How did you paint the inside of your house?

[birdistheword]

Our house is different colors, but they all complement each other (muted, cool tones). Well - except for the living room. I went a little crazy in there:



Most of our house is grey, and I will say that I wish I had gone darker than I did. Pick the color you like and then go a shade darker.I think the Frost color will read extremely light when up on the walls.

[DotAndBuzz]

I paid $75 for a color consultant to come in for an hour and help guide me in picking colors that I liked, but also flowed cohesively together. Her fee was applied towards the paint purchase, so it was really a win-win. And thankfully, I ended up with a really nice shade of green for my kitchen, instead of the, um, apple/chartreuse one I was leaning towards because I just loved how "bright" it was.

[icechalk]

We were doing some renovations at the time so it did get painted 1-2 rooms at a time. All the floors except kitchen / bath are dark hardwood. All trim is pretty bright white throughout. Most rooms are pale cool neutrals. True gray in master, pale bluish gray in den/dining/hall, white in kitchen, very pale greenish blue in playroom. My older kids share a room and it's the only warm color- very pale taupe.

My sister used much more saturated colors in her home and adjoining rooms are the same but otherwise each room has it's own color and it looks great. On the other hand, my SIL has the same color throughout her entire house. Really either way can work. How open is your floor plan? Also with dark wood on the floor i could go any direction on the walls. What colors are your floors?

[nomad100]

We have a bunch of different colors. They all kind of go together but don't match.

We don't have an open floorplan though so it is easier to have different colors in each room since none share a wall or corner.

[VeryViolet]

I really like that driftwood grey. I may have them mix it at 50% and 75% too and put all three on the wall to see which you like. The full color may be too dark to paint much of the house.

[icechalk]

Also: paint some BIG swatches of potential paints on the walls in each room and see what they look like. Different times of day and depending on the natural light, the same paint can read very differently.

[picaflora]

The house we own (and rent out) is older and the rooms are broken up. So every room is a different color. Downstairs are warm earth tones (browns, tans, greens, and blue)and upstairs is cool tones (a cool purpley grey and cucumber in the master bath). The hallways/stairwell are a light tan color that the previous owners put in.

If we end up with new renters before we can move back, we hve to paint everything. =0( Then it'll all go to some boring neutral color.

[icechalk]

Dec 13, 2013 9:23:13 GMT -5 loonylunalovegood said:

Dec 13, 2013 9:17:44 GMT -5 icechalk said:

We were doing some renovations at the time so it did get painted 1-2 rooms at a time. All the floors except kitchen / bath are dark hardwood. All trim is pretty bright white throughout. Most rooms are pale cool neutrals. True gray in master, pale bluish gray in den/dining/hall, white in kitchen, very pale greenish blue in playroom. My older kids share a room and it's the only warm color- very pale taupe.

My sister used much more saturated colors in her home and adjoining rooms are the same but otherwise each room has it's own color and it looks great. On the other hand, my SIL has the same color throughout her entire house. Really either way can work. How open is your floor plan? Also with dark wood on the floor i could go any direction on the walls. What colors are your floors?

The floors are light colors except for the Master which we're going to change. I like dark wood floors, but for now they're staying the light carpet. I think Frost would be too many light colors on top of each other with the light carpet, white molding, and then light walls. 

I just saw your PIP thread. Your carpets are very light. I would definitely go darker than Frost. Get some big big swatches up and live with them for a while before you decide!

[gozf]

All different colors. Living room is a light creamy yellow, kitchen is brick red, bathroom is dark grey, bedroom is a sage green and my writing room is a greige/taupe. Then we ran out of steam, so the upstairs hall is white, the middle room is pale yellow and the third floor is blue, which is what they were when we moved in.

[thedutchgirl]

My house has been all different colors that coordinate for several years. I want it all one color now. I love both your all-over possibilities.

