Does your house 'flow' or does each room have it's own colour theme?

[TheDetective]

If you are in to that kind of thing anyway .

I'm not sure if my house looks a bit daft. Each room has it's own colour theme.

Living room is a flowery duck egg coloured feature wall. Other walls are a creamy pale brown. Furniture is beech wood. Accessories are all to match the main colours of the room.

Kitchen has pastel coloured tiles with beech units. Walls have a creamy yellow to match tiles (already in when I moved here - not to my taste!).

The main bedroom is purple feature wall and a lilac white paint on the other walls. Again beech furniture with a black metal frame bed.

One bedroom is soon to be white with one wall of big bold colour stripes. White furniture.

The other bedroom is white, with one wall of wallpaper in a comic print style. Black metal framed bed, with white furniture.

Bathroom is accidently some kind of barbie purple, and I hate it! White tiles with a border of purple/pink/aqua colour in them. So I got the purple to match, but it's pretty strong on the walls...!

I'm just coming round to doing the hall/stairs/landing. And I'm thinking, fuck. Every room is different, there is no theme blending rooms together. Aside from the carpet I guess!

So, what would you do? I've picked a wallpaper for one wall, which is white with a green, teal and silver leaf print on it, and then was thinking of doing everywhere in a very pale white/green colour. Or should I just do white, which might match in a bit better?!

Help! Does it matter that each room is different? Or should I be aiming to make it all flow together!

Yes, I like feature walls. I know a lot of MNers don't!

we are redecorating our house and every room is different
I spent too long in married quarters where every room in the house is painted the same colour with the same curtains and the same carpet
now each room has its own colour scheme
living room is dark wood burgundy and stone walls with black corner sofa, black carpet, its my goth room and I love it
bedroom is brown and teal
dining room is pop art inspired bright colours in stripes on one wall with a red tartan carpet and is full of 70s retro furniture like a sudeboard
downstairs loo is our punk toilet with a union jack toilet seat and barbed wire light fitting
kitchen is not finished but will be red and 50s inspired
bathroom I've not decided on yet
hallway will be parquet flooring and dh wants a piano and a hat stand
so my advice is do what you want. its your house and you've got to live there

A bit magnolia or magnolia like colours here. Unless it is the kids bedrooms, which are, shall we say, vivid!

My house each has its own colour theme. Grey and purple lounge, dining room magnolia with shades of brown and pale green, latte bathroom bedrooms are red and football, blue Thomas and mine is turquoise and brown.

Each room is different colours and very different styles too.

None of the rooms match but we like certain types of colour and our style sense rubs through the house. It's not match but at the same time if you saw our kitchen you wouldn't be surprised when you saw our bathroom if you know what I mean. Blue and green are my fav colours (hubbies too) and different shades if them are in most rooms along with grey and a but of yellow in accents :)

I think if you choose what you like it works. A super modern kitchen though with a Victorian style bathroom might be jarring though!

The whole house flows because we used the same oak flooring throughout. It is a 1930s house with original oak flooring and where it did not, we replaced it with matching flooring. Love it. The walls are also neutral throughout (apart from original wood panelling in the hallway) but only because we had to redecorate quickly before moving in. We create interest in each room with our paintings and furnishings.

Mine sort of matches, but only because I don't like looking down a hall and seeing clashes of colour ie where they don't compliment. But that is only in my own house, I have seen it in other people's houses where it really works.

We live in our forever house so have had to keep things very neutral to be able to sell quick in previous houses. This is the first house where we have put colour into the rooms.

So we are decorating for us, complete with feature wall because I don't give a crap what other people think of it, genuinely.

I love seeing people express their taste through their own taste in decor rather than everyone having the same stuff.

Mine is on a theme of white, duck egg blue and grey. But the children's bedrooms are lime green to match in with the themes they have in their rooms. They are allowed to decorate them in whatever colour they want as it is their space.

our hall is a neutral ivory cream and all the rooms are different colours coming off. I think our style is throughout tho so it all comes together. same sort of loop carpet just different colours type thing.

