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Is anyone painting their walls a color other than gray or greige?

8 years ago

There are many Benj. Moore colors that are beautiful and nobody asks about them anymore. All people seem to ask about are the gray and greige colors. Green seems to be the poor relative that nobody wants to know. Any comments?

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  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    My hallway is a pale beige, and one of two walls in the living area are the same shade. The other wall is sage green (and the two remaining walls are log),. Beyond that, nothing is beige in the house I am building. Like any other color, a little goes a long way.

    Another accent wall, in the kitchen, is the same sage green. One bedroom and the bath are a pale garden green. Another bed is a cream, and the office is a type of blue, but not primary at all. The guest bath is an orange-brown.

    Yes, they do work together. My light beige (SW Canvas Tan) helps to unify things. I simply wanted it, and the other colors, to be warm.

  • 8 years ago

    Ugh, I would never paint gray anywhere! Ick. :) My living room and dining room are a nice color from Lowe's called Drumskin. We have two bedrooms that are a nice medium blue and one is mint green. Kitchen is yellow, master bath is turquoise and other bath is jade green.

    Donna

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  • 8 years ago

    I just did the whole house in SW Irish Cream. My ABSOLUTE favorite, which is a little too rich for my husband, is SW Sundew (my last house was this color). My FAVORITE color is a rich green, and while I don't live in a house that can pull it off for room colors, i'm excited that hopefully lots of accent items will be availible in green. I've been looking for a rug with nice greens in it for 5 years- if I find one with any green at all, it's always seafoam, or floral. :(

  • 8 years ago

    Aprilneverends, regarding your "yellow" Flintstone paint...

    What I've noticed about yellows is that for me, once they get dark enough, they either look orange or green, with no territory in between that I call yellow. I've seen colors that I would characterize as greenish-orange, which seems crazy since on the color wheel, yellow should be in there. But in my mind, anything darker than a mustard just doesn't fall under what I call yellow.

  • 8 years ago

    My son and DIL certainly chose lots of COLOR when they built their house -- deep turquoise for the open great room (kitchen, dining & living) with black flooring and cream cabinets, deep red for the study, kids' rooms in mid-tone lilac, blue and aqua, kids' baths lime green for one and mid-tone blue for the other, etc. The painters called it "the Crayola house". Lol. It all looks great, and has happy vibes. Not for everyone (myself, for instance!) but it really works. =)


  • 8 years ago
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    BM Mount Saint Anne in living room, BM Lavender Blue for master, and BM Healing Aloe for master bath. Light blue and medium olive green for extra BR's. Kitchen and den are 1950's pine. Dining room and hall are BM Bleeker Beige.

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    We're definitely not fans of grey......or white even. Although I did paint the hallway in a previous house grey and bright yellow, but that was 1992! We've been in our current house just over two years. Bought as a project, it's an early 1850s house that was extended in Arts & Crafts style in 1924. It had been empty two years when we moved in and although the PO had owned it 14 years, he'd done very little to it so style- and colour-wise it was stuck in the 1970s (not in a good way!), all woodchip and floral wallpaper, granny style carpets and apple-white/rose pink paint colours.

    First thing we did was paint one of the living rooms (the 'snug') F&B Brinjal ;)

    We've still not finished the house as we're trying to restore it to its former glory, which takes time, lol, but so far we have F&B Olive in the master bedroom, F&B Stiffkey Blue in another, Craig & Rose Kashmir Beige (think I'll be changing this though as it reads a bit pink/mauve) in the living room, and various creams in kitchen, breakfast room, family bathroom. I have just repainted the snug in F&B India Yellow! The other bedrooms will most likely be some kind of blue or green and I'd still like to use Brinjal somewhere - maybe in a cloak/powder room. The hallway will probably be F&B Mizzle.

    We're in the UK though which might make a difference :)

  • PRO
    8 years ago

    I was reminded how this thing is called when some people have a couple sensory sensations team up simultaneously..like colors for letters and numbers, or textures for sounds, or sounds for letters, or personality for numerals..its called synesthesia.

