Quiver0f10 Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 We have begun painting our house (with our landlord's blessing) and have finished the living room and one bathroom at this point. I choose a different color in each room, but they are both warm colors. I want to paint the school/dining a different color as well as the kitchen. Is this too much color in one house? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annandatje Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Only one color - somewhere in between beige and off-white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristusG Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I love color! Our formal living/dining, family room, kitchen, and hallway are are a golden color with brown accent walls in several places. One bathroom is light blue, which is the same color we used in the laundry room. The other bathroom is red. The kids playroom is purple with a white stripe going around the center. The nursery is yellow. And our bedroom is a very light green. We get compliments all the time. I think a lot of color in a house looks good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma23peas Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I hope not! I have atleast 8 colors, but they are all in the same color wheel family from Benjamin Moore's Historical colors.... I've got Jamestown Gold, Shaker Beige, HC-36- I think it's Wedgewood Blue but looks more like a colonial grey/blue, Carrington Beige, Butter, Robin's Egg in my laundry room, Blonde in my son's room, it was the best color that went with his Redwall theme...and Dove White for my trim! :) So lots of colors here! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMWB Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 We have 'always' had each room painted a different (but still 'going together') color. Including painting one wall a different color completely as a focal point, and having two different colors above and below a chair rail. And painted ceilings colors other then white (but here make SURE that you chose flat not gloss paint). Have fun, color is fun, if you don't like it, paint back over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowimscrappin Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Shoot - I have a couple of rooms that are multiple colors My daughters is bubble gum pink and turquoise My other daughters room is lavendar My sons is deep navy blue and khaki My room is a deep forest green Family room is gold Kitchen is deep cranberry color Living room is a celery color I also have floral wallpaper and another style of wallpaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annabel Lee Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 No, color is a good thing! My kitching/dining/school area & living room are in one big open area, but I've got the living room one color and the kitchen/dining another. They're complimentary, and the curtains tie it all together. I don't take that room & it's colors into consideration when choosing colors for the other rooms. I know some people like color to "flow" smoothly through the house... I just do what I like; after all, my family & I have to live with it, not others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 We usually do different colors in each room. We try to keep them all palette friendly. Right now we only have two colors, a warm mocha and blue in the bedroom. We did that just to freshen the walls to move in, we'll add more colors eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Dining room is a velvety red on the bottom under the chair rail, and cream on top (painter did a cool striped effect by alternating flat with satin). Den is a warm, Tuscany yellow (not orangey tho). Living room is a sagey green. Everything else is a creamy white (except the entry--old lady flowered wall paper there until we can get it painted next year!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusksAngel Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I love color! Kitchen/Dining room is bright bright yellow Living Room will be Irish Green Bathroom will be taupe G's room is pale yellow but once it's done will be a darker blue The girls' room will be purple We're debating for our room The master bath is silver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyD Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 After 20 years in rented apartments (read: white walls), I painted every last room in this house a different color :001_smile: Love. It. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhonda in TX Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I think every room in our house is a different color. I like color! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaKinVA Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Family Room, Family Room Ceiling, Morning Room & Kitchen, Laundry Room and 2nd Bath are all different colors. We are planning on re-painting the bedrooms once we finalize bedding... For time-sake, I picked a nice Taupe, but I don't think there will be any room left this color once I'm done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa in Jax Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Basically, every color is taken from our stone fireplace: slate gray, taupey-gray, copper, tan, and chocolate Master bedroom, living room and den: color #1 (off-white with blue/gray undertone, except the fireplace wall, which is chocolate brown) Bedrooms 2 & 3 (across from each other): color #2 (off-white with taupe undertone) Kitchen and Dining room: color #3 (copper metallic!) Office: color #4 (similar to color #1, but not the same exact shade, b/c the lighting is different in that room) Bedroom 4: color #5 (off-white with tan undertone) If the colors all relate to each other or are taken from some feature of the house (in our case, a stone fireplace that has a bunch of different colors), varying the colors can look really nice. :) HIH, Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted August 21, 2011 Author Share Posted August 21, 2011 Thank you all. I feel much better. I am having so much fun choosing colors! