Oopsing Your House With Lots of Color, Ever Done It? (flooring, Home Depot)

[tijlover]

Oops paint: paint that was mixed wrong at Lowe's or Home Depot, discounted to $5 a gallon, or $1 a quart.

That's how I painted the interior of my house and garage, all Ooops paint, through several trips to Lowe's or Home Depot.

As a result, my kitchen/dining area ended up with 9 different colors, even painted the interior of my kitchen cabinets, as I'm forever leaving the doors open.

My bedroom ended up with Burgundy walls, along with Aztec yellow and bright turquoise.

One bathroom painted burnt orange, the other with two shades of pink.

Found a gallon of yellow Ralph Lauren paint (originally $30, discounted to $5) which I painted my living room with, and accented with Aztec Yellow.

Went absolutely crazy with the interior of my beautiful garage! Cobalt Blue, Deep Red, light blue, Tangerine Glow, Neon Pink, two shades of green/turquoise, Sienna, Orange, Yellow, Purple shelves (Apple Cinnamon and Purple for the interior garage door), and I stupidly painted the garage floor bright yellow which I've regretted eversince, but for five bucks I couldn't resist the temptation.

Never paid full price for any of it, and sometimes you get lucky and find two gallons of the same colored paint, as the case with my bedroom.

According to my chromotherapy book, they say various colors can have a curing effect.

Anyone else Oopsed the interior of their houses cheaply, threw caution to the wind, and let the chips fall as they may when it comes time to sell the house?

[MotleyCrew]

I let my then college aged girls and my 11 year old son pick the colors for their back bedrooms and bath. I about plotzed but went along with the fun. Paint is something you can always redo and the memories were priceless. When we put the house on the market to sell I was a little fearful that the colors were a bit too much for the average taste and I was right judging the response from our almost realtor. The first call I got was from this little gal from GA and after I explained the many bold colors she said she had to come see it. She bought it that day and did not change a thing. So you never know when it comes to color.

[Sheepie2000]

I've never bought "oops" paint, but we are responsible for someone else getting 5 gal of the wrong peach. Our new house was painted entirely a beige or mocha color (even the ceilings) and I absolutely hated it. We're in the process of painting over all of it now with some real colors. Can you post some photos? I'd love to see what you've done. Honestly, it sounds a little dizzying, but I'd love to see it.

[Ohiogirl81]

I painted my basement with leftovers from the upstairs, and leftovers from friends' houses. Turned out pretty funky -- in a good way!

[desertsun41]

Originally Posted by tijlover

Oops paint: paint that was mixed wrong at Lowe's or Home Depot, discounted to $5 a gallon, or $1 a quart.

That's how I painted the interior of my house and garage, all Ooops paint, through several trips to Lowe's or Home Depot.

As a result, my kitchen/dining area ended up with 9 different colors, even painted the interior of my kitchen cabinets, as I'm forever leaving the doors open.

My bedroom ended up with Burgundy walls, along with Aztec yellow and bright turquoise.

One bathroom painted burnt orange, the other with two shades of pink.

Found a gallon of yellow Ralph Lauren paint (originally $30, discounted to $5) which I painted my living room with, and accented with Aztec Yellow.

Went absolutely crazy with the interior of my beautiful garage! Cobalt Blue, Deep Red, light blue, Tangerine Glow, Neon Pink, two shades of green/turquoise, Sienna, Orange, Yellow, Purple shelves (Apple Cinnamon and Purple for the interior garage door), and I stupidly painted the garage floor bright yellow which I've regretted eversince, but for five bucks I couldn't resist the temptation.

Never paid full price for any of it, and sometimes you get lucky and find two gallons of the same colored paint, as the case with my bedroom.

According to my chromotherapy book, they say various colors can have a curing effect.

Anyone else Oopsed the interior of their houses cheaply, threw caution to the wind, and let the chips fall as they may when it comes time to sell the house?

Are you bragging about this? I would be embarrassed to paint my home 25 different colors. Dont visitors come over and point and laugh?

Did you use a color wheel to at least match colors that mate or just do ramdom anything goes combos?

Your chromothrapy book said the colors of a circus makes a person calm? I dont know what to tell you but I ain't coming over for dinner without my sunglasses.

I wonder if you would be so kind as to post a picture of those multi colored cabinets. This I gotta see! Did you do the outside of the house too? I bet the neighbors love you. One really neat thing about this forum is we meet really interesting people. Are you a Hippy maybe? I'm still a Hippy so I ain't laughing at you.

[Coldjensens]

In one bedroom of a former house, we bought a gallon of very pretty dark aqua paint as a base color and then about a dozen quart cans of various colors. We stood about five feet from the wall, dipped a brush in one color and flicked the paint at various sections of the walls. Then repreated with another color. It turend out really neat looking. Several people commented on how neat it was and tried to do it in their house. Some had bad results becuase they had too much paint on the brushes.

