What colour is your living room ??

[nutcracker]

Just wanted a general idea of how light or dark peoples living rooms are.
We have a 29ft living/dinning room with a window at each end. At the mo it is entirly magnolia (thanks to H/A). We had decided to leave the top half magnolia, and paint the bottom in Crown Liquer paint. We have a border for the middle which is a mixture of cream, beige and coccie coloured squares.

Thing is i'm now not that keen on having the border in the middle (bit too tempting for little fingers).
I was thinking of painting the whole lot in the Liquere colour and having the border at the top.
Dp reckons it'll be much to dark though. Obviously we wouldn't know til we did it really.

Just thought i'd see who has what colours in their houses.

Oh and i have already brought the Liqure so can't change it.

We haven't redecorated since moving so sitting room is currently a hideous peach colour, as is entire first floor. Yuck. But in our old house dh wanted a dark red (like a Victorian dining room) and I wanted cream; we compromised and had three cream walls and one red. Was lovely. So pleased with it. Everyone who ever came round, including viewers when we sold it, approved; they can't all have been fibbing .

We've just redone ours. Beauvais Cream (from a range called 1852, or is it 1872? Anyway, its like the colour of the crust on clotted cream - very creamy yellow. Its lovely as it looks light and airy during the day, but warm and cosy at night.

Nutty, if you care about this sort of thing, borders two-thirds of the way down the wall (dado rail height) are very out of fashion at the moment. But if you like them sod fashion, it'll change again soon anyway.
We've got a border at the top of the wall in our bedroom, courtesy of the old owners, and although when we viewed I thought I'd get rid of it, it has actually grown on me.

I love Calico from Dulux, very similar to Crown Liqueour/DuluxHessian but not so dark, if previus owner had not chosen a green kitchen (which I hate but seems such a good quality that I would hate to rip it off) I would have it all around the house !

Right i've had a look this morning and i think it will look o.k all over, so long as i stick to pale accesories.
Dp still disagrees, but he knows it makes sense not to argue .

My friend is lending me her wallpaper steamer thingy tommorow, so i can finally start stripping Ds's room which at the mo has 3 layers of wallpaper .
Now his is one room where i know what i'm doing. Baby blue walls, with space border and stuff from next .
That'll be 2 done and 6 to go

why not start painting on 2 walls and see what it looks like - it sometimes looks really nice to have an accent wall painted a different colour. why not do the two window walls first, if you don't like it like that then pain the other two.

I personally love magnolia, you can't go wrong with it, we have it in nearly every room (minus kids rooms/bathroom) in the house.

Boo Hoo I want to do my living room cream
it's lilac at the moment. I personally wouldn't go that dark but hey what do i know!
Ds1 has his room done out in the space stuff from next and that looks brill one word of warning though, the border is meant to be self adhesive but no way would it stick to the paper.
I was trying to do something with the kitchen at the mo but having yet another bad patch with dp so it's all off...for now

I have the same as twogorgeusboys!It is lovely paint and I really recommend it!

Oh right, thanks for the warning about the border. I'll have some border stuff on standby just incase.

We have painted our bedroom in SMock by crown I think.it's a gourgeous butterscotch colour

Ours is CREAM!

When we moved in it had a pink carpet, pink and gold stripey swaggy curtains, and minging gold and pink fleur-de-lys wallpaper. We painted the walls a sort of creamy yellow colour, and the paintwork and above the dado rail in Crown Liquer. Pink, creamy yellow and "Baileys"-colour: it was like sitting in a big bowl of Neapolitan ice cream.

It had to go...is now cream, light oak laminate floor, cream curtains, and all colour is from big squishy dark red settees and bold stripey rug. Much better than the ice cream!

ooh marthamoo, pink carpet with pink swaggy curtains, why ever did you want to change it?. We are currently going through our house redecorating with different shades of cream

Well i have a border and love it!!!! I have a job where i go to many peoples houses every Week.
When you see the same thing, house after house......after house..... well, i start to think, i don't want to be 'fashionable,' if that means being the same as 90% of the population.
So i choose what i like, and find i am happier with that!

My old place was Victorian with the original fireplace and stripped pine doors and so we chose the living room to be painted a deep red all over - made it seem smaller but half the walls were covered in books and we had the original fireplace so actually came across as cosy. Absolute delish at Christmas, we would light the fire and read ghost stories in the candle light until late with 2 cats nabbing the prime spot! (the fat one would creep in front of the smaller one and would therefore blot out the heat for the tiddler). I miss that house so much. Our ultimate plan was for brown leather sofas and cream carpets to "cool" the red.

All the walls, paintwork and ceilings in our apartment are painted white. I really like it as it generally looks so clean and light.

my front room is wallpapered cream with light blue patterns on it, we have a dark blu carpet and a bue leather soafs and it s not dark at all

My living room is yellow..sort of banana yellow with white ceiling and paintwork but I it really needs decorating and I want it done a warm creamy colour and have rusty red curtains and brown leather sofas. Can't afford it at the mo though so yellow it is!!

Our living room is HORRIBLE. It was magnolia when we moved in and we haven't yet done a thing about it.
It will be some very pale cool classic colour with mushroomy / creamy cushions and curtains when we do do something. And the rest of the house will be white. Maybe a touch of duck-egg blue here and there.

i loved the living room of the house we rented. it was deep red on the bottom, with a goldy yellow on the top. it has stripped skirting boards, window sills etc, and lost of red and gold accesories. the dado rail was natural wood, very chunky, but the room was so inviting and cosy. If i move i may redo that room at my place.

remember we want pics nutty, b4 and after!!

another cream living room here. Like the sound of Baileys though (in a glass, in addition to the walls, )

we have another sitting room that will be coffee curtains and cushions/pale green walls and blinds/hot pink accessories - bowls,vases,flowers - I saw the colour scheme in a magazine and it looked lovely fresh and spring like.