Master Bedroom Paint Color Help

[pitterwoo]

Definitely go with what you want, especially since it's your bedroom. You could be a little more trend conscious with a more public space in your home, but I wouldn't worry for a second about your bedroom. That said, grays are warming up and I think beige may be more acceptable than you think.

[mrsukyankee]

I'm getting grey kitchen cabinets. EVERYONE is against them. Too trendy, they say. I just like grey and always have. I find it to be a calming colour for me and find white far too jarring (especially in a big kitchen). Do what you like. Do what you'll want to live with for a while. Everything is trendy at some point and I'd guess that you'll be seeing your bedroom a lot more than any visitor will (but honestly, if someone judges you for that, there is something wrong with them).

[simpsongal]

Fwiw, I think the brown, yellow beiges of the 90s are what's out. I think a lot of beige or putty colors are timeless. Eg my kitchen Is Ben Moore Manchester tan (historic color collection) and I just did my basement in sailcloth with red and mahogany. Check out the pottery barn catalogue, you'll see a lot of beige described as "linen" or earth tones.
So go for it!.

[Deleted]

I saw this on the app page and don't normally post here. We're buying a new house and the entire house is a beige with white trim. It's kind of a griege and changes colors from beige to a gray depending on the light. I think it looks nice, this isn't the best photo.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Have you put samples up in your room yet, or decided on a color? I'd do that first, if you haven't. Perfect beige is difficult (which is why I think people switched to grey), because there are so many color directions can go and no one wants to live in a giant band aid.

That said, if you have a color you're happy with, do it. Who cares if it's in or not?

[Deleted]

Ours is the bottom right and some other similar options. I usually love grays but am into the beige/grays recently.

[magdala]

I don't like the current trends. So I did not paint my old house any of the trendy colors. When we went to sell the house, it sold very quickly...before the public open house. Our realtor said that one reason that it went so quickly was because it stood out from the other houses because we selected colors that were not trendy (but also not controversial).

Paint your bedroom a color that makes you and your husband happy.

[dottyblue]

Go with what you love. Paint can be changed relatively easily and you have to live with it. I painted my living room teal, my dining room DARK blue-grey, my kitchen pale blue. You know who has to live with it? Me. And each room makes me happy every time I walk in to it.

Definitely get samples and test it though. My dining room is totally different than what I thought I was getting because the paint chip didn't present the color right in the store for my lighting at home. I lucked out in that I love it though

[bullygirl979]

Ditto everyone else. And no, I'm not saying this as we just picked out a beige for our entry way

Really though, I would get A LOT of beige paint chips and put them up on your wall with painters tape. I found that looking at them in various light I could see which ones had orange, yellow, gray overtones and go from there.

[dr.girlfriend]

I love beige. I have Pashmina (a beige-y griege) in my kitchen/dining room and love it.

[lilac05]

Sept 26, 2016 8:39:09 GMT -5 @lindy said:

Ours is the bottom right and some other similar options. I usually love grays but am into the beige/grays recently.

Definitely get samples!  You can't trust a tiny pic or paint chip.  Case in point:  this picture.  We have mindful gray in our entryway.  It reads almost gray rather than greige...and nothing like this picture!  

Our painter suggested that we paint two larger pieces of cardboard with two coats of each sample paint.  Then hold it up around the room and look at it in different places and in different light.  Two pieces so that you can hold them in a corner, so your sample is getting the bounced color of the sample, not whatever is currently on the wall.  It's also much easier to paint over, as you don't have several squares of an extra two coats of different colored paint.  8 months later, we are still shocked at how different the color looks depending on lighting, time of day, and which wall we're looking at!

[bullygirl979]

@domerjen, I feel like an idiot that I never considered using a poster board. We don't paint sample colors on the wall anymore so I just resigned myself to picking off a small paint chip.