[janiejones]

My whole house is similar to Frost, except the Bathroom, Kitchen and the basement rec room. It works because I have a lot of art. I didn't want to either be overwhelmed by colour (I had a turqoise room when I was a teen, it was a bit much) nor did I want anything to detract from the art.

We bought two builder buckets of the paint and did everything when we moved in. Makes it easy to do touch ups.

[rex]

Our entire house is painted various shades of gray and they complement each other well. L's room is a very light mint green.

All one color would be boring to me but every room a different color would drive me crazy unless it was a well designed color palette.

[lightbulbsun]

My house is mostly different colors. They're all cool colors, mostly greys and blues, except for H's band room (he wanted bright orange). I like when rooms are different colors.

ETA: I love the colors you posted. 

[cst2cst]

My Townhouse had different colors until we rented it out. Then we painted the whole thing beige. It showed really well and was crazy easy to rent. Our new house is also all beige. It is from the late 90s and the house's style has a pottery barn feel. All of the tile and granite have beige/brown tones, so the color works well. If I were doing it over again I'd pick something similar to your Driftwood Gray. I'm pretty boring when it comes to decorating, but I love the single color. The whole house has white trim and moldings and it all flows really well. I'm sure that when DD is old enough to have an opinion her room will change colors, but until then, it is all the same.

[sawyerthedestroyer]

We have a different color in every room. I think they all work together, but I like that each room kind of has its own personality.

[PennyCandy]

I like color and when we moved in the house was all white and they had painted over blue and did not do a good job so it looked bad. We ended painting the entire house and almost every room is a different color, but I worked hard at making sure they went well together.

[mrsjuleshs]

My house has a ton of color. The living room, foyer, and master bath are all a light grey, the master bedroom is a pale blue grey, laundry room is sky blue (need to repaint), the dining room is a turquoise (need to repaint), kitchen, family room and hallway are beige, DD's room and bathroom are hot pink, and my office/spare room is lavender.

[Bernadine]

We have 4 colors- beige in the hallways, office, family room, spare room, bathrooms, sage green in the kitchen, living room, and bottom half of the dining room, gray in fss' room, and a horrid peach color in our bedroom that I liked at first, hate now, but am keeping because there's no fucking way I'm painting it again.

[fezzik]

Most of our house is the driftwood gray color you posted, but our kitchen is red and our bedrooms and bathroom are different colors. All gray tones though.

I'm really happy with the driftwood gray. If you're wondering what it looks like in a room I can post a pic when I get on my laptop.

[fezzik]

Dec 13, 2013 11:04:24 GMT -5 loonylunalovegood said:

Dec 13, 2013 11:03:27 GMT -5 fezzik said:

Most of our house is the driftwood gray color you posted, but our kitchen is red and our bedrooms and bathroom are different colors. All gray tones though.

I'm really happy with the driftwood gray. If you're wondering what it looks like in a room I can post a pic when I get on my laptop.

yes please!

Dining room and living room

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Sometimes it does have a greenish-gray tint, which I didn't expect, but it's only in certain lighting and it's not too intense. 

[Gato]

Our whole house is painted a light yellow (yuck) except the master bedroom, which is a silvery grey-green.  I actually love the MB and will keep it that way.  While I understand the reason for the yellow (the house used to have all cream carpet, and it's sunny, so the yellow enhanced that), we're going to repaint it tan in the kitchen and ivory-ish for the LR/DR/halls.  The kids room may stay yellow.

I think your colors might be too intense for the whole house.  That grey would look good in a LR.

[pillowpants]

I can't limit myself to one color scheme.  For me, bedrooms should be cool colors.  Kitchens/Living room areas should be warm.

For our Master Bedroom we have gray blue walls with a dark blue accent wall similar to the Azurite you have pictured.

DD's bedroom is an apple green.

For the downstairs area (which is open space), we did a nutmeg color for the accent wall with the fireplace.  The rest of it will be painted a warm beige.