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Do you have a colour palette for all of your living areas

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FantasticFox27 · 18/07/2024 13:08

Interested to hear what others have done. Do your living areas (kitchen / lounge / hallways etc) all follow a similar colour palette and / or theme?
Our hallway is different shades of grey with accents of yellow, gold and copper. Our lounge is mostly navy, with accents of grey, yellow and gold. The style is quite similar (think modern abstract art). We are now onto the kitchen diner and I'm leaning more traditional and neutral rather than anything modern, thinking that it will hopefully last a long time and don't want it to age. I'm looking at off white shaker kitchens with sage greens and pinks BUT I'm worried this would look odd with the rest of the living areas. The kitchen has doors to both the hall and lounge, but the doors can be closed off (i.e. there aren't big arches or glass doors where i can see into the other room at all times). Should I be going more modern? And if so, should I be picking from colours I've already used to make it look good? Or even should I deviate from previous colours to make it look good (e.g. the navy in the lounge is very dominating. Would it all look 'too blue' to have navy accents in the kitchen too for example)?

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Twiglets1 · 18/07/2024 13:35

Not really, no. Got all different colours on the walls in my house though none of them clash.

FantasticFox27 · 18/07/2024 14:17

Thank you. I think the green and blue would clash though (even though they are in different rooms) so maybe I need to think of something different...

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veritusvarity · 18/07/2024 17:39

Nope. White, yellow or magnolia.

mathanxiety · 18/07/2024 17:41

Greeny beige landlord special here. It's very neutral and restful.

spikeandbuffy · 18/07/2024 17:45

Yes mostly. I find grey calming before anyone moans Grin

Living room - grey, greens and blues
Bedroom - greys and pinks
Bathrooms - grey and turquoise
Hallway is just grey and black

mondaytosunday · 18/07/2024 18:21

Yes, certainly the downstairs where the rooms flow into each other. I have a collection of paintings, many with red/sienna/ochre/blue as they are watercolours of Spain, I have slightly off white walls, a striped carpet in similar colours (plus sand and olive green) going up the stairs. The living room is more in the green/sienna end, the middle room (kitchen) more black and white (Spanish tiles in moorish pattern) and extension which is part of the room similar colours to front but adding a bit of pink and yellow. My accent pillows are in colours that tie it all together.
Upstairs the rooms are a bit more individual.

Namechangedasouting987 · 18/07/2024 18:27

Just had our kitchen done in sage green for cupboards, nutmeg white walls and pink accent colour. Light oak LVT. it's honestly the most relaxing space ever. If you can close off doors I don't see the issue.
Our family room (open to kitchen) also has nutmeg white walls but the furniture is a more teal green and it looks fine.
I don't think rooms have to 'match'- just my opinion!!!

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 18/07/2024 18:30

Green all through the house, I find it very soothing.

MadameMassiveSalad · 18/07/2024 20:24

If you cant see the other room it doesn't matter op.

CLEO42 · 18/07/2024 20:29

In my house I have realised all the colours match me

Geneticsbunny · 20/07/2024 10:38

I try to stick to a "winter" palate (cool toned things like jewel colours and paler greens and blues and Lilacs and greys) because it means I can mostly move stuff between rooms and the colours are still harmonious with each other.

BingoMarieHeeler · 20/07/2024 10:41

FantasticFox27 · 18/07/2024 14:17

Thank you. I think the green and blue would clash though (even though they are in different rooms) so maybe I need to think of something different...

Oh! I’m literally just about to walk into the shop to order some green gingham curtains for our blue kitchen 😂

Garlickest · 20/07/2024 10:46

CLEO42 · 18/07/2024 20:29

In my house I have realised all the colours match me

Mine would have to be done out in mottled grey & pink with purple & beige accents 😂

YesItsMeYesItsMe · 20/07/2024 10:49

We have different colour rooms throughout the house (unintentionally) and I was recently saying to a friend I want things to flow a bit more. I definitely don’t want all one colour though. We have:

Living room, cream-ish with 1 green (olive/khaki) wall, floors about to be changed to wood

Hallway - not painted yet but will probably be the same cream as living room (Crown Parsonage Cream Eggshell, warm and calming).

Kitchen - light blue, dove grey cabinets, white countertops

Playroom - yellow scallop bottom half of , Parsonage Cream top half of wall

Our bedroom - dusky pink 2 walls, white 2 walls as never got round to painting them after mist coat

DS1 room - burgundy here and there as he wanted a fully red room. Majority of walls are white (had to strip wallpaper from every single room in our house so took everything to white for ease). Going to repaint the white in again, Pasonage Cream, as much homier

DS2 room - dark blue above picture rail (including ceiling), white below

DD room - buttery yellow below picture rail, white above

Landing not done yet but gonna do a mural

Downstairs loo is jazzy AF

Utility room has lemon print wallpaper

So very much ‘the red room’, ‘the green room’ vibes which I kind of hate 😄 but really want colour so I need to let colours spill over from one zone to another.

PenguinCounter · 20/07/2024 16:29

My rooms are all painted in whatever colour took my fancy on the day. It's a bit of an assault of the senses for anyone visiting from a neutral home. Even the metals vary from room to room. I've got gold in the living room, silver in the hallway and brass in the kitchen diner (all because of the different lights I found in shops). I think houses flow better when there are similarities but I also love that I have a little bit of everything.

Bearpawk · 20/07/2024 17:08

Not really. All quite neutral but all ties in together. Mainly white walls with lots of natural textures (wood, wool, sheepskin, linen) and green plants. Olive green sofa.
Also have a couple of plaster/ dusky pink rooms. One has darker wood furniture with brass accents.

DappledThings · 20/07/2024 23:22

No, I don't consider any rooms as related to each other. Hall/landing is pink, lounge is duck-egg blue, kitchen is yellow with green cabinets, office is teal, third reception room that I have as a library is bottle green. One bedroom is dark blue, one is grey and royal blue, one is 2 shades of green and one is lilac.

I don't do neutral!

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