    Yes, it always fascinates me how people relate certain details to color. I've only met maybe two or three people who really had synesthesia. However, just about everyone connects a memory or experience to color; it's a big part of what defines our color preferences. Color is personal.

    And there is approximately 15% of female population that has more receptors in the eyes..like, four types instead of normal three..so these ladies, they're able to see shades other people don't.

    Tetrachromats. And it sounds like it would be cool, but true tetrachromats have threads of color blindness in their family. So, not everything is rosy. :) I think in order to end up a tetrachromat your father had to have been colorblind and if a tetrachromat has children, it's likely they will be color blind.

    For average trichromatic women, it is believed we are able to see an extra wavelength of red. The result of evolution and finding food that's good/safe to eat. Which is why some assert that women are better with color than men.

    And, yes, there is a boatload of research about individual color perception and the 11 basic color names the majority of the population can agree on: White, Black, Grey, Yellow, Red, Blue, Green, Brown, Pink, Orange, Purple. ~Berlin & Kaye 1969 study.

    Which is why words like beige, greige, taupe, sage, tan, etc. are so inconsistent person to person and generally confusing.

  • 8 years ago

    cawaps, yes..again I was in shock! But I was even more in shock when my own husband called it(and continues to call it) purple..:) what purple? we do have couple purples in the house..we have many but I mean just a paint form..how can it be confused with this Flintstone remains a mystery to me

    rafael, I love Brinjal!!! I saw it only on the pics that's true..well I think it's amazing from what I saw

    and yes, I also stole my DD's room purple for our closet and restroom..:) loved it too much.

    Lori that's SO interesting, thank you! I can read about things like that for hours

    I met quite a few people like me though..probably because at some point one asks, if he has it..and then you start to compare your colors and other person's colors..and it's such a fun. It's so different with everyone, rarely you'll have even just several letters that have somewhat similar shade.

    I have only colored letters and numbers..and thus, words, since they're built from these colorblocks of letters and numbers. And I also have numerals that look like people, and have different appearance, personality and demeanor, but somehow it's only 11 to 20. They all are very beautiful..:)

    According to the family legend, my grandfather was colorblind. But I don't think he was completely colorblind. Also how would they know? He for sure didn't go to check it or something as far as I knew him..:)

  • 8 years ago

    I painted our open livingroom BM October Mist, and our bedroom is BM Tranquility. I am a sucker for sage and an oceany blue/gray color both of which I have use in a couple of different houses. I guess I'm not tired of them yet, and all our houses have been so different style and space wise.

    I've read sage is just a grayed out green so eh. I also painted our finished walk out basement BM Gray Owl, but we have a lot of other large, bold things happening down there so the color needed to be light and simple so the walls could recede.

  • 8 years ago

    The most recent room we painted was our living room, in BM Healing Aloe (pale blue-green). It's as soothing as it sounds, and is a nice backdrop for all of the other colors in the room. I'm really wanting to paint our hallways and open areas BM Olympic Mountains, but haven't gotten around to it yet. It's an off white that is sort of a sandy, pale beige. I don't normally consider myself a "beige" person, but I like how it reads very neutral and warm, and works well with the other elements in our house, including lots of stained trim on our main floor and painted trim upstairs. I also like BM Alaskan Skies, which is one shade darker than Olympic Mountains, and am thinking of painting our master bedroom in that color. I used to paint more saturated "statement" colors that provided personality to rooms, but over the years tend to prefer colors that set a mood but don't take center stage, allowing other elements of the room to shine through more.

    Other colors of rooms painted years ago that I still love include Tailwind (a lavender blue) in our laundry room, Tea Time (a spa-like blue/green) in our kid bathroom, Iced Cilantro (pale yellowish-green) in my daughter's bedroom and Chilly Morning (pale blue) on her ceiling, all of which are Glidden paint colors. I also still like Sherwin Williams Senstive Tint (lavender grey) that we've had in our dining room for 12 years and I'm still not tired of it. We have one grey room in our house, my son's, that is painted BM Stonington Grey, which I love. It's a beautiful neutral background to the riot of other colors going on in there from his Legos, books, planes, etc...

