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| delsgirl |
We are planning to paint most of our house this summer, due to a weird film that builds up on our walls from our heater (that is being replaced). SO, the fun of choosing colors! :p I have a few ideas kicking around but I thought I'd see what advice you all have. What color would you choose, for master bedroom and living room? Do you have a certain color that you've really enjoyed or what would your dream color be? |
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| bpchecker |
I love our master bedroom.. Its a 'dirty' yellow. I don't know how to describe it. Its not a strong color at all. Maybe more a khaki then yellow, I don't know! Anyhow, accents are done in dark red and black. Its very classy I think! Living room is off white. |
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| jimmysgirl |
I am planning to paint our living room khaki with one wall red. My husband wants the red wall, and I'm not too sure about it, but he says if we don't like it, we'll just paint over it!! :) I would also like my kitchen to be dark red red and brown, but I'm not doing anything with it right now because the cabinets are white. Bathroom is a lavender color called silverberry, bedroom is off white with a plum-colored strip and border at the top. Childrens bedroom is khaki with pink and blue accents. |
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| virginiadawn |
My master bedroom is Ralph Lauren's Chimayo Red on 2 walls. Dark and a bit brown toned, accented with golden tan on the other 2 walls. If we decide to build in the near future, I will do it again. I love it.
Currently my LR (and kitchen and hall and part of the dining room - all open to each other) are Ace Hardware's Wooden Spoon. Light green that looks kind of khaki in most lights. I like it, but if I were to over I would go one step darker on the strip. I we build.... I want the LR to be much darker - like almost chocolate brown. I could not do it here bc the ceiling is too low in thei trailer. |
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| millerseven |
I see so much color anymore on people's walls and I love the simplicity of it. So saying I went and put borders in my bedroom, bathroom and boys bedroom. I would love to give my bathroom darker walls to cover the dirt, but it's small enough and I hate to bring it even closer. The nice thing about painting walls with color and skipping the border is that you can change your accents fairly easily. Once a border is up, you kind of have to stick to the colors. My dining room got the bottom half with a dark red and the top half with a cream strip. We have chair rail in the middle. I also painted my kitchen soffet with the same red to tie the 2 rooms together. My living room walls and hallway are cream with a little darker sponge. I love how that covers up lots of imperfections on old walls. My rooms are all light colored and maybe someday I will go to colors, who knows. |
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| Jaysgirl |
I have light colored walls mostly. I like the wide, airy feeling with the attention drawn to the beautiful green of the trees outside the windows. Very few windows covered in our house! But I do like dark walls in other peoples houses! |
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| Gina P |
I love off green- my bath is that color..it's kinda the color of celery but softer..trimmed in soft white..accents in dk. brown..sounds a little wierd but I love love it! ( I like to get the Pottery Barn magazines for ideas..they also cordinate Ben.Moore paint..that is awesome paint .) I am also going to be doing my kitchen this year..I want to try 'aging' it.. applying cream and then dk brown mixed with glaze on top- and wiped off till you get the affect you want..My friend did her cabinets and they are stunning! (this could be a interesting summer..painting with 2 babies) humm.... |
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| virginiadawn |
Christy, I don't want to high-jack your thread but I am wondering about the film stuff on your walls. It occurs to me that maybe that is what we have. We thought it was a mold of some sort but maybe it is from the furnjace... |
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| Momof2 |
Our living room is tan, but we want to repaint it a darker (almost chocolate) brown. |
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| damar |
Most of our house is off white. We moved here from a dark,dingy trailer & I wanted LIGHT!! I would love to have some of the rich, dark colors that I see in my friends houses. But I am way to lazy to go to all that bother of carefully trimming & painting 3 coats of paint on my walls!
My sister did "rag" some of my living area with a dark tan & I LOVE the way it hides dirt!! |
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| twofus |
We live in an off white, rented house. I dream of the day when I can add COLOR to walls. I'm not an off white person at all. I love looking at magazines like Better Homes and Gardens or Real Simple for color ideas. One thing I've heard is to use colors in your house that you enjoy wearing. |
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| HappyMusser |
my kitchen is two shades of dark yellow, with cream cabinets-i love it. our living room is "cozy neutral-which is a light tan w/ an accent wall of mossy green. very cozy. Abbi's room is orange, there's a baby blue guest room and the rest of the downstairs is ivory. it can be so confusing when you have to pick colors for your whole house--know the feeling. just make sure your colors blend so as you look from one room into the next it doesn't clash.
when we first got married, we lived in an apartment and burned lots of cheap candles left over from our wedding. Eventually we got a sooty build-up around the tops of our rooms. Oops.
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| heart@home |
I have a med. olive green in my kitchen and a earth tan in my livingroom. The two blend so well together that many people think it's the same color when the lights are dim. I second what Thelma said...blending the rooms together, is important. My bedroom is off white, the bath a deep clay color, office blue w brown stripe.
Going for the colors you wear (as someone mentioned) will less likely have you ughing over colors two months after you paint....they are naturally what you go for, and most likely will be what you like best.
One good thing to keep in mind as well is what color accents do you have, does your furniture/trim/decorating items go with the color? Which I am sure you know that already!! ;)
It would be really fun to see some of these colors you all are talking about. How about some pictures??
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| heart@home |
My master bath
My kitchen wall |
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| delsgirl |
Thanks for all the ideas! :) Some of your suggestions, like matching rooms, I probably wouldn't have thought of. And, when I think of the colors I was considering they would be colors I like to wear. That's interesting though because I probably wouldn't have thought of that either. I love the pictures Di, I was thinking I should have suggested people post pictures. :) More later, I gotta run... |
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| damar |
Speaking of pictures Amber has one somewhere on this board of her kitchen. It is lovely!!!
