Look at higher end publications and the relentless, monochromatic gray will be gone. Go to Maria Killam's Color ME Happy blog for lots of discussions on gray and coming trends- gray is on its last legs. You can absolutely have a lovely house filled with warm colors. Wooden kitchen cabinets are on trend. Do not despair.

Why would you paint your house a color you don't like just because you see it in a magazine?

No, tan/beige/neutrals are not dated. Colors aren't dated! Specific uses of colors *may* be dated.

Would love to see someone using warms..... I have never been on the grey train, I admit. Some of the photos are beautiful but not for me!

No gray. Paint your house to reflect your taste!

Your house should reflect your taste and what makes you happy to look at.

FWIW, the design magazines I looked at show a lot of rich colors as both furniture and paint colors.

I just did my kitchen and bathroom in honey medium tone quarter sawn oak cabinets with copper hardware so I am pretty much the antithesis of gray.

IMHO the worst thing one can do is remodel based on what is on trend. I look back to items purchased over the years and those which I bought because I loved them are still appealing to me and were repurposed in my current remodel. Those items which I bought because they were trendy - like the earth toned striped Parsons sofa were thankfully discarded years ago.

The ubiquity of the grey everywhere is over. For you,who prefers beiges/taupes,it need never begin. Of course there are wonderful rooms and fabrics that incorporate both colours,too!

Yes thanks I'm open to mixing both, and no i would not paint in greys to make myself unhappy, i just feel like I do not see tans anywhere, So I was looking to see opinions, because I don't want the feeling of rooms with the "shag rug "carpeting if thats on its last leg for a decade ! maybe its not a good comparison colors to objects but I really feel like I do not see tans anywhere, I work in high end real estate, all the designs i see are in greys. thanks!

Not sure what area of the country you are in Michelle, but where I am at grays are also still used all over the place in high end NEW model homes, but not so much on floors (moving more to real wood tones there, thank goodness!)

In my current home, I have used wood on the floor and a really lovely warm white that works perfectly in my particular home. The ceilings in most rooms are a bright white, because I need as much light as possible :)

I think you just have to choose the colors that are right for you, and not worry excessively about trends. I definitely use warms and avoid heavily saturated colors... except in small doses. Whether cool or warm colors, or a combination thereof, it's all about how and where they are applied. And even though I don't like the heavy saturated colors in my own home (navy, dark red, charcoal, chocolate, forest green) I can appreciate the well-designed versions of those colors, as well as the greys.

Neutrals are never out of style.

You're worried about tans/beiges vs grays as no one sees those colors. Try having a lovely buttery yellow wallpapered LR! The only place I see such is in the British House & Garden magazine as some Brits are still doing traditional design. To me, a yellow living room/drawing room is always pleasant - it looks great in both natural and artificial light and that is important. It makes a wonderful background color for English antiques, art, traditional fabrics. I love it and could care less that no one sees it anymore. It works in my house with my things and suits me. That's all that matters.

Band Aid Beige was in style 15-20 years ago. Then gray. Gray is on its way out in my area, but still very popular in mass market. White paint, black accents, natural wood, and jewel colors are trending up here.

Neutrals are always a good classic choice as long as there is some contrast and texture in the room so it's not just a big blob of vanilla. See examples below.

"People gravitate to gray or even beige monochromatic because they are afraid of making a bad design choice."

Not necessarily. I like a neutral background (off white, grey, or beige) because I have a lot of things that provide all the pizzazz and excitement I need - art, copper trays, oriental rugs and wall hangings, wood carvings introduce color, texture and interest (I think!) and IMHO work much better off a neutral backdrop than a colored one.

That said, many people do feel differently. I thought this was an interesting discussion on the subject:

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5294301/so-so-tired-of-neutral-rooms

I agree with jmm. I was young ( 20 ) when my hubby and I bought our first house and was afraid to make a bad choice and play it safe. Everything was beige. It looked like a sand box. Now if I would of mixed things up with the beige it would of been a lot better. Needless to say our next house really incorporated color and patterns with the neutral.

When we renovated last year, we were very sure that we didn't want grey or white. We're in the PNW; the last thing we need is more grey! We love cream rather than white, so trim and kitchen cabinets are cream, with wood floors and countertops. When it came time to choose wall colours, we ended up going with the tan/beige family, but it became very clear that undertone mattered. A warm beige with a more grey undertone felt modern and fresh; MANY of the colours we tested had too much peach in the undertone, which was giving us traumatic 80s flashbacks! :)

The beige is a wonderful backdrop for all our metals and woods. It's warm and comfortable and we love it. It works beautifully with the blues, reds, dark greens that are also trendy right now. But I think the key is--as you can see in the photos Beverly posted--that you choose a beige that works with organic elements (wood, stone, etc) and that avoids those peachy/salmon tones from the 80s/90s.

I've been on the prowl for paint colors for all the rooms in the Victorian we recently bought, and have been looking at lot of colors and collecting swatches and brochures and stuff - it's fascinating to see all the nuances in the neutrals these days - the 80s/90s beiges really sucked. I hate all the gray (though it's lovely when it's on the outside of the house), and while I'm not a huge fan of beige/taupe/tan (wouldn't jive with my house, anyway), I'm loving the matchups of creamy off-whites and whites for walls/trim - going to do this for the attic. Otherwise, cool interesting not-gray colors for the rooms (and probably wallpaper).

Don't ever feel like you have adhere to trends. If you don't like gray, don't do gray. No one is doing paisley wallpaper anymore, but I'm going to because I want to. Do the beige and screw the trends and those folks that are all about "resale value" and thinking you need to design your house for the next buyer rather than yourself.

No.

our walls were painted grey here over 12 years ago to be a neutral backdrop, we have a lot of colour everywhere else, art, coloured lino, not to mention wood like dark kitchen cabs, i painted our entry and the stairs going to the 2nd floor deep gold, and the back area is granny smith green, i have thought about switching to a pearly white or maybe a linen, but the horrors of beige decor (from almond stoves to nubbly sumo wrestler overstuffed couches), or the ubiquitous “industrial custard” was partially what detirmined my initial choice, not popular pressure, you should choose what you feel comfortable with, for our home which has a lot of roughness (it’s old and irregular), warmth is not a big issue