What's wrong with white paint?

[Chicago526]

Okay, I love to watch HGTV shows about decorating, especially since DH and I just bought a home that needs major updating (last time the previous owner decorated was when Nixon was in office).

In all the shows I've watched, never ONCE do they ever use white or off-white paint for walls. Why is white paint evil? I find it very versitile. I can change my art work, my furnature, my curtains, my nick-knacks, or anything else and NOT have to re-paint every time. And my home has never been bland looking, I have very colorful stuff in my rooms, and I feel the white paint really allows people to focus on the things in a room, instead of them being lost in a ocean of color.

So I say, WHITE PAINTERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!!!!

 

[belle_of_the_ball]

yes we should!

all my rooms have SOME white in them

 

[diznygirl]

White is good. And I've seen some shows where they actually have painted white or off-white. But it's hard to show what kind of effect that has in a room on TV. It looks much better in person. So, for purposes of a TV show, white is bad.

 

[ChristmasElf]

White doesn't help make the woodwork "POP"
These shows want to show drastic change-not so much something that is
neautral and "safe" even those shows that are helping the person sell their home-they still use color.
Color also doesn't reflect off the cameras like white paint does.

 

[agotta]

I don't personally like white paint. I love COLOR and I think white paint in every room is boring. I had an interior design teacher who said he never would paint anything white, including the ceiling. I think for the most part, there are better color choices than white. IMPO

 

[Feralpeg]

I really like to have some color in my walls with white woodwork, doors, cabinets, etc. I don't keep my rooms one way for very long. I just finished painting my dining room "Harvest Orange". Very bright!

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

White paint is alot like miniblinds. They're both OK, but a bit bland and boring, and don't show the least bit of personality or style. If I paid a designer to redesign my home and they chose white...I'd want my money back.

 

[pattyT]

I am a COLOR it person - alwasy have been - even when rooms were 'white' they weren't really they had a hint of color to them 0 that DH didn't notice til the paint dried tricky huh

BUT in the new house I am going to give him his way and let the Great room with cathedral ceilings be white...
wish me luck!

 

[damo]

If my trim is white, I don't like to have white walls.

 

[WeirdEyes]

I don't personally like white paint. I love COLOR and I think white paint in every room is boring. I had an interior design teacher who said he never would paint anything white, including the ceiling. I think for the most part, there are better color choices than white. IMPO

ITA! My parents just bought a house that has all white walls. I'm slowly, but surely painting all of them with color.

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

Have you noticed that designers are even starting to paint ceilings in different colors than white? I think it looks great!

 

[chrissyk]

We painted our house all white for "resale" reasons. Well, I'll be darned if the new owners didn't come in and immediately have the place repainted in a nice color (like a beige/light brown) with white trim...it looked GREAT!! After that experience, I realized that we couldn't live for "resale" anymore, and that paint is cheap to buy and easy to put up. In this house, I've painted every room but 1 bathroom (that already had a nice, colorful paint job), and every ceiling but 1. Right now I am painting all of the doors. There is not a white room in this house

 

[icebrat001]

The walls in our Condo our white, they walls are so boring, nothing is getting accented. We really want to paint the walls, we wanted to do it ourselves but we have 16 foot ceilings so we would have to hire somoene.

We need some color in our lives!

 

[Buckalew11]

I love an all white room with just some hints of color--not antique white but white-white. But the reality of that for my family 9and pets!) isn't going to happen.

I have color in all my rooms now.I like subtle color (not pastel, just subtle). picking paint is tricky enough to make you want to use all white or antique white throughout though.

 

[marybet]

White is okay for one room, just not every room in the house. We moved a lot and the walls had to be white for resale value. I knew when we built this house that we weren't moving again so I have color on all the walls. The living room is summer pecan, very neutral, I could change the furniture, the drapes, etc. and not have to paint the walls. I just think white is boring, and it just doesn't have any warmth to it.

 

[ADisneygirl]

When we first bought the house I was sick of white walls. Every apartment I ever lived in only had white. So, I had to have different colors in all the rooms. After a couple of years I decided I really am a more nuetral girl and had the house repainted to a dark beige with white trim. I love it! I think it reminds me of when it was new because it is only a little darker then "builders beige".

 

[krystyana]

My mother and sisters have all white walls in their homes...Guess I'm the wild child! I love color...my husband once went away for a week and when he came back all of our rooms were different colors. I love color! It's an easy, quick, relatively painless way to change the entire feel of a room. Just my opinion though

 

[RadioNate]

I hate white walls. A color gives the house so much more warmth and personalily.

We have all our bedrooms and bathrooms painted colors (more recient a warm terra cotta and grey) but the main sections are white. It gets so dirty and can hardly be cleaned. I'm looking for a neutral to paint it and I've got some options. DH just wants me to buy it so he can work on the painting when he's bored.

White walls scream rental to me. Give me color any day.

Give me a sec and I'll post some photos

All white

In Color

All white (pardon the mess we were just moving in)

With Color

 

[MrsPete]

In all the shows I've watched, never ONCE do they ever use white or off-white paint for walls. Why is white paint evil?

They don't use white paint for the same reason that cooking shows don't tell you how to fix cereal or make BP&J sandwiches: everyone already knows about it! White is the standard, the basic, and it takes no effort or thought. If they were to show you how to decorate a room with white paint, the show would be a flop -- everyone would say, "Well, duh! I know that." Instead, they show things that the average person woudln't consider on his or her own.

 

[Snowy]

White paint is alot like miniblinds. They're both OK, but a bit bland and boring, and don't show the least bit of personality or style. If I paid a designer to redesign my home and they chose white...I'd want my money back.

ITA!