Repainting house interior-help!

[lucylou]

I don’t know what I’m doing. I need help. We are getting ready to repaint our entire house minus bedrooms. Should I do all one color or what? I always see the color scheme cards that look so nice but idk how to incorporate other colors.
To give you a better idea, it’s
1st floor- entry, formal LR, dining room, kitchen, LR, half bath, short hall. Basically all flowing in a big circle.
Stairway
Upstairs- hall, bath, laundry.
The bedrooms are a mix of different colors but we’re leaving them for now.

I feel like that’s a lot of just 1 color, but idk what to do instead.

The color I’m leaning towards is Edgecomb Gray, but I’m open to suggestions. I need something that can coordinate with cherry laminate floors, dark walnut furniture, and black kitchen appliances/ flecks of black in countertops. It’s..a lot. Dream would be to change floors but we only plan to be here another 3-5 years and we’ve already done so much I don’t think it’s gonna happen.

So please- tell me how to go about this. All one color? Different shades in different rooms? EG is on the same color card as Revere Pewter. Should I mix it up that way or bring in more color somehow?

Thank you!!!

[McBenny]

No one can pick for you. You have to decide for yourself.

Also room flow dependent and all that so house layout would be needed. I mean you're asking for blind picks here.

There are also lighting considerations, etc.

[lucylou]

McBenny you’re right. I guess I should say, I’m interested in how others do their homes (all one color, all off the same color card, complimenting colors, etc).

When we first moved in, I thought I did such a great job picking out all these different colors for different rooms. Now I want to go back and slap myself. We’re finally able to redo it and I’m scared I’m going to screw it up again.

[tipsyturvy]

I love BM Bleeker Beige!

[piratecat]

On the first floor, are there places where you could easily stop and start a different color? Cased openings between rooms? Or are all the rooms truly all open to one another? I would definitely do the bathrooms in a different, more fun color.

[Deleted]

You can hire a color consultant. Just throwing that out there.

I pick a base color and go from there. Like my neutral for hallways, etc. Depending on how big the space is I pick 3-6 other colors. I like cohesion, so rooms you can view from one another need to complement for me. It’s a tough process and I put a lot of samples on the wall and live with them for a couple days to see them in different lights. I don’t like big contrasts so a lot of times I will pick colors on the same color chip card just up and down two or three shades. It doesn’t look like it would make a difference, but it does. I also do “fun” bright colors when I can. My son has a lime green wall in his room that doesn’t appear anywhere else in the house, but I feel it works.

I always use Swiss coffee for the trim.

[lucylou]

Jun 14, 2018 9:47:11 GMT -6 piratecat said:

On the first floor, are there places where you could easily stop and start a different color? Cased openings between rooms? Or are all the rooms truly all open to one another? I would definitely do the bathrooms in a different, more fun color.

The formal living room and dining room are connected but have a separate feeling. I currently have them a different color than the rest of the downstairs and it feels ok (I just dislike the color it is).
Dining room has a chair rail that I think would be good to allow for mixing up colors or maybe wallpaper?

[Deleted]

Are you painting yourself or hiring out? I ask because I find it’s just easier to pull off transitions if it’s some professional doing it. Our old house I did colors but there were rounded corners between two colors and they were a bitch

[lucylou]

Jun 14, 2018 9:53:10 GMT -6 @juliagulia said:

You can hire a color consultant. Just throwing that out there.

I pick a base color and go from there. Like my neutral for hallways, etc. Depending on how big the space is I pick 3-6 other colors. I like cohesion, so rooms you can view from one another need to complement for me. It’s a tough process and I put a lot of samples on the wall and live with them for a couple days to see them in different lights. I don’t like big contrasts so a lot of times I will pick colors on the same color chip card just up and down two or three shades. It doesn’t look like it would make a difference, but it does. I also do “fun” bright colors when I can. My son has a lime green wall in his room that doesn’t appear anywhere else in the house, but I feel it works.

I always use Swiss coffee for the trim.

This is perfect advice I’m looking for! Thank you.
I would love to hire a consultant but I can already feel my H saying “no way.” If it was our forever home, I think it would be a different story.
I like the Swiss coffee color (or at least the idea of something other than bright white) Do you do your doors the same color?

[Deleted]

Since you plan to sell in 3-5 years- I’d do all one color. Having looked at approximately 50 homes since January the ones done in one uniform color just show better.

I’d do a light greige and call it good

[lucylou]

Jun 14, 2018 10:00:22 GMT -6 @privacy said:

Are you painting yourself or hiring out? I ask because I find it’s just easier to pull off transitions if it’s some professional doing it. Our old house I did colors but there were rounded corners between two colors and they were a bitch

Hiring out. I think that’s why I’m so nervous. I feel like I get 1 shot at this

[Deleted]

Jun 14, 2018 10:02:29 GMT -6 lucylou said:

Jun 14, 2018 9:53:10 GMT -6 @juliagulia said:

You can hire a color consultant. Just throwing that out there.

I pick a base color and go from there. Like my neutral for hallways, etc. Depending on how big the space is I pick 3-6 other colors. I like cohesion, so rooms you can view from one another need to complement for me. It’s a tough process and I put a lot of samples on the wall and live with them for a couple days to see them in different lights. I don’t like big contrasts so a lot of times I will pick colors on the same color chip card just up and down two or three shades. It doesn’t look like it would make a difference, but it does. I also do “fun” bright colors when I can. My son has a lime green wall in his room that doesn’t appear anywhere else in the house, but I feel it works.

I always use Swiss coffee for the trim.