Ours flows. We did it deliberately. The whole house was redecorated last year so we did it all in one go. Each floor has a theme where each room picks up a colour or tone in the other.

The room colours are different but in each room is an element of the next door room. It is small and not obvious but there.

Our hallways and stairs are the same muted tone all the way to the top of the house. Doors and woodwork and ceilings are same in each room.

Plugs and switches consistent and light fittings again pick up a theme on each floor although different in each room.

Nothing matches - it just fits together.

It flows (I hope). The whole house is white walls with laminate (nice laminate) floors. The kids have coloured curtains in their rooms though.

Umm, it sort of flows. Walls/ flooring don't match but don't stick out like a sore thumb with one another.

We have varying shades of wood floors downstairs and pale walls in pure white or magnolia colour until we can afford/get time to paint it all pure white. We have lots of wood furniture and house plants which makes downstairs kind of similar.

Upstairs we have different carpet in each room but they are all "cool" brown tones with a fleck through them.

Box/cot room has white ivory with dark stained pine furniture, our bedroom has a pale lavender walls with mid pine furniture and our DC1's bedroom is a pastel blue with mid pine stained furniture.

Pale curtains in all rooms.

We get patterns from our bedlinen (but do have plain white for the three bedrooms) and that's enough for us!

Also, our stuff is colourful, so i dont think I could handle patterned walls/ curtains as it would be overload for me.

But... I do love a nice feature wall in my sisters' and friends' houses!!!

Each room is different but there are elements that tie them together so that it flows.

Each room will be different in my house. I like so many different colours and themes and I HATE boring beigey/browny colour schemes. We live in a bungalow so currently all rooms come off one hallway. This hallway will be very neutral otherwise the place will be OTT (pale walls and dark parquet floor). Our room will be shades of green, DD's room is already done and has a very pale pink wallpaper with butterflys and white wooden furniture with lilac accessories. DS's room is a very vivid medium blue with white furniture and red accessories. The lounge will be grey with a charcoal feature wall and paler accessories. Not sure on the kitchen yet except the units will be white shaker style.

Sort of flows but only because we haven't gotten around to actually chosing any colours so it's all white at the moment.

In your shoes, I'd pick a colour scheme for the hallway which compliments your downstairs rooms. That's where it will have most impact for visitors and jar less for you.

I'd repaint your bathroom a bright white and just choose some coloured accessories to pick up the tiles. Towels, bathmat or similar. Barbie purple must create some interesting shades to the complexion at the end of the day

My DH's boss came round for dinner when we first bought a doer upper. From where he sat in a red and green room, he could see the peach and pink hall, into the canary yellow (with dark stained wood) dining room and into the avacado green kitchen with terracotta floor

He was rich American and when he had his last house built had employed a "Colour Technician" (or somesuch) who had designed them a palette of colours, so that when you walked from the butler's pantry to the next made up name room it all went. He said being all open plan and fucking massive having so many different spaces that it made it all look nice.

Each room deliberately flows here with an overall calm and restful feel but with difference in each room. The tones are all similar but we run through from greys in the kitchen and snug to greige colours in the dining room to beige colours, velvets and metallics in the living room.

The colour palette is similar the differences come in fabrics and textures.

I think part of the charm of visiting anyone's home is seeing their taste in decor ! I don't think there's a 'right way ' or a 'wrong way' ! Your home - your rules !! If you really like one style it generally shows throughout your home, if you like many styles and you have may rooms - why not indulge yourself !! Have fun !!!

We've just redecorated, the house didn't flow at all, there were 4 types of flooring downstairs alone and different in each bedroom again!

Now we have white stained floorboards throughout downstairs and although rooms are painted different colours the long hallway is white over the rail and yellow wallpaper below and upstairs is plain white so it ties it all in. The colours are mostly neutral white/grey so there is no sudden change in colour scheme