Whole house color schemes?

[jinkies]

We are renovating our first floor, and everything will need to be repainted. This will include the whole first floor, and the stairway both on the first floor, and extended up to the 2nd floor landing area. 

While we are at it, I would like to repaint our 4th bedroom (currently our office) because it used to be DD's nursery and is a soft babyish yellow. 

So basically we are repainting most of the house. This is actually good, since I did not have coherent color scheme before this. We just painted rooms as they needed it and didn't think too hard at the time about how it fit in with the rest of the house. 

ANYWAY. Choosing a whole color scheme seems daunting. Where do we even start? 

I have found some possibilities on pinterest, but they all seem very very similar, or they don't give the actual paint names, or they give an overwhelming number of colors with no indication of whether they are recommending them for walls or trim or kitchens or bedrooms, etc. Are there other resources where I could find whole-house color schemes, ideally with specific recommendations by room? I do not have a good eye, and really need someone to say "this one is good for the kitchen," "use this in the living room" etc. 

Any suggestions? 

[bhnumbers]

The Benjamin Moore paint store near me offers free consultations for just what you are looking for, so you might want to see if something like that is available at your local paint store. If you find a color scheme you like online, even if you don't know the names, someone at the paint store can help you match the colors.

[dr.girlfriend]

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[dr.girlfriend]

pandce.proboards.com/thread/431135/paint-color-help

Sorry, trying to post from my phone!

I was able to find a previous thread where I had posted all mine. Here they are, if it helps.
We have:

t.v. room (entrance off porch):  Sand Dollar (off-white)



Kitchen and dining room:  Cotswold (beige) and Etiquette (off-white) below chair rail:






Living room:  Pashmina (looks more grey in the space)



Up stairs and into hallway, and son's bedroom:  Grey Wisp (the famous Silver Sage):



Our bedroom:  Weston Flax (looks more yellow in the space)



Changes since then:  Bathroom is Thunderbird



Master suite:  Pale Oak



Laundry room:  Cumulus Cloud

[aprilsails]

I realize you are undertaking renovations in a lot of spaces but I think it’s generally important that the colours work well with the fixed elements of the space, more so than the other colours in adjacent rooms. When I’m talking about fixed elements I mean flooring (carpet, wood or tile), countertops, window treatments, furniture and linens or large decor items that you want to keep,

My Mom had a designer come in and help her choose a colour scheme for her house based on those fixed items and my Mom’s preferences. While you may find suggestions online for what I would refer to as a colour story, you won’t get the kind of precise colour selections you want, because you need to see what it looks like in your space.

I know that Benjamin Moore offers colour consults (don’t know how much they cost) and interior decorators do as well. When we built our place we could have had a decorator help us for about $100 per hour. I think she said it would be 4 hours max. However our builder would only paint our house one colour, the whole thing, so that seemed pointless. She would have given us different colours for different rooms, but we would have to do it ourselves afterwards, and I’m just not there yet.

[redheadk]

Sherwin Williams also offers this in my area. I used it (don’t have the colors handy and painting is on hold due to Covid) and was very happy. She was here for about 2 hours. I paid $90, got a BOGO coupon for samples and a $50 gift card to SW.

[jinkies]

Thanks everyone! I just remembered to come back to this. I will check at Sherwin Williams. $90 seems like a steal for that service, honestly.

aprilsails also has a good point-- my floors are a cherry-ish color (though not actually cherry) so I'm looking for warm tones and the house is over 50 years old so doesn't have high ceilings or big windows that make spaces seem brighter. So I'll want paint colors that can help offset the darkness.

dr.girlfriend, I really like your colors!

[redheadk]

Jun 18, 2020 14:03:58 GMT -5 jinkies said:

Thanks everyone! I just remembered to come back to this. I will check at Sherwin Williams. $90 seems like a steal for that service, honestly.

aprilsails also has a good point-- my floors are a cherry-ish color (though not actually cherry) so I'm looking for warm tones and the house is over 50 years old so doesn't have high ceilings or big windows that make spaces seem brighter. So I'll want paint colors that can help offset the darkness.

dr.girlfriend , I really like your colors!

Gray is so popular right now but I don't love it and it doesn't work at all with the existing hard finishes in my house, like the tile, furniture we plan to keep for a while, etc. It was really helpful to have someone give me direction, look at existing undertones in my actual home, and give me specific, coordinated color recommendations. For some rooms, she gave me a primary choice and a second choice, if needed. We did the entire first floor but she should have done my whole house. I honestly can't recommend it highly enough. 

[jinkies]

Jun 18, 2020 15:44:47 GMT -5 redheadk said:

Jun 18, 2020 14:03:58 GMT -5 jinkies said:

Thanks everyone! I just remembered to come back to this. I will check at Sherwin Williams. $90 seems like a steal for that service, honestly.

aprilsails also has a good point-- my floors are a cherry-ish color (though not actually cherry) so I'm looking for warm tones and the house is over 50 years old so doesn't have high ceilings or big windows that make spaces seem brighter. So I'll want paint colors that can help offset the darkness.

dr.girlfriend , I really like your colors!

Gray is so popular right now but I don't love it and it doesn't work at all with the existing hard finishes in my house, like the tile, furniture we plan to keep for a while, etc. It was really helpful to have someone give me direction, look at existing undertones in my actual home, and give me specific, coordinated color recommendations. For some rooms, she gave me a primary choice and a second choice, if needed. We did the entire first floor but she should have done my whole house. I honestly can't recommend it highly enough. 

Yeah I don't love gray, which is why I was struggling on Pinterest. All the palettes on there seem to be grays. I like color.

I did call Sherwin Williams but they are only doing online consultations right now and it is limited to 2 rooms at a time. I may email them and see if there is a way to get a whole house consult.

Benjamin Moore referred me to a freelance designer but she seems to be primarily a high end jewelry designer per Google, so I was confused.