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I guess neither? I have gray walls throughout, not too dark but dark enough that they read as having color. In my last house, I had one main color but then individual rooms were other colors. I loved the paint in that house, but now after having the same color throughout, I really like that better, particularly with the very open floor plan I have - the first floor is one large open room (plus a powder room) but it also has a large open stairwell up to the loft, so it would be tough to find a place to change out the paint colors between those areas. So even if I do repaint at some point, I think I'd just do the whole house the same color again.
Neither. We bought a house with floral wallpaper and grayed mauve walls! So we had all the nursing home wallpaper taken down, walls fixed, and new, mostly neutral colors painted on. I used 5 colors for the entire house. all but one of colors were some variation of gray. The only non gray was a light foggy green which I used in my master bath.
I have received compliments on my colors. I think I should have used 1 fewer color though. But I loved all of them, and I wanted to use them.
The previous owners had very subdued ugly neutral colors that I couldn't stand. I've since repainted most of the rooms in color. I have a vividly red dining room, lavender sitting room, gray through the main areas, blue bedroom.... I've never cared for homes that were the same color throughout or lacked color entirely.
My current house was beige on beige when I bought it. Beige walls, beige carpet, beige tile. My first project was to replace most of the beige carpet with a dark wood. Then I painted the living room/kitchen a light sage with an accent wall. The master bed and bath became a couple of different shades of smoky blue. The gym is now lighter shades of smoky blue. The upstairs guest room and guest bath are various shades of peach. It's kinda like living inside a Monet painting - I love it.
Technically, since there is not a third option of neither...
I say I went from colors from previous house to a white wall home now but it's painted by last owner.
I kept it because I love the look of the clean white. And being frugal n green... Hate to waste a good paint job.
But white really do bring out the colors of my furnitures n decor I find. And I love colors against white.
Having been in design and art my whole life I find myself leaning towards a white-cream-nutral color. Having to be involved in daily endless color choices and crisis and then coming home to wallpaper I could not stop critiquing it, finding any minute flaw or printing error or hanging mistake. Likewise with color on the walls, they lock me into one "feeling" and don't keep up with my varied interests, stifling me and choking the life out of me. I do like pops of colors and have themes, or I should say organized use of bits of color, but rarely if ever patterns. I would love an all white room from top to bottom with everything in between white and modern I find it totally calming, but my family doesn't join me in that love.
I went with a more neutral tone. Previous two tone was dingy. Also went from a glossy / semi gloss floor to a Satin finish floor. Address recessed lighting too. Ceiling also with from semi-gloss to more of a flat finish.
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