What Colors To Paint Our New Home?

My parents LOVE magnolia (like a creamy light-yellow colour) Bathroom- Mabye blue, water etc.

Bedrooms- Should be dark colours, or in the summer you probably wont sleep!, mabye dark blue, i love it!

Kids bedroom- Ask them what they like and even let them help you decorate it, that should avoid any problems.

Come to Lowe's! your painting problem will be solve, Lowes has a software that you can buy; try to all colors for your wall, trim, and even your furniture, bath room, bedroom etc. Lowes associates are very knowledgeable about paint colors. You can also buy that CD so you can take picture of your wall and then put them in your computer and run that cd and upload your photos and start mixing colors. and you can experiment which color you would wish to paint.

Also try buying glamour homes magazine to get some ideas. how paint relates to object and decor. Sometimes color matching is really up to you how you would want your house to look like, either Oprah's house, Crowford, or Jlo.

First, I'd need to know where you live; climate can help in color selection; if you live in the south, you dont want oranges, reds, etc.as these are warm colors...so tell me where you live and I can give you some further ideas....in general, if want rooms to look larger, stay with lighter shades of paint for walls, and use mirrors wherever you can, to open up the room, I know, this is stuff everyone knows, but sometimes we forget the obvious!!..wall to wall carpeting helps open up a room also...I like a house that has an open, airy feel to it inside...no dark colors, no dark furniture or upholstery, but thats just my taste...if you email me with where or what climate you live in, I'd be pleased to give you more suggestions...........

For your Bedroom a great color is that light sage green..... not to dark and it soothing and it's used in alot of bedding and window treatments

Go to Behr.com Product # 450d-4

For Your Bathroom a nice light grey.. behr 7302-c

with white trim

Kitchen go with tuscany colors around this great yellow/gold

350b-6

Those are my suggestions... but behr.com is a great tool good luck with your hew home in the new year.

We just painted our fist house also. It was all the same color of like off white. The house has dark trim and cabnets. We had put in new carpet, so we were working with matching those colors also. We used color place branded paint from Walmart.

Mostly we've stuck to nuteral colors and accented it with colors of furniture, frames and pictures, but we have gone out a limb in a couple rooms. We just aren't sure what we will like. But we did kind of decide that each room has it's own theme. The colors are ones that we picked together that we both liked.

The main carpet is a tan color, so we stuck with an off white for the main parts of the house like the living room and hallways. It was white chocolate I think. Our living room set is navy blue and the drapes are a darker navy blue.

We also used that color in the master bedroom with the sage colored carpet. Then we got a wallpaper boarder with the color of the carpet, curtains(kind of a pinkish purple, I don't know what to call it color) and sage and white bedding. It has a cool spring feeling to it. The window faces our back yard, so the tress and things just seem like part of the wall.

In the extra bedroom that we put a blue carpet in, we painted it bleached wheat. It's a sort of tan or khaki. That room is decorated in blues and burgandies as it is the Colorado Avalache room. The bedroom set in there is a dark brown. We have entertained a burgandy chair rail or boarder in there. It's still a work in progress.

The room with the white carpet we didn't replace, we painted stencel blue. It will be a nursery, but now it's just the Winnie the Pooh room. We hung up pictures and plates that can be easily taken down. We had to go with a darker color since the off white that was there made the carpet look dirty. And the color can go boy or girl when it needs to.

Then bedroom downstairs, that is my girly doll room, we painted something like snowy peach. It goes quite nice with the tan carpet and the lavander curtians. I think I may paint some lavander squares or circles on the wall. I saw that at a relative's house over the holidays. I thought it was neat.

The master bathroom we are doing in white then we are going to paint a flower/butterfly boarder thing arround it. We have white curtains with sort of brightly colored butterflies on them in there. This window also faces the backyard... so it's sort of contuning that nature theme from the bed room.

And the dinning room we painted something like sand... I forget the color. It's a nice cool brown. The curtains are linen colored and we have three different colored woodpieces in there, so it's all kind of brown toned. The hanging light fixtures is a very heavy 70's wood piece, so it looks nice with that room being nutral and brown.

We still need to take down the wallpaper in the main bathroom, but when we do, I think we may paint it a lavander color to go with the purple bathroom accessories we already have. It's a big project waiting for a time.

The kitchen it still waiting for work. As I would like to see it a light blue with dark blue counters. But for right now, we have 70's yellow counters and it would look hideious. So for now it waits. But if we never get new counters, it will probably get painted a yellow to go with them. Who knows.

And the only other room is the office. That is the Nascar room. I would like to paint it two toned... top white, bottom dewalt yellow, but the hubby isn't gong for that right now.

And the downstairs bathroom is probably going to end up a left over color... like one of the browns or the peach.

As for the 3 year olds room... I would paint it a base color that can go with the theme of the moment. You could do a two color, top and bottom. Or you could come up with a pattern, like bright color strips or squares. They would go with anything.

I think that anything you choose that you like will be fine. No one's really going to be going oh my unless you really go out there and paint it neon pink and purple. And besides who cares what anyone thinks. It's your house!

I will say that we did stay with colors that if something were to happen and the house need to be sold, it wouldn't be a liablity. But that's a morbid thought now isn't it.

Benjamin Moore has a Cd that you can buy which is terriffic. You can take a digital picture of your room, upload it to the Cd, then take the colors from their color palet and paint on your walls. This way you can really see how your room would look without even having to paint. One thing that I have learned is the way the color is affected when there's natural light in your room. Keep that in mind.

http://www.benjaminmoore.com/

What are your furnishings? Carpet colors? What do you like? These all play a factor. Paint the colors you like, with a bit of continuity throughout the house. Look at magazines, go to a paint store and look at wallpaper and border books,..they will give you lots of ideas.

pastel colors are always nice try ghost or dried plaster they are relay nice colors

earth tones

Congrats on your first home. Have fun decorating. I like neutral colors because in my opinion they rarely go out of style. here's a few ideas I like. click links for ideas.

Master bedrooms/Guest bedrooms

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(a teaser)

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Family rooms

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Baths

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(matches light blue bedroom above)

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Kitchens

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dining rooms

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