@abasket - I also like that Aegean Teal. It reminds me a bit of a color of my childhood living room.
I read an article recently about feature walls and other ways to use color. One of the photos had one side of the eat-in peninsula painted a deep color where the barstools go.
I really like that color too. I think last year they had a navy as color of the year.
Count me in as a blue lover / blue is neutral person.
We had our house painted this year, and we hired a paint consultant to help decide colors. She actually encouraged me to have a āfunā or not boring color mixed in with the very neutral colors. I painted my dining room and my powder room a medium to darkish blue - BM Chiswell Blue.
We painted our master bedroom a gray blue color - Gray timber wolf.
The lady suggested we paint to kids room a light gray color, as opposed to a light blue color, because itās more neutral. We may sell in the next couple of years, so that makes sense for us.
Not sure if a trend or not, but we typically play with color by painting a feature wall. Most rooms in our home are a beige/greige, with one accent. It allows us to easily change the accent, and the rooms still tie together with the common base color.
Altogether now, swing back!!! From Houzz: āAs popular as gray remains with homeowners, the design world seems to be shifting away from it and back to warm neutral colors like beige, khaki, tan and greige.ā
My personal opinion is to limit one-toning ANY neutral in a house be it gray, beige, tan or whatever. I look at some Zillow/Realtor.com house photos (this is an obsession of mine) and see homes that are the selected neutral HEAD TO TOE - from wall to floors to furniture.
Molding or window trim or bookshelves at least give the opportunity to balance a neutral by introducing a good white.
Our house was professionally designed with one neutral paint and same wood and tile throughout the entire house for unity with each room decorated differently via furnishing and accessories. The house is āall of a pieceā with no jarring elements, very peaceful and flows well. However, I did finally decide to spice it up a bit in the master suite by painting the WC and the bit of wall above the shower tiles in a deeper shade three tones down on the same paint chip. I also added four white 15" horizontal stripes around two walls of the master bedroom to brighten it up. Other than that, the single paint color is the unifying element in the house. I have done accent walls in other houses, but this house has more glass/windows than unbroken wall, so the view to the outside is the contrast element. I would consider the house very current in its cream/beige/brown/black scheme, but I long for color, so the inside of the detached casita looks like a Nantucket cottage with white board-n-batten 3/4 of the way up the wall, dark blue paint to the ceiling, and white canvas slip-covered furniture with various blue accents. Thatās where I go to relax and give my eyes a change of pace.
I donāt really like the unified house look. My dining room and living room make an L with a six foot wide opening and are both painted a warm yellow, but thereās a wide opening to the eat-in kitchen which is painted a color called celery and another to my home office which is white. My bedroom is a sage green which I find very restful.
I wanted gray walls in our new house (re-modeling it). We ended up going with a very neutral greige in the main living areas/kitchen.
We have neutral beige (almost a goldish tint),I think called simply tanā¦ a very pleasant color. Itā goes up the stairwell an into upstairs hall, which is open to the family room below. It was costly to have the paint job 12(?) years ago, glad to hear it might be coming back in style. My husband just mentioned he was thinking grey for bedrooms might be nice, but Iām not sure Iād like that mix with the hall.
I confess. I have a guest BR with wood and greens, a blue BR and a coral/pink bedroom. And I love them all. And yes, you can see into each one from one point. I gave up on the āunifying lookā because there was so many different things I wanted. Each one has a totally different feel. I really like it. I repainted all three bedrooms (havenāt tackled the master) so all it cost was the paint and my labor.
My laundry room already has aegean blue from a million years ago. Okay 20. Iāve been very happy I used the colorāitās my countertops.
My parents kitchen has turquoise formica counters from 60 years The walls are that color too. It still makes me happy to be there (although the stove could use an update).
I read somewhere once that all colors were good in a garden and so it would be in decorating. As long as the colors came from nature. Flowers never seem to clash. The trees are all shades of green and brown. The sea and sky donāt clash.
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Of course the trend is away from grey. I just put in a grey bathroom. I said to all the tile store people that I was concerned about using grey because itās been hot for so long, but they were all adamant that grey isnāt going anywhere. :(.
Weāve always lived in houses that basically had one color throughout other than maybe the bedrooms. In the house we bought two years ago, nearly every room is a different color but all in the same color family. I love it. It feels so much warmer to me.
Our bedrooms and bathrooms are all different colors that blend with each other.
The LR, DR, FR, kitchen and all halls and staircases are the same creamy color. Itās an off White with a creamy feel to itā¦and it matches our area rugs and furniture nicely but is neutral enough that any color really could go with it.
I should add, our upstairs hall and master carpet areā¦grey. They were grey at our old house from 1986-1995. And grey in this house too. But not the walls.
I canāt warm up to painting my custom wood trim white. I just wonāt do it. The next owner can do that if they want toā¦although recently an agent told me wood is coming back. Mine is a nice medium color. And I love it.
āI canāt warm up to painting my custom wood trim whiteā - Ditto.
The people we bought our house from painted the 125 year old woodwork white. While we would never have done that ourselves, all the neighbors who saw it before said it looks much much nicer now. Brighter and airy.
It does pain me when I see brick walls or nice wood trim painted white. I have even seen old wood flooring painted. Natural materials should be kept natural. Just my opinion - no matter what the current trend is.
Iāll agree with not painting nice wood trim. Note: 90s finger jointed pine with an oak stain is not nice wood trim. (Not my house, my family member agrees but her husband insists it is beautiful.)
Wallpaper is a returned trend I can do without. I remember moving to a house in the 70s that had huge bright blossoms in a bedroom. My parents immediately replaced it with a trendy dreary tiny all-over colonial floral print. Give me paint any day.
We painted a brick wall in our family room white. It was the last thing we had them paint, but when everything else was done, the wall made the room look dated. Everyone who has seen it so far really likes it.
I am still searching for backsplash tile. I thought I had found the perfect one, but then I checked the price. Itās more than double my second choice, and my second choice is pretty radical for super traditional me. I will post the links here, but the website photos without my counter top and walls donāt really help.
First choice: This one ties in the stainless appliances, antique brass hardware, and ivory paint on the wall really well. https://www.flooranddecor.com/glass-tile/prosecco-lantern-glass-mosaic-100555457.html
Second (distant) choice: This one is kinda funky and looks great with my wall color. https://www.flooranddecor.com/porcelain-ceramic-decoratives/umber-flora-polished-porcelain-mosaic-100465988.html
The counter top is off-white marble look with some gray and bronze streaks. The floor is a medium brown wood-look tile.
I was planning to use a white/off-white backsplash until the counters were installed, but decided I need some kind of contrast. (The backsplash area is painted with white primer now and itās just too much white.)
I like the warmer colors and am glad that they are coming back in. My whole house is painted a cream color or antique gold with a robinās-egg blue-green sunroom.