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denisemomof4 Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 no, I don't think it's too much at all. I love a variety of colors! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela H in Texas Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Oh goodness. I think many homes have several colors. In our last house: Kitchen and Dining: Victorian Garnet and paper Office: Contractor Paper finish Master and Laundry (opposite sides of house): Mickey Mouse Blue (it was a school room :)). DD's room: A muted green color DS's room: Buttercream on three walls and a chocolate accent wall I wanted to do our room a gold and deep red. I talked to y'all and was trying to decide between plum and pumpkin for the one living area but never did it. Anyway, so ours were just individual tastes. Now, my friend had a green room, a yellow room, a purple room, and orange room; but they were all the same SORTS of colors so it pulled together very nicely...very deep colors. Another friend had a similar thing going. Here, we have boring. Our landlord did give us the option to paint, but we're really not painters. If we did anything, it'd probably be accent walls in the bedrooms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiseOwlKnits Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I don't have white walls anywhere except in closets in my house. My kitchen, dining room and bathroom are tan, the living room and hallway are blue, the master bedroom is green, and the kid bedrooms are blue and green. As long as the color flows, I don't see any problem with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 You can never have too much color. I have a radically different colored living room and kitchen and I love them! Death to beige and off white walls! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiredmommyof8 Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 We have several different colors in the house so far (just moved into the house in June). I still have many rooms left to paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I have wall paper. I have different wall paper in every room. I'm not overly fond of any of the wall paper. If we buy this house the wall paper will go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reign Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 My house is only 650 square feet. Basically five rooms and a tiny hall way. It it all painted different colors. Living room is pompei red, kitchen is light yellow. Bath room is a glossy white paint with seafoam green tile, bedroom is light blue, hall way is beige, and the girls room is green stripes. The basement in brown. I love color! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer3141 Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 We have deep yellow and mossy green downstairs. Grey on the basement level. And the upstairs is turning orange as we speak. Well, the guest room is and still haven't decided what the other guest room will be. And the hallway is off-white. So far. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Dd's room - bubblegum pink - so pink that it glows! Ds's room - green on part of the walls, blue on the other master bath - blue on the lower half, sort of a beige on the upper half main bath - seafoam green schoolroom - sort of a pink hued white (very subtle but there) on the upper half, a soft green on the lower wainscoting. living/dining/kitchen/master bedroom/dh's study- all boring white because I haven't gotten to them yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahlanne Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Different colors here too. Master bedroom walls bronze Ds's bed wall-maroon, black chalkboard wall, and two deep grey walls Dd's bed wall periwinkle blue, other 3 walls are horizontal stripes its three shades of lime, one blue, one red, one pink, black, and Orange (multi widths Dr Seuss theme) Hall is golden cream lower walls with rust red above and pale blue grey ceiling Livingroom is golden Foyer is pale golden on lower with chocolate brown above and pale grey blue ceiling Office is raspberry pink with one wall diamonds of two pinks and turquoise fluers at points Kitchen is greenish brown Dds is pink and brown with gold ceiling Dds is ocean real blue with gold ceiling Bath is gold Bath is cream walls and rust red ceilings Utility is maroon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Yes. Downstairs (living room) pumpkin, (kitchen) goldenrod, (foyer) grass green, (dining room) brick red. Laundry room is yellow and periwinkle... Neither went with the orange linoleum so I stopped painting halfway through. Upstairs (hallway) same grass green as foyer & up the stairs, (master bedroom) midnight purple (I think Behr "maharaja"), (front bedroom) pink but going to be changed, (back bedroom) multi, (playroom) plum but going to change, (bathroom) light green but going to change (have to deal with hideous blue fixtures). All trim is white. Downstairs flooring is walnut hardwood (except the aforementioned linoleum, and cork in the kitchen), stairs and upstairs floors are Sherwin Williams "black olive", as is the stair rail and newel posts(balusters are white). I love color and our house is Victorian, so it can handle it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 We have quite a few colors in our home. Most of them are neutral browns, beiges and tans, but we also have white, pink and blue. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 We have 5 complimentary earth tones in our house. It took me a while (our house was all white for about 5 years), but now I love color! