Changing your Color Scheme

15 years ago

I have always had a warm color scheme, with tan walls with lots of golds, bright orange-y reds, and yellowed greens. I find that this doesn't work too well in my smaller house because it feels too busy and isn't soothing. I have a red rugs with lots of pattern and bright red pillows with busy patterns too, and the stuff is just too much.

I find myself being drawn to soothing colors, especially blue-greens and lots of creams and whites. I want to ditch the busy red rug and get something light colored with a textured look rather than a busy pattern. I am thinking of painting the walls something like Palladian blue. I currently have some sage-y colored window panels I got on clearance from Pier One. Would a pale blue-green work with these? Actually, I wish I had the money to get some ivory or champagne colored drapes.

How does one go about making a fundamental change in their style without making too many costly mistakes? I don't want to paint my big combined kitchen/living room and end up not liking it!

I just wish I had the money to put in dark wood floors, finish out my windows with white trim, make the walls a pale smoky blue green, and adds lots of white and linen with colorful paintings with golds and rich reds.

Do any of you go through "color stages" like I do where every couple of months you like a whole different palette than the month before?

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keepingitsimple
15 years ago
it's called menopause
sarschlos_remodeler
15 years ago
I do it all the time. I'm looking at soft super pale but not pastel colors right now; even contemplating painting all of our living areas a simple off-white and letting my accessories do the talking for me. :-)
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mistybear11
15 years ago
Oh Boy,What perfect timing. I just got back from the paint store. After agonizing over paint colours for weeks now. I finally decided that it was going to get done. I am a cool colours person. Love the eggplants and grays and blacks. But I also have a thing for the colbalt blue, which is the colour of the gas fireplace. I started out with eggplant a couple of years ago. Tried some colour blocking a little while later, which was a complete flop. I look back at the pictures and wonder what was I thinking? Took some advice from many people on the forum and tried a shade of green. Lived with that for a couple of years and now I have repainted back to the eggplant. Actually this time it is more brown than purple. So the colour I just tested on the wall is blue. Or so I thought. It turns out it is blue with a shade of purple. I just can't seem to get away from that colour. All of my accessories are in the purple and blue shades. Mostly glass. My Christmas decorations are silvers and purples. I am wondering how this blue paint is going to go with my carpet and other stuff. I wish I had thought this through a little more.

I think keepingitsimple is right. It must be menopause.

Not much good on the colour scheme, but I would choose a bluechip with a sagey tint. I think it will have to be a gray with just a hint of those colours. Hard to see until it is on the wall.
I don't know how to change over colour schemes without it being costly. I have never been that lucky.
Take your time and hopefully someone here will have the answers you need.

Now I read this I really wasn't much help at all. Sorry.
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Linda
sarschlos_remodeler
15 years ago
begging to differ on "menopause" being the reason we get bored with colors. I'm 35, and I've done this my entire life, and expect that I will continue to change my mind about color schemes for as long as I care about decorating (and I change my mind about that frequently, too).

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