One colour or multiple?

[happy97]

When decorating a house, would you do different rooms in different colours? Or use one colour throughout the downstairs for example?

Asking because I'm moving to a new house and really want to paint a green accent wall in the kitchen, navy in the living room, blue through the hallway.

Would it look odd? At the moment it's magnolia throughout 😩

Bump!

I think different rooms look interesting as long as they have a bit of something in common - style, colour, print, texture or theme. I love green colour in interior, I think it will look great. Have a look at this for some ideas -
Interior trends 2021

I've currently got a decorator in, and sounds like I've gone for similar colours to what you're thinking! Just painted my dining room a gorgeous deep green colour, think study is going to be the same (it's next to it) and hallway and landing are navy. Ours was a new build, and I just got fed up of seeing no colour!

I have got some other rooms that aren't so bold, but I'm so glad I plunged for the green in particular. It was hellish for the decorator to get on, took 4 coats to not look patchy, but it is gorgeous (I went for a colour match of Little Greene Mid Azure Green in Johnstone's trade). It's 3 walls in that green, then one wall in a soft white/cream which we are going to panel to give it a bit of interest.

I say go for what you like. At the end of the day it's paint, so if you hate it or get bored of it, it's easy enough to paint over.

Different colours in different rooms is a good look; you could think about linking them in details like picking out woodwork in a toning colour then using that in the next door room.

Either way, doing your ceiling and woodwork in plain white is becoming a bit passé, matching the woodwork to your walls and either taking the same colour over the ceiling or painting it in a lighter shade of the wall colour is more modern. It's about blurring the edges of your room to make it look bigger, rather than outlining everything in white.

Thank you! I'm glad you all concur. It does seem very bland at the moment and really needs an injection of personality!