Just T
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Post by Just T on Apr 7, 2023 18:57:52 GMT
Just T that is very close to the yellow color I have in my living room and will put in my dining room too. I love your green door too! Thanks! It still needs another coat (I was painting over turquoise. LOL) I love this yellow. It's almost more of a butter color, and it goes up my staircase and is in the hallway upstairs, too. The funny thing is my daughter just bought a house, and a lot of it was painted almost this exact color, and she hated it and painted right over it immediately. LOL Different strokes for different folks, right. LOL
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Post by birukitty on Apr 7, 2023 19:08:15 GMT
The color grey is depressing to me. After suffering through 10 years of what was diagnosed as "treatment resistant depression" years ago I can't stand the color grey. I was healed from that depression many years ago, and no longer suffer from depression, but I do find that color does tend to affect my mood. I don't wear that color and I don't decorate with that color.
Personally I like my walls to be painted a warm, light yellow, close to ivory and the trim to be painted white. I like my floors to be a warm, light wood-we have a hardwood floor in the living/dining room that is maple that we put in that I just love. I like decorating in blues and greens.
So my answer is yes, I like white and no I despise the color grey.
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Post by Zee on Apr 7, 2023 19:10:01 GMT
I'm really interested to know what you have in your house. I’m guessing 1980’s trailer park chic in brown. I’m not buying anything she’s alleged about her home and family. I picture her more as a younger Mrs Roper. Like, colorful and unapologetically opinionated and painfully blunt. If the Peas like it then she can't or she'd be part of a group of tragically unhip lonely old ladies on the internet. There is bright lipstick, big curly hair, a bold eye, a patterned dress that's the modern equivalent of Mrs Roper's muumuu. All the kids are wearing something matching her, the house, the venue, and each other. ETA I SHOULD STRESS, THIS IS NOT A BAD THING! It's just what I picture 😁
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moodyblue
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Post by moodyblue on Apr 7, 2023 19:10:41 GMT
I think it’s interesting and good that we don’t all like the same things.
Color has a major impact on me and I have strong feelings about colors. Generally, I like warm colors more than cool. I like white as an accent - I have white appliances, white kitchen sink, the columns on the half-walls in the dining room are white. I intensely dislike stainless steel for my own home, and I don’t like silver or chrome fixtures.
I most dislike gray when it’s used on the floor or in tiles. I would prefer to never buy or live in a home with those things as they would be expensive to change out and they would not make me happy at all. If I were looking at a new home right now, I’d probably reject anything that had gray as the main color. And I also don’t like “greige” as I find it ugly.
While I don’t get bored with things that I like, I would also tend to stay away from gray because it does seem to be on the way out, although maybe not as quickly in some areas as in others. If I wanted the most current decor, I’d be looking at what’s coming in now, which seems to be a move back to more warm tones.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Apr 7, 2023 19:11:04 GMT
I know it’s popular and I wouldn’t do that to our current house but I do like the look. I like your condo pictures. It’s calm and clean looking.
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Post by busy on Apr 7, 2023 19:19:37 GMT
The feelings evoked by grey in those with mental health conditions, particularly depression, are so interesting to me. The visual aspects of my home have never seemed to affect my depression or mood one way or another, but my ADHD is majorly affected by my surroundings. A lot of bright colors make it very difficult for me to focus. I love orange, but orange walls would make my brain bounce all over the place. I really do much better with overall soothing, neutral, calm tones - the right kind of grey is very calming for me. But again, there's a time and a place and balance is essential. I couldn't live in they grey cocoons that some flips are.
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Post by Gennifer on Apr 7, 2023 19:26:26 GMT
I picture her more as a younger Mrs Roper. Like, colorful and unapologetically opinionated and painfully blunt. If the Peas like it then she can't or she'd be part of a group of tragically unhip lonely old ladies on the internet. There is bright lipstick, big curly hair, a bold eye, a patterned dress that's the modern equivalent of Mrs Roper's muumuu. All the kids are wearing something matching her, the house, the venue, and each other. I will never unsee this when I see her name, so THANK YOU. 😂
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Post by Scrapper100 on Apr 7, 2023 19:32:38 GMT
I have always been a fan of gray, long before it was popular. I don't care for it as much when it's through the entire house though, like I see in many of the flipped properties around here. For me beige/tan are way more depressing.Agreed. However, there are so many other options between beige or gray. Anyhow, do you all remember when ALL the peas (or it sure felt like it) were recommending Sherwin Williams Latte as their paint color of choice. Glad that ship sailed a long time ago! Lol. I had to look it up when we painted our old house before we sold it 9 years ago we painted it a similar but lighter color. I liked the color but I wouldn’t want that color now.
