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[barb40]

Tell me about the paint choices in your home...

One color throughout?  Or coordinating colors?

White ceilings, or something else?

Bedrooms all the same color, or all different?

What color trim paint?

Would love to hear how you have decorated your home!

[I am still oxox]

We live here 14 years and my 3/4 of my living room is the pale beige yellow it was when we bought the apt, the back wall of the living room is a brick red, since my dining area and living room are one room, we painted the opposite wall 1/2 red and a pale pink on the top which reflects in the entry way.

Our hallway is blue with clouds with beach decor and souvenirs from trips

Bathroom is a light coffee color on the top with white wainscoting below and more beach decor 

Our bedroom is white with a dark mauve chair-rail and paler pink below

[ALRATIBA]

Only off-white rooms and ceilings.   My furniture and etc. need a simple light background.

[WindingRoad]

To me it really all depends on the style of the home, the natural light, the views and the furniture and flooring you choose first.  That's why there are about a gazillion paint colors.  

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[WindingRoad]

Just want to add..... I think it usually looks better to have more of the same flooring throughout than the need for the same paint color in every room.

[godi]

I always like to go to open houses, I have gotten so much inspiration from these homes. Most of my home is beige, two different beiges. My baths are a sky blue. 

[gidgetgh]

One color throughout our entire house. I don’t care for different colors in different rooms. 

The builder decided on the color for our house. It’s a light-ish beige.  Very neutral. We like it and have never had an interest in changing it.  

[queendiva]

I usually choose the area rug first, then bring home lots of chips from the paint store.

Doing my kitchen now. Choosing a shade of white for the cabinets was not too bad, but grays? OMGosh! I started with about two dozen gray chips! Was coordinating with counter tops and backsplash tile. 

You have to see the color on a sunny day, rainy day, night, etc. over a period of a week or more.

I am more concerned about colors on the first floor: LR, DR, kitchen, FR, entry.

In my house all main rooms are painted the same color that was on the walls from a previous owner: Sherwin-Williams Only Natural. Open plan. The kitchen is not fully open to the rest of the first floor, but must coordinate with the existing wall color.

I think bedrooms and bathrooms can go any way you choose. JMO.

I have found that Benjamin Moore paint stores near me often have very helpful pros on staff if you bring in photos of the room(s) you are going to paint. They can help you with the best shades/ hues of your preferred color. Also, SW and BM work with catalogues including Pottery Barn, etc. and usually feature a preferred palette seasonally. That's a starting point. I usually chooose a shade that is neither the lightest or darkest on the card. My trim is bright white throughout the house, although black is trending for window and door trim.

Good luck! Don't over think it. Get the job done. I bet it will look better than whatever color you are replacing/ updating. It always does.

In the past 6 months since moving I have re-painted the kitchen & cabinets, guest bedroom, master bath and had wallpaper hung in the powder room. I suggest focusing on one room at a time to avoid complete color overload and hopeless confusion!

[haddon9]

I tend to go for light neutral colors in coordinating shades. I don't like the exact same color for each room and trim but they need to work well and flow.

I add color with accessories.

[VaBelle35]

I just repainted my entire 3 level townhouse.  This is what I did.

I started with the bathrooms because the house was built in 1993 and my bath tub, tile, toilet and vanity are all bisque/biscuit/beige/almond (whatever you want to call it).  I was not re-tiling the bathrooms so I needed a paint color that went with the off white color.  I googled bathroom paint colors for almond tile benjamin moore and found tons of blogs by people who repainted their beige bathrooms.  This is how I found the color Thousand Oceans, Smoked Oyster and Texas Rose.  I used the Smoked Oyster in the second bathroom and the Texas Rose in the master bath and bedroom.

For my kitchen, I wanted to go back to blue.  I have gone back and forth between red and blue in my kitchens for my entire life for some reason.  Since the kitchen and living room are one big open space, I did the entire floor in Thousand Oceans.

The painter convinced me to do the hallways on both floors in white.  I used Decorator White, which has blue undertones.

I planned to do the basement and the spare bedroom in Decorator White, but the day before they were coming to paint, I started doubting my colors and went to the Benjamin Moore store to look one more time.  The 2019 color books had just come out and a color called Black Pepper caught my eye.  I ended up painting the spare bedroom and the basement in that color (I didn't want to introduce a new color in the basement, and I did the entire main level in Thousand Oceans, so it was either Decorator White or Black Pepper and the Black Pepper was the right choice).

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@barb40 wrote:

Tell me about the paint choices in your home...

One color throughout?  Or coordinating colors?

Coordinating/Complementary Colors

White ceilings, or something else?

White ceilings

Bedrooms all the same color, or all different?

Different

What color trim paint?

White for the whole house.  I also had interior plantation shutters installed on all the windows and the back door.  I had them painted the same color as the doors and trim (Benjamin Moore 01 White - this is a neutral white, no undertones, mixed at the factory, not at the store).

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