What color is the inside of YOUR house?

[cindy0721]

here is a pic i took a couple of weeks back of hubby's gift to me but you can see the color of my walls in the back...

this is the color I am debating on changing....

[Yorkie3]

I've decided that when I paint again, I'm going back to an off white, a country white. I like the crispness and how it looks so clean. I don't want the brightness of actual white. Right now I have a faux paint of tans in the family room, tan in the living room and a steal blue in the computer room. I want to get rid of the color on the walls and use furniture and other items for my color.

[Wylie's Mom]

My house is all earthy colors - and I just LOVE it. Dark tans, browns, umber-ish burnt orange (very soft), sages. There is white for trims etc. but absolutely no pastels whatsoever. Just warm, earthy colors.

[IluvLucy]

My kitchen is a soft yellow and the rest of the house is navajo white (a creamy, light color) with crisp white trim throughout. If I repainted today, I'd use the same color.

[celstu1]

I love color! I am going to be painting my house soon also. Gotta invest in paint first. I have an open concept townhouse. I want to paint the hallway coming in light, bright yellow, and the stairway going to the upstairs hallway, yellow also. My kitchen is a light neon green, very pretty color. I want to paint my dining/living room area a grayish green, one shade darker on the vertical walls and one shade lighter on the horizontal walls. Then I have this vision of a deep raspberry color on this tiny wall in the dining room and then painting squares in the raspberry over the couch and hanging wall hangings in them. I think it looks sooo nice with the green colors I picked.

I need to paint my finished basement also. Its a nice basement but its painted this god awful blue. Its like ice blue and there is a neon light down there... makes what could be cozy just cold and stark looking. I have not decided on a color for down there yet though. IM thinking a deep purple and getting a new regular light, not fluorescent.

Good Luck with your painting!
Oh I painted my bedroom a deep gold color with khaki (army green) trim on all the woodwork. I would leave wood a woodcolor if it were me, but the wood in that room was already painted white. I love the combination of the colors I picked though, I just wish the room was not so dark. Remember dark colors absorb light, so if you do a darker color you'll need more lights in the room.

[Amy81]

I'm in a apartment and its a tan white or off white.. but whatever i dont like it.. its soooo boring... but i deal with it cause we're not allowed to change it.

i've always wanted my bedroom to be a light lavendar ( i love purple)

[diggy4]

My bedroom is Terra Cotta1 bathroom is Chocolate other is lavender

Living room is Sage

Dining is Golden wheat

Kitchen is Avacado and white

averys room is Ocean blue with lime green large polka dots

I am redoing Tannars room it is hunter green now for the packers but we are going with a Khaki color, orange and blue.

spare bedroom is eggplant a deep purple.

[xLoLa]

i chose safe colors for my apparment im currently living in because im going to rent it out soon, so all the rooms are a differnt shade of beige.

im moving in less the a month to my new place and having trouble choosing colors

so far i have


living room/open kitchen,the cabinets i chose a cream color (yes safe) but one wall will be ligh gray (same as laurens from the hills) .
onthe oposit wall i chose this mosiak(sp?) and cream on the sides.
a couch will sit in front of it (if this makes sense)
all my furniture will be white so it will lighten up the room.
heres a pic of it that i found (yes i know its used in the bathroom but i want to try something new )
kitchen cabitnets, this is the catalogue pic but my kitchen will look similar just differnt layout

the hall a cream color
and the bathroom brownish tiles with silver.


and mybedroom????????? no idea, i need to decide soon! the room is not that big so no dark colors

[Tammyh]

My formal living/dining room is "Sundried Tomato" on one big wall and the rest of the room is a medium toned green (kinda reminds me of army green). May sound like a bit much but I've gotten a lot of compliments on it, love it, looks so rich! Took a lot of searching for the perfect red, didn't want any pink or purple in it and this is a beautiful red. The entry-way is a lighter color of the green in the living room, love it! Family room/kitchen is neutral light-medium neutral tan/sand color. Gotta be careful with tans, depending on how the light hits it sometimes it looks more toupey and sometimes I see some pinkishness to it (it doesn't look pink but the tone changes). I'm getting ready to pick colors for my master bedroom, I'm doing a rich dark chocolate with pale blue. Haven't figured out for sure how I'm doing the walls but in the process of figuring it out. Haven't painted the upstairs and downstairs bathrooms yet. Downstairs office/bedroom currently light gray w/dark blue accent wall. This will be changed to more neutral tan or toupe color. Kids rooms, will be repainted when they leave home

Good luck with your color choices!

[Wylie's Mom]

Originally Posted by Tammyh

I'm getting ready to pick colors for my master bedroom, I'm doing a rich dark chocolate with pale blue.

Oooh, ooh! Sounds like our master suite and we LOVE these colors, so warm, inviting, cozy. Our walls are a chocolate-y brown, white trim, window treatments dusky/steely blue w/ brown/cream accents. Our bed is decked out in brown/dusky blue. We love it and have had many compliments. (sort of similar to the Thomas O'brien palette in a way)

[nvnvgirl]

Our painters always did a big piece of wallboard with the paint we were thinking of for each room before they actually put it on the wall. You can either do that or do a (large) test patch somewhere that it won't show....they did that in our bedroom b/c the wall finish/texture was so different than plain wallboard and we were so glad that they did, b/c the original color I chose would have been way too bright! They tested it on a large area in a niche where the TV goes (then painted over it). We also used some of the "River Rock" and Metallic paints (both Ralph Lauren) and they really looked different once they were applied, so it's a good idea to do a test of the whole process (some of them are two steps or more) to see what the finished effect will be! Good luck!

[Tiger's Mom]

my entire house has taupe except for my kitchen which is a muted yellow and my daughter's bedroom which is a cool lime color. Hubby's office is hunter green halfway down and the other half is taupe with a wallpapered border in a golf theme.

I have always wanted to paint my rooms just never got around to doing it due to my schedule . . .

[a2luckygirl]

Tan, taupe,have some wallpapered, in a tan, taupe, pale teal green. I think you could say they did the southwest colors, who ever lived here before. Except bedroom is off white w/pink flowers/ roses whatever- that has got to go soon!

[Tammyh]

Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

Oooh, ooh! Sounds like our master suite and we LOVE these colors, so warm, inviting, cozy. Our walls are a chocolate-y brown, white trim, window treatments dusky/steely blue w/ brown/cream accents. Our bed is decked out in brown/dusky blue. We love it and have had many compliments. (sort of similar to the Thomas O'brien palette in a way)

It sounds so pretty! Are all of your walls the chocolatey brown? Is it a dark brown? If so, it's not too dark? I was thinking of pale blue on the walls with dark chocolate brown stripes on the wall with the bed. Our doors and moldings are white. My furniture is a rich mohagany so I'm afraid if I did the walls brown it would be too dark. What to you think? Any input is greatly appreciated

[Wylie's Mom]

Originally Posted by Tammyh

It sounds so pretty! Are all of your walls the chocolatey brown? Is it a dark brown? If so, it's not too dark? I was thinking of pale blue on the walls with dark chocolate brown stripes on the wall with the bed. Our doors and moldings are white. My furniture is a rich mohagany so I'm afraid if I did the walls brown it would be too dark. What to you think? Any input is greatly appreciated

It is is a "darker brown" - but more milky than dark chocolate - and just looks great. It's like mocha. It is not too dark, surprisingly. One of our guest rooms is also painted the same wall color...so I'll attach it for you. (I can also take pics of the master w/ the blue accents, but it may take me awhile...)