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Post by bigbundt on Apr 7, 2023 20:25:20 GMT
I also think it’s necessary to balance grey with warm wood tones, and a lot of people, particularly flippers, don’t, which gives a very cold, bland, sterile feel. THIS! Every single "renovated" house on the market in our area is just an ocean of gray, it's flat and boring. There is one flipper that literally does the same thing to each house that I know with 90% accuracy it is a house he redid before seeing it in the listing. He paints the exterior brick and trim a dark gray, gray LVP flooring in every room, light gray paint on every wall, stock white cabinets (where the sizes on top and bottom sizes usually don't match), and black hardware. Predictable and boring. That being said, we moved into a house with every single wall painted Agreeable Gray and I like it because it is soothing and a good backdrop to accent colors and tones. We have a medium tone wood floor and that helps too. Our house isn't "gray", it's a neutral backdrop to furnishings and decor with color and different tones. In a previous house we did the same except it was the light tan that was so popular in the early 2000s. We have white cabinets and like them because not because they are trendy but because they are classic and way easier to clean and take care of than the dark wood ones we had in our old house.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 7, 2023 21:14:22 GMT
The feelings evoked by grey in those with mental health conditions, particularly depression, are so interesting to me. The visual aspects of my home have never seemed to affect my depression or mood one way or another, but my ADHD is majorly affected by my surroundings. A lot of bright colors make it very difficult for me to focus. I love orange, but orange walls would make my brain bounce all over the place. I really do much better with overall soothing, neutral, calm tones - the right kind of grey is very calming for me. But again, there's a time and a place and balance is essential. I couldn't live in they grey cocoons that some flips are. Balance is essential when working with color too. The vast majority of my kitchen is one shade or another of taupe. The orange is just on the soffits. If my kitchen wasn't such a wreck right now (we had yet another leak this week I'm out brand new roof damnit) I'd post a pic so you could see. I'll go backwards and see if I can find one from years ago when I painted it.
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Post by MichyM on Apr 7, 2023 21:20:04 GMT
Here is a good representation of my "style." LOL This is the view from my dining room looking at my front door that I just painted bright green today. As you can see, there is gray and white, too. And all my Fiestaware dishes in my china cabinet. I am a green girl through and through, and the one you selected is one of my favorite happy shades. I'd love to open that door daily
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 7, 2023 21:21:51 GMT
Here busy You can see I have a cream ceramic floor and a cream with taupe speckled counter. I also have a pretty fun retro light fixture. And I have the pretty window over my sink.
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Post by melanell on Apr 7, 2023 21:25:50 GMT
Gray is actually one of my favorite colors in some respects----I love to buy gray clothing, for instance.
But for me, the gray & white palette just looks cold, no matter how people try to tone that down down with their decor choices.
Also, I personally prefer for an entire house NOT to be done all in the same color scheme. So even if someone chose a color palette I adored when I walked into the house, if it continued through every single room, I'd be tired of it before the tour was over. I like for each room to compliment one another, but not to be exactly the same colors through out.
I just really love color in a house*, but I get that many people prefer neutrals, & right now white & gray are the trendy neutrals to have.
(*For example, we're planning on a retro look update to our late 1940s kitchen. We're keeping the original white cabinets and putting in a red countertop with silver metal edging like was popular in the 50s.)
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Post by melanell on Apr 7, 2023 21:37:31 GMT
Here busy You can see I have a cream ceramic floor and a cream with taupe speckled counter. I also have a pretty fun retro light fixture. And I have the pretty window over my sink. I love that light fixture!
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Post by melanell on Apr 7, 2023 21:40:00 GMT
Here is a good representation of my "style." LOL This is the view from my dining room looking at my front door that I just painted bright green today. As you can see, there is gray and white, too. And all my Fiestaware dishes in my china cabinet. I love the buttery wall color---both bright & warm---my favorite kind of color for a house. And your green door is so cheery & welcoming.
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Post by smartypants71 on Apr 7, 2023 22:11:37 GMT
I love gray and white. I have GAD, and i have some obsessive tendencies to keep things clean and bright. For some reason the brightness of both make me feel like things are cleaner. Irrational, i know, but it is what it is. The white trim in my house is a little creamier than a bright white, so that does help warm things up a bit. Same with our living room furniture. I did have my lower cabinets painted an almost navy color and I also had that same color painted above the fireplace. Most of our wall art is full of bright colors so my house is not completely stark and devoid of color.
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Post by compeateropeator on Apr 7, 2023 23:26:02 GMT
I have a hard time saying I like and don’t like as many of the combinations appeal to me or at least look nice to me in pictures. I have always been an off white wall person as I have a lot of pictures and decor that is bright and eclectic. Everything can kind of pop.
