What color are your walls?

[jfh]

I'm starting to think about colors for our new house, and I'd love some ideas! We're getting natural maple flooring. Right now the walls are all icky wallpaper or hospital green, so we'll leave no wall unpainted. We're also going to paint the kitchen cabinets, which are just cheap wood laminate but we don't have the $$ to replace them right now.

The kids' rooms are easy. I'm going to paint Kai's room a very light blue base color, then sponge paint in gradations, so that it will go from really light at the top to midnight blue at the bottom - mimicking the ocean as you drop down. (sort of like what monkeybabe has, I think). For the tiny rival's room, I'm going to paint a light sage base coat, then stencil a bamboo forest all the way around.

Sooooo....we still need to figure out our bedroom, the guest bedroom, and the downstairs. The layout is sort of weird, so I'm not sure if we can do different colors in the different areas, because it all kind of connects. But we could do the kitchen a different color.

What colors have you used that you really love?? 

[TrudyCampbell]

This is BM Coventry Gray (I think)

[silverjm]

Our main living areas are all a pale, pale blue that I love. It feels so fresh. We have a beautiful pale green, about mid way between sage and spring green, in our guest room that I'm very happy with.

[raynes]

Our common areas are Behr Woven Straw: (this looks too pinkish, see below)

Dining room is Behr Dragonfly: which I love.

Kitchen and behind the shelves in the "library" are Behr Grape Leaves (swatch image doesn't look right, most like this)

This is what the 3 look like when you can see them all:



but my favourite is our family room, it's Behr Ashes
We get a lot of compliments on this one.

[mala]

We have a green accent wall in our living room. Our dining room is bright yellow. The kitchen has an orange accent wall. The office is turquoise. Everything else on the main floor is this antique white. All the trim is bright white. The stairwell and upstairs hall are the same antique white. Our bedroom is white with dark wine trim. B's room is buttery white with bright green on the lower half of the walls. The bathroom is all white tile with a blue glass accent tile, one halfwall and the ceiling are painted a shade of blue that perfectly matches the tile.

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OK:
Our main living areas/hall on the main floor are a dark wheat color, pretty neutral so it would flow easily. I have a lot of texture in these rooms.

Kitchen is a very light tan, but I have pistachio tile in there so I didn't want anything to compete

Max's room is a true kelly green.

Our bedroom is a flat elephant gray. We have a tiered tray ceiling with 2 darker gradations of the same gray (like the darker color on the wheel). The master bath is the darkest of these grays.

Basement is a darker wheat than the main floor.

I think I am doing the basement guest room in navy. This was my summer project, I haven't started yet. Oops.

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Aug 7, 2013 15:10:47 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

This is BM Coventry Gray (I think)

I think this is our bedroom color, I know it is BM. I wanted a true gray - nothing too blue and definitely no pink undertones. It was hard, and totally depends on your lighting.

[mala]

I went and looked up the color names. They're ask bher paint, but the ones that have SW are Sherwin-Williams colors mixed in bher paint.

DR: SW Jonquil
All trim: SWSnowbound
B's room: magnolia blossom & new green
MB accent: SW fine wine
Main base color: SW antique white
Office: SWSpa
Upstairs bath: enchanted
LR: SW.picnic
K accent: SW Osage orange

[Deleted]

I love all the gray here, so pretty.
Can we see pictures jfh??? I love house pics

[lauranicole91]

I just have a blah apartment tan color going on right now.

But for our future house I intend on these:

Living room will be this gray blue color with brown accents.

Our bedroom will have a dark purple accent wall with a silver damask stencil over top with gray lavender on the other 3 walls

Kitchen and bathrooms are undecided so far.

[rjamz]

I have a lot of different yellows and blues. The living room and hallway are sunshine yellow and the dining room is a few shades darker.

The entryway is light blue and our bedroom is robin's egg blue. Jamie's room is a.dusty light blue. We also have a light green and a light purple room and grey and yellow bathrooms.

It's all Benjamin Moore, but I'd have to look up the colors. The only one I remember is the yellow bathroom is called Mayonaise.

If we stay in this apartment I'm actually planning on doing some painting (hiring someone to paint bc we have a lot pf fiddly corners and molding). Sage green for the living room and a grey in the bedroom.

Oh and we have a red accent wall in the kitchen called Poppy. It's pretty.

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[jfh]

These are great ideas ladies, thank you!

@veronicasawyer I'm on it...one moment please....

[rjamz]

Hallway/living room, foyer and dining room.

The foyer is my favorite
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Aug 7, 2013 15:57:42 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Hallway/living room, foyer and dining room.