This is perfect advice I’m looking for! Thank you.
I would love to hire a consultant but I can already feel my H saying “no way.” If it was our forever home, I think it would be a different story.
I like the Swiss coffee color (or at least the idea of something other than bright white) Do you do your doors the same color?

Yes, I use it on all trim and doors.

[lucylou]

Jun 14, 2018 10:03:06 GMT -6 @privacy said:

Since you plan to sell in 3-5 years- I’d do all one color. Having looked at approximately 50 homes since January the ones done in one uniform color just show better.

I’d do a light greige and call it good

This is a good point. 5 years feels like such a long time. I guess it’s really not though

[Deleted]

Jun 14, 2018 10:03:06 GMT -6 @privacy said:

Since you plan to sell in 3-5 years- I’d do all one color. Having looked at approximately 50 homes since January the ones done in one uniform color just show better.

I’d do a light greige and call it good

I would agree with this. My house had every room a different color and it looked like a damn clown house.

[gussie]

I picked a greige for the main parts of the house and hallways. Then I picked colors for the bedrooms and bathrooms that played well with the main color. I lined them all up and made sure they all went well together, while sill being a little different. Everything I did was pretty light and airy, I did the bolder colors in the pillows, rugs etc.

Oh, I also did a darker accent color in the butlers panty and a little alcove we have off the back entry. As well as a different darker color in the masters trey ceiling.

[lucylou]

Jun 14, 2018 10:12:05 GMT -6 gussie said:

I picked a greige for the main parts of the house and hallways. Then I picked colors for the bedrooms and bathrooms that played well with the main color. I lined them all up and made sure they all went well together, while sill being a little different. Everything I did was pretty light and airy, I did the bolder colors in the pillows, rugs etc.

Oh, I also did a darker accent color in the butlers panty and a little alcove we have off the back entry. As well as a different darker color in the masters trey ceiling.

I like this method!
Ok so question about the tray ceiling- we have one in the dining room- did you do a darker color like all the across the inner portion or just the tray lip itself? I don’t think I’m phrasing this question correctly...

[Deleted]

PDQ but this is what mine looks like in my formal living room and dining room. Not exactly a tray ceiling but close.

[lucylou]

@juliagulia beautiful!! It’s kind of hard for me to tell from the pic, is the ceiling just a couple shades darker than the walls or completely different?

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Jun 14, 2018 10:46:08 GMT -6 lucylou said:

@juliagulia beautiful!! It’s kind of hard for me to tell from the pic, is the ceiling just a couple shades darker than the walls or completely different?

Yeah, the lighting in that pic is not great. It was about 3 shades darker on the same card as the wall color. They are a silver gray color.

ETA: found the colors. It’s actually only one shade darker. The wall is monorail silver by Sherwin Williams and the ceiling is Steely Gray

[rvasc]

We’ve put Revere Pewter in all our downstairs/staircase/upstairs hallway. It’s really hard to do different colors if you have an open floor plan. Our house had very random neutrals when we bought it, and it had sat on the market in a sellers’’ market. I’m pretty sure that’s why. Unifying those areas made the house look so much nicer. We painted our former house the same color, and it sold in 6 days in a not super hot market.

[gussie]

Jun 14, 2018 10:30:36 GMT -6 lucylou said:

Jun 14, 2018 10:12:05 GMT -6 gussie said:

I picked a greige for the main parts of the house and hallways. Then I picked colors for the bedrooms and bathrooms that played well with the main color. I lined them all up and made sure they all went well together, while sill being a little different. Everything I did was pretty light and airy, I did the bolder colors in the pillows, rugs etc.

Oh, I also did a darker accent color in the butlers panty and a little alcove we have off the back entry. As well as a different darker color in the masters trey ceiling.

I like this method!
Ok so question about the tray ceiling- we have one in the dining room- did you do a darker color like all the across the inner portion or just the tray lip itself? I don’t think I’m phrasing this question correctly...

In the inner part only

[gussie]

@juliagulia, our master bedroom is almost those colors exactly with a trey ceiling. Same color card, two or three shades up.

[daisy]

Call paint stores. Go with one that offers free/low cost color consultant. That absolutely will save you tons of time and stress!!!!!

[daisy]

Call paint stores. Go with one that offers free/low cost color consultant. That absolutely will save you tons of time and stress!!!!!

[burritosateverymeal]

We had edgecomb gray in every room when we moved in and I loved it so much, but needed to add some color. We ended up painting the living/dining area a soft blue and repainted 2 bedrooms upstairs. It's a great color for room with lots of sun.

[soup]

I'm a weirdo who loves bright white everywhere.

But my own home has all light gray walls and one lime green accent wall in the dining room.

I just moved right in and didn't repaint anything.

[angrybacon]

@juliagulia, where’d you get your couches? Got a link?

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Jun 15, 2018 18:13:47 GMT -6 angrybacon said:

@juliagulia, where’d you get your couches? Got a link?

No. Consignment store find a couple years ago.

[lucylou]

Jun 15, 2018 17:53:02 GMT -6 burritosateverymeal said:

We had edgecomb gray in every room when we moved in and I loved it so much, but needed to add some color. We ended up painting the living/dining area a soft blue and repainted 2 bedrooms upstairs. It's a great color for room with lots of sun.

This makes me happy! I have it in my basement and love it but I still need to paint some places upstairs to see how it looks in the light. We definitely get a lot of sun

[lucylou]

Jun 14, 2018 14:25:10 GMT -6 daisy said:

Call paint stores. Go with one that offers free/low cost color consultant. That absolutely will save you tons of time and stress!!!!!

I never thought of doing this. No idea if they offer it in my area but worth a shot! Thanks