I’m with you, sister! We are moving to a smaller home with thick woodwork separating each room, from a shades of beige larger house. Each room in the small house is a different vibrant color-pear yellow kitchen, kiwi green dining room, terracotta living room, Hawaii blue office, sandy pink bathroom, deep green bedroom, chocolate guest room. The sun room when finished will be white with olive and faded rose accents. I couldn’t be happier.

Couldn’t agree more. Our house was a shades of off-white and brown when we moved in. It felt slightly oppressive, as if there had been a lot of gloom and unhappiness there.
I took courage and gradually added colour to the walls. Now every room is different, painted with a rich colour. The house is vibrant and welcoming. My daughter’s friends enjoy coming here because they find it relaxing. (Of course the fact that it isn’t always very tidy helps with that too!)
I just need to slow down and take a look more often, remind myself how much I love it.

I totally agree! My kitchen was horribly dark and dreay when we bought this house but it is now BRIGHT yellow (my husband tried to talk me down but I told him he could comment on any other room in the house but this room is MINE) with a sunflower border around the top. I have wild plans for the cabinets too.

I agreee! If someone walks into your kitchen and says WOW, I LOVE IT!!! OR WOW, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING???… Then you have a successful design and way to go to you!!! Statements are fun, bring life into a home, conversation pieces and trend setters.
Non of this… Oh, your kitchen is pretty or nice job… You want a splash of excitement. Friends telling friends… “wow did you see that kitchen?”
Not only that, but when you look at color it is like looking outside and seeing a cloudy day and feeling hood…hum or walking outside and it is the perfect temp., beautiful day and energizes your soul. Color can affect your mood and energy levels. I choose color to start my day out with my cup of tea in your kitchen.
Fantastic job!!!

I NEED TO WORK HARD,GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF BUYING,TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION MY FINANCES,MY CREDIT SCORE,MY KIND OF JOB TO QUALIFY
AND ALL THE NECESSARY SCORES TO OWN A HOUSE AS BEAUTIFUL AS DESCRIBED
IN THIS ARTICLE.FOR NOW,I AM JOB HUNTING,TO ACCOMPLISH FIRST THINGS
FIRST BEFORE BUYING,THE REAL ESTATE HOMES WERE SOO OVERWHELMING,THE PICTURES AND DESCRIPTIONS ARE LOVABLE,BUT THEY SERVE AS MY INSPIRATION
TO WORK HARDER THAT SOMEDAY,I WILL BE QUALIFIED TO OWN ONE.TODAY,IT
IS JUST A DREAM HOUSE,THE REAL DREAM IS A DREAM HOME FULL OF LOVE AND PEACE,A HOME SWEET HOME.

Apple green, blue and white sounds beautiful and uplifting!
I went to the store one day, looked at paint colors and came home with a color called sea foam green. Painted a wall the entire length of the house–it was great!

i choose the color white with a splash of red ona back wall, trimming and borders but that apple green of yours sure does sound like a great idea maybe i’ll try that color in another one of my favorite rooms

My kitchen walls are bright sweet juicy in the summer orange. I love it. But I’m sure my book club members were asking “did you see her kitchen?” when they left my house. My kids bathroom is red and the laundry room is seafoam green. I still trying to convince my husband to paint the other rooms. I think he’s had enough:)

My kitchen walls are beige, but I painted the ceiling bright, sunflower yellow! It really helps brighten up the place during our long, grey Michigan winters! Everyone liked it except one sister, the family rebel, who could’nt handle anything other than traditional white.

Good for you! I have all white appliances, a quartz countertop in beige background with brown, white and black accents and a hardrock maple top for my island. My cabinets are cherry with chocolate accents in the wood. My tile backsplash is a non-shiney glazed tile with a wavy feature strip accent in the same non-shiney beige color.
Since this is a remodel, I’ve removed the gruesome dark cabinets and nasty flooring. The neutral beige, white and chocolate brighten that dungeon. I still have nasty wall paper (try 2 layers) to remove. Then comes the patching and the priming of the walls. I probably will stay in the beige family for the color of the walls and ceiling.
With this neutral palate, I have the wildest teapots, S&P shakers and other collected goodies to display in glass fronted cabinets, on shelves, and nailed to the walls.

My living room is bright red and my kitchen is a bright yellow.
I love it and so does my family the halls are a tan color. but that is
to match the fire place in the living room. There is a picture of it at my, myspace place. you can check it out at least the living room. I love color, If God did not want us to use them there wouldn’t be so many of them.

