What colour is your front room?

[**streety**]

I've decorated every room now.  Just the front room to go which is currently a very old and marked magnolia.. urrgh.

 There is a chimney breast that I could make into a feature wall.  I wont be replacing the carpet any time soon, that is a murky green colour.  The furniture is mainly pine and sofas are a natural colour.

The other room with a chimney has now been painted olive green as the feature wall and natural hessian on the rest of the walls just to match the curtains that were already there and a beach scene on the wall in watercolours of green and beige.  However It's turned out well.

Bedrooms are pink (my daughter)  Dark blue and Lime :_| (my son's)  and mine is classic duck egg blue.

The kitchen is an apricot white which is a slight improvement from a discoloured version that alreaday existed.

I've done well havent I for 4 weeks! :^O

So what colour is your front room/living room?  Ideas please

[mandymoosie]

Wow Streety you has been a busy little bee 😄

All of your rooms sound lovely. I expect it's getting to feel like "your" home now that you've been able to put your own touches to it 😄

My living room, at the moment, cos it's soon to change! is a kind of soft yellow wallpaper with a feature of the same wallpaper but with added gold swirls.

I'm wanting to change it too a pink with much deeper pinks in with it, kind of pinkie plumb for the other colour, but pale pink too, if you get what I mean! lol

I'm so glad everything is going well for you :-x

[leoleoleo123]

Sounds like you are settling in street, so hope you are feeling more at home now..

my living room has wooden floors, mid oak furniture and brown suite.. the walls are antique white with the chimney wall made into a feature with a taupe background and white large florals.. I have lime green decorative curtains, I don't pull them as I have blinds,, and a lime green and brown rug... white bookcase/shelving in one recess.. 

[**towery**]

ours is cream

have pictures - prints mainly on the walls

its a largish room,  old-fashioned but we are happy enough with it

[right-then-petal]

white ceiling, white walls, blue carpit.

[stan3502]

In the sitting room we have white walls with the fire place wall in a deep red and a huge black artdeco mirror hanging on it,deep red floor length curtains and a stone carpet.

In the snug (which is really where we spend our time) we have lemon walls with a terracota feature wall with a pale blue 3 piece suite and rug on laminate flooring.................sounds gross but actually makes it a lovely warm relaxing room

[right-then-petal]

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[stan3502]

Popping over now thanks petal 😄

[right-then-petal]

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[ilove2patch]

Magnolia & white walls. Beech furniture & stone carpet. Brown leather chair & sofas. Cream blinds. The colour is in the cushions, pictures & wall hangings so I can change the colour scheme without re painting. I can't repaint anyway as it is a Victorian house with high ceilings & well beyond my capabilities! 

[chickengrandma-2008]

The majority is magnolia I guess, one wall is glass,  one wall has a brick fireplace with terracotta either side, going up 25ft or so and one wall has orange fabric panels. Sounds a bit weird when it's written down.  Looks a bit weird too!:^O

[fishpieface]

I won't be much help Streety 'cos our lounge is a very old, tired and marked apricot colour and needs decorating badly.  Actually it looks as if it's been decorated badly!

We didn't decorate anything when eldest son kept smashing the house to bits as it kept getting spoilt, but now we are doing it up again, bit by bit.  I hope to do the lounge a kind of aqua colour as it will make a change and pick up the aqua colour in our suite.

I hope to do the hall in a kind of seasidey theme.  Hubby doesn't mind what colour we have, he lets me choose colours for everything.  Which probably explains why we have a purple microwave!

[merc1_clocks]

I'm so glad you're settling in streety :-x

We live in a Victorian lodge, so the front room has the original beams, & the stove wall has the original jutty out stones, which I painted white, & the rest of the room is white, otherwise, with the beams it would be very gloomy.

Like Maggie, the colour is in the accessories.

It's not everybody's cup of tea, but I was & am determined to keep it Victorian throughout.

It was built in 1861, & was the Gamekeeper's lodge.

[*elphaba*]

*wants to move it with Merc*

Mine hasn't been decorated in living memory so no help to you, but I just wanted to say how glad I am that is sounds like you are feeling more at home, and making it yours :-x

[lhasa.two]

Streety, you could maybe paint your walls in Dulux "Gardenia". It's a similar tone to magnolia but has less "yellow" in it. Perhaps take the green of your other room and go up a couple of tones on the colour chart for your fireplace wall in the livingroom. Anyway, just thoughts. 🙂

[**streety**]

Lovely to read what you've all got.

At the moment I'm thinking a dusky pinky purple as the feature wall with a dark stone or taupe

but not sure

[captainbovine]

that sounds nice Streety.

Our lounge is done in an ivory on three walls, the window takes up most of the wall. The fireplace wall is a burgundy paper, with a suede effect flower pattern on it. It's lovely if I say so myself!

the carpet is dire, not our choice, it was the previous owners. We'll replace it next year, once we've done the bedroom up.

[kiss*my*pixel]

Ours is a cream colour (I think it's called Dairy Farm, or similar). A variant on Magnolia, anyway! Furniture is also cream (well, a grubby cream, having two teenagers and two cats) but things are livened up with red cushions and other red accessories. I think the designers call it an "accent" colour :^O

Hall is the same, just with different coloured boots and coats!

So pleased to see you're settling in, Streety, and making it your own space. :-x

[fishpieface]

Oh Streety, I love your thoughts on the dusky pinky/mauve colour with taupe - that would look really lovely.  Our previous neighbours did their bedroom like that and it looked stunning.

Creams and beiges are a great main colour in that you can put almost any colour with them to great effect.  We've just decorated our son's room in cream and he has cream and beige duvet/cushions and curtains and beigey coloured furniture with cream doors/drawers.  I must say it looks very grown up and classy and he's delighted with it.  All he needs to do now is remember he has a wardrobe not a floordrobe!

[amandacleggart]

Ours is dark grey. Old pine look gorgeous next to it.

Cos it's dark it gives a warm cosy feel.

Go bold streety.

I think people are too safe with their living room colours. Magnolia ...bleurrgh 😛