Escaping from Neutrality
Our house was built in 1961. By 2000 it had been lived in by numerous small children and pets of varying sizes who had abused the walls and carpeting to the point where my daughter was embarrassed to invite her friends over.
At that point, we pulled up the carpet, gutted the kitchen and much of the house, and pushed out the back of the house to create a large family room and deck. For lack of inspiration, we painted everything “Natural Echo”, a vaguely off-white color. It is still boringly neutral with streaks of wear that mean it’s time to paint.
This weekend a friend is sharing an interior decorator with us, who will look at our house and give us color recommendations. I’ve seen the results of his work and he is indeed creative.
Hopefully Jerry will give us the courage to add bold color here and there, subtle color elsewhere, and leave a hint of neutrality where appropriate. I’m already wondering just what shades he will recommend. Whatever they are, they will be an improvement over a whole house of Natural Echo!
posted by Barbara at 5:05 PM
13 Comments:
It will be interesting to see what he recommends. I think it's very inviting the way it is. So much light and simplicity. Looks relaxing!
I can't wait to see what he recommends.
I'm trying to decide what color to paint my family room walls- which are currently boticelli red and my bedroom walls- which are currently deep persimmon.
Hmm, what about Natural Echo for a change?
Dear B,
FYI, I wrote and seemed to post a comment to your posting of 2 days ago, and again earlier today to this one, but neither appeared!Hope this one sticks!
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I really like white because it feels so clean and pure and the neutrality of it is very relaxing. But I'm actually a color person at heart and I'm having a lot of fun with that these days.
Most of your furnishings are relatively neutral so I think your walls would look excellent in any number of color combinations. It will be exciting to see what your decorator comes up with!
Sorry but I'm leaving another comment simply to announce that the word verification for this comment is "gunkful" which reminds me of used paintbrushes. Well that's sort of relevant, right?
Wow, your house is great looking right now. Very open and airy. Hi Jake! I'm sure it will look really cool with some color here and there.
Since I am thinking about windows and light these days I couldn't help but notice the wonderful light in these rooms. The Natural Echo color (how did they come up with that name) looks good to me as well but I can well imagine wanting to shake things up every once in a while.
Oh, Barbara, what fun! When I bought the condo in Virgina I used color throughout because I had lived so many years with white/off white walls. We had always thought that with so much art work to hang we could not use color.
I loved what I did in the condo: the greens, the pale yellow with the midnight blue accent wall. I have done similar things in my home in Arizona and am thrilled with the way it looks. The artwork feels less show-cased and the warmth and cheer I feel in each room is why I will never live without color on the walls.
I live in a house full of colour... yellow living room, brighter yellow dining room, green kitchen, cyclamine pink bedroom etc etc.... your house looks calming and very enticing for where I'm sitting!
I think your house is beautiful but the prospect of more color is fun.
it looks like such a calm and lovely space. look forward to seeing the colourful version! x
I look forward to seeing what happens here!
like Lacochran I think your house looks serene. I could nap in there or snuggle up with a book.
I'm all for bold colors, my weekend house has has one wall of deep blue and a cherry red study that everyone likes to sit in. I'm wondering what color to paint the kitchen and living room as they need freshening up.
but my full time house is almost all white-- and I like that too-- I like to paint and it's always a fun project to choose colors--
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