the wall will be white...and I can't do jack about it. It makes me sad. I hate white walls.

crfische · March 2010

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BUT if I do it by clicking on that little picture down there, if I click on it, the little squares come up and it lets me resize it.

cukimerrydoll · March 2010

Congrats on the house!

Ours is a conglimoration of colors. Tan in the living room, dining room, kitchen, hallway, and upstairs bedroom; blue in the family room and other hallway; purple in my room, brown in my bathroom; green in the other bathroom and bedroom; and yellow in the office.

We like color.

Just go for muted tones, and just about anything can work!

cukimerrydoll · March 2010

Fische, I love your colors. Accent walls are my friend.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · March 2010

Oh, and our walls are plaster-ish (I think) and off-white/beige. The living room and dining room are connected by a huge archway, so it works. The trim is white, though, which is... not that great. Thanks, landlord.

katiewhompus · March 2010

We did! We put in an offer on the 14th, they accepted on 15 and we close April 16th! I guess when it's right there's no head banging on the wall.
OH and Dh just got a new job (today, about an hour ago) which will give him a 45 minute commute instead of a 2 hour commute. Yeah...2 hours...each way..on top of a 14 hour shift. No good.
Ironically for our old company, to a store he wanted to work at but couldn't get transfered to.

ginajones · March 2010

White is def not a color and I think it shows a lack of personality. I think you should choose your colors that fit you and your husbands( that is if he cares) style and or personality.each one of my rooms is painted a shade of a color that suits me.

Kniblet · March 2010

Our living room is called Milk Toast... sort of a sandy peach? One wall is deep red, right behind the couch.

Kitchen is the Milk Toast, as is the hallway and foyer.

Bedroom is a lighter blue.

Kids room is purple and pink stripes.

Bathroom is green.

We live in a rainbow.

crfische · March 2010

Thanks, Merrydoll!!

I like color, too. A lot of it.

Nebb · March 2010

The main floor are various shades of beige tan, the kitchen is a really pale grey/green, the upstairs hall is a pale tan and all the bedrooms are a pale olive green, the big family room is a pale creamy pink (no idea why) and the basement rooms are a pale browny tan. The same trim color is used throughout, it is just a creamy white.

[Deleted User] · March 2010

i don't get it. pasting doesn't work, and if i use the button and enlarge, it ends up fuzzy.

anyway, only one room is painted so far - dark red:

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september's bride · March 2010

Our living room and dining room share a common wall; that one is like a dark coffee colour. The living room and dining room are a lighter shade of brown, and the doorways are painted on the inside in a really dark brown. Sounds weird, looks good. The hallway and foyers are sort of a standard beige colour. The kitchen is a really warm greenish grey.

cukimerrydoll · March 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_color-walls?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:ffc4aa35-c855-4e85-a16e-2db9062d69f8Post:2d0a656c-81b1-40ec-b9ca-fa7d0f40d5d0">Re: What color are your walls?</a>:
[QUOTE]Oh, and our walls are plaster-ish (I think) and off-white/beige. The living room and dining room are connected by a huge archway, so it works. The trim is white, though, which is... not that great. Thanks, landlord.
Posted by msmerymac[/QUOTE]
White trim looks really cute with dark colors... but you have to go super muted, because plaster reads bright.

I love painting.

tenofcups4me · March 2010

We're still working on our new house. The dining room is a green that we're keeping, at least for now. We just painted the kitchen what we thought was a goldish kind of color, but it came out more caramel -- not what we thought it would be, but it looks good so we're keeping it. All the rest still need to be done, but the master will be either a blue or a brown or a tan or a combination of all the above to match the comforter.

In our old house, we had different colors throughout the house;
Kitchen: blue
dining room: burgundy on the bottom, off white chair rail, rosy tannish color on top
living room: same rosy tannish color as dining room since they flowed together
hallways and downstairs bath: all a beige/tan color
master bedroom: gold
guest room: green
my office: purple (!) -- yes, really, purple :-)
upstairs bath: teal

I wouldn't randomly choose colors though. Find something in each room and pull that color out as the color to paint.

We joke that in our old house, the color scheme of almost the entire house was based on a tablecloth. We bought it for the dining room, then painted the room to complement that. Then did the living room to complement the dining room. Then all the hallways to complement the living room and dining room...

cac847 · March 2010

The previous owners of my house definitely weren't afraid of color. Downstairs I have a yellow kitchen, blue bedroom/office, and the living and dining rooms are... orangey brown? The hallway used to be grass green but we painted it a sandy color. I get a lot of compliments on the color in the living/dining roomsr:

tlv204 · March 2010

Family room and kitchen are cream/yellow. That's my favorite color in our house. It looks like butter

Dining room is kind of orange.

Living room is gray/blue, more blue than I wanted but oh well.

Bedroom is light green.

I like color too, and our house doesn't have that open of a floorplan since it's so old, so it's pretty easy to separate rooms by color.

AmoroAgain · March 2010

Yeah, I haven't been able to get the copy paste to work since the switch.

MyNameIsNot · March 2010

Our whole apartment is beige. I really want to paint the bedroom lilac and a maroon/wine accent wall in the living room, but I'm holding out to see how long we'll be here.

AmoroAgain · March 2010

Anywho, I've had nothing but white for years and it's making me edgy. When I was looking around for places, I really liked this persons use of colors. It blends so well without being overwhelming (to me at least).

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