Does your home decor coordinate between rooms?

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Do you think it matters?

We recently decorated the kitchen in white and dark green (mid Brunswick from Little Greene). It's not to everyone's taste I'm sure but I love it. The problem now is that we're decorating the hall and have no idea how to get it to compliment the kitchen (or whether that even matters). There is no door between the hall and the kitchen but they are separated by a 2nd section of hall (maybe 2.5m long) which is painted white. That said, you can still catch a glimpse of the dark green kitchen cabinets from the main hallway.

DP is convinced that it doesn't matter at all as they are different rooms and in any case are separated by the white 2nd hallway.. he wasn't to decorate the hall in a deep teal (pleat from Little Greene, which I agree is a lovely colour) but I'm worried it will make the house look weird and disjointed. We can't agree on any other colours 😭.

Please Mumsnet - tell us what to do!

Mid Brunswick

www.littlegreene.com/mid-brunswick-green?gclid=Cj0KCQjwse-DBhC7ARIsAI8YcWJQwUJWrTDauj5WAT6rnsVqBZmvreR1adEIqnBEv4XUMQOj5ViYT4MaAmZJEALw_wcB

Pleat

www.littlegreene.com/pleat

Nope, different scheme in each and every room here, my friend calls my house the rubric cube!

My house flows, all walls and woodwork are the same colour, and we have the same accent colours throughout, apart from dc's bedrooms.
Absolutely boring for some people I know, but it feels bigger, calmer and more pulled together imo.

I like to have a degree of continuity, yes.

Thanks very much for the replies so far!

Just to say that the other option is painting it white but we have a 1 year old and so we're worried about it getting marked etc. Thinking a dark colour would hide more??

Thanks!

Firstly, does the sentence mean to say "he wanted to" or "he wasn't keen to" - sorry I have read it a couple of times but not overly sure.

Assuming it is the first option personally I think he is right. I do think that rooms/the whole house should have a tone that is similar. My kitchen is a sage green (french grey by F&B) and the walls cornforth white. The adjoining rooms are all of a similar theme. All tones of pale sagey greens and a light grey upstairs. However, I do live in a 14th Century cottage with lots of dark brown beams so pale colours work best.

I got two screens up with Brunswick Green on one and Pleat on the another and tonally I think they work well together.

Yeah I think it makes sense to coordinate. Also simpler for repainting etc. Little greene have a phone number on their website and you can speak to a colour consultant. If you tell them the shades you've already got they can recommend colours that will be harmonious or complementary, as you wish

Hmm. Just looked at the LG website and looks like they are charging for colour consultancy now. You could try calling a store and I'm sure they'd give you a few tips. Or if you go to the shade on the website it should show you some recommended partner colours.

I prefer separate colour schemes, I find it gives each area its own feel and personality. Also for me, a colour that I feel would suit a lounge, would not be the same for a dining room/kitchen etc.

I think those are lovely colours and don't clash.

Our kitchen has counters that are a similar colour to the first one (though has a faux stone pattern to it) and we paired it with a slightly lighter sage green walls.

I don't think it matters much. We have done the hallway from upstairs and down all one way because it's one continuous space, keeping some of the trim and decor that was here before and it kinda goes with some of what was in the kitchen (which has the same colour on the neutral flooring) and the living room (with 2 and a bit walls having a similar colour patterned wallpaper), but overall, all of our spaces are pretty different even before we moved in - the shower room has pink tiled walls and curtains, our WC has white walls, with the seat and basin pink, but the cistern is a cheery similarly pastel blue colour (no idea why, but it somehow works well), and then I allowed my children to pick their bedroom wall colours which are "certainly different" as someone who helped us move a few things.

Nope, 3 reception rooms which are two different blues and a green, kitchen is yellow. 4 bedrooms which are 2 different greens, a lilac and a grey & blue. Bathroom is another blue. Downstairs toilet is yet another blue!

Hallway and landing are an off-white. Hate white walls in rooms, can just about accept them on stairs.

Yes, it all has to flow for me.

Hello - OP's DP here!

Just wanted to add that the green in the kitchen is only on the cabinets, which you can only see the edges of when standing in the hall, not on the walls. Mainly you see the kitchen's wooden floor when you're standing in the hall. You can see a bit more of the hall walls from the kitchen because it has a curve in it.

Also, we're only taking about using the Pleat colour in the hall between the dado rail and skirting board. It will be white(ish) from waist height up and on the woodwork.

I'm not at all disputing there's still a consistency issue to consider. Just wanted to give a fuller picture.

Sorry to butt in!

@SpeckledlyHen he wants to. And your reply is interesting as well had been worried that the colours don't go!

Annoyingly the kitchen isn't quite mid Brunswick (it's colour matched laminate and looks slightly more "primary" and less brown) but I think it's quite close.

*I had been worried

Gah, trying to type while holding baby

As someone who worked in a fancy paint interiors shop I think it’s down to you what you like best.
Personally I don’t like all rooms being completely different but also don’t always like when the whole house is the same.
However, I think most people overlook hallways when actually they are really important spaces, they are the connecting space between all of the rooms so ideally the rooms should not clash with the hallway. The hallway is also the first space you enter into a home so they set the tone for the house, if you have a type of design style you are attempting to achieve in your house then it should start off in the hall.
I think it’s a lost opportunity to just paint the hallway in a plain natural colour, although you mostly just pass through these spaces they really do matter and are really worth thinking about carefully.

Ours does but all the rooms sort of flow into each other and it’s open plan so I think it matters more than if it was a more traditional layout

I don't think those two colours are that different TBH, no problem with flow. It's a greeny teal I think they go well together

Yes in our house. It is all shades of white/ cream/ beige/ blue/ turquoise. So although individual rooms are not painted in the same colour, the whole house has a continuity about it. All ceilings and woodwork are white, which also helps with the feel of it being one. And all the carpeted rooms have the same fawn speckled carpet.

The hallway is neutral, but has "natural" features like a slate floor and oak staircase.

But it's down to personal taste.

Yes, it all has to flow or it makes me twitchy.

No flow here, dhs best friend lives in a grey and silver house, I mean everything she has is grey, it's full on Instagram style, she likes it, so won't knock it.

Here we've got

Hall stairs and landing are a blue undertoned white, so quite a cold colour, but all the woodwork is stained dark which warms it up oddly. And lots of photos up the staircase.
Kitchen is black and white with bright green, red and blue accessories (kettle, toaster, microwave and cooking utensils/knives)
Livingroom shades of brown and burnt orange, basically an autumnal themed colour scheme
Ds room is shades of grey with red and black (was a home office, we just bought light grey furniture to save redecorating)
Our room is magnolia because we haven't decorated yet.

I wish I was the kind of person who liked matchy matchy, but nahhh....

I think the style should be consistent, rather than colours. I am I love with Designers Guild, and in one (large) house had painted raspberry to dado then big pink blossom wallpaper in the hall all up the stairs. In the livingroom we had 3.5m DG curtains in lavender with pink and orange tulips. The diningroom was beyond that and jad the same curtains, but the family room and kitchen were quite different but still colourful. It worked because the patterns were the same kind of painterly style, and the colours were all quite bright.

Yes, I’d aim for a good colour coordination between rooms. But that doesn’t mean each room will be the same colour scheme … but as you have a strong colour in the kitchen, maybe more neutral in the hallway, with touches of colour that complement the kitchen’s green colour.

nope

every room has a different colour combo of wall, floor & other features.

I don't like too much coordinating. I prefer each room to have a different feel