What colour is your sitting room/lounge/front room/living room ?

[RedRider]

White with 'Dead Salmon' on one wall.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Dulux Snowfall on 3 sides and Mother Nature's Trees & Mountains on the other.

 

[Dave 123]

Inherited magnolia...
My kitchen on the other hand, big old lime green splashback. Photo to follow later.

So the photo did come later..... That kitchen is a few bikes worth......!

 

[swee'pea99]

Somewhere between a brick red and a salmon pink. I like the look of yours, tho' I have to say it doesn't look very orange on this monitor - more red/pink than orange. But yes, bold colours good, magnolia bad. The really tragic thing about ours, now that I've been for a peak, is just how grubby the white looks. I suppose come to think of it it is about 15+ years since we did it...

 

[Sods_Laur]

Asbo green, dead salmon...

Love these descriptive names

I had to get away from magnolia, I couldn't do it any more. I couldn't even put pictures up in our old place

 

[screenman]

One wall is Tangerine, the other 3 some kind of yellow, I decorate the wife does the choosing.

 

[Over The Hill]

I like bold colours and having lived in rented accommodation since I left home, I was determined we'd paint the new house with amazing colours. So I present our orange sitting room. It looks even more orange in the flesh. My family think I'm mad but everyone who's actually been round thinks it's great (they could be just being polite I suppose). So has anyone else gone for similarly mad colours somewhere in their house?

It looks really good with the fireplace and picture rail above. House seems the type that will take some bold colour.
My house is a converted chapel with mostly stained glass windows, so we get lots of coloured light coming in. I think we are mostly moss green and fieldmouse at the moment but have a bold period style wallpaper.


I have taken about a month and gone through about 10 paint ranges plus Dulux professional colour range (about 2000 colours) and six matchpots and are still having trouble sorting out the colour to paint the woodwork on the outside.

 

[Sods_Laur]

I love that wallpaper! Wow. I did think about some William Morris-esqe stuff somewhere in the house instead of paint. I thought paint would be dead easy, how little I knew!!!! I hope you find the right colour for the woodwork

It's a victorian house with those lovely minton tiles in the hallway so the orange I think goes well with it.

This is the only room that is remotely finished though.

 

[Salad Dodger]

Over the years, we have had so many "disasters" with colour choices, that Mrs Salad and I have decided we are just cr*p at choosing colours. Several were painited over literally the next day, so bad did they look.....

So when we were getting ready to move house, we painted nearly everywhere magnolia. Only exception was the kitchen, which was a very light blue to complement the floor and tiles. We left that alone.

The place we moved into is now referred to as the "Magnolia Palace", because it's now all magnolia. But it's great - just keep 2 tins of paint - one matt and one silk - and you can cover any mishaps, like finger marks or food splashes or accidental bashes to the wall.....

 

[mcshroom]

Three walls magnolia, the fourth is a sort of faded aubergine colour which works better than it sounds. I haven't changed it since I moved in last year.

Oh, and pic: -

(Taken just after finishing the floor at Easter to explain the palm cross)

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Ours are a deep red.

(this was in the process of painting a few years back and before the bookshelves were added and the whole place covered with toys...)

 

[User10119]

Mostly purple, with 13 year's worth of bonus mucky marks and huge damp bits.

Since me and the ex split, going on three years ago, a frankly astonishing number of people have offered to come to the Den and paint out the purple. I had no idea that _so_ many people didn't like it. However I have a new policy that I will not paint over damp again (which is why there's no longer a bucket that I hadn't even know about in the loft to catch the drips and the roof has been fixed, and the pointing on the back wall has been done, and the faulty windows replaced, and there's a new boiler that Actually Works Properly) so first I need to get the failed dpc fixed and the replastering done. When I can afford that!

 

[Saluki]

We have tiny rooms so it's 'antique cream' all the way. My bathroom ceiling is blue with fluffy white clouds painted on it. We have mad coloured furniture though, in fact we are bored with the current mad colours so going to dye the sofa covers a nice deep purple.

 

[PaulB]

Purple, with dazzling red zig-zagging flashes. Oh wait, that's a migraine in the post with an aura stamp in the top left-right-left hand corner.

 

[Sods_Laur]

Over the years, we have had so many "disasters" with colour choices, that Mrs Salad and I have decided we are just cr*p at choosing colours. Several were painited over literally the next day, so bad did they look.....

To be fair, I think paints can deviate dramatically from the colour it says they're going to be. And sample pots are so tiny you may as well not bother.