Furniture pieces are mostly wood or shades of blue. I have a very small galley kitchen that had dark wood cabinets. I painted them white many years ago and it made such a huge difference in there. I will be replacing them and have decided on some white ones. My appliances are white and I have a lot of different colors of pottery and art work for the walls.
Bedroom is the same. White walls and color on bed and walls and in the furniture and decor.
My spare room I did with color because the trends were colors, so I was feeling guilty using all insane asylum white. While I like it I went too dark and did colored trim. I would like to paint it a lighter color and the trim white again.
I am in the process of repainting and have picked dove, which is more warm grey/tan tinged whiteish and white trim. I like it. All my colorful treasure pop right out! Again it is very eclectic but it pleases me and that is all that matters.
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Post by padresfan619 on Apr 7, 2023 23:51:06 GMT
I like gray and white I just don’t have it in my home. There are some gray touches though. Our couch is gray, the bedding in the primary bedroom is gray, our countertops are black and gray and I have a lot of black and white photos on our walls. Our main living area is oatmeal on some walls and a sky blue on the others. I can’t do white walls after years of renting apartments, I do need a little color. The built ins in our main living area are whites and so is our shoe storage cabinet, with a wood frame.
We have a sunroom that’s floor to ceiling wood paneled that I’m sure would horrify some Peas, but it’s what came with the house from the original owner and we are almost too afraid to look under to see what it’s covering. The room was originally a screened in porch that they enclosed with cheap wood paneling. Someday we will get around to replacing it but it’s great for a playroom now since I don’t really care what happens to the walls.
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Post by maryland on Apr 8, 2023 0:00:53 GMT
I love the white and grey color scheme! I would like all of our cabinets white. Our kitchen is not white and I want white. But unfortunately, that won't happen until we get our very expensive house issues taken care of and our kids are supporting themselves. Once that happens, I want to redo our kitchen, and spend a lot of money on fixing up our house!
Our kitchen cabinets are a medium dark wood and the only reason I can stand it is it's not too dark and we have hardly any cabinets. I want to hire a painter to paint them white, but our appliances are white and my husband won't want to buy all new appliances (stainess steel) just because. I would love all white wood furniture in our kitchen and family room. Iur house is all dark wood furniture as it's all my husbands family hand me downs. So we have to compromise.
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Post by maryland on Apr 8, 2023 0:09:28 GMT
I love gray and white!! I just moved into a new apartment in January and part of the reason I picked this particular complex to live in is because they are currently renovating every unit. The new color scheme is gray and white. Medium gray flooring, light gray carpet in the bedroom, white paint on all the walls. No brown anything!! It makes me happy every time I walk in the door. Your apt. sounds beautiful!
I love the white and grey color scheme! I would like all of our cabinets white.
We don't have many cabinets at all, so that's why I can tolerate the oak cabinets. But I want to get them painted white. My husband says we can just get new white ones, but that could take 5-10 yrs (as whenever we want to do something nice for our house, another major project or car expense comes up). So I want to get a painter to paint them white for me. Problem is, we have white applicances and I don't know how that would look.
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Post by peano on Apr 8, 2023 13:45:38 GMT
You did a great job on your flip Leanne. In the interests of full disclosure, I am still rocking the 90s Tuscan kitchen and most of my house is painted a very pale gray (really more of a grayed white) BM OC-53 Horizon. But I think if you are going to run with gray, you've got to warm it up or it has an OR/morgue kind of sterility. So I would add pops of saturated color if that's your thing, or at least some texture and patina like baskets, woven shades, antique paintings or books.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 8, 2023 15:46:12 GMT
You did a great job on your flip Leanne. In the interests of full disclosure, I am still rocking the 90s Tuscan kitchen and most of my house is painted a very pale gray (really more of a grayed white) BM OC-53 Horizon. But I think if you are going to run with gray, you've got to warm it up or it has an OR/morgue kind of sterility. So I would add pops of saturated color if that's your thing, or at least some texture and patina like baskets, woven shades, antique paintings or books. LOL my kitchen has that Tuscan vibe to it too, complete with the stenciled texture relief designs on the walls and sort of an orangey peach sponged looking paint. Whoever did it did do a nice job, but still. It’s dated. I really don’t want to deal with the mess of sanding those textured designs off the wall.
