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I've definitely had colors grow on me. When we bought our current home the previous owners had pretty decent taste and the paint was in good shape, but we had decided to paint a couple rooms right off the bat to personalize it.
One of those rooms was the dining room, which was a sort of grey/blue. So, we bought the paint (MAB Cork Wedge, a medium tan color) and were going to paint after we moved in since we had a short time table for getting the move done. Well, we moved in and I had prepped the walls and patched a couple sections where the old owners had some pictures and things. We had put our dining room furniture in there already just to store it until we were ready to paint. I found my wife staring into the room one night and she says, I'm sorry, but I actually really like this blue with our furniture in there. Of course we didn't have any of the original paint, so I had it matched and repainted the whole room anyway, the same color it was when we moved in.
The Cork Wedge was then relegated to the family room, upstaris and downstairs hallways and the stair well. It looks great now and I really think our original idea wouldn't have looked as nice. So, as other's suggested finish off the room with decor and accents and see what it looks it, you may end up finding it's better than you thought.
I've painted my kitchen 5 times now and still don't LOVE it! But the current color has sort of grown on me. Unfortunately, I mixed it myself with a variety of buckets of paint I had so I could never duplicate it. Sort of looks like a light pea soup. (White cabinets & black soapstone ctops)
My family room and kitchen is interactive cream and mine isn't yellow at all. I dislike yellow so I recently wouldn't like it.
Did you test a sample of paint in your home before you painted? In different lights colors can look different. Do you get alot of natural sunlight? Have you tried using reveal (or other) light bulbs.
interactive cream has grown on me now....i still feel like it looks a little yellowish/gold in certain lights...i never tried the reveal light bulbs..what is the pro in using them?
Yep! I know that feeling. I painted my rooms in a nice, very pale "French cottage" style yellow color that in short time turned to grayish, dark, institutional shade...
Something like from this :
I was going for a light yellowish tan/camel in our bedroom. After 15 sample cans, I really thought I had the exact color. Wrong! It was actually peach. In fact, after painting I read the back of the color card that clearly stated "clear peach". When it was empty, the room looked like orange shurbert.
But, once the room was loaded, and I lived with it a while, we do love the color except for the few hours a day when it gets direct sunlight. Fortunatly, we are never in there during that time of day anyway.
Nope, it never grows on me. I've gotten used to certain colors and don't mind them AS MUCH, but never really feel like "actually I'm going to keep this" once it comes time to change the color on my to do list I always feel much better about the room afterwards.
I'm really annoyed because I too painted my staircase which was a royal PITA, I picked a darker shade (not from the same card) of the color I have in the living room wanting the staircase wall to be an accent. FAIL, it dried much lighter than I thought it would and really just looks like the same color but like the room lighting is just casting a shadow on that wall. I'm going to wait until we install recessed lights in the room which will hopefully help show the contrast but if that doesn't help I will be once again going through the process of painting REALLLLLLY high walls while being REEEEALLLLY short
OMG...Yes! AND the color just happens to be SW Interactive Cream! How funny. I have it in my kitchen, Bagel in my great room and Totami Tan in my game room. (I think they are on the same color card) I had to work with it and it grew on me. Now I really like it. Our home just went on the market, so here is the picture gallery to see the colors: 14718 Placid Point, Humble, TX 77396 - Photo Gallery
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