    I have nothing against grey as a neutral background color, but am very sensitive to various hues and find some just look awful in the spaces where they're painted. If that's all I saw, I'd probably hate grey too, but I think pretty much any color can work in the right space and lighting. My in-laws recently painted their entire house in shades of grey and most of them are just awful (IMO) and really drag the whole house down. They seem happy with their choices though, so who am I to say?

    One area where the grey is getting me down a bit is on the exteriors of homes in my area... We have a lot of Victorian style homes in our neighborhood, and lately they're all going grey. One on our cul-de-sac looks absolutely stunning in grey (with lighter grey in the gables and white trim), but most of the exterior grey color schemes around here are major fails :(

    April, thanks for the book recommendation! I love a good neuroscience read, so it's already on hold at my library :) I love your descriptions of your color experiences, many of which I can very much identify with. Interestingly, I also happen to have married an engineer (just read through your "reveal" thread) who thinks very differently than I do but has an opinion on just about everything. I like to think we balance each other out more than we clash... most of the time ;)

  • 8 years ago

    My whole house is BM White Blush. I've lived with it for 8 years and just had our new house painted the same. I'd rather add colour elsewhere. My daughter's ceiling is BM Palladian Blue at half strength. Our laundry room cabinets are F&B Stiffkey Blue. But mostly I just have colourful art and textiles throughout the house that all look so much better against a white backdrop. I can't imagine going back to painting my walls actual colours!

  • 8 years ago

    Our LR and hall is SW Halycon Green, which is a nice grey-green, not really a sage. A lighter version on that strip is Quietude.

    Our BR is BM Nantucket Fog which is a nice grey-blue. It was almost painted Stonington Gray, but we handed the painter the wrong gallon! DH was not really on board with the gray, so blue it is. I sold the leftover gray paint on Nextdoor.


  • 8 years ago

    We just repainted in our new house, going from a horrible yellow-ey beige and murky green to SW Cool Avocado in the living room and SW Spa in the kitchen and sunroom. I've never liked beige. In our rental property, we painted most of the rooms classic gray and the sunroom a Behr yellow, Sweet As Honey.

  • 8 years ago

    Eastautumn, I am noticing the gray exterior trend too; sometimes they are perfect, other times they are just wrong. There is a house in the neighborhood that was repainted green for sale -- and the green didn't really work, but I thought that with a different trim color it could be nice. However, the new owners promptly repainted it a dull, dark gray -- equally bad.

  • 8 years ago

    gscience, I like that Nantucket Fog!

    Most of my rooms are cream colors, and in hindsight I wish I had gone a shade lighter in most of them. At the time, the jump from previous owners' tans and reds to cream seemed huge, and it lightened things up tremendously. But now, I am wondering why I didn't go with a near-white, since my main complaint about the house is that it is so dark.



  • 8 years ago

    gsciencechick just curious...where is the chest in your photo from?

  • 8 years ago

    Cawaps - what is that top Behr color? I love it!

  • 8 years ago

    I have BM Beach Glass and BM Yarmouth Blue separated by a windowless hallway painted in BM Smokey Taupe ( which looks more like the nice neutral sand like effect I was going for than anything else I tried on the walls). That flows into The kitchen area painted BM Gray Wisp ( the paintstores recommendation to match RH Silver Sage.). Love the rich colors and love the way the first two mentioned work in my North facing rooms.

  • 8 years ago

    I love pea green, lilac and brown. I painted my dining room a toasty brown since it opens into the garden.

  • 8 years ago

    Parchment white. Not a risk taker....:0)

  • 8 years ago

    Finally found the green.

  • 8 years ago

    I just painted my son's bedroom BM November Skies. He's happy and I love, love the color. This is the color on the BM site, not the furniture or rug my son has but otherwise very similar to the room in this old house.

  • 8 years ago

    Thats a nice colors relaxing to look at. Great Job in choosing the color!

  • 8 years ago

    A friend used Spice Vinegar in an addition and I loved it, Valspar I think. When we built our all on one floor cause we're getting older I remembered the color and realized it would coordinate with the furniture and pictures we already had. We don't do trends but keep what we like. Spice Vinegar goes well with white trim is combined with dark red & green in our open living-dining-kitchen area but also works with coral & yellow in our bedroom. We used the same paint in our foyer, hall & 3 bedrooms & I love the flow.