[Coldjensens]

We did use a lot of color in our house but much of it was selected by a professional painter who won several awards for painting historic houses. We used very little white.

At his suggestion, we went againt the normal wisdom and painted two rooms with fairly dark colored cielings. In one room the cieling is darker than the walls. Conventional wisdom says never ever do that, but we trusted our painter and it looks great and it a very comfortable feeling room.

We did not paint that many rooms (more wallpaper), but in most rooms that we painted, we used two colors. Most rooms have both wallpaper and paint. Since it is a historic house, it does not have the interconnected rooms like a new house. Each room is seperated by a doorway with a door. Thus, using unrelated colors in one room or another does not create a "too busy" effect.

The entry is yellow. The front parlor is tan and sort of tan grey, the back parlor is dark green wainscotting with multi-eatch tone wallpaper, tan about hte picture rail and dark green tin cieling. The dining room is burnt orange and a brownish mustard yuck color that you would never think would look good anywhere (it looks nice). the kitchen is white with cobalt blue trim, the mudroom is burgundy wainscoting with brown and burgundy wallpaper on the upper part of the wall, and the library will be all wood.

OUr bedroom has bliue and white Toile wallapper, but in the kids rooms, we had a bit of fun.
In one room we painted the entire room, cielings, floors, trim, in a deep green. We put in green shag carpet, and covered the walls and cieling with plastic vines. The bed will hang from the cieling on vine covered chains. It is a jungle room. Decorators would shudder at that concept. Visitors exlcaim over it and say that they wish that they could have had a bedroom like that as a kid.

In another room we installed two colors of carpeting, one looks just like sand, the other like water. The joint is curved in a natural looking connection. The walls are painted in either deep blue (water) or Yellow (sunshine). It is a beach room. Again it sounds like a crazy idea, but visitors love it.

The game room is just blule and white, but the carpet is blue with darker blue and black "bubbles" that are made of a puffier material. Hard to describe, but it is pretty bizzarre looking carpeting when you hold it up. It is fun flooring for a game room.

A hallway is painted bright orange with bright yellow trim. The floor is yellow cork in the center, and tangerine on the outside edges. This is probably the craziest painting that we did. It is loud and I would not want to walk in that hallway with a hangover, but it is fun. no one has looked at it and said "Ick"


I would have to wlak around and count, but i would bet that we have around 25 colors. I would never want some boring all white or all one color house ever. Our prior house had almost all of the rooms painted int he same colors and the same carpet everywhere. It was horrid. Kind of like being in an institution of some kind. We spent years getting rid of the one color theme and decorating in approaite Victorian decor with every single room in different colors although we did use the color from one room as an accent color in other rooms. I think that we may have done some of that in our present house too.

[tijlover]

Unfortunately, I still live in the dark ages, don't even own a digital camera, wouldn't even know how to upload a photo, still using the disposables.

I was on a campaign to stomp out white. Colors have different associations in every culture. When I read that in India, the color of white is associated with death, small wonder I've always found the color of white unappealing.
I've actually been to India twice now, and I had the great opportunity to witness a couple weddings over there. To them, red is the color of joy, and I saw a sea of red at both these wedding events. (They must shake their heads in puzzlement viewing a wedding in this country)

I'm really glad I did this 7-8 years ago, giving the housing collapse, as untold number of house owners are going to be trapped in their houses for, perhaps, years to come. So why not enjoy your living space to the utmost, and forget about the saleability of your house. And yes, I'm a former hippie, communes and all.

[TFW46]

What an interesting house that must be, tijlover. Part of me agrees with desertsun but part of me is truly fascinated. I wouldnt want to live with all those colors but I'd love to visit them. Everyone should be as pleased with his/her home as you are. I wish you could have a friend take some photos and post them.

[desertsun41]

Originally Posted by tijlover

Unfortunately, I still live in the dark ages, don't even own a digital camera, wouldn't even know how to upload a photo, still using the disposables.

I was on a campaign to stomp out white. Colors have different associations in every culture. When I read that in India, the color of white is associated with death, small wonder I've always found the color of white unappealing.
I've actually been to India twice now, and I had the great opportunity to witness a couple weddings over there. To them, red is the color of joy, and I saw a sea of red at both these wedding events. (They must shake their heads in puzzlement viewing a wedding in this country)

I'm really glad I did this 7-8 years ago, giving the housing collapse, as untold number of house owners are going to be trapped in their houses for, perhaps, years to come. So why not enjoy your living space to the utmost, and forget about the saleability of your house. And yes, I'm a former hippie, communes and all.

You want to stomp out white!!! EEKKSS! Be careful saying that around here or your inbox will quickly fill with hate mail. I know all too well about that.

You mention about salability. Tj do you really really really think any home buyer is going to want to buy a home that has circus colors inside? No offense but unless you do it in psychedelic 60s colors you wont even get ol Hippies like us to look. I know very well about the collapse of LV, I too was a victim. I admire your wild and crazy taste as well as the brass marbles to do what you did but it is way too wild for the average bear.