Help me with paint colors (if you're bored)

[nowa]

So new house soon yay! We have three bedrooms upstairs. DD1 wants her and sisters room purple so we'll likely go with a light or medium greyish purple or mauve so it'll grow with them. DH and I are heavily leaning towards a dark grey or navy. Not sure about the third bedroom. I want the main floor to be all white with our reddish rugs and eventually a brown leather sofa. Do y'all think it'll be weird to go from an all white downstairs to an upstairs with such strong colors?

[Deleted]

No...but I LOVE color

Could that 3rd room be either white or match the reddish downstairs?

[nowa]

Hmmm, I could do the third bedroom white. I don't think I'd like red. But then instill worry that it would seem weird that the whole house is white minus two bedrooms.

[nowa]

Dec 19, 2014 20:17:49 GMT -5 nowa said:

Hmmm, I could do the third bedroom white. I don't think I'd like red. But then instill worry that it would seem weird that the whole house is white minus two bedrooms.

Ps I love color too but something about white walls is so great IF you bring in lots of color and texture in other ways. And cook stuff on the walls.

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Dec 19, 2014 20:18:47 GMT -5 nowa said:

Dec 19, 2014 20:17:49 GMT -5 nowa said:

Hmmm, I could do the third bedroom white. I don't think I'd like red. But then instill worry that it would seem weird that the whole house is white minus two bedrooms.

Ps I love color too but something about white walls is so great IF you bring in lots of color and texture in other ways. And cook stuff on the walls.

Absolutely!

[jnksmom]

I think it would be fine. Our walls are a cream color(the builders choice) in every room except the kids' rooms. DD's room is a light pink and DS's room has 3 white walls and one red wall. He wanted red and I was afraid all 4 walls red would be too much.

[gastro]

DS's room upstairs is green, it's deep, not quite olive...a bit brighter than that and I love the color. We have light bamboo floors. His playroom is a deep grayish purple. The 3 other bedrooms upstairs are white but we have tons of floor to ceiling windows so there actually isn't that much white.
Downstairs is open plan and all white.

[cabbagecabbage]

Dec 19, 2014 20:18:47 GMT -5 nowa said:

Dec 19, 2014 20:17:49 GMT -5 nowa said:

Hmmm, I could do the third bedroom white. I don't think I'd like red. But then instill worry that it would seem weird that the whole house is white minus two bedrooms.

Ps I love color too but something about white walls is so great IF you bring in lots of color and texture in other ways. And cook stuff on the walls.

This! If you decorate with color then the walls are just one factor. I can't recall the maker (Sherwin Williams maybe?) but my mom had the prettiest purple/gray paint called Tennessee Haze.

[zbeesma86]

Not at all. I love color it would be a nice visual. From clean & white to loud and colorful.

Third room can be olive green or a lilac?

[Deleted]

Absolutely, go with some color!!

Our downstairs was all a creamy beige, and then we had some chocolate brown in the dining room under the chair rail.

The bedrooms up were all colors!!

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Nah it'll be fine. Are you planning on doing the hallway white too? Or could that be a transition color to the bedrooms? Depending on the set up maybe?

And our master bedroom is a darkish grey with a hint of purple; DSs room is a lighter shade of it, and then our 3rd bedroom is an even lighter shade. It all goes nicely together. BUT our hall and downstairs are very bold too, soooo yea. It's hard to imagine as white.

[Deleted]

I like color, but we have small rooms and not great natural light, so we have a lot of muted greens, blues and yellows, with the LR/hallway/main bath being a taupe color, and cream trim everywhere.

I personally think navy or a dark gray is too dark for a bedroom. I mean, to me, a bedroom is supposed to be your calm, zen place. I'd be much more likely to go with a very muted gray and then do strong accent colors in the window treatments, blankets, pillows, etc.

[broccolisgirl]

If you're looking for something neutral with some color. This is what our living room is painted. It's a purpley grey.


www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family/SW6044-doeskin/

[quesyrah]

I don't think it's weird. Our living spaces are all white but our bedrooms and bathrooms are colorful.

[penguingrrl]

I love the bold colors you plan to use for the bedrooms! Dark bedrooms can look awesome when done right and I'm a huge fan!

I'm not a fan of the white elsewhere, but that's totally my own hangup. After years of living in rentals where I was stuck with white or cream walls I think of white and off white as rental colors that are purposely bland so as not to offend. But that's just my opinion.

[nowa]

Thanks y'all. I'm feeling better about the contrast. Right now the main floor is an off white anyway and we don't have the time/money to paint it right now so we'll see how we feel with the upstairs painted our colors. I'm really in love with the idea of a dark bedroom and I can't say no to DD wanting purple but at least we can pick a good shade. I'm thinking maybe the powder room on the main floor will be the same dark color as out bedroom to tie it all in?

[court26]

As long as the rooms that transition to each other don't clash, I don't see why colors have to match. I don't have a white wall in my house, but upstairs and downstairs rooms definitely don't match.