What colour are your walls?

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Inspired by a thread where blue walls were considered so offensive that it would stop someone buying a house, I started to worry that everyone must think my house is hideous!

Our reception rooms are white because we have a lot of colourful art up and it's difficult to get a colour to work with that but the hallway is a light yellow and the upstairs bedrooms are a light blue sort of light teal kind of shade.

I sort of assumed colour was normal but maybe it isn't?

I have all kinds of colours, and I like colours, but they have to be warm. I don’t know the house you are talking about but blue can be very harsh and cold or it can be warm and calm.

I have no white or neutral walls at all. They make me uneasy. Hall and landing are pink, lounge is duck egg blue, study is teal, library is dark green, our room dark blue, spare room blue and grey, DC rooms currently green and lilac but being redone. One wants blue and purple, other wants a different colour on each wall. Bathroom is dark blue and white tiles, kitchen is yellow with green cupboards.

Yellow, orange, emerald green, bedroom is peach.

Our walls are mostly blue / grey - lucky we’re not planning to sell anytime soon 😂

I feel the same about white on walls as I do in other aspects of my life. I have no white bedding, towels, crockery or clothes other than cricket whites and school tops where it is compulsory.

Yep - I saw that thread too and thought wtf. Do people live in such cheerless homes with white/bland throughout?

I have a mixture - some fairly neutral (though never white - awful colour for walls) in big areas, but with plenty of colourful accents; some rooms with a light colour on all walls (mostly bedrooms) and some rooms with neutral-ish on three walls and one 'statement!' wall.

I would hate to live in a white home and giving it a bit of life through colour would be my first priority.

Edit: The blue in the house mentioned was not my kind of blue but it wouldnt have bothered me at all. Just one room in the whole house that I would have redecorated. Give me a white/bland house and that's pretty much every room needs doing.

<whisper it> I have wallpaper. I know!

I'm not keen on feature walls but I've had plenty of coloured walls over the years and have always managed to sell.

Thinking about it, this is true for me too actually - I don't really like white full stop.

I am also far more put off a neutral home for sale than one decorated in colours I don't like. Even if the specific colours aren't what I'd choose it makes it look more loved and cared for than neutrals.

I realise this is not a popular opinion.

I think people who wouldn’t buy a house because the walls were painted a colour they don’t like, lack sense and imagination. Colour can be painted over if they are so determined to have white walls and if they can’t see beyond a painted wall to the bones of the house, it’s their loss. Most people can.

I love colourful walls. I always thought I’d be a white wall person (I also have a lot of art) but we bought a colourfully painted house and realised we loved living in colour! So we repainted, but into colours we love. Our living room is a sort of heritage green, our kitchen is blue, our bedroom is (only to the dado rail!) orange. DD’s room is white walls but with lots of painted bits around (rainbow). We are planning strong wallpaper for the hallway next.

I don’t care about selling my house in the future. I care about living in a home that we love now.

HSL is bottle green / William Morris paper (it’s a vibe!) lounge is white (milky pail) dining room is Egyptian sand. Office is milky pail, kitchen is pink. My bathroom and bedroom are pink too, ds room is grey 😵‍💫 dd’s is white, spare is also white.

front lounge is a lovely botanical green…..back room is chocolate brown …..one bed room is a browny pink…..another bedroom is a pale mustard colour….every other room is white…..our rooms can take colour as it’s a Victorian house with picture rails and high ceilings

There are loads of gorgeous blue walls. It depends on the shade and how you style it. Personally I hate the minimalist, white, neutral look - utterly soulless. But everyone is different so just do what you like.

Worst is people saying it's the best "colour" for a baby and they look adorable in "a crisp white onesie". Makes me sad just to think about it. I was given a pack of three plain white onesies. I dyed them a lovely emerald green before they went anywhere near DC.

Yes -this is true for me as well. I think it sort of sparks off thoughts for me on how I could make it my own, whereas very neutral houses feels like hotels.

I also - again controversial - kind of like seeing personal things like family photos, it makes it feel like a house which has been cared for and loved.

I have pink walls in my kitchen and it was my dh Idea !
Although it is due a repaint and won't be pink next time .

Pretty much agree with all the above. Loving all the descriptions.

I watched Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy last night. The colours and wallpaper throughout her house are gorgeous.

I have light green, cream & beige downstairs (farrow and ball colours).
Then grey, white, pink, dark green, hot chocolate and bluey/green…
I like colour!

Apparently i go for yellows in the shared spaces (Dulux buttermilk and a light sunny yellow), and greens in the bedrooms (Dulux willow tree, Dulux English mist 5).

But the bathroom is mainly white with one wall in Valspar swan beak for a bit of a zing in the mornings.

Don’t people realise they can paint the walls whatever colour they like?
I’d never be put off a perfect house because of someone else's wall colour. Nuts!

I think the closest to white I get anywhere is the hallway which is F and B Dropcloth, but other rooms are a deep greyish blue, a brownish pink, olive green, a deep gold. Like a pp, all warm, saturated colours. We’re in the final stages of a new kitchen. The cabinets are Inchyra Blue and the walls are a warm tan brown.

So glad you’ve both said this I’m planning to sell my - pink & green living room, yellow bathroom, peach bedrooms, green office rooms, lots of pictures and ornaments -house very soon and I’m worried the estate agent will recommend a white wash 😬

All my rooms are either white or various light beige colours. I do not like colours. I went through that in the 90s (changing rooms!) Never again.
I am quite surprised by the number of people who have blue. Blue makes rooms look cold. This is what I was told by an interior designer.

My house is all the colours! Pink rooms, dark green, emerald green, dark blue, more pink, oval room blue etc. Bathrooms all colourful too. I’ve one white room left and it’s distracting me with what colour to paint it.