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I used to have purple walls in bedroom and hallway when I was a child and it was such a relief for me to then paint all the walls with light and neutral colors! After 10 years, I still like them.
We went from wallpaper to color, wall paper on every wall...and most ceilings. We painted most of the ceilings a color, but they are white in a few rooms where white is an accent color or the color of the trim in the room. We do not have any white walls in the house at all.
I love color. When we bought this house last summer it was all browns and wall paper. I removed the horse wall paper from the kitchen and painted it a sunny yellow. My family room is gray, our bathroom is teal and white, the guest room is lavender, and my room is blue. I still need to do the living room which if I get to stay here long enough will be sage green.
The last time you made a major decorating change to your house, or to an area of it, did you go from white/neutrals to color, or did you go from color, to mostly white/neutrals? I'm talking mostly about the color you chose to paint the walls.
I wonder if I just long for things I don't have. My house is full of colour. I'm tired of it and when I see a white room with nice accents, I want that. But when I had something like that, years ago, I wanted to be surrounded by warm rich walls.
Go white and have each room have a colored feature wall.
I've never been a fan of colored walls. Unless you did them they are very hard to color match after you move in for touch ups. When I bought my home it already had colored walls and I've grown to like them. The kitchen and living room are a yellowish beige and the bedrooms are a sandy orange. the bathroom is a darkish green which I'm not a huge fan of, but it's fine. The home I grew up in had tan or beige walls.
Ugh!! the dreaded color picking, lol. Over the years I have had mostly white walls. Then changed it up to neutral beige. Got bored with those and went to a bright light orange kitchen color which I loved "with" my cabinets. Changed it back to a more neutral pecan or caramel(can't remember which one is in this house). Those are the main rooms. Bath and Master are Mousse Mousse. I did change the spare bedroom to match the comforter set. It used to be this in another larger house:
Now it is this. I went a little lighter as this house is darker. I love the silver on the walls…and the purple well it goes.
I didn't so much as 'redecorate' as I did move from one house with white walls to another house with a mix of colors in various rooms.
All the walls in my old house were white, with the exception of the half-bathroom, which was sky blue. My old house was smaller, with other townhouses blocking quite a bit of the sun (so despite all windows facing east and west, it didn't get much natural sunlight), so I kept the interior walls white.
New house is larger, further spaced from other homes, and gets a *lot* of natural sunlight, since most of the windows face south and east (it's a paired home). The living room is 'greige'--a sort of combination of gray and beige, which I personally wouldn't have thought of for myself, but actually works really well (it helps that this room gets a *lot* of light.) The dining area/kitchen is mostly off-white with an accent wall painted bright red. The half bathroom is a chocolate brown (which again, I wouldn't have picked, but it works well--it's actually a good-sized half-bathroom, with a white ceiling and light colored flooring). The master bedroom is sky blue (very soothing), and the upstairs bathrooms and two other bedrooms are white. All the ceilings were left white, which actually works very well.
In all honesty, the colors in this house were greatly appealing to me, which probably played a large role in my making the offer. The only room colors I wasn't crazy about at first was the half-bathroom, but I figured that'd be an easy enough fix with a few buckets of Kilz and whatever new color I wanted. It just turned out to grow on me before I could do that.
I went from weird greys, dull golds, and dirty beiges to greens, apricots, and warm beiges. Except the kitchen, which is white.
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