In what colors is your house decorated in? Your room?

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This I would not have expected.

Every room in my house is a different color - blues, lavender, almond, greens, even a salmon colored room. The salmon color irritates me and one of the blues. THe rest are ok. The floor is dark hardwood and the few rugs are jewel toned, all solid except one with stripes. Patterns, like in oriental rugs are tricky because they don't let the eye rest and appear, to me, to jiggle.

Cream.

Our house interior is off-white tones, with tan/beige carpets, off-white tan tile floors, and light oak woodwork. In the kitchen, we have wall murals (painted by a talented friend of my wife's), which are images of family heritage; a ranch scene from a family photo, and a building in Texas which was the beginning of a successful family venture. The rest of the house interior, we have repainted in very light off-white tones, with either a beige or tan tint. They were all very dark, depressing colors such as darker gold and yellowish brown tans. The kitchen had a very expensive, but dark "faux" paint job, which looked like an Italian building with cracking plaster and exposed bricks. Like you see in restaurants, but done very well. Just not our idea of pleasant decor.

The front doors to the house are UGLY deep-carved gothic design, which were painted over sloppily with white paint by the previous homeowners. I have a wild & crazy idea to veneer them with stainless steel, and make them look like vault doors with huge rusty bolt heads. I'm not kidding, but I'm not so good at describing what I mean exactly. If I do it, I'll put up a photo. I'm not going to spend time or money to strip the horrible paint job off them, and we don't want to spend $5000 for new doors. I'll do something to them; just not sure what yet.

Charles

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The room I share with my little sister is 50's Pink..My sister chose it.

I like earthy cool colors. My walls in my living areas are a taupey color. My bedroom, is a deep blue green. My home is the one place I feel somewhat calm. My floors are the one thing I would like to change...beige tile floors, & ugly beige carpets (stained, even though I had them cleaned before I moved in...the stains didn't come out). I prefer wood floors, but they're expensive & I don't have the money.

White. My bedroom used to be my dad´s office.

My parents like the most boring colors, especially, like brown, so most of the house is in those colors.

I was fortunate enough to convince them to let me use purple.

dirty white

A lot of dark blue.

Right now my living room is dark blue walls, light blue wainscoting (it's watered down white paint with just a table spoon or two of the dark blue). The baseboards are the same color as the wainscoting. At one time, the wainscoting was the ugliest paneling, different shades of brown.
Whoever had the house before me had a thing for paneling because my kitchen has the ugliest paneling on the walls (I hate paneling). The cabinets are partially painted white. The drywall is light blue.
The only thing uglier than the kitchen paneling is the paneling in the bathroom. It's vomitrocious.
One bedroom is light green. The baseboards are dingy white.
The ceiling is popcorn white with light green symbols I painted in a random pattern when I was twelve.
Bedroom two is white with well spaced multicolored stripes. There's a wall paper strip atop the stripes, blue with drums and stars. The baseboards are yolky yellow.
My plan is to paint everything the same shade of white so it will look pristeen with no slopiness. Every room in the house, ceilings and all, will be the same shade of white, along with cabinets, paneling, drywalls, windowsills, baseboards (I plan to go glossy on baseboards, doorframes and windowsills, but it will be the same shade as the walls).
The ceilings are tacky popcorn texture.
After I do that, I am going to install cheap laminent flooring on every inch of the slab except the garage, except my shoebox sized bathroom, which I will be experimenting with marble tiles (it shouldn't cost too much because the floor space is so small while the tiles are rather roomy).
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