As an artist and a designer, I have noticed that most non-colourblind people react strongly to colour, albeit a few consciously register that they do. And colour is a powerful tool to make or break a mood of anyone in a particulaar room.
I love the sound of fresh colours and lively design.
And when I buy my own home (I rent an apartment, so it doesn’t make much sense to truly invest into big-time decoration changes), you bet I’m gonna pay as much attention and love to the colour scheme as humanly possible.

my kitchen is a muted butter yellow, tartan plaid curtain valance of teal, dk green, grey, black, and gold, very masculine, very colorful The cupboards are oak, in a red mahogany color stain, ceiling is tin, with buttercream color like walls, had central asian zig zag “key” design, the bedroom is miltary green walls, living room dark green-black color, sunroom – jade green, bathroom heliotrope-purple, on painted wall white tile below, with trim of black/purple along border, dining room teal blue it actually glows! these are the coolest colors hallway is grey above slate below oak trim back door area matches that as well. All in all very colorful and I love it! It is a gift to my ex and his son, as parting project, they enjoy the brightness. bless the world with color!

on my just posted comment all my colors were hand mixed so they do not look PERFECT there are idiosyncracies to all … will be living in an apt soon, so this fix does help me as i will have lots of color on walls in terms of Buddhist thangkas to help allay the white!
love to all that discover color it is so healing as an artist i know it’s power too well!

I always applaud those who embrace what they love. At the same time, many homeowners are afraid of making a color mistake. And when it’s an expensive remodel, I can certainly understand why.
My advice for those who are cautious about color is to keep the hard fixtures neutral (countertops, cabinets, things that are difficult and/or pricey to replace) and take a chance on accessories or walls. It’s a curtain, and a can of paint: what’s the worst that could happen?
Sample your color first. A large expanse of it can look vastly different than it does on a little chip at the paint store. At the same time, realize that if your walls are currently white or off-white, anything you test over them is going to appear bold at first, just by comparison.
On my consulting projects, Sherwin-Williams 6328 Fireweed has been a popular kitchen choice. But I think a bright turquoise kitchen could be a refreshing alternative; warm it up with dashes of yellow, red or orange towels.

All dressed up to make a classic, elegant impact is a perfect description for this same space in a decidedly different color palette. Here, the sun shines with light, bright shades of yellow and variations of ivory, chosen from distinct colors in the room’s central painting, which is flanked by mirrored sconces.

Good decorators know that certain colors energize, Sun yellow, flaming red and verdant green all enliven and bring vitality to a space. Other shades impart a feeling of rest, relaxation and calm. These hues, softer and more visually peaceful than more vivid tones, make popular choices for bedroom, bathroom and living room areas. Paint your walls in one or more color options to bring a sense of tranquil fulfillment to your home time. Claire Plaister, writer and Feng Shui practitioner, writes that “color therapists generally use green to reduce stress, ease headaches, migraines and gastric ulcers or balance mood swings.

I am not a decorator, but I love color. I dd start college with the intent on becoming one, however; the cost was just too much for me to afford to continue. I have watched a lot of shows that have to do with Home Interior Design and I have to tell you, if they suggest covering up bold colors I turn the show off. How is a person supppose to put any of their personality into a home without color? I understand you can throw in pillows and things to put in a splash of color, but I love color on my walls.
For instance, when remodeling my kitchen years ago I decided I loed red so we put in re counter tops. Bold? Yes. Do they look bad? No, not at all. We put up a white and black back splash. The majority of it is while with a black diamond tile thrown in the middle ot four tiles. The wallpaper was not changed, but was green to begin with, and I painted my cabinets with a seafoam green to tie in mmy old hoosier cabinet that I have. We had to do this cheaply so we build almost all of our cabinets. However, I did not paint the front panels as they were made out of oak and filled with lead glass fronts we had made for them. All I did was stain the oak golden and varnish the trim around the leaded glass. My son hated it at first, but a year or so later he made the comment “I really like the way you did youcabinet fronts” Then we laid real genuine golden oak hardwood floors and bought black appliances for the kitchen. I bought a coke round table with four red chairs and made coke curtains for the windows. The bar stools are also a matching red to the cahirs. The valance is red with black bottles and white words “coca cola”. The cutains are white with the words coca cola in black. Does my kitchen look busy? Maybe to somebody who is not use to it, but I love it!
That is just my kitchen. It would take me all day to tell you all of the other room schemes that I have put together in other rooms. Use color if you makes happy. These are words I live by.