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my mom lives in a 100+yo home, & she used the same color thruout for her 1st 20 years there. It worked, it was called Candleglow...a very soft off-white.

but now the home is in soft-tones thruout & is much better! The living room is a soft sage green, kitchen a mintier version, & the dining room is a bluer version. The way the house is set up accentuates the coloring of each room. You walk right into the living room & can see both kitchen (to the right)/dining room (to the left)....both on the back wall of the home. Working off one main color really set the home beautifully! The visual flow is amazing.....& much better than all the same color!

Well, it sounds like your colors are all over the place right now (blue, brown, lime, yellow).

While I don't think you can go "wrong" by painting white everywhere, I would want more color. What I have don is to use complimentary colors in rooms that flow together. Could you try that? You want similar tones and values. Or you could choose O. color (green/sage/etc.) and vary the rooms by intensity.

The Starbucks style bold colors left a real impact on people. But I think things have come full circle. There is nothing wrong with one soft color through out your house. Though I would discourage you from using a contractors white and encourage you to find a great complex white. And one accent color sounds perfect. Its a clean look. There are other ways to add color. FYI, I'm an N.C.I. D.Q certified and degreed interior designer.

I love these kind of questions...I can let the designer in me dream on...:P

If your home a different odd-bold color in each room, then I agree with you.

-Its time for some more uniform color in all rooms on the main floor at least. But keeping some color is good for the mood. It contributes to the 'interesting' aspect. :)

-I'd stay away from stark white. Go with any of the thousand shades of off-white or cream. Stay away from the shades that tend to look like a washed out yellow as well. :)

-Keep any one wall on each room as an accent wall, and select a bold, or a nicely contrasting color perhaps. You can select the wall that you wish to highlight and paint it a different color. Of if you don't want a particular wall in color, then go ahead and contrast the archways and window trims, or crown moldings, if you have any. Try imagining in your mind what you'd like, and go for it! Choose the color that goes well with the furniture and layout of that room.

-Bright yellows, olive greens, tan-orange, these are warm inviting colors for a kitchen. Live your dream. :)

-Keep the passageways (both on the main floor, as well as a second floor or basement, whichever applies to your home) uniformly muted, as it would perhaps feel like a continuous flow throughout the house). Beige/off-white/tan, similar shades.

-Bedrooms, all yours...:) personally, I like blues and greens and lilacs in bedrooms. With white curtains. :)) I'm going to pray when my daughter grows up she doesn't paint her room a candy pink.

I'm reeeaalllly wishing I'd get my own home soon (maybe next couple of yrs) when I can start all my adventures...

Good luck to you!!

We are still painting, but even the painter color from when we built the house is more of an eggshell than a white - don't do white!!

Our ktichen isn olive green color, the living room is a tan, the powder room is cranberry, and the office is blue. They all come from the same color family at Lowe's and they warm the house up dramatically. We have 9ft ceilings on the first floor and these warm colors help to make it not feel so huge.

We want to carry the same color that's in the living room through the foyer and the upstairs hall, and then we just have our bedroom and bathroom, kids bathroom, and the basement to color.

You know, my sister found that her local paint store had someone on staff who came to her house and made suggestions regarding paint colors. It's something worth checking out to see if there's a pro in your area who could do this... and likely, the paint store would be happy for the sale of the paint. I don't believe my sis was charged anything...

I do agree with Jennifer about finding something a bit warmer. We have one room in our house which gets colder due to its NE position -- we have quite an east wind in winter. The room was white for several years and I hated being in there in winter. We painted it a warm yellow candleglow sort of color and it completely changed how the room 'felt'.

Have fun!

I am redoing the first floor of my house. Kitchen, living, dinning, bathroom, hallway and office. As someone else already mentioned I just went to my favorite paint store and picked a pre-made color grouping. Yes they are bold, warm colors, but they all work very well together so the rooms work together, and accent pieces and furniture in the rooms all work together as well. Doing it this way has given me the unity I wanted without having to paint the rooms all the same color.

We just painted our master bedroom in this beautiful color called Seashell by Benjamin Moore. It's a creamy white. I'm normally not a 'white' person, but this is a gorgeous creamy white that is so fresh, soothing and pretty, like the inside of a ... seashell! I think it would look great with a soft green.

http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/seashell

This is what it looks like in a room:
http://www.decorpad.com/photo.htm?photoId=84770&
paintCategory=yellows&currentPage=0&index=11&relatedPhotoId=&paintBrandId=

D.:

Welcome to mamampedia!!!

Painting is always a hard thing for me...did I choose the right color???? :) I don't like white walls - they show the dirt far too easily!!! However, other than bathrooms!!! What colors are my walls?!?!?! WHITE!!! Why? because my husband and I haven't been able to decide (agree) upon color!! Well, we did last year...and was going to paint...but he got laid off...

The yellow **I** prefer is butter yellow - not bright sun yellow. However it sounds like your house is a rainbow of colors.

pick a color or a theme for the room - if the kitchen and dining room connect or are RIGHT NEXT to each other - have the same color there.

If you love natural colors...go with natural colors or colors on the same pallet....to help blend the rooms together - make it cohesive!!

HAVE FUN!!!

Off white is a little warmer, more welcoming than stark white. So maybe off white on walls, and a bright white on the ceilings? It keeps the room bright without being overwhelming. Also as far as the accent color, since it is going through out the house you might want to stay away from hard to match (or easy to clash with) colors, like um... green. If you choose something more neutral then you can use pillows / paintings etc. with as much color as you would like as accents for each room.

Whatever you do, have fun! In then end it is your house so you have to like whatever you choose!

Last time I painted my house I went through those color pallets they have at Lowes and Home Depot. Ya know the ones that have four or six colors that compliment each other.

See I have a strange home, the family room shares a wall with the hall, the kitchen shares a huge wall with the family room. I wanted a bright, light color in the hallway because it is a hallway. In the family room I wanted a bit darker to bring out the tones in the wood. Since they compliment each other that little bit of wall that goes into the family room seems normal even though it is a different color, same with the one dark wall that is shared with the kitchen.

Now the bedrooms, those are a horse of a different color, pun intended. :p