House colors...need ideas?

childofArtemis24
childofArtemis24 Posts: 334
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ok I posted this same, topic about 2 days ago, but I posted it late at night. So I would really like some more opinions. We bought our first house. So the score between me and my husband is like this.

Living room:
Husband wants- to leave the accent wall red, with the other 3 walls cream.
Me- I want a teal accent wall with cream

Dining room/ Kitchen:
Husband- wants the whole 2 rooms cream.
Me: I am ok with cream, but I want teal trim.

Now keep in mind I will repaint the dinning room/kitchen next spring when we find a color that "we both agree on". Right, now we are just trying to get it painted before we move in and winter hits. So opinions, and decorative ideas, would be awesome! Or you can just post pics of your house colors.

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  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
    One thing to keep in mind is that red is very difficult to paint onto a textured wall correctly. You usually have to do a full 2-3 coats of it to make it look best.

    When we got our house, I used mostly cool colors except for a soft yellow in our living room to offset our brown leather furniture and dark cherry entertainment center. It looks really nice. We did white trim throughout the house. Colored trim is very difficult to pull off and not look completely tacky IMHO.

    Living room is a soft green with soft yellow accent wall. Bedrooms are a medium brown and medium grey (separate rooms) and our baby's room is a color called "harmonious" by Behr Premium Plus Ultra. I love it. Our whole house is very relaxing.
  • eyestylemom
    eyestylemom Posts: 107 Member
    I did our living room a coffee with heavy cream color and the accent wall a dark teal. We have dark tan couches and I got some throw pillows that had the teal color splashed in them. Love the coloring...my husband picked out the accent color and I did the rest. Our trim was a bright white.
  • Dragonldy69
    Dragonldy69 Posts: 368 Member
    when we moved into our mobilehome we painted out livingroom with a 50's pink on one wall and on two of our walls we did 50's pink on top with a wood boarder in the middle and red on the bottom..
    We painted our front bedroom light purple with gold trim and black roof..
    We are now doing our front bath and kitchen.. Front bath is pink with red trim and kitchen is yellow with red trim and cabnets red as well..
    Back bedroom and bath is yellow and red trim and bedroom red with gold trim..
    We watch to much BBC dedorating shows..:laugh:
  • skinnyme47
    skinnyme47 Posts: 802 Member
    I think Lowe's has software on their site where you can put the colors in a room similar to the one you want to paint, to see how it looks.
  • eyestylemom
    eyestylemom Posts: 107 Member
    http://www.lowes.com/pd_34143-4-EB432SPRIG_4294729371__?productId=3814667&Ns=p_product_qty_sales_dollar|1

    Our Accent Color


    http://www.lowes.com/pd_33855-4-CI60ICEDCHOCOLATE_4294729371__?productId=3812317&Ns=p_product_qty_sales_dollar|1

    Our walls
  • cheekylemur
    cheekylemur Posts: 16
    The most important thing to remember: it's only paint. If you don't like it, fixing it later isn't that bad compared to a lot of other home-decorating choices.

    Both of those are pretty tame for my tastes - I cringe at white/cream/beige walls.

    I painted my living room RL Ballroom gold - a slightly metallic aged gold color. A dark barn red dining room. An outrageously blue and silver striped kitchen. Burnt pumpkin office with navy trim. Et cetera... A few other rooms didn't turn out, and I just painted over them a year or two later.

    For anything rich in color, I cannot emphasize enough how much hassle it will save you to have the store tint a primer to match the color you've picked out for the wall paint. I wish I had known.
  • childofArtemis24
    childofArtemis24 Posts: 334
    when we moved into our mobilehome we painted out livingroom with a 50's pink on one wall and on two of our walls we did 50's pink on top with a wood boarder in the middle and red on the bottom..
    We painted our front bedroom light purple with gold trim and black roof..
    We are now doing our front bath and kitchen.. Front bath is pink with red trim and kitchen is yellow with red trim and cabnets red as well..
    Back bedroom and bath is yellow and red trim and bedroom red with gold trim..
    We watch to much BBC dedorating shows..:laugh:


    i would love to see some pics of it, id you don't mind
  • childofArtemis24
    childofArtemis24 Posts: 334
    The most important thing to remember: it's only paint. If you don't like it, fixing it later isn't that bad compared to a lot of other home-decorating choices.

    Both of those are pretty tame for my tastes - I cringe at white/cream/beige walls.

    I painted my living room RL Ballroom gold - a slightly metallic aged gold color. A dark barn red dining room. An outrageously blue and silver striped kitchen. Burnt pumpkin office with navy trim. Et cetera... A few other rooms didn't turn out, and I just painted over them a year or two later.

    For anything rich in color, I cannot emphasize enough how much hassle it will save you to have the store tint a primer to match the color you've picked out for the wall paint. I wish I had known.


    I love bright, different colors. It's my husband who is a stick in the mud, and wants "safe" colors. Your house sounds really pretty. thanks for the advice
  • cheekylemur
    cheekylemur Posts: 16

    I love bright, different colors. It's my husband who is a stick in the mud, and wants "safe" colors. Your house sounds really pretty. thanks for the advice

    Laugh. Mine won the bed room and his office being "relaxing" and "fairly neutral", so I didn't end up making _everything_ wacky.
  • PLUMSGRL
    PLUMSGRL Posts: 1,134 Member
    how about splitting the difference? keep the living room as it is, and paint the dining/kitchen the teal/cream.
    that way you both have "wins", and put accents of the other colors in the rooms (teal vases, pillows, ect in the living room, red stuff in the dining room, center piece, dishware, accent rug, yaknow).
  • TropicalFlowerz
    TropicalFlowerz Posts: 1,990 Member
    Live in it 4 a while,.....when the house feels like home it'll come to you!
  • melaniecheeks
    melaniecheeks Posts: 6,349 Member
    If you're going to be painting it next year, I would do as little as possible now. Moving house is stressful enough without adding unnecessary tasks!
  • Justkeepswimmin
    Justkeepswimmin Posts: 777 Member
    IMO opinion the dining room should have something bold to stand out. Maybe compromise and put teal only in dining room?
  • Justkeepswimmin
    Justkeepswimmin Posts: 777 Member
    If you're going to be painting it next year, I would do as little as possible now. Moving house is stressful enough without adding unnecessary tasks!

    So true
  • phynyxfyre
    phynyxfyre Posts: 145 Member
    Different colors evoke different moods. So while I think that you are pretty close to compromised already, I will say that bright colors are busy and energetic and cheerful. Dark colors are more moody and introspective, thoughtful, sometimes melancholy. Red and yellow have been shown in studies to make you eat more (McDonald's capitalized on this). Green is supposed to be healing. Blue is calming. White is the absence of color.

    My mom did layering of paint on her kitchen walls. She started with a medium golden yellow, then did orange and red texturing over it, so now it looks like a beautiful clay, kind of like natural canyon walls. She is really artistic, and did another doorway as a mural with blues and white clouds. Her bathroom is light green and pastel shimmery purple. The colors almost glow together in the lighting she has.

    I think you can make any color and trim work (within reason. Certain shades will never go together nicely) with the right decorative accents. If you are thinking of reselling this home later on, realize that realtors prefer to sell houses with white walls so you may have to repaint then, too.

    Good luck to you!

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