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMW Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Master bedroom: Walls and ceiling are painted "neutral" (a light tan)with white trim around windows and doors. Love it. The white pops! Bathrooms: Pale lavender. I was copying a close friend who had a very lovely "purple" bathroom... I will put dark blue accents in the main bathroom to help "boyish" it up... Boy#1 bedroom: Yellow. Green bedroom accents. Not a dark yellow, but definitely yellow! Boy#2 bedroom: Peanut butter. That's the name of the paint color. Red and navy bedroom accents. Hallway and living room: Light brown, ceiling is "polished pearl" which is a lovely cream color. Door frames and window trims are in the cream color, which really pops with the light brown walls. I was afraid of a darker color on the walls, but I love it now that it is on... Kitchen: Polished pearl... because it has open walls with the living room and dining room and it blends in, but isn't "dark"... Living room, dining room and kitchen all have red accents, which I love, love, love! (If you are interested, I've been posting photos of my progress as I have been painting all summer, just visit my blog) I like the different color schemes in the house... but, I am NOT a professional interior decorator... so, I've probably made some mistakes as I've repainted and redecorated in here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elisabeth in IL Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I have more than one color in on room. I tried posting a picture but I don't think it worked.....http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1617724282514&set=a.1617723122485.90375.1218598002&type=1 Nope it didn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live2Ride Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I'm slowly repainting the house. I love autumn type colors for all the main areas. The whole house was painted in 'buttercream yellow' when we moved in-way too much yellow. I redid the living room in a nice khaki/lighter tan color, bedroom in an autumn leafy red, dd's room is two shades of her choosing (to match a butterfly border), ds has a very bold bright blue, laundry is a moss green and cream. Next will probably be both bathrooms, then the kitchen as we may be ripping cabinets out before too long and I don't want to paint until we decide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacy in NJ Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 My dining room walls are all white but the ceiling is a Athens blue. My bedrooom is a carmel brown color. Ds12's bedroom is pale green, and Ds14's bedroom has 3 white walls and one deep blue wall (his choice). So, I use different but coordinating colors throughout my house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 The whole house was painted in 'buttercream yellow' when we moved in-way too much yellow... I saw somewhere a few years ago that, while people think of yellow as a cheerful color, it actually makes people hostile. Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted August 21, 2011 Author Share Posted August 21, 2011 We painted the living room a khaki color and the bathroom the color of a milk chocolate. We just finished the bathroom today so I am not used to it, but it's dark lol. I am hoping once I put the up the shower curtain and accents it will lighten it some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Too many years of apartment living as a single made me detest white walls. I haven't counted how many colors are going in our house, but MANY! From Deep gold to french blue to pumpkin orange to sage green to wine etc etc etc. LOVE colors on my walls. Our house is almost 100 years old and it adds character to the heavy dark wood work. We get compliments all the time. I did take some art and design classes in college so I am in charge of color. DH has been a skeptic, but I've come through every time! ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAutumnOak Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 (edited) All the walls in my house are painted the same color...You can see the color here in my room... Edited August 21, 2011 by TheAutumnOak Typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thea Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 My bottom floor is an open floor plan. The kitchen/living room is a dark/gray green, the dining a light beige and a light coffee in my front room. My upper hall is a dark cranberry which I would like to extend down the stairs, but painting there is tricky and I probably need to hire it done. One bedroom is dark blue, one green, and one is beige. Mine is still white. I'm just getting ready to paint my upstairs bath a darkish green/brown. My bathroom is still white and the downstairs is wallpapered. It really needs some help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkInTheBlue Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Almost every room of this 5 bedroom house is a different color and I hate it! When I consider purchasing, all I can think of is what a huge pain and expense it would be. I'm glad her daughter lived purple but, really? I'm glad her son was into African prints but a light brown room with African border? My bedroom has a huge floral border and I hate floral paper. This house was on the market over 2 years (pre to early real estate bust) and a main reason it didn't sell has to be the amount of paint it'll take to get it "unpersonalized". When I own a house the walls are the simple canvas for my decorating. Since my decorating tends to change I keep the walls very, very simple and classic. **typed without reading previous responses because it's late and I just wanted to throw my few little cents in. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 We have begun painting our house (with our landlord's blessing) and have finished the living room and one bathroom at this point. I choose a different color in each room, but they are both warm colors. I want to paint the school/dining a different color as well as the kitchen. Is this too much color in one house? for whether it is too much or not depends upon how the rooms flow. how much do you see of one room from another? how abrupt is the change in color? some people really like a lot of saturated color in different colors, other's prefer a harmonious flow. what do you like? the main areas of my house are a taupe/cream faux finish that flows from room to room. my kids have painted their rooms butter yellow, midnight and periwinkle blue on different walls, royal blue, and mint green. (I thought about specks of chocolate brown with some cherry red accents to go wtih the white molding/doors/windows. - she wasn't amused. though dh said it reminded him of a hospital.