Found it ;) it is in Illustrations & is titled my new kitchen |
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| delsgirl |
Oh Jess, about the film on our walls. We're "pretty" sure it's the heater, not 100% I guess. It seems to be very concentrated right above and behind it. It's a propane ventless fireplace. The ceiling is totally awful too. When you take a picture off the wall you can see exactly where it was. I hate to think of what our lungs look like. :( It's just like a black film, take a wet cloth and wipe it, and your cloth will turn black. |
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| virginiadawn |
Does it go away when you wash it or does it still have black-ish film when it dries?? |
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| ihavesix |
I knew this all sounded familiar and now I remember why. We had a propane wall heater in our kitchen for about 2 winters and had the same "film" on our ceiling. We didn't really notice it until I did some pizza sauce canning... one jar exploded and sauce flew all over, including the ceiling. :( It's funny NOW! :p Anyway, as I started wiping the ceiling I noticed this film... nasty! I had to wash the whole thing and did it one other time yet before we decided to heat our kitchen some other way! Haven't had a problem like that since, and yes, it does come right off. I think i used Murphy's in my water. |
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| delsgirl |
We have a textured ceiling tile with kind of a drywall feel, and it does not come off of that. My mom and I tried to wash it and it left smeary looking blotches. It does come off the walls pretty good though. Valita said using Mean Green worked good for her. I can't remember what I used. This year Delvin said we're just going to paint everything and I'm not going to argue. :p For some reason there are a few places where it just won't come off, like where we had moisture running down one wall, there's some streaks that will not go away. Oh and i just remembered, we did use a kerosene heater for awhile when the temps got really low so it could be from that too, I don't know. I'm just tired of messing with it. :( |
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| heart@home |
Thelma I would like to see pictures of your kitchen. There is a yellow that drws me and yet I have not dared use it yet...lol. I love your other clean bright tastes I have seen on xanga, I am sure I would like the yellow as well.
...anyway, if I am not asking for to much...
A few of you others, pictures of your kitchens ;)
I thought of doing a women tag on xanga about posting kitchen pictures....it's a place we all spend a lot of time in and I love new ideas, |
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| delsgirl |
Yes, pictures would be awesome! :D GinaP your bathroom colors sounded like something I'd like and Monica, I would love to see the off white with plum. I love dark colors in other people's places but we are trying to stick with lighter ones here because our house is tiny, and the living room has no west window. We'd like to do some kind of strip or trim though, I'm not sure what yet.... |
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| Mikeswife |
Let me know when the big painting starts maybe we can come and help..Fun:) |
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| delsgirl |
I think we might do it next week Valita. Coming over this way? :) Actually I think Delvin's folks are going to help, will try to get most of it done in one day.
Delvin said he'd like red for our bedroom, a very light shade, so we'll see what we can find. I was thinking more along the blue or purple line but I like when he says what he wants because i'm so undecided at times. :rolleyes: |
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| damys |
We used a kerosene heater in our kitchen one winter and that was the last of that. Lets just say I was a very unhappy housewife after working on the walls. I don't think the wick was trimmed properly... |
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| Living_an_Adventure |
Christy, one idea is just to do one wall in a certain color. We have a very small house in MN and I didn't want to make it too dark, but I love color. We pick a tan that we did our main room, but then on the wall going up the steps we did chocolate brown. I was surprised how little it did to darken the room. The only thing I would change is the color of the tan.
In our bedroom then we painted white, but one wall we made tan just like the main living area. It ties together, but still leaves them very much separate places
Enjoy painting! Now if only we could do some painting in our current house. It is all flat white; not my first choice, but also not my house. :) |
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| virginiadawn |
I put pictures up on my xanga if you wnat to check them out. The top 2 are my very neutral although technically green kitchen/dining/living room. The red wall is from my bedroom. The dots are in G's room.
In our master bedroom, the other 2 walls are a med. tan. The door is very much to the side of the room. When you walk in, the wall strainght ahead and the side closest to you are tan. Then as you look around the room you see the far side wall and the wall the door are on have the red.
If you choose to paint one wall red for Delvin, just remember that that wall will be the "focal point" of you room. Your eye will be drawn to the wall that is different.
You can get to my xanga by using the www button at the bottom of this post. |
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| HappyMusser |
ok I'm going to try to post pics. I feel kinda embarrassed about the quality of these, but I really had to downsize them to get them uploaded. I don't even know if the color is very accurate.
this is one of my kitchen. Diane, this isn't a real good pic at all. For some reason they are coming out as light lemony yellow, when it's more of a deep butter yellow. I don't think it's the color you have in mind, you're prly thinking more mustard-y color? I love that shade!
http://s3.excoboard.com/forums/2741/user/91982/110253.jpg
and since i want to show her off, but feel she doesn't really qualify to go w/ the new baby pics in the pregnancy thread, here's my little Abbi Grace, helping me to make whoopie pies:
This is my blue guest room:
And the green wall in the living room:
and my other guest room, which we used leftover yellow from the kitchen:
And Abbi's little room, which I think I've shared before:
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| delsgirl |
Thank you. Very beautiful!! :) |
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| Mikeswife |
Wow!! Thanks Thelma and the rest for sharing. I should repaint our whole house. It is so utterly old fashion but I really do not mind it to bad..My house tends to be more victorian. Ya I know flowers are out of date. I guess hospitality is more important then the style. Christy, I would love to come, but I'm afraid the earliest I can come is june 1st. We can maybe do the redecorating of wall.....FUN |
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