  • 8 years ago

    i love that green, jn3344. i googled it but but couldn't find the name

  • 8 years ago
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    Help anyone!!!! Need a pretty creamy golden paint color for my kitchen sitting area.

    I have tried SW golden fleece it was to gold . I tried restrained gold it was to taupe

    i tried Trellis yellow it was to bright yellow I tried Doyle gold Not good either

    any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Might try Anjou pear


  • 8 years ago

    Hi egreenbe. Please start a new thread with your question and picture in order to get the best responses and to help keep this thread on topic. We'd be glad to help you pick a new color. : )

  • 8 years ago

    Thank you for letting me know. Please tell me how I can do a new thread. I am new to this .

  • 8 years ago

    Sure, slide on up to the top of this page and click on the link that says "Home Decorating." That will take you to a new page that will let you title a new thread, fill in the dialogue box, and hit submit.

  • 8 years ago

    Thank you very much for your help

  • 8 years ago

    I think we feel like we "should" use Gray and I tried and failed! I have a Great Room where we had the beams re stained but with the type of wood they still have an orange undertone so was afraid to go with Gray because it would bring out the orange and I wanted to play it down. Every gray I brought home and I brought home 50 shades looked either purple or blue or washed out. The room has French doors and a double window but we don't get sun until late afternoon so it's light but not bright until late day so was also afraid to do white walls so went with Bleeker beige. I know boring beige but the color is a chameleon in my light. It looks beige during the day and more grayish beige at night. I probably should have used something more "gray" like Edgecomb gray to "pop" my leather sofa. I am now looking at very light neutrals to paint my north facing kitchen ( off the great room but separate) and I may use Edgecomb or something similar but think that anything Gray in North facing will wash out. I have also toyed with the idea of painting it an artichoke color or the Island a green color and do a very simple tailored in Green and white

    Good luck!


  • 8 years ago

    To aprilneverends: thanks! I love the green as well. From Ralph Lauren. Parapet. I had SW match it.

  • 8 years ago

    Just painted BM Newburyport Blue.

    Oh, probably will paint another room grayish (Bilboa Mist) or maybe white (Capital White) soon.


  • 8 years ago

    I just figured anyone using gray beige or "taupe" obviously hadn't spent most of their lives in office cubes yet. I just toned down my use of color in the main living areas by using BM Quiet Moments as a neutral - has always been a saturated orange tone. Furniture is various shades of brown and copper, but accents and artwork are mix of that blue green, orange tones, reds, greens - think southwestern. I did SW Copper Mountain to chairrail in the dining room, accented with stripe of deep teal (BM color, dont know title) then QM above. So still a southwest vibe, just less in your face.

  • 7 years ago

    I applaud the discussion here where each person states his/her opinion positively whether in favor of "gray" or not. Personally I'm SICK of gray and white. Everywhere I look for decorating inspiration that is basically all that is featured. I can appreciate how clean and fresh these interiors look in the glossy magazine format. I can appreciate the Pottery Barn aesthetic. But I am one "of those" who thrives on color. I don't want bold color on the walls, but I do want for my home to feel warm and welcoming. The gray/white we see so much everywhere just leaves me cold. I will be ultimately updating our interior paint and am seriously considering what a previous poster mentioned about a light neutral wall color throughout and then layering color in accessories. But I can't do it with gray or white. I don't want "greige" either. I realize that it is past time to do this, but it will be a big step for me to lose my beautiful SW asparagus leaf green as the main color with accents of a pale golden yellow (FC September Leaf) in the great room and foyer and my BM red above white wainscoting in the dining room. Thankfully we have tons of natural light with the entire back of the house covered with huge windows, so the saturated colors we enjoy do not make the house dark at all. I have tried a linen beige in three bathrooms that were remodeled recently and have grown to think this may be my neutral. I must move past the first decade of the 2000s! I am almost getting anxious about even thinking about the change. How silly is that?

  • 7 years ago
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    ANYTHING but!!! Greens, yellows, ivory...no gray. Just bought a car. #1 rule NOTHING on the color continuum between Black and white!! I am sooo sick of gray/silver dull dull dull. Is "griege" even a REAL color??!!


