grey walls, white doors, brashed steel switches...how does this colour scheme sound?

[pasok1000]

it is quite a strtegic question for us: what do you think of this colour scheme:

1. medium grey walls, white doors, brashed steel switches...how does this colour scheme sound?

1. woudl I need to do the same wall in all house or just on the ground floor and the 1st floor other colour?

Thank you

Sounds quite safe and ordinary. I think grey can look lovely but it is quite safe and is the new magnolia.

I think grey has had its day.

Do you mean brushed steel?

ugh

so so over grey

Sounds like a bog standard rental.

Sounds boring and like a million houses on Instagram sorry.
Personally I prefer some colour and personality.

Dull

Depends on the property? Is this for yourself to live with every day or for rental or sale?

If to live with, to me personally, it sounds dull and uninspired, although maybe could be ok with the right tone/shade and texture, accent colours in the accessories, furniture and soft furnishings, wall art etc.

If for rental/sale then it sounds sensible and inoffensive. Although personally I wouldn’t bother with the steel switches, just plain standard white would be fine, the extra expense of fancy switches wouldn’t be justified for rental/sale.

The only thing with using the same grey & white in every room though is that there as many different greys and whites and they all perform differently in different lights and aspects, so won’t be the same in the front of the house vs the back of the house for example, will work better in some rooms than others.

What about flooring?

I absolutely hate white doors. Stick to wood.

sounds really awful . unless your decorating an office

I agree it is the modern equivalent of magnolia. Not a bad idea if you are painting it ready for selling, but I wouldn't pick it for the home I was living in IYKWIM?
I agree with a PP about the switches. White is classic. The brushed silvery finishes will soon join the polished brass faceplates that look really dated. I think they're OK in a kitchen where they are visible and match the style, but those faceplates are far more likely to be switched when the kitchen is eventually modernised and it a much smaller job than replacing a house's worth.

It depends what YOU like. A lot of people on here will say grey is awful. Most of my house is grey and looks nothing like the typical insta homes, it's all in the accessories and soft furnishings
I find grey calming

I think it'll look very dated (already) very quick.

It’s not offensive. Neither is it original nor particularly desirable anymore. I’d go for a taupe colour instead

It sounds boring, horrifically dull and dated.

I’d try to be a bit more creative op.

Do you like other colours other than grey? Greens? What about farrow and ball French grey, it’s a green grey,..lots of colours you can choose.

The issue was grey was done to death.

Sounds like prison!

Grey isn’t to my taste. But really it should be about what you like.

Sounds dated

I hate grey, and I hate the fact that it's become so hard to buy furniture/tiles etc. in non-grey colours over the last few years.

As a colour scheme, it's extremely bland. But if you are decorating for quick resale or to rent out, it'll be fine.

It's likely to look dated fairly quickly though (just think how dated the creams and beiges of the late 2000's and early 2010's looks now). So if you are aiming to be on-trend, grey is not the right choice.

If on the other hand you're trying to make the home your own, then it makes no difference what other people think, as it depends whether you personally like it.

Like every new estate house/rental.

Please go for something other than grey, it’s pretty depressing to live with (unless you have lots of colourful pictures/accessories)

@Chichimcgee

Sounds boring and like a million houses on Instagram sorry. Personally I prefer some colour and personality.

Hate grey. It depresses me. I too prefer colour.

There is good grey & then there is bad grey where the furniture/cushions are all grey etc.

DH recently bought a house that was supposedly to do up and sell, long story short it's turned into his little vanity project and he's keeping it as a holiday home (only 30 miles away, but on the beach so I suppose JUST about fits that category) but he's done everything grey and white, everything... I hate it! So bloody dull. And too masculine / cold for me.

Don't do brushed steel switches. We did and they are such a pain to clean and show everything finger print.

We've gone back to bog standard white now.

I’ve just done a whole house renovation and deliberately steered away from grey.

If you’re going to use it I’d choose a very pale grey. Something like farrow and ball ammonite is dark enough. Then soften it with lots of cream/ivory and masses of texture to prevent it looking cold