Our realtor was in the house yesterday measuring for appliances and we asked him to look at the counters because we had a slight bit of doubt and… they aren’t black and white. They’re really dark forest green and white. :o/ What would you paint the walls? Won’t barnyard red be too Christmas-y? Red in the dining room and sagey green in the kitchen? Some other color? (Behr.com suggests perhaps a slate blue, sage or a muted plum…)
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I’m with Behr. Sage sounds nice. If you’re going to keep the fun colors in yr house, you probably want something lowkey anyway, thought it’s hard to offer a purely theoretical opinion, when I haven’t had the opportunity to really examine the context. :-)
How much fun–house colors!!
We’re painting a lot of the fun colors, especially in the common rooms, and replacing them with earth tones and more traditional arts and crafts colors. The cabinets are all going to be white.
So, white cabinets, dark green and white tile and _____ walls.
I’m the last person to give an opinion on this. Our walls are. . . white. . . in every room except the kids bathroom. (Some kinda dull wallpaper in there.) Our appliances and cupboards? White. Our tile? Mottled beiged. Which looks pretty white when clean. *L*
I know painting and colors do so much good for a home, but, I dunno, maybe it’s because I spent so much time in military housing when I was a kid. White just feels right to me.
Or maybe because I was traumatized by the loud, metallic, busy wallpaper in Ukraine.
Oh, but depending upon the green in the kitchen, I can imagine that the barnyard red might still go very well with the white/green without looking like you are living in December year ’round.
muted plum…. muted plum!
Kristen – The plum sounds nice….but it will also limit your table setting decor quite a bit. The barn red might be fine…..just depends on what it looks like next to the tile.
Oh, here are the paints we used in our house. Available through either ICI or Glidden. Also, they can usually be cross-referenced to each other if need be. Let me know if you need numbers. Check the Glidden website for a great color visualizer tool. That’s what I did. I also ordered paint chips. It’s a good thing that I did as some of them seemed to vary quite a bit from what they looked like on the website.
Living Room – Iquana (Glidden)
Dining Room – Red Maple (ICI)
Kitchen – Coconut Milk (Glidden)
Laundray Room – Coconut Milk (Glidden)
M. Bedroom – Sonora (Glidden)
G. Bedroom – Fresh Cut (ICI)
G. Bedroom 2 – Starlet (ICI)
Aletheia – Coconut Milk (Glidden)/Lily Pad (ICI)
Up. Bathroom – I cant’ remember this right now.
The Iquana and Red Maple are two that I think you’d really like. They’ve received many compliments from visitors. Very Arts & Craftsy.
I am leaning towards sage in the kitchen. We wanted to do the same color in the entry and dining rooms (since you can see straight back to the rear of the house, that would help to unify and also reduce the number of colors visible) and the color I was most excited about seeing in my entry room and dining and laundry rooms was sage… but barnyard red might also be nice. Not as soothing as sage.
I really like that Iguana color, Moriah. I will have to try to get some chips from them. I couldn’t see the ICI colors anywhere :o(
And muted plum is not ME. So no muted plum.
The nice thing is that no matter what you do, if you hate it, you can just paint over it. Isn’t paint grand?!
I wish we had money to paint our house (since it doesn’t look like we’re moving). Painting would be fun (Especially if we pulled down the ugly panelling in the LR while we were at it!)
Whine, whine…
That’s tricky! I really dislike forest green so I’d be at a loss, too. I’d probably stick with the barn red. If the green is so dark you thought it was black, I don’t think it would look Christmassy.
I’d still do red, but sage is nice, too. I’m particular to Benjamin Moore, both because I love their paint colors and they have a great low-VOC line. BM has some great sagey-greens!
Have you ever checked out That Home Site? (thathomesite.com) They have a home decor forum that is great in giving paint color feedback. The kitchen forum is great, too.
I know I’m a little late chiming in on this, and maybe it’s just me, but… sage green.
It’s about my most favorite color ever– I think I have a little bit of sage in almost every room in our apartment. AND– you can blend in so many OTHER colors to go with it…it also lightens up a room, I’d think. (I wouldn’t know– our apartment still has white walls. Bleh.) But, in one room I have a stripe bedspread with sage, brick red. amd pale blue, so you could still use brick red as an accent.– like, maybe just paint the INSIDES of the cabinets brick red, to show off all your stuff (plates, dishes, etc.) and then have the rest of the walls sage green so that’s all you see through the house. That sounds kind of nice.
Right now I am thinking:
Do the kitchen in barnyard red, it will be fine.
Sage in the entry, dining and laundry rooms, it’s soothing and goes well with lots of other things. Mustard-gold yellow in the living room.
The playroom and our bedroom and the bathroom are staying the same. The girls’ room will be painted a nice pink at some point.