spinoff: Paint colors gone bad! lol

[shoney]

When we were painting our living room dining room, I spent about $150 on benjamin moore paint sample jars. I had swatches every where. The painter was finally like "pick one lady!" Luckily I was happy with the one I picked.

Then it was time to pick the kitchen/hallway color. I didn't spend quite as much but when I finally did .... I picked the exact same color it was! LOL
(We just moved into the house...I didn't pick the original color)

 

[ronandannette]

Pictures! I need pictures...most hideous colour wins!

 

[POOHsie]

Best wall color laughs go to Myrna Loy (Mrs. Blandings) and the Painters in "Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House."
"Red, Green, Blue, Yella', White."
"Check!"

 

[pat fan]

has anyone else been down this road?

Yes. My living room was supposed to be a nice coffee/heavy on the cream sort of color. It's peach. I had painted three huge rooms and the ceilings, so I was DONE painting. My plan is Feb. break or next summer repainting it. If I could face it I'd do it before Christmas, but I just can't.

 

[RedAngie]

When we were painting our living room dining room, I spent about $150 on benjamin moore paint sample jars. I had swatches every where. The painter was finally like "pick one lady!" Luckily I was happy with the one I picked.

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I'm currently trying to decide what color to paint the LR/DR in my parents' home. One dining room wall looks like a multi-colored checkerboard. Various shades of beige, off-white, gray, etc.

Years ago, exH and I had the exterior of our house painted and chose a deep blue. Looked great as a sample in the paint store and it still looked great as it started to be applied against the side of the house. But when that one side was complete, it looked horrible. Just too bright, almost electric or neon or nuclear. We checked with the painters, and yes indeed, they were applying the color we chose. We had to pay a pretty penny to get it repainted in gray.

 

[minkydog]

Yep, lesson learned. We now have a strict, absolutely no clowns with paintbrushes rule enforced. So sorry you're sharing our misery.

This house seems to be resistant to any and all painting projects. No matter the job it seems to throw a monkey wrench -- never the same one so you cannot learn the lesson and move on. That explains why the front hall bath, the kitchen and our master bedroom all desperately need to see fresh coats of paint and we know we don't dare to attempt until we have a good amount of time to devote to each one.

I feel the same way. Every room in my house needs painting, some due to poor paint choices made over the last 10-12 years. I have a very bright yellow hall bath (no window), a mauve Master Bath (small window), Pepto-pink Master BR, tan/sand #2 bedroom complete with wild animal border paper, half green/half turquoise #3 bedroom, Coke bottle green #4 bedroom with matching brown and red Coke bottle border paper. The only rooms that I think are halfway decent is the kitchen, with it's light mud brown (Im not crazy about it, but DH likes it), and my green living room. At this point, I'm ready to just pick a nice neutral color and re-paint the whole place. But before I can do that, I need to paint all the trip from pecan-stain to white. This is going to be expensive any way you look at it.

 

[minkydog]

I'm currently trying to decide what color to paint the LR/DR in my parents' home. One dining room wall looks like a multi-colored checkerboard. Various shades of beige, off-white, gray, etc.

Years ago, exH and I had the exterior of our house painted and chose a deep blue. Looked great as a sample in the paint store and it still looked great as it started to be applied against the side of the house. But when that one side was complete, it looked horrible. Just too bright, almost electric or neon or nuclear. We checked with the painters, and yes indeed, they were applying the color we chose. We had to pay a pretty penny to get it repainted in gray.

I always wonder about those houses. You know the ones: Turquoise w/red shutters, magenta, lime green, royal blue. I always think, did they even look at this color as it was going up? Did they hit up a paint sale? I'm sure it would be very expensive to replace the color for a whole house.

 

[NewRVLady]

Lol- when choosing my kitchen color I circled the name at the top of the color on a multi color paint swatch- was supposed to pick name at bottom
Came in and room -as they were painting-was VERY pale green instead of medium- painter had it remixed!!

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Don't it make my brown eyes blue, errr um my brownstone pink.

Let's paint the house our school colors. What could possibly go wrong?

When a color blind person says I'll choose the colors, don't let him.

Better yet. Just outlaw orange. Just do it now.

 

[pat fan]

I actually like that one! Reminds me of the Calypso building at ASMusic! I probably wouldn't want to live there full time though, LOL!

 

[fly girl]

Yes!

We were finishing our basement -- 1/2 bath, man cave, guest bedroom with attached full bath.

All if the colors were great, except one. The bedroom. I picked a light sage green color called Laurel Mist. After it dried it looked like hospital scrubs. So ugly! Repainted the room the same as the full bath, a soft yellow color Banana Cream. Looks great now.

I think greens are the toughest to paint as they can really change depending upon lighting. Yellows are tricky too.

I used the Laurel Mist in my laundry room and it looks ok. Granted most of that tiny space is white cabinets, washer/dryer, and utility tub but it gets more direct sunlight than the guest room so it works.

 

[eliza61]

Don't it make my brown eyes blue, errr um my brownstone pink.

Let's paint the house our school colors. What could possibly go wrong?

When a color blind person says I'll choose the colors, don't let him.

Better yet. Just outlaw orange. Just do it now.

Oh God thank you.

 

[Christine]

Yes!

We were finishing our basement -- 1/2 bath, man cave, guest bedroom with attached full bath.

All if the colors were great, except one. The bedroom. I picked a light sage green color called Laurel Mist. After it dried it looked like hospital scrubs. So ugly! Repainted the room the same as the full bath, a soft yellow color Banana Cream. Looks great now.

I think greens are the toughest to paint as they can really change depending upon lighting. Yellows are tricky too.

I used the Laurel Mist in my laundry room and it looks ok. Granted most of that tiny space is white cabinets, washer/dryer, and utility tub but it gets more direct sunlight than the guest room so it works.

You are right about greens. They are tough. I find that, more often than not, they get up on a wall and look "drab" and they depress me. And I normally like green! I avoid green in the house now. Beige/tans are also very hard because they have so many different undertones and you often can't see that until YOUR light on YOUR wall hits. I had a beige that looked too "peach" ones and drove me nuts.

 

[fly girl]

Beige/tans are also very hard because they have so many different undertones and you often can't see that until YOUR light on YOUR wall hits. I had a beige that looked too "peach" ones and drove me nuts.

Agree! I have lots of brown shades in my house. Had to be really careful to pick a color with a gray undertone vs. pink. Lots of swatches!

Nomadic Desert from Sherwin Williams was a winner for us.

 

[smokeyblue]

You are right about greens. They are tough. I find that, more often than not, they get up on a wall and look "drab" and they depress me. And I normally like green! I avoid green in the house now. Beige/tans are also very hard because they have so many different undertones and you often can't see that until YOUR light on YOUR wall hits. I had a beige that looked too "peach" ones and drove me nuts.

My boyfriends kitchen is a beige with a peachy tone to it. It makes me want to vomit! His bedroom is the palest mint color that makes you wonder, why not just white? The funny thing is he bought this house and found out it belonged to good friends of my boss who is an interior designer. I wish they would have asked for some assistance.

 

[RedAngie]

Let's paint the house our school colors. What could possibly go wrong?

That blue is very similar to how the color I picked looked when it was applied to my house. Much too bright for my taste. I swear it looked much more refined on the sample chip and in a small 4 square foot area.