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 LOL welllllll..... kitchen: homegrown egg yolk yellow, deep red, caramel brown. dining room (one long room with the kitchen) caramel brown and a lighter version of it. *music room, living room (one long room) sage green/taupe. *Entry, up stairs and downstairs hall same taupe as above. *Downstairs bath: light mocha and creamy white. Master: dark mocha and light mocha. *Ds16: lt green/lt blue *Dd12: lt green/lt purple dd4 and bonus room: bluish green * these rooms are due to be updated this year with fresh colors. I am having trouble deciding as I prefer the warmer colors of the 90s. The cooler colors that are more trendy now are great in moderation, and while blue is my favorite color, I find them cold for most of the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 (edited) I kind of feel like until we buy, and I'll be wanting "the perfect colors", I want to experiment. :D We've never held back on color (hasn't always panned out well :tongue_smilie:). bright med. green in classroom bright lemon yellow in kitchen.. ..which extends into living room where there's also a dark slate grey kids picked a kind of robins egg blue The rest of the house has gone unpainted because we're not sure how long we'll be here. ETA: When we buy I hope we can do some cool vintage wallpaper too. I like color and design. I imagine putting it in nooks and crannies... stuff like bold art deco designs or 70's metallic. Edited August 21, 2011 by helena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Before the house burned I had everything different colors, when we rebuilt I went mostly 2 tone- beige and goldish. All the bedrooms are litegreen. 1 bathroom is 2 shades of purple- I painted alternating stripes, 1 bathroom is bright blue, and the laundry is coral with white trim and accessories. I'm itching to repaint the main living areas and liven it up around here since we've been home 4 yrs now but don't have the time and energy right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 This house doesn't have a lot of color, but it needs to be painted, and when we do, it will be some different colors in different rooms. I have yellow picked out for the kitchen, with blue trim, and cream for the schoolroom, playroom, and living room. In our last house, we had a warm cream color in many of the rooms, but we used some brighter colors for accents, like dark red for one wall in the living room (which was gorgeous next to the cream and gave just that much extra visual interest) and a medium-dark blue in part of the dining room (lower half of the walls was covered in blue wainscotting and then the chair rail and top half were cream). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecclecticmum Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Yep. We have marker hand outlines in the loungeroom Pencil Drawing in the schoolroom Hair Dye Splatter in the bathroom dog scratch undercoat in the backroom and La piece crack in the bedroom VERY artsy & sophiscated house, we have. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 We have different colors in pretty much every room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Yep, most of our rooms are different colors (and in quite a few rooms, we use two colors per room). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Yes, but they all go well together so you don't get a color shock when going from one room to the next. The main living area is open, and we have two different colors, but you barely notice the difference until you're actually in the room. Ds wants to update his room, and once he finishes decluttering and getting rid of things he no longer uses, we'll be allowing him to choose a wall color (within reason). Once we paint his room, it will probably be quite different from the rest of the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-M- Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 (edited) (1) homes in which each room had a different color; and (2) homes in which all of the walls were the same color. In the "forever home," I opted for one color (Sherwin Williams, Practical Beige -- which is actually much warmer than it sounds). It can be seen in this M-mv entry. (Edited to add: I tried to include images in my post, but I guess I don't know how.) The trim and ceiling are white. All of the frames are black, as are most of the bookcases. (The bookcases in the "Girl Cave" are brown, but that room has an even warmer vibe than the rest of the house, as it and the sun room have red as the "pop color," where the rest of the rooms have blue as the "pop color.") I crave "physic consonance." I need my surroundings to offer warmth, yes, but also a sense of orderliness. When making decisions about the forever home, I strove for environmental harmony, and I think the single color scheme throughout ungirded that. Edited August 21, 2011 by Mental multivitamin To add link since embedding images did not work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalicoKat Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I have three colors right now; sand, yellow, and a green/yellow color. New house might have these colors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailorMom Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Light greyish/sage green and greyish/blue in my bedroom/bathroom "Soft Slipcover" in living room "Celery root" in dining room and kitchen "Shortgrass Prarie" in great room a sunny yellow color in the school room dark blue in boys' bathroom dark blue and grey in 1 DC's room Dark green in other DC's room The ceilings are all painted an off white color Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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