So Ive been trying to work out colors for my own house to be, and trying to figure out how to coordinate different rooms without being matchy matchy, and anyway I was looking at YHL current house and realized the entire house is gray, blue, green and yellow. Is that normal to carry the same colors throughout?
I have similar colors throughout first because I feel like it makes it more cohesive, and second because I just like those colors. I don't think it's uncommon.
I think it depends on the layout of your home....if your house is really open and you can view other rooms from your living room/kitchen in full sight, I would say yes, coordinate/complement the colors throughout. But, if the house isn't too open, I'd say more variation between rooms is fine.
I have similar colors throughout first because I feel like it makes it more cohesive, and second because I just like those colors. I don't think it's uncommon.
This. I like the flow of coordinating colors throughout our home.
I have similar colors throughout first because I feel like it makes it more cohesive, and second because I just like those colors. I don't think it's uncommon.
This. I have all warm, cozy colours throughout my house because that's what I'm drawn too.
I think YHL went too far and now they're backtracking a little because they were forcing inspiration from the napkin.
I have similar colors throughout first because I feel like it makes it more cohesive, and second because I just like those colors. I don't think it's uncommon.
This in the shared spaces. For example, I have gray walls in both the living room (light, SW's On the Rocks) and in the dining room (dark under CR- SW Summit Gray and medium over CR- SW March Wind) but I they have different accent colors. Those two rooms are only separated by an arch way. In the kitchen, I'm *going* to have a gray-green wall.
But the MB is going to be a sand color and the two bedrooms upstairs are dark brown for one and teal for the other.
Our house is pretty open, especially in the shared spaces, so I'm sticking to browns and warm greys in different intensities. Bedrooms will likely be cooler grey tones- silvery grey in the MBR, grey-toned lilac in DD's room.
I think it depends on the layout of your home....if your house is really open and you can view other rooms from your living room/kitchen in full sight, I would say yes, coordinate/complement the colors throughout. But, if the house isn't too open, I'd say more variation between rooms is fine.
Agreed. I like the paint swatches that have 10 or so coordinated colors on them. That would be a good (non-weird napkin) way to get a cohesive look.
Overall, though, I don't like too many of the same colors in a house. I love blue, but I have to rein it in or every room would be blue. That would be way too much.
I think any spaces you can see at the same time do need to coordinate. Because so many homes are open concept now, that often means all spaces need to coordinate except bedrooms/bathrooms. But even with that, I think it's nice if there isn't a stark/odd color difference between a bedroom/bathroom and the adjoining hallway or room.
In our house, this means we have generally used warm neutrals, but paint colors aren't something I tend to take risks with.
Post by dr.girlfriend on May 31, 2012 12:25:29 GMT -5
In rooms you can view from each other, we have complementary colors. For example white goes into beige, beige into gray, gray into blue. For more closed-off rooms (e.g., a bathroom or a bedroom) I think you can go wilder. We basically have white, beige, gray, blue, and yellow. We may repaint a bathroom to turquoise.
Post by emoflamingo on May 31, 2012 12:27:57 GMT -5
I'm of the "open spaces = coordination" group. I have a pretty open living room-to-dining-room layout so they are both the same tan color with green accents. My kitchen is painted light blue (to make the counters look prettier) and the bedrooms and bathroom are whatever I felt like doing. But everything is in the same green-blue-lilac color family though. I have a problem, I like those colors too much lol.
I just saw their money breakdown thing, do they actually make money off that? Do they ever say how much? I was wondering how they had time to do that all the time.
It's definitely better to keep the common areas of the house in the same color scheme. If you have soft beachy neutrals in one room, and then the next is bright primary colors, it's jarring, and it makes the house feel smaller and disjointed. I make exceptions for children's bedrooms because I think kids should be able to express their personality in their rooms.
But the rest of the house? Yeah... it should flow from one space to the next. That doesn't mean all the walls have to be the same color, but ideally you should stick to several complimentary colors.