Do You Know What color is Hot this Year?

How ironic that you should mention dead salmon.  It seems that dead salmon is what my husband is preparing for dinner.  Not the color, of course.  The fish.

Your post made me realize that many, many dining rooms are the colors of french wines.  I had never thought about it.  Mine is moss.  I don't watch enough extreme makeover shows to know better. 

My childhood home had that traditional color theme of the 70's Harvest Gold,  burnt  orange (or whatever they called that color) and  some kind of dirty moss green.  I think everyone had that combination back then too.  

I guess we are all lemmings when it comes to chosing colors. 

 

 

 

Colors come and go.  Retro is bringing back the orange, avocado, and gold of the 70's.  I had a pea soup green on the walls of my living room in the 70's.  It makes me cringe today.  I think there's something to adding a little color for sales purposes but it has to be done right and not necessarily the intense colors that we're seeing.  I've had clients comment that it would take 5 coats of paint to cover that chocolate brown and move to the next house as a result.  The antique white of apartments is not the ticket either.  It has to fit the decor.  My last house sold with burgundy on the living room walls but the wood floors were natural color and beautifully finished.  The room was big and had picture windows on both the front and back of the house making the room very bright.  The darker kitchen was "relaxed khaki" which looked light beige or khaki green depending on the time of day and amount of sunlight.  Again, natural color wood floors and trim with white outlet covers, etc.  It has to fit with the decor around it as well.  And it has to feel bright, not closed in.

"The Lovely Eileen"

Man...I just painted the inside of my house purple...

Do you think that will effect the value if I sell...

Purple is very eye appealing maybe the potential buyers...

Will not notice I just painted my house purple...

And geez it will only take 4 coats of paint to cover it with a nice eye appealing nuetral.

TLW "The Lovely Wife"...Kum La Ka Lakka...ROAR!

Hmmmm dead salmon. I love dead salmon. I make a mean poached dead salmon wrapped in lettuce leaves with spices and mustard underneath. Or of course on bagels!

The color I'm tired of (is it passe yet?) is the chocolate one, light, like the color of cake mix when it's nice and fluffy. The place I am most tired of it? My house!  Eileen you made me laugh out loud when I read your comment about not eating much!

There I go jumping out of that box again. But gosh it feels so could...How can something that feels that good be wrong. LOL See :>

I'm going to make a plum room in my Victorian. . . probably the master bedroom . . . very exotic.  I have to wait a year to get the walls up first!

To be a little bit more serious (though why I don't know), I think people need to pay attention to the texture of their walls and their quality. Some colors will enhance the minor aberrations in the wall and then they are no longer...minor!  Stucco was big here for a while. I think because it covered plaster flaws. Some colors look so polished on a smooth plaster or drywalled wall, and just don't do anything for a stucco'd wall. Have you guys noticed this?  PS: Purple sounds good.  And TLW sounds like she is having a good time at something! LOLOL

Funny thing about color, it works when the furniture is there to compliment the interior (assuming it was nicely done to begin with). When the furnishings are pulled out, the color has a way of slapping you alongside the head, ouch!  I find myself saying, "What were you Thinking?"

At the Parade of homes this year the colors were pale blues and browns.  Of course those aren't the same colors I just redid my home in.

Three months later, I'm already out of style.  Oh well.

Carole, I am pretending to be a seller who just painted her house purple and concerned will the interior affect the sale? DUH. Fun. Oh yes. LOL SEE :>

I know TLW, I'm teasing you lol.  There is a purple (mid range color) victorian for sale in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood. Somehow I think Victorian's can get away with color, don't you? It's a very pretty home.  Do you guys remember the aqua blue color that was so popular for exteriors? I don't know when but there are still remnants of them. I actually had a floor call on one once, we went to see it and they wrote an offer on it the next day. As a matter of fact, the entire interior was a similar shade of blue. It amazed me but they loved it. Eileen my color oddly enough is 'grape' lolol.  Did you mean red lipstick or those red lip pillows that were popular a few years ago????

"The Lovlies"

Carole, Eileen and Friends:

Glad you caught it. My humor sometimes escapes people. I can be eccentric...That's a good word. Eileen will approve of that word in relation to my humor!

Yes on the Victorians...Aqua Blue? Oh yes...

The home we live in now was a little aqua...Painted it! Yuck...On the aqua!

Ladies my kitchen is RED...RED...More RED...Lots of RED! I like it! Red trimmed Bay windows overlooking a lake.

May have to one day re-paint...That should be fun...Trying to cover up my RED! LOL SEE :>

TLW "The Lovely Wife"...Kum La Ka Lakka...ROAR!

I did a blog on covering up the bold colors.  It actually takes more paint to cover light colors with bold because the base of the bold is translucent.  The base of pastels are opaque.  As a result the bold may be covered with one coat of a pastel whereas covering the pastel with a bold definitely requires 2 if not 3 coats.  I learned this because of my wine,burgundy,cranberry living room taking 3 coats over a pastel!  This insight came straight from the friendly Sherwin Williams guy.

That is a great tip...Boy am I relieved...Less work for me! When I did the RED...4 coats over eggshell!

Lipstick is a whole different issue.  At least with paint the color doesn't react chemically with the wall and change when applied.  I don't wear lipstick because it changes colors on my lips.  I've tried undercoats, etc., with no luck.  Au natural is easier anyway!

I have often wondered who comes up with all those paint names?  Chestertown Buff, Branchport Brown, Shenandoah Taupe, Mayonnaise, Copley Gray & White Ice  I'd go nuts coming up with names for 50 shades of off white!!  

So I end up with Peach!