The foyer is my favorite
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Your moldings are BEAUTIFUL!

[katie]

Our living room, dining room, Lillian's bathroom and hallway are all taupe. Then our room is European white with a chocolate brown accent wall. Our bathroom is a shade between the dark brown and taupe as is the kitchen. Kitchen also has a deep red accent wall. Lillian's room is a very light lavender. I am in the process of redoing the guest room/my office and want it gray.

[rjamz]

Aug 7, 2013 16:00:26 GMT -5 @veronicasawyer said:

Aug 7, 2013 15:57:42 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Hallway/living room, foyer and dining room.

The foyer is my favorite
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Your moldings are BEAUTIFUL!

Thank you! When we renovated the apartment we had an extremely talented carpenter who made them for us bc the original ones were crumbling

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Aug 7, 2013 16:02:38 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Aug 7, 2013 16:00:26 GMT -5 @veronicasawyer said:

Your moldings are BEAUTIFUL!

Thank you! When we renovated the apartment we had an extremely talented carpenter who made them for us bc the original ones were crumbling

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I was trying to figure out if they were restored or new. Amazing. 

[rjamz]

Aug 7, 2013 16:04:38 GMT -5 @veronicasawyer said:

Aug 7, 2013 16:02:38 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Thank you! When we renovated the apartment we had an extremely talented carpenter who made them for us bc the original ones were crumbling

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I was trying to figure out if they were restored or new. Amazing. 

The only thing they were able to save was the original plasterwork on the dining room ceiling, which I loved and begged them to do if they could.

That's also a much better picture of the color of the DR

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[monkeybabe]

Zoe's ceiling is behr - Midnight Sky, the middle-ish color is behr - glacier lake and then the bottom is glacier lake mixed with basic white paint.

Our bathroom is like an avocado-y color. The rest of the house is the same beige as when we bought it.

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Aug 7, 2013 16:08:36 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Aug 7, 2013 16:04:38 GMT -5 @veronicasawyer said:

I was trying to figure out if they were restored or new. Amazing. 

The only thing they were able to save was the original plasterwork on the dining room ceiling, which I loved and begged them to do if they could.

That's also a much better picture of the color of the DR

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Aaaaa, I love it!

Our house is a 50s ranch, so intricate moldings would have been inappropriate when we remodeled. I will live vicariously through those of you with older homes. LOVE.

[jfh]

Ok, it's hard to understand the layout from photos because it's a convoluted crappy layout. But here are some before pics, and I'll add a few pics from mid-renovation as well.

This is the front room. We took out the ceiling tiles (asbestos, yay), and we're going to change out the door, replace the flooring with maple, and add a window in the far wall. We also took out the dividing wall with the next room.

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[laurack]

Mostly white/cream. I don't even know. I really want someone to come and interior decorate my home free of charge. We both suck at that sort of thing. Matilda's room is still a white room with a crib in it ,.. Aaah. Must become better at life...

[jfh]

This is the dining room, leading into the kitchen. We removed pretty much all the walls in the photo. The wall on the left hides the staircase, so we removed that and we're adding a banister & rails.

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[jfh]

One more of the dining room in process

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[jfh]

The kitchen and the random room to the left of the kitchen. In addition to the walls we took out, we added a window to the back of the random room. It made a huge difference - it looks out over the yard, which is pretty nice. We're moving the door of the bathroom around to the other side so we can build in cabinets on that side and make the kitchen roomier.


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[TrudyCampbell]

Wow jfh you guys are doing a lot of work!

[jfh]

Whew, I'm exhausted. Resizing and uploading pics is grueling. Anyway, there's a sampling! I'm really looking forward to seeing it once it's totally done.

[Deleted]

I am loving it so far! I love construction pictures. Is it 1920s? (Crap, I just realized I have to go pick up Max, I will be back later.)

[rjamz]

Aug 7, 2013 16:33:30 GMT -5 jfh said:

Whew, I'm exhausted. Resizing and uploading pics is grueling. Anyway, there's a sampling! I'm really looking forward to seeing it once it's totally done.

It looks like it will be great!

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[jfh]

Aug 7, 2013 16:35:15 GMT -5 @veronicasawyer said:

I am loving it so far! I love construction pictures. Is it 1920s? (Crap, I just realized I have to go pick up Max, I will be back later.)

Good guess, it's 1918! The original footprint was pretty small - one story Cape Cod-ish. The previous owners (who owned it for more than 50 years - I don't know if it was ever actually out of the family) added a second floor and extended the back of the house.