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Depends if more open floor plan or traditional separate rooms or older housing stock. I prefer traditional layouts with different color schemes in each room
For context:
Living room: off white walls, whiter ceiling color, charcoal accent wall
Kitchen (which you see directly in the living room): Medium gray, white cabinets with gold hardware (husband wants cabinets painted a darker color), greenish backsplash
Dining room (which is through a door behind the kitchen: white ceilings with a baby blue color (husband picked this out on his own)
Basement is the same color as the living room
Bathrooms are the baby blue color
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You sound spot on to me with current trends. Not sure about the baby blue, unless it’s something very small. My wife is swapping our hardware to gold, white walls, charcoal accent. She wanted to paint our hickory cabinets white and she’s probably right 🥲 It’s a timber frame cabin with a rustic kitchen, hickory cabinets with cement counters. I think it’s more painful when you build the place and it needs a redo later.
We kept the same color scheme (a light bluish gray as the main and accents in a dark blue) across our entire downstairs.
We used a different color in our children’s a bedrooms but kept that a light gray to easily change their decor whenever. Our room we’ll likely do something different but not wildly different. I personally prefer to get most of the color in from the decor.
I still use my Benjamin Moore fan deck cards! lol.
I choose colors that have different color bases that change with amount of light in spaces.
For instance, my gray paint has a bit of blue in it. The floors that the landlord used throughout has a “red/pink” (warm) undertones to the dark brown wood tones. After painting I found decor that “tones down” and tames the warm to cool it down. The gray is also used in another rooms wall but because the mirroring room has black hardware, white with cool undertones-it looks like a a true gray. I did add warmer decor to warm the space up by using a rug with cream base gray pattern-and my sideboard wood has warmer dark wood tops. I hope this makes sense….
So I like using colors that have “tones”. Easier for touch ups and less costly as well as takes up less space in garage.
Color theory and lighting is really a thing.
Colors that all complement each other work best. Go to Pinterest and type in “whole house paint colors”. All one color screams apartment or rental. It’s not as scary as you think right now. Just an example of what you might see there. Work together on picking stuff you both agree on so you guys make a happy home.