How do you compromise on decorating a house (paint)?

Question

My husband & I are about to buy a new home. Our current home has different colors--mocha living room, red kitchen, sage dining room. Our 2 girls have whimsical themes. One has purple & green with butterflies hanging from the ceiling & the other has yellow with flowers on the walls. My husband just came back from deployment & hates all the different colors. He said he wants the new house to be all white--no color whatsoever. I feel that color can warm a home. For the girls, it brings out their personalities. Is there any way to compromise on paint? I love the colors. In fact, he helped paint the living room & kitchen. I painted the others by myself. He even said he likes the sage I picked out! Yet, he insists he doesn't want all these colors in the next house. How can we call it a home if we can't even decorate it? I can't stand white walls! Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I just recently bought a home also and the way we compromise on color is to paint the whole house a neutral color like a darker shade of white. Maybe an off white or a light beige. You can paint the base boards and trim white. Also instead having your color just using paint consider using your furniture as color...such as colorful bedding, pillows and accent pieces. Color just doesn't have to be on the wall. I think that if you put colors other places in the home besides on the walls you both will be happy. I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Right now he needs a very calm environment. He's still in emotional turmoil. I'd not start splashing wild colors around for awhile. That's not to say everything needs to be blank white. There are some very rich creams you may be able to agree upon. In the girls rooms maybe the wall with the entry door could be given a color, but not something wild. This way he can walk down the hall, look in and see whites or creams and then the girls could have the color.

In time when he returns to a more stable emotional state, you can once again add color. However strive for an overall color theme for the house, maybe two colors and a neutral third and use this throughout the house.

Answer 3

Perhaps part of it, is his way of telling you he's not looking forward to painting every room in a new house. If you offered to do all the work maybe he wouldn't care what color the walls were. Or you could hire a college student (with experience) to paint for you on weekends relatively cheaply.

As far as compromising, you can do a lot without using really bold colors. Red or dark mocha walls might not be what he wants to see right now. Try some lighter, more soothing tones. Not pastels necessarily, more subdued tones. Blues greens, putties, golds and rich warm neutrals are great colors for men and women. But i would stick to a 50% value or less.

Some colors I would suggest are:
(all sherwin williams, can be found online and matched in your favorite brand)
Recyled Glass (SW 7747)
Sandbar (SW 7547)
August Moon (SW7687)
Aqua-Sphere (SW 7613)
Chop Sticks (SW 7575)

Good luck! And best wishes!

Answer 4

well compromise on the white /sage walls first since he is back from deployment !Since he likes the sage . Let it sink in for a while and after you both have looked at them enough then you can change it to color . Or even Wall paper.
You might be suprised on how you can change a room with decorating items in color to a white washed room !Maybe you can compromise on the girlsroom to be in color and have them pick the color .

Good Luck

Answer 5

Well, in my house "if Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy." If I wanted color, I would definitely have color. I suppose you could just live with the white wall temporarily and then slowly introduce color instead of painting everything at once. That way he can live with one room before you move onto the next. He might notice how bland the white walls are and suggest colors himself.

Answer 6

Compromise - which room you love, like, if you love the sitting room, and he loves the game room, you paint the sitting room, and he paints the game room. but i would talk to him about instead of a plain old white room (I cannot stand white walls, either!!) that he paint it beige or light brown.
good luck on a great home!

Answer 7

Being a painter of 37 years, and a paint contractor the last twelve..i see this dilemea quite often.... i HAVE LEARNED..that the garage and the yards are the mans domain......Let the woman choose the inside decor..exception to the fact..if they have a study or a den that is deemed thier turf..let them do what they want there...

Answer 8

If it rather is his very own place of work then enable him make it his very own "guy room" and beautify in spite of the fact that he needs. My husband and that i've got 4 videogame platforms. on account that we had the gap I stated for him to have his very own "videogame room" which he loves and he chosen a thank you to beautify it himself. it is not an excellent deal and that i discern if he ever desires some area to be on my own or clean his recommendations what greater suitable than for him to sense like he has his very own place to pass and all the boys that have seen it think of it is so cool through fact maximum better halves are so uptight they care greater approximately how their domicile seems than approximately their family individuals unquestionably enjoying it accurately in a "domicile". I even stated for him to place all his action figures he accumulated as a toddler on the partitions or a shelf device for that yet we've not labored on that yet yet while it makes them chuffed to beautify with that kind of stuff who cares. it is your place and you will desire to be waiting to delight in it and do something that makes you chuffed and delicate with it. If human beings do unlike that then i don't think of they're this form of persons i might choose for to ask to my domicile besides.

Answer 9

MAYBE IF YOU DO "SOMETHING" FOR HIM YOU WILL GET YOUR OWN WAY!!!