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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.
I just did the interior of our home over the summer, we went from colors ( with accents walls) to panting basically ever room in Silver Plume Benjamin Moore, doing away with accent walls. We need to finish the dinning/ kitchen, once spring hits. I'm older 54, and wanted an airy light color and feel to my home, white drapes throughout & white bedding as well, etc! I love it! I feel more relax when I walk into my home now, it's say chill and feels unburden, just airy and light ..That what I was going for..
I believe change is good and needed, it's just paint and once your sick of it, well easy change.. LOL
The last time I had white walls was 1977, when I lived in an apartment. I bought my first home at the end of that year and haven't had white walls since.
I'm going to white in the main rooms from a brown and pumpkin orange combination of colors. This is a Puebla/Spanish revival style so a whitewash look is pretty traditional and will brighten up the place.
I painted my first house a LOT of colors, as in I think we had 10~12 different paints (between color and gloss), the 3 houses Since then have all been MUCH more toned down. 2nd house was beige walls, 3rd was grey, and current is green (blue bathrooms). Flat white ceilings, mostly white trim, and wall colors the same through the house.
I like color, but on the ceiling it's wrong to my eye. And more than 3 in a house seems too busy.
Our house was all greige, which I guess is a neutral, when we bought it about 7 years ago. I hated it with a passion. The house felt dark and depressing. The main areas are now a light orange/peachy color and everyone chose their own colors for the bedrooms (blue, lavender, green, and yellow). Bathrooms/laundry/porch are varying colors of turquoise/seafoam. I can't imagine every going back to all white, but neither can I imagine any dark colors.
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