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 think it depends on the type of blue - what I have is quite a warm blue, I think.

It is similar to this - https://www.grahambrown.com/uk/product/mermaid-paint/110227-master/

That's lovely. My bedroom is https://craigandrose.com/products/1829-flanders-blue. It's beautifully warm and cosy.

I never saw the thread but…

If the paint on the wall puts you off buying a house I think you need to rethink your house buying criteria - crikey can people not see past £50-£100 worth of paint and a weekend of work!

Warn neutrals/earthy colours for me pale to mid on walls. Everything is muted…
However I do have a dark green lounge and dark wallpaper either side of fire breast.

I have also papered small nooks statement walls with floral or tree style patterns wallpapers

I have also used patterned tiles in some areas and have a statement wall tiles in laundry

it’s my forever home no doubt when we sell to downsize the young ones will do what we’ve just done and erase every last visual drop of previous owners

It depends on the blue, as with any colour. Some blues are warm, and anyway any colour will be affected by the aspect of the room and how much light it gets. North-facing rooms will bring out the cooler tones in any colour.

I mean, some whites are warm and others are cold. I use a warm white (F and B Pointing) on ceilings, and once, when I redecorated a house I knew we’d be selling on within a few years, I had the entire house painted in Pointing and made it look more interesting with art and rugs.

I do like white walls (love the light on them) and am a bit of a neutrals fan - our house was all Dulux Egyptian Cotton with white ceilings when we first saw it and I absolutely love it. However, we have gone for F&B Hague Blue in the bathroom and it is gorgeous. Love the life you want!

I agree with you OP 😅 I read that thread too.

We have:
Pink hallway (a friend’s Farrow & Ball leftovers - her whole downstairs is the same pink)

Living room cream and olive green.

Kitchen diner light blue with green gingham curtains

Downstairs loo is just the white mist coat with 2 walls blue brushstroke / raindrop vibes that I did with a tester pot one naptime - lots of people say it’s nice!

Playroom is cream top section and farrow and ball yellow clamshell lower half à la cliche Pinterest playroom

Bedrooms:
DS1 white with a burgundy border - needs replastering so CBA to do much

Ours - dusky pink and white

DS2: white mist coat as never got round to more, navy blue ceiling and above picture rail which builder did and we were going to put stars on but haven’t decided on the best option for that

DD: butter yellow up to picture rail, white ceiling

Also have a flower/daisy mural on the landing

Also I have a roll of expensive lemon print wallpaper for the utility room but I bought it before the room was built and in reality it’s going to be an arse and unappreciated so might put it in the downstairs loo or box room.

Your house sounds amazing!

The living room and hallway is a taupey neutral which is very calming.
The kitchen beige but will shortly be a deep navy.
My bathroom is a gorgeous dark dusky pink and my bedroom an aubergine.
I love it all, apart from the kitchen.

I have gone a bit overboard on the Egyptian cotton too. And I love it. I have realised that although I love colour on walls when I am out in hotels etc, I personally prefer living with more neutral colours. I think it also depends on the house. We previously lived in a Victorian house and used lots of strong colours. My current house is only 11 years old and quite dark. It just suits warm but pale colours

I have colour all through my house. Pale blue hall, quite bright orange/yellow front room, purple bedroom… Can’t bear a cream/grey etc house! I love the actual colours and wear a very neutral palette of clothes generally, but my house needs to be colourful. My last house was too and sold fine, so I doubt I’d repaint if I was moving from this one. Surely everyone wants to put their own stamp on their space.

We have pretty neutral walls.

When we bought this house it had green and purple hallway, 3 barbie pink bedrooms, and one covered in unicorn wallpaper. It does need sone colour putting back, but our first step was to neutralize as we can all live with that, where as the pink was a bit too much for us!

I'd never not buy a house because of paint, so long as it looked loved.

I liked neutral, but dh convinced me to colour. I didn't want blue at all, but the dark blue and mustard room is my favourite now. And it feels warm. Hall is a kind of sage colour. Bedroom is white. Kids have chosen their own colours. Grey/ white and the other one, dark green.

There's a house near me that doesn't close its curtains. The living room is a veritable William morris feast.I want to knock on the door and go in and just sit in it for a bit.

I couldn't live with white walls as they seem cold to me. I'm not a fan of most neutrals either. Fortunately DH agrees! We once painted a lovely bright, south-facing bedroom in a greige colour (think it was Farrow & Ball) and it absolutely sucked the life out of the space. We quickly repainted it in Craig & Rose French Turquoise which looked beautiful. I also don't subscribe to the view that a dark space should be painted in a light colour as leaning into the dark often works better.

