Please help with paint colors!

[mrsgus06]

I will be gone from June 1 to Aug 5 at Ft. Wilderness while hubby "guts" the bottom and then top floors of the house for an overhaul. We are getting new sheetrock on walls and ceiling! Finally, smooth ceilings!
Anyway, right now all the rooms downstairs are a sort of pecan color except our dining room, which is red. I don't want to repaint them the same color. I do like the blues and some greens, but don't want my friends and family passing out from horror when they visit. I have let all of the kids pick out their own colors upstairs and everyone says that it looks like and Easter egg! What color is your living room, great room, kitchen, master bed room, laundry room, bathroom? All of these will be downstairs.

P.s.: the floors are a light, light, light hardwood flooring.

Thanks in advance for any advice or input!

 

[Southern4sure]

All of my downstairs is melted butter. I also have light wood floors and white trim. This color is not lemony or golden, just warm and soothing and several of my friends stole my color!....

PS sorry the pic is so large.

 

[tinaluis]

Our living room is tan/beige with a faux marble accent wall, kitchen is red, and the bedrooms off the kitchen are a variation of red. I'm probably not much help in the paint department -- every room in my house is a different color . Oh, BTW, can you take us with you to Ft. Wilderness for nearly 2 months!?!?!?!?!?!?

 

[Kirby]

We've got different colors in different rooms and we like it. What we did was buy small quantities of paint color that we were interested in and painted spots on the walls. My house had spots for over a year before we decided on exactly what we wanted. Great conversation starter!

My daughter's bedroom has two walls light blue and the other two light green. She loves it!

My son painted his walls a medium gray. He painted dark gray stripes that go every which way on two of his walls. Looks great!

The hall bath is a medium green. We liked the color so much we painted our toilet area the same color and some of the walls in our family room and kitchen. We have very large windows in our family room/kitchen area so the green seems to change shades depending on the time of day. This was one of the main reasons we put paint spots all over. To see what the colors looked like all the time.

Our hallway is a light beige. We picked out a color that we thought we liked (did not try it out before hand) and it ended up a pepto bismol pinky beige. Ugh! So we mixed a quart of a beige-taupe with it and we just love the color now.

We still have some walls in our family area that haven't been painted. Since our family room and kitchen is basically one big area, we decided we wanted another color to break up the green. We are leaning towards a taupe but haven't quite decided. We're in no hurry.

I have a friend that carried two of the colors in her breakfast area wall paper into her family room and on into her hallway. The colors were dark purple and a dark yellow green. It sounds bad but looks great. She has a slanted wall where her fireplace is. It's painted the green and the wall on either side is purple. Then her hallway is the green.

And I was just in a house Saturday that had each room a different color. The kitchen was dark pumpkin, the family room a dark purply brown, the hallway a medium blue and the living room a dark avocado green. I noticed that one of the bedrooms was light and dark purple.

I wouldn't care what your family and friends thought. You are the ones living there and if you like it, that's what matters.

Oh, and another reason we painted spots before we chose our colors. All our cabinetry in the house is blonde (used to be called milk coat. Milk coat is something else now). This color does not go well with anything that has a yellow base to it. Yellow was our first color of choice but once we saw it up against our cabinets, we were so glad we didn't rush into painting.

 

[AZKathy]

I like the cooler colors, so our living room is a medium sage color. I saw a dining room in a paint folder I liked that has a deep plum on the bottom of the white chair rail and then a deep mauve on top and white floor board and white crown molding (very bold, but it looks nice). The family room and kitchen area is a slate blue and ivory.

Our master bedroom is sage with a sea/ocean theme of boarder/wallpaper. Master bath has deep sage/gold wallpaper. DS picked his colors and they are red, royal blue, and green. The royal blue walls have CD's covering the walls. DD1 has a tropical theme room with teal and terra cotta. DD2 is still young with princess colors of pink and lavendar. The kids bathroom is Mickey with bright yellow and Mickey border around the top of the room.

 

[LaLa]

Our main living area is called Old Gold 5, sort of a really dark goldy brown/caramel color. Our study coming off the living room is a slate green color and our master bedroom is a chocolate brown color. I never thought I would like it but a friend of mine painted her living room that color and it was so fine, I had to paint SOMETHING that color.

DD in our chocolate brown bedroom

 

[MAKmom]

Sherman Williams has Martha Stewart colors. I love using them. How it works is you find a main color you want, your couch, rug ect & match it to on eof her colors. Its a big square & the middle pops out. Then when you get that part done your color has # on it & you get a strip of 6 other colors that go perfect with your main color. I like to match her white with my room for doors & trim. Did you know whites are made up of differnt colors? It makes a big difference! So she will give you a green, blue, white, gold ect so first floor will flow.

 

[Equidae]

Hmmm.. I think my living room would fit in nicely with the Easter egg palate -- mine is lavendar! I picked the color out before I married DH, so he had no say at the time. Since then we've had to paint our home office a pretty bright bold blue. I like the chocolate walls LaLa posted. Very nice!