Getting your house ---- JUST WRONG (page 2)

Purza

We painted our bedroom mint green (hey it looked good and fresh in a magazine). I think we both hated it but we lived with it for 1.4 years. Just recently painted the walls taupe and it is SO MUCH better.

Purza

simplesally

It's good to have a paint in your room that calms you, not give you the frights.

Carmel

I thought the pumpkin that my spouse painted the living room would be sick, but, hey, it actually warms up the place and brings out the fall colors in our furniture and decorations..Goes to show ya who has the taste in our house...

carmel

confusedjw

Is lime green a Laura Ashley suggestion?

ballistic

I am partly colour blind - but this doesn't mean I have disasters. No - I don't paint everything black and white - but I find something I like, also tend to choose easy colours - (good for re-sale value also) then ask everyones opinion, and think about it a lot.

Confucious

Simple,

More house talk at a thread I started called "Going to buy Cigars tomorrow..."

Con

wednesday

we painted a bedroom celing something that turned out teal. i was aming for a very light aqua, and got teal. too dark

DanTheMan

white carpet

*slaps forehead*

Mulan

We bought a house under construction in 1970 and got to choose all the colors, so I picked a nice pastel pink for the bathroom. Dave picked the paint up on the way to paint the bathroom, and it was brilliant fuschia...................he painted it anyway, thinking it was the color I chose. The paint store made a mistake! He was such a sweetie, painting it for me even though he thought it was horrible..................he had to repaint with the FREE pastel pink.

About 20 years ago, we had to recarpet this house, and I picked a color and stuleI thought would wear well with kids. I absolutely hated it from the first day.................it was a "nothing" brown, mottled high-low style. It neve wore out.................we finally tore it up three years ago, because I couldn't stand it for another minute..............and we refinished the wood floors. I am totally liberated. I love my wood floors. I had to live with that ugly carpet way too long.

GentlyFeral

When my parents bought their first (and only) house, we two girls each had our own room for the first time. We got to choose the color scheme.

I dunno what my sister chose at first, but I went for a very pale, demure yellow with a bold reddish brown gloss trim. "Matador red," I think. If I remember correctly, I began painting the trim myself and never finished it.

After a few weeks my mom approached me and said, "I notice that you're spending very little time in your room these days. I wonder if the colors are bothering you?" It hadn't even occurred to me, but I realized she was right. She asked if she and dad could repaint the room in colors of their choice. So they did: a pale, very pale, pea green with a darker pea green for the woodwork. The panels on the now green door were painted a wonderful dusky rose (hand-mixed by my dad) with gold paint on the beveled bits.

I absolutely loved it and kept it until I moved out.

My sister got burgundy walls and white ceiling with gold trim - it looked very Edwardian-opulent.

gently feral

Getting your house ---- JUST WRONG

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