  • 7 years ago
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    oh yes)) it is

    many trees are greige..the bark I mean..it's a bit brown and a bit gray, you know? in different proportions

    I love greige. I really, really love it, for many years already(but i didn't know it's called "greige"..))Well I love most colors out there. It's the combos and proportions that might/might not work

    Sometimes when I see a beautiful combinations of colors I snap picture

    the last one were red flowers on the background on blueish green wall..so uplifting, I can't explain this one even but that was like a bunch of happiness

    now if the green was that forest green and the red was different darker red, I'd think "Christmas" and it wouldn't inspire me as much because it's be something that is always put together

    you(as in "me", "us", "they") need your moment..and just a name of a color is not enough. It describes something, it does quantify an experience from it..but never fully. Since it never exists alone. It's always surrounded by other colors. It changes itself, and is changed by whatever it is surrounded with.

    I was a bit shying away from black and white -in my house I mean-but recently I start bringing them more in. In small touches.

    Because something in my life changes and somehow leads me to appreciate more of that sharp contrast. Or the shades in between too, when it flows..and there's usually some brown in the mix too, like in oil painted canvas

    It's interesting how these things develop..i read all sorts of decor stuff so I see many very colorful, or dark, or elaborated, or bright interiors..the "everything gray" I see on real estate listings mostly..:) not in books i read or magazines..

    And since books and magazines are indefinitely more inspiring that 99% of real estate listings..:)

    the choice is kinda clear here

    oh, another beautiful combo I saw just recently..it was a painting..reflection in the water..peachy pink, quaint blue, dark, almost black shadow. When you just say the words, you're, like "what the hell"

    but it was exceedingly beautiful

  • 7 years ago

    and yes, that's true..never worked in office cubicles..just had a different line of work

    we did have an office usually but it wasn't anything remotely reminding cubicles..and you always were out and about

    cubicles drive crazy probably. my DH has cubicles in his workplace

    but i think-what color cubicles wouldn't? I'm not sure of such color. I think the concept itself is kinda faulty..

  • PRO
    7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    Is "griege" even a REAL color??!!

    :) lol!

    I'm obsessed with all things Albert Munsell. Probably because Al and I share a major disdain for meaningless color words like greige, taupe, beige, tan, putty, etc.

    Disdain because they're inefficient. Inefficient because they mean something different to each person (sometimes it's positive like @april and sometimes not so much).

    You will never, ever reach agreement about how to define greige or what greige looks like. Because everyone interprets color names differently.

    Those color words are defined by an individual's color acuity and experiences - essentially one's personal relationship with color. And while individuals may have similar color acuity (meaning healthy, normal color vision) their color experiences and relationships are going to differ dramatically.

    Color words like griege, taupe, beige, putty, tan are not useful because they mean something different to each person and they do nothing but add confusion to any conversation about color. In order to have truly meaningful conversations about color, you have to get everyone on the same page and speak to color from a clear, and concise point of control. That clear, concise point of control is the essence of the Munsell Color System which is hue, value, chroma color notation.

  • 7 years ago

    Son's room will be SW Koi Pond, boys bath will most likely be SW Silvermist and I am trying to decide if I want to paint my closet SW Searching Blue or SW Expressive Plum.

    However, I do love my grey/greige/taupe, the rest of the house is PPG Cool Slate and I am super comfy reclining in my huge black leather furniture and looking into my kitchen which will soon have a taupe colored backslash.

  • 7 years ago

    No gray, no greige. Off white of a warmer variety, and some colors, yes.


  • 7 years ago

    Our bedroom and upstairs bathroom are gray, and our living room and hallway are "greige". Our dining room is a warm light taupe. However, the rest of the house is in varying shades of cream, except for our kitchen which is a deep chocolate brown (with white cabinets) and a light seaglass blue sun room. All of our colors are light to enhance all of the natural light the house gets... I think color on the walls will soon make a comeback. Tastes change. It's a nice neutral to work with, but even in our gray bedroom, sometimes it starts to feel like a cloudy day in there... which I don't mind since cloudy days make me sleepy, but I wouldn't want gray in my entire house.

