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Posted by Oren on February 28, 2007, 6:10 pm
>On the TV home improvement shows, seems like everyone hates the wall color
>white and replace it with funky colors like purple, orange or somesuch.
>Funny when a new owner comes in and repaint the existing purple wall with
>green, brown or other bodacious colors. In most cases, the rooms seem dark
>compare to white so you need to add more lighting. I like white as a blank
>canvas as I (more like the wife) could add splashes of colors from my
>furniture, paintings. door and wall trims. Painting walls in bright bold
>colors seem like a sensory overload to me. Doesn't anyone like white
>anymore?
>
In my area the builders paint most all home white inside. It hides
imperfections well. These will show up; more pronounced, in darker
colors. The trend for Realtors in our area is to go with a neutral
earth tones... they seem to term it "beige-EE" (sp).
I lived with white walls in my last house for 10 years. After we
moved across town the wife went to other colors. Some light pastel
colors in two bedrooms and they look great. She faux painted the rest
of the house and since she did the work - I love it.
--
Oren
"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens
constantly."
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Posted by Joseph Meehan on February 28, 2007, 7:55 pm
Jack wrote:
> On the TV home improvement shows, seems like everyone hates the wall
> color white and replace it with funky colors like purple, orange or
> somesuch. Funny when a new owner comes in and repaint the existing
> purple wall with green, brown or other bodacious colors. In most
> cases, the rooms seem dark compare to white so you need to add more
> lighting. I like white as a blank canvas as I (more like the wife)
> could add splashes of colors from my furniture, paintings. door and
> wall trims. Painting walls in bright bold colors seem like a sensory
> overload to me. Doesn't anyone like white anymore?
There is nothing wrong with white. That is the reason every developer
paints all the walls white and why realtors all tell you to paint everything
white if you are selling. People don't "hate" and it makes rooms look a
little larger. Strong colors tend to put off potential buyers, unless they
happen to like the color.
Now once people buy the house, they tend to put their own mark on the
home and that often means using color. So a home improvement show is not
likely to use white as a change because most people already know what white
looks like and consider it a little boring.
--
Joseph Meehan
Dia 's Muire duit
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Posted by Mark Lloyd on February 28, 2007, 7:55 pm
>On the TV home improvement shows, seems like everyone hates the wall color
>white and replace it with funky colors like purple, orange or somesuch.
>Funny when a new owner comes in and repaint the existing purple wall with
>green, brown or other bodacious colors. In most cases, the rooms seem dark
>compare to white so you need to add more lighting. I like white as a blank
>canvas as I (more like the wife) could add splashes of colors from my
>furniture, paintings. door and wall trims. Painting walls in bright bold
>colors seem like a sensory overload to me. Doesn't anyone like white
>anymore?
>
I'd much rather have white than the dirty brownish yellow one room in
this house was painted.
I like the walls white or a light color (NOT light sh*t color) and
have smaller objects for color.
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Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com
"How could you ask be to believe in God when there's
absolutely no evidence that I can see?" -- Jodie Foster
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Posted by Roger Shoaf on February 28, 2007, 8:00 pm
I kind of like white for the outside of a house with a bolder color for the
trim. For the inside I kind of like pastel walls and perhaps a white
ceiling.
Also what looks pretty good is the faux painting.
--
Roger Shoaf
If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent.
> On the TV home improvement shows, seems like everyone hates the wall color
> white and replace it with funky colors like purple, orange or somesuch.
> Funny when a new owner comes in and repaint the existing purple wall with
> green, brown or other bodacious colors. In most cases, the rooms seem dark
> compare to white so you need to add more lighting. I like white as a blank
> canvas as I (more like the wife) could add splashes of colors from my
> furniture, paintings. door and wall trims. Painting walls in bright bold
> colors seem like a sensory overload to me. Doesn't anyone like white
> anymore?
>
>
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Posted by Charlie Bress on February 28, 2007, 8:27 pm
> On the TV home improvement shows, seems like everyone hates the wall color
> white and replace it with funky colors like purple, orange or somesuch.
> Funny when a new owner comes in and repaint the existing purple wall with
> green, brown or other bodacious colors. In most cases, the rooms seem dark
> compare to white so you need to add more lighting. I like white as a blank
> canvas as I (more like the wife) could add splashes of colors from my
> furniture, paintings. door and wall trims. Painting walls in bright bold
> colors seem like a sensory overload to me. Doesn't anyone like white
> anymore?
When we sold our previous house it was white inside.
But we got comments from prospective buyers that our blue carpet would not
go well with their existing living room furniture.
Charlie
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