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I haven't taken any room pictures yet but here is one of my dog and her friend watching for the kids to come home from school one day. She puts her toys in the window to help her watch. You can see the wall color sort of.
Here is one from right after we moved in. I still don't like how the room is arranged but I can't figure anything else out. None of our pictures are up in this one yet so the wall look naked.
My living room is soon to be painted a wheat color (Churchill Hotel Wheat from Lowe's). I love how its a nice warm neutral color. We have a small hallway visible to the living room. That is painted a burnt orange color (Bear Paws from Lowe's). Sounds bad, but it really brings out the color of our original wood doors from the early 40's. It just pops so nicely against the neutral living room. Now my kitchen, which isn't open to the living room, mimics the tan/orange of the living room. We painted the walls Pumpkin Butter (a very toned-down tannish-orange) and the back splash a rusty red called Spicy Cayenne (from Home Depot). I would have gone more bold, but we're selling the house.
I have a white hall and bathroom, but all my other walls are various colors. Living room is a sage green, kitchen is a very light peach color, dining room that same light peach above the chair rail and a slate blue below it, master is red and tan, guest room is tan and the other guest room is a mustard yellow.
Me too. I saw a model that had chocolate brown and some kind of blue. I know...it sounds terrible but it really looked nice. I was surprised. I would never put those colors together.
Hehe... my bedding is a really dark brown and a pale blue. The furniture is cherry. I first wanted red bedding, but just thought it would make the furniture look old fashion and too much red going on. The brown & blue look really good together. I was even able to find blue silk drapes to match. Now I just have to figure out what to do for the paint.
Our new house has a very open floor plan with a two-story foyer and two-story family room. Although the living room and dining can be seen from other rooms, I did paint them different colors. I haven't done it yet, but the kitchen and sun room will be a different color as well.
However, I will paint the whole middle of the house (foyer, hallway, family room) the same color - something light and neutral. It would look too choppy to paint it different colors.
Ack! color flow -- I made a booboo ... painted our guest room an old-fashioned deep medium blue [design=cottage-y with patchwork quilts, antique maple furniture, used a dry brush technique] and the den a lime green (think Lime Rickey if anyone knows that icy beverage) [design=contemporary funky with wall-to-wall oak bookcases, used a wash technique]. But I didn't think what it would look like standing in the connecting hallway with a Grecian Urn wallpapered bath inbetween - the wallpaper will go at some point in the future, and I'll have to paint that bath to somehow connect the blue and lime. The hallway will remain neutral since it connects to the main areas of the house.
Currently the master is a suck-out-all-the-light awful cream/beige/yellow (can't even describe it). Planning on painting the room in a blue-with-violet-overtones to match the wallpaper in the master bath (can live with that paper). The blue will work well with our bedroom set (love my 1980s dark pine :-)
The kitchen is papered in a deep red with some kind of fruit and leaves pattern. Don't know what to do with that since the kitchen is open to the family room which is done in a very nice deep sage green. The green also extends into the kitchen's eating area and the sunroom beyond.
The livingroom, diningroom, foyer, main hallways, and stairway are all connected and currently in a blah bleck beigy yellowy cream. The livingroom is a tad darker shade. We'll be painting these main areas of the house in different shades of the warm beige/tan colors (perhaps SW Blonde?) to compliment all the rooms and to downplay the fact that our livingroom furniture is very eclectic from Victorian to 1940s, and the diningroom is very country (medium pine). Because of nooks and crannies and jogs and mouldings we can be subtle when we stop and start different shades.
I love color. I love themed rooms. I enjoy it when each room is markedly different from the next. I've made mistakes, but heck, it's just paint. I adored a mistake made in my previous home - painted a den with SW Pencil Yellow - looked like a Happy Face had exploded - but boy oh boy was it a happy-feeling room
Hall way and Foyer (Benjamin Moore-Concord Ivory)
Kitchen (Benjamin Moore-Raspberry Truffle)
Dining Room (Benjamin Moore - custom mix by the wife)
Living Room (Benjamin Moore - Santorini Blue)
Guest Room (Benjamin Moore - custom mix by the wife)
Downstairs Bathroom (Benjamin Moore - Santorini Blue and same brown as guest room)
Master Bedroom (Benjamin Moore - Custom Mix by the wife)
3 yr olds room (Benjamin Moore - Soft Pumpkin)
6yr olds room (Benjamin Moore - Pink)
Nursery (Benjamin Moore - Sweet Daphne / Folk Art / Birds Egg(Ceiling)
Yes, my wife runs a Ben Moore paint distributor! So we have lotso color!
Narragansett Green - DS's Nursery
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b8dc03b3127cceb67b894e654e00000036108CYsW7RmxaI (broken link)
(that's DD's crib in there until we complete her room...DS is due March 20th.)
Wethersfield Moss - DD's Nursery (her old room. She now has a bigger bedroom, but I used the same color.)
Van Buren Brown - Master Bedroom
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b8dd25b3127cceb6ca5e98cbff00000046108CYsW7RmxaI (broken link)
Richmond Gold - Master Bathroom
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b8dd25b3127cceb6ca5ec8cbaf00000036108CYsW7RmxaI (broken link)
(still completing this room...need to change hardware on cabinet, add mirror, waiting on switchplates, etc.)
Raisin Torte - Dining Room
Dorset Gold - Family Room
Forgive me, we're still renovating so the rooms are still being decorated. I would have taken a larger shot of the master bedroom, but the room is a mess.
Beautiful, beautiful colors and very nice paint jobs. Your decorating styles are wonderful. Thanks so much for posting your pictures.
Historic Bessemer: I love all those colors, except the pink. I've never been a fan. I especially liked the striped wall bathroom.
TheImportersWife: I like the gold in the family room the best. The master looks too dark for my taste, but I bet it really looks good in the room.
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