Paint colors

carrotsoup70

So I just finished refinishing my vanity. I changed it from boring oak to a charcoal gray. I love the way it looks and plan on painting the bathroom a very light gray. Then I got to thinking...if I keep on this painting kick, every room in our house will be a different color. We have an open concept living space where the kitchen, family room and eating area are all open to each other. The kitchen is green and there is a navy blue accent wall in the family room. All of the other walls in this area are still "builder white" but every other room in our house is a different color.  None of them are loud colors and all of them are in the blue or green family. Is this weird? How many different colors do you have in your house? I have 9 if you count the builder white.

tarebear9891

Every room is different. Rooms are all in shades of blue, grey, or yellow.

Prime

We have 8 different colors.

grey, reds, blues, tan, green, orange

Mrs.Rose

We have 7 if you count the insides of the closets (the only thing left in the "builder" color) and the ceiling in the bathroom (blue).  Brown, two different tans, grey, white, blue ceiling in master and the builder white still in two closets.  

Kaydfry2411

I have 7 rooms in my house and the are all different colors.

keags5496

We're all different colors too but they coordinate. Someone once told me to imagine taking the roof of your house off and looking in from above? Would it coordinate? If so, then you're good.

carrotsoup70

Thanks everyone! I thought that I might be creating a patchwork house. All of my colors coordinate so I think that we're good. Next stop...Home Depot.

numeria11

I think it's fine to do different colors but make sure they flow well together especially if they are all on the main floor (I would say I generally exclude bedrooms from that comment). 

Our house is an example of what you don't want to happen.  When we started renting the house the kitchen, family room and dining room which all open into each other were three different colors the hallway leading to the bathroom and living room was another color.  Both the bathrooms were different colors and the livingroom was yet another color with the wall the stairs are one to the upstairs yet another color.  It was flipping insane.  None of the colors flowed or were even in the same family.   We had when we moved in a urine yellow kitchen, sage green dining room, beige family room, off white hallway, orangey beige living room,  sunshine yellow bathroom, a slate blue bathroom and a barn red office off our entryway.  

We've redone the entire downstairs similar shades of blue, the kitchen and dining area are similar shades of Aqua (one shade different on the paint card samples) with the beige family room and hallway as the breaking point between colors.    Upstairs was all builder's white.  We've done stripes in DD's room of the blues and aquas from downstairs with some yellows thrown in to brighten it up.  Our room will be either light grey or blue as well and the bath upstairs will be the same color as the one downstairs.   It feels much calmer and flows much better now, each room still has it's own personality but it's not so jarring between rooms. 

Prime

keags5496:

We're all different colors too but they coordinate. Someone once told me to imagine taking the roof of your house off and looking in from above? Would it coordinate? If so, then you're good.

My wife had a 'pillow of inspiration' that has all these different colors on it.  That is what she initially used to paint the common areas.  She figured the pillows would tie it all together.  It was a great plan until the dog ripped up the pillows.

rachael_c26

We have 10.

But Cu's nursery takes up four (each wall is a different color).

The bathroom is a green (and white) and the same green can be found in our kitchen.

Our bedroom is a blue and there are hints of the same blue in the kitchen.

Half of the living room (the walls that are seen when you walk in the front door) are an eggplant gray (named by me) and the other walls in the living room are a khaki color.

Our hallway is gray.

And there's white in random spots... including some trim work.

hmp1

3. We have an open concept too so our family room, kitchen, breakfast are all the same light tan color. Our bedroom is kind of a mint color. The rest of the house is white. I like the white walls look so I'm not in a hurry to paint. Our half bath has wallpaper, if that counts.

7 in our first house. We did the same color just different shades in the entry, formal living/dining, and family room since they were all open. The kitchen breakfast was wallpaper. Hall and bathrooms were white. We painted our master a similar color as the family room but it was a little different. Later, we used that same color in the nursery but did a wide stripe towards the top in yellow. We used that same yellow to paint the 3rd bedroom that was our office/playroom. And my laundry room was lilac.