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Post by Karene on Apr 8, 2023 16:37:42 GMT
My house was built in 1860. It has the original pine wood floor with planks that go the whole width of the house and are very wide and thick. We have it refinished in the living room and hall. We re-did the floors upstairs in a light red maple which was much better than the carpeting. I painted our bedroom a corn yellow. I'm sure it wouldn't be popular but I love waking up to the sun shining on the yellow walls. It just lifts my heart and makes me want to get up and start my day.
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Post by Lurkingpea on Apr 8, 2023 16:59:33 GMT
I don't find gray depressing at all. I think beige is depressing. I like gray. I think it is a nice back drop for many different pops of color. Any color over done could be either depressing or chaotic. All beige would be depressing. All gray would be depressing. All blue could be chaotic or depressing depending on the shade. Everything in moderation.
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Post by RosieKat on Apr 8, 2023 17:29:06 GMT
I think my favorite clear cut style is Craftsman type, or a Craftsman-lite where it's even simpler. So I like wood. I have never cared for the gray and white scheme, although it always looks very nice. I can appreciate why people do like it. I just prefer a warmer look, like you're in a library as opposed to a sun room. We are currently in the process of new furniture for our living room and for our den. We generally shop with no preconceived idea, just looking to see what we like and what is comfortable and what fits right in the space. Our look is what I'd consider modern traditional, where you could put the couch with a more ornate Queen Anne cherry coffee table if you wanted, or with midcentury glass and wood if you preferred. We eneded up with different tones of gray and white in the living room (gray, white, greenish gray which all looked good together even if it sounds odd) and dark leather and a traditional rug in the den. The colors are different but since the styles all work together, it still flows. Granted, it might not be the way someone would stage the house, but I'm not staging, I'm living. And it's the same medium dark wood floor throughout, so that helps with the flow as well. Now I just have to find the end tables, etc. My daughter wanted to go looking for them with me, but she got called in to work today, darn it. I want to finish shopping!
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Post by alsomsknit on Apr 8, 2023 18:23:43 GMT
Grey and white can be beautiful. I love and will chose time and again a charcoal grey vehicle. It simply isn’t something I can live with in my house. I have tried an almost white. Made it 2 weeks before I painted over it. My house is filled with color. Though, there is a light grey carpet on the floor of 2 bedrooms. Ha! Compliments the walls, actually.
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Post by scrappinmama on Apr 8, 2023 21:52:31 GMT
Everything is subjective. What I may like, someone else may hate. I love the color gray. My sofas are gray. But I break up by having blue and yellow throw pillows. My cabinets are black and I'm thinking of having them refinished in a cream color that coordinates well with my countertops. My hardwood is similar to an antique walnut color. I will lighten that up when we have our floors refinished. Personally, I would tone down some of the gray. But if you love it, go for it! What matters most is what you love. Don't pay attention to fads or what is "in", because it will be out soon enough.
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Post by PLurker on Apr 8, 2023 22:13:46 GMT
I have granite (darker) gray walls with white trim. Got it because I liked and went with the space. Didn't even know or consider the trend.
Living area had gray"wood" viny plank. When I had to replace kitchen floor, that went too. It was fine but "Wood isn't gray", in my head. But to each his own.
That being said, it certainly looks nice. Much better, imo.
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Post by Texas Scrap on Apr 8, 2023 22:16:35 GMT
I am a fan of the warmer grey and whites in my own living space, but I think there is a spectrum of cool/warm grays and how you place them in the home and complement with contrast.
After our downstairs flooded in 2021, we repainted and replaced wood flooring. Our home was a dark tan/brown with a deep beige trim and we were so ready to lighten it up. The walls are now a light greige with a white trim. We have a a few rooms with a darker warm grey and my office is a grey/green in the same family because green is a really good color for me to work/think/create in. We let my son pick his room color and it is a complementary blue which is a really nice calming space for him. Floors are a darker wood with both grey and brown that brings in some warmth and all of the cabinets are white in baths and an existing darker grey/brown wash in kitchen/living areas. Countertops are a mix, but on the warmer side. We love the balance this color palate provides.
Our home was too dark before, and we all do better with calm neutrals and a minimalist kind of decor. We have several art pieces that are recreations of Van Gogh and Klimt in our home and they bring vibrant color into the rooms, but allow the overall tone to remain peaceful. I think the intent should be to figure out what environment works best for the people living in your home.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 8, 2023 22:53:12 GMT
Grey and white can be beautiful. I love and will chose time and again a charcoal grey vehicle. It simply isn’t something I can live with in my house. I have tried an almost white. Made it 2 weeks before I painted over it. My house is filled with color. Though, there is a light grey carpet on the floor of 2 bedrooms. Ha! Compliments the walls, actually. Right there with you on the gray vehicle, that’s what I currently have and it shows the dirt so much less than the pearl white I had previously.
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