I didn't see the 'blue' thread, but I don't agree that blues are all cold - deep, saturated blues can be warm/cosy imo. We currently have F&B De Nimes in our bedroom and F&B Vardo in another bedroom (currently used as a TV room), although ultimately that room will have a deep turquoise Art Nouveau style wallpaper. We also plan to have half-height blue panelling (possibly Edward Bulmer Garter Blue) with wallpaper above in our lootility. Our front door is Little Greene Tea with Florence (another - greeny - blue). Previously we've used F&B Inchyra Blue, Oval Room Blue and Stiffkey Blue, so you can safely assume we like blue!

Our little cottage isn't all blue, though - it's a project that's not finished yet, but currently we have a kitchen colour-drenched in Edward Bulmer Pompadour, our snug is also colour-drenched (Edward Bulmer Nicaragua) and bedroom 3 is F&B Yeabridge Green (colour-drenched again!).

We love deep, saturated colours and have plans for a Georgian yellow sitting room too. And Abigail Edwards Briar Owl wallpaper in green/gold in the shower room (we had this in the guest room at our last house and I love it!). Our love of colour and pattern doesn't stop with the walls - we have colourful, patterned textiles, rugs and art everywhere, but I find it easier to relax in a maximal space than a minimal one.

I'm also a William Morris fan (we collect Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau stuff, although sadly sold much of it when we downsized) and usually manage to fit some of his wallpapers in somewhere. This 200+ year old cottage had 1970s Morris wallpaper in the hall, but unfortunately the damp caused by the ignorant previous owner using gypsum plaster had ruined much of it, so it's had to be sacrificed ☹️

I have different colours in every room. I don’t like neutral walls. Magnolia is the colour for rental properties.

Sulking room pink in sitting room.
Rest of house is mainly white, with wooden shutters and floors, colourful sofas / chairs / cushions.

I have different colors in my home.
Many of the walls in the major rooms / hallways are a very light color, I wouldn't exactly call them white but they're a shade of white. A little bit more Brown / warmth in them but basically you'd call them white if you looked quickly.

My bathroom, a very pale latte color brown with brown and green accents / towel/bath mats etc and some Forest prints.
I have a hallway that is quite dark, so I brightened it up with a yellow shade which is not a putrid or vibrant or horrid color, sort of like a beautiful egg yolk but not quite that vibrant. It's really pretty, and whenever it does get light, natural light or electric, it makes the area look a little bit sunnier because of the shade.

I also have a bedroom that's done in Three shades of Green and a bedroom that's done in three shades of blue.

Kitchen - new build white, I don’t think I can be bothered to paint it
Living room - Dulux timeless, considering painting again though
Downstairs loo - Lick pink 01
My bedroom - Little Greene gauze mid, it’s labelled grey on their website but it’s definitely a pale blue!
Spare bedroom - Dulux timeless although I’m going to paint it summer linen when I have time off over Christmas
Third bedroom (home office) - Valspar seven sisters
Bathroom and en-suite - Dulux timeless
Hall - new build grey and I hate it! Still deciding on a colour, it’s tricky because it’s nice and bright downstairs but a bit gloomy upstairs.

So very neutral walls. I much prefer neutral walls and adding colour through art, soft furnishings, furniture, etc for my own house. Although I definitely appreciate houses with lots of colour it’s just not for me. I can’t believe people would be put off a house because of the paint colours!?

The whole house is Egyptian Cotton. 2 of The bedrooms have feature walls F&B lichen; Laura Ashley dusky seaspray. I largely like to inject colour with soft furnishings & artwork. Have wallpaper too in the hall. I work in the community and I’m so tired of seeing Stiffkey Blue & sage even though those 2 bedrooms are similar in colour… Bit fed up with William Morris too… It’s an improvement on the grey trend though. Some of the homes pulled off the grey beautifully, other homes reminded me of a bunker. That’s why I have largely neutral walls and the colour comes from very personal things. Paint colour wouldn’t put me off a house. I tend to see past that & think of the potential. I’m moving house next year. I think I might pay for a session with an interior designer. I find it hard pulling it all together.

Ours are grey currently, but we want to renovate and add a feature wall with some nice colourful wallpaper!! Looking for ideas and saving all wallpapers in crazy styles, hahaha

We have F&B Borrowed Light in an otherwise dark hall, stairs and landing. It is blue, but never looks cold.
The rest of the house is Egyptian Cotton, or Skimming Stone. We have colour with furnishings.

Bathrooms - rock salt
living room and kitchen - polished pebble
bedrooms - goosedown
hallway - chic shadow and a fake limewash wall I would show and everyone would say it’s hideous but I love it

I have french grey and bamboozle ( rich burnt orange) in lounge, calke green and raspberry in dining room with William Morris wallpaper on one wall, soft yellow in hall, dusky pinks - Peignoir and sulking room pink bedroom and so it goes on. The only white walls are bathroom and kitchen but very little wall space in there tbh.

I have a colour called 'Dried Sage' everywhere. It changes colour as the light hits it. I didn't choose it; it's a landlord special. But I like it.

We have a warm white throughout the house and lots of art on the walls. I love colour but get it in art and accessories.