  • 7 years ago

    color on the walls never went away..

    I feel it's about tastes and preferences of course, but geographic location first and foremost. every place on Earth has its own settings..its own light. so yes, the colors are chosen to work with the light that's there as you say adhiker..bright or soft..lighting up and shutting down as with the switch, or lingering..

    I also think: every color is a color. White is. Gray is. So what if they're neutral. To me many browns and greens and blues are also neutrals of sorts..

    Whatever your eye is used to see a lot is a neutral.

    People would think neutrals are less restrictive..true..but with so many shades and tints-you'll still choose one main direction for the rest of your things(warmer or cooler, brighter or muted), and add a bit of other colors. But you still will choose main direction.

    I love taupe, ivory, cream, off white..I have both taupe and greenish off white besides greige as I've said.. I also have shades of green and purple

    And they all work perfectly well together because they're a tad muted..they're soft, muted, and change with light but in a way that I like the changes

    And you can actually get away with many much brighter, saturated colors too..so many beautiful examples, whether it's New Orleans or India..:)

    or England or Russia

    you can have enfilades of rooms, or just rooms all painted or wallpapered differently yet it all perfectly works

    that's when you have this very-very open floor plan only, and certain style of a house, when you have to choose a color otherwise hard to pull off..

    Also so much depends on the materials a house is built of..architectural style..etc

    that's why I actively dislike all this "timeless" blah blah.

    Timeless is beauty.

    Beauty is different. Forest is beautiful, and sea is, and jungles are, and mountains are, and deserts are.

    And the most timeless you can do is to go with what's there already, and create a dialogue between the place and you.

    I don't know why people think something is in vogue. True, something is, but there are literally hundreds of"vogues" going simultaneously

    It's like if all the people would dress the same

    but why on Earth should they, when everybody's different?

    I feel bad writing so much..:)

  • PRO
    7 years ago

    @april - could not agree more about regional color!

  • 7 years ago

    When we moved from our old house to the current one, we wanted to change up from the "Tuscan" golds, and brick reds. We had and decided to go bold with our dining room for something blue/black. Not everyone's cup o' tea, but we think these kinda worked...


    I believe the color was BM Midnight Blue.

    (this is before adding our chandelier, buffet and window treatments)


    (never mind the silver runner, that didn't stay)


    We loved the color so much, that all the other rooms that we painted looked nice, but didn't evoke the same dramatic punch that the dining room delivered.


    ...so we went with more dark colors. Almost all are blackish, with a tint of color:

    The bedroom (which I have posted here a few times looking for advice, and still isnt done) is BM Galaxy, which is a black purple:

    (needs new rug, window treatments and bedding still)


    ...and our master bath, which is a black green: BM Dragon's breath (great name!)

    (needs new tilework, countertops, and window treatments but for now, the paint will have to do!)


    Hope these black rooms aren't the first sign of us being vampires :) The rest of the rooms are nice safe light soft olives, taupes, and greys. These rooms we felt were big and bright enough to carry the color. Who know's maybe we will tire of it and go back to greiges.



    Cheers,

    Andy


  • 7 years ago

    Yes! Just painted our great room BM Quiet Moments and we love it! I also had two bedrooms painted BM Revere Pewter, which is a very popular gray according to my painter and the paint lady at Ace Hardware, and I don't care for it. But, at least it's a fresh coat of paint on the walls.

  • 7 years ago

    Yes, I did white walls (Behr Fallen Snow) with matte black trim, baseboards and doors.


    Still need to put up the lights though.

  • 7 years ago

    I am one of those anti-gray people because my entire office building is painted "Amazing Gray," and it isn't that amazing. I am having the main living areas in our home painted in BM Elephant Tusk which in our lighting looks like sand at the beach.

  • 6 years ago

    Recently started painting my living room a putty color . Ugh instead of soothing it feels dead and lifeless . Nothing like the chip , Pinterest or pottery barn . Iam done with gray, beige or greige , back to color. Nature is so full of beautiful colors , I don't know why I talked myself into the colors of dirt or pavement . Lesson learned.