What house colours do you have?

Alice_Carden

Before we start to redecorate, I would be interested to hear what colours others have recently picked or are on trend for halls, house exteriors, bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms.

At the moment, we have inherited a sandy beige colour throughout so I guess thats a blank canvass.

adandem

Most of our house us Timeless (off white). We have one bedroom in a f&b greige and bathroom is a very pale grey.
I tend to add colour through accessories and I'm not a huge fan of wallpaper.

Doozergirl

I have everything in my house.

F&B Borrowed Light in my kitchen/dining room and Cole & Sons' Flamingo wallpaper in blue.

In my back room I have Cole & Sons' Prism paper and bright pink panelling, colour matched from the paper.

In my lounge I have F&B Charlston Grey, with a panelled wall in a deep teal - Valspar's Stolen Sapphire and Designers Guild Nabucco wallpaper in gold.

Hallway is Dulux Timeless.

My room is F&B Peignoir and my ensuite has Osborne & Little Komodo wallpaper in grey with silver.

Son's room is Brilliant White with a large canvas in Little Greene's Ultra Blue - an homage to Yves Klein.

Daughter's room is a Dunelm paper - duck egg blue with little birds on it.

Spare room is a dark silver wallpaper left over from a project.

You asked. I wonder if many people have as much variety as me

Waterlily24

We probably do lol. We haven't wallpapered anywhere yet but hope to soon.

Lounge two different shades of taupe.
Hall and dining room blue.
Kitchen and utility fully tiled in black and white (mainly white).
Main bedroom lilac, two walls have white fitted wardrobes with the bed fitted in the middle of one lot.
Study two shades of lemon/yellow.
2nd bedroom pink.
3rd bedroom yellow.
4th bedroom (craftroom) white.
Main bathroom and upstairs bathroom fully tiled in blue and white (mainly white)
Ensuite bathroom fully tiled in black and white.
Stairs and landing white.


Yours sounds just my cup of tea Doozergirl.

phoebe1989seb

We do too

Nowhere near finished yet as we've only been here since February - and the cottage was bought as a repossession so needed everything doing - but so far we have -

Hallway in F&B Drawing Room Blue.

Kitchen in Johnstone's China Clay with a Voysey inspired Villa Nova wallpaper in red, turquoise, cream and taupe.

Snug painted panelling in F&B Olive with another (American - Bradbury & Bradbury) Voysey wallpaper (Fool's Parsley) in olive, black, cream and gold.

Library in F&B Vardo with a vintage peacock feather wallpaper in blue and gold.

Family bathroom in Little Greene Knightsbridge.

Master bedroom in F&B Oval Room Blue.

Guest bedroom in F&B India Yellow with ongoing pink/green Magnolia tree handpainted mural.

Other rooms/colour schemes to be decided.......

faerielight

Throughout the flat, hallways etc is a neutral ivory called Maybe Maggie, by Earthborn, my bedroom is painted in a neutral pinky nude, Posie by Grahame and Brown with a feature wallpaper Cow Parsley in Ballet Shoes colour way by Cole and son. My accessories, bed, rugs etc are greys.

my lounge has alcoves painted in Olive by Little Greene, it’s very botanical with lots of green accessories and plants.
my spare rooms 1painted in Farrow and Ball Pale Hound which can look like a pale yellow or yellow green or sage green depending on the light. The other spare room has duck egg blue ombr! wallpaper as featured wall by Graeme and Brown.This room is mainly duck egg blue furnishings with some teal and grey. My bathroom is going to have round stone penny mosaic tiles in washed out aquamarine tones , the vanity unit is in grey turquoise from ikea and the splash back tiles duck egg blue. I’ll be painting the wall Smidgen from Earthborn.
All my rooms are very different!

onomatopoeia99

I don't know what "on trend" is, but of the rooms I have decorated:


Hallway - natural calico (aka posh magnolia) as it gets no naural light
Bedroom - powder blue
Kitchen - "lolo plum" (a deep purple)
Currently weighing up a green or a lilac for the library (n.b. estate agents would call it "bedroom 2", but it's going to have bookcases filled with books, so I'm calling it a library).

PasturesNew

I've always been a fan of white. White, white, white.

No time/money spent trying to find the right colours.
No time spent mulling endlessly over a colour you might not like in your room when it's dry.
One tin of paint, one brush, in the shed when you've finished.
Get a tin of it anywhere, everybody sells it, it'll never be discontinued.
Just touch up a bit of a wall, a scrape, or a whole wall easily in 5-10 minutes flat in the future.



I do like my white...

paddy's_mum

PasturesNew wrote: »

One tin of paint, one brush...Get a tin of it anywhere, everybody sells it, it'll never be discontinued.
Just touch up a bit of a wall, a scrape, or a whole wall easily in 5-10 minutes flat

I'm the same but use magnolia, and for similar reasons.

I find it a calming colour with great affinity for all kinds of natural things like wood, daffodils in a vase, gold or brass finishes, pottery items, chunky cream bedspreads etc.

My rooms are not boring as every one has different coloured accessories (cushions, rugs, lampshades) but the overall feeling is harmonious, light and peaceful.

I find myself unable to relax in rooms that are too busy, too bright - I felt positively jittery in some of the over-decorated, gaudy rooms in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton.

(Muses: perhaps it's because I had such a tumultuous early life that I love the peacefulness of all shades of cream...;))

Davesnave

I'm not on trend, but I'd like someone to start a trend for painting one wall randomly with all the colours in rejected Match Pots!

paddy's_mum

Davesnave wrote: »

I'm not on trend, but I'd like someone to start a trend for painting one wall randomly with all the colours in rejected Match Pots!

What a fabulous idea! :T

Imagine the social cachet in having panels done like this and then letting the neighbours realise how wealthy you are by claiming that they are Congo the Chimpanzee original artworks! :rotfl: