Anyone Interested?

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by Janet

The first two pics are of my bedroom. I'm wanting something different with the walls, like maybe a soft yellow, that way I can still use my blue accessories.

The junk in my living room is stuff I'm getting ready for a sale. Needs taken to the garage, but haven't done it yet. We never use this room

Janet, I was trying to come up with a color palette that would work well with your blue accessories. I found this website: http://www.behr.com/behrx/workbook/
It allows you to select your blue as an accent color and offers color palettes that you can choose from. I picked a blue similiar to yours and it came up with about 8 different palettes.

If you visit a Sherwin Williams store, Home Depot's paint department, or any other major paint manufacturer's store or website, they have sample palettes and offer color coordinating assistance. Sherwin Williams helped me with the palette for our home. I fine tuned it because I wanted more tranquil colors, where they wanted us to use bolder ones, but their suggestions helped a lot!!

Bottomline, you need to feel good in the color that surrounds you. Wishing you much success with your redecorating efforts!!!

[Tink]

Marilyn said:

Bottomline, you need to feel good in the color that surrounds you.

Which I think is one of the truest statements there is in decorating.
If you look in your closet and pick your favorite outfits, you'll see what you lean toward and what looks best on you. You want to feel that same way about your home. With my skin tone I look terrible in orange, and turn green in lime greens. For that very reason you will never find either in my home.

Well said Marilyn!

[Chandra Amaya]

Toodles I love your home. I love the earthy feel to your colors and the fireplace is beautiful. It is very close to what I want someday. For now most of my decor is from the dollar store . Someday we hope to make it look much more elegant. Good luck on finding your new place.

[Janet]

Thank you Marilyn for the web-site. I played with it a little while and I really like it. I saved it in my favorites. It will take some time, but I'll get it done. I usually have to do everything myself, so maybe this summer or fall I can get it done.

I didn't show my bathrooms, one, I'm pleased with, but the other is horrible. I won't be able to do anything with it really unless I change the tub, toilet and sinks. When we first built the house, harvest gold was 'the thing.' Now it makes me sick just to go in there. I would love to get that changed too and hopefully sometime I will be able to.

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by Janet

When we first built the house, harvest gold was 'the thing.' Now it makes me sick just to go in there. I would love to get that changed too and hopefully sometime I will be able to.

When we first married, we lived in apartments, a rent house, then we bought our mobile home. We lived in our trailer for 3 or 4 years while we built our first dream home. That house had a lot of sweat equity. For colors, the toilet, tub, counter tops, sinks, kitchen appliances, Formica in kitchen, floor coverings, wall paper in bathroom were all HARVEST GOLD. I thought it was such a beautiful color. Our first appartment had been harvest gold & my sister's kitchen appliances were harvest gold. Carpet in master was gold, one bedroom was green, other and living were rust. We were so proud of our first home. In a couple of years, I realized what a mistake we had made. Harvest Gold had been in style for quite a while, and was going out . If we'd stayed in that house, we'd have had a lot of expensive things to replace. Now I know better. More permanent fixtures are neutral colors or stainless steel now. I so understand.

[toodles]

Originally Posted by Chandra Amaya

Toodles I love your home. I love the earthy feel to your colors and the fireplace is beautiful. It is very close to what I want someday. For now most of my decor is from the dollar store . Someday we hope to make it look much more elegant. Good luck on finding your new place.

thank you...I appreciate the compliments. I personally love my home. I will miss it when we move...whenever that might be But I am sure I will feel the same about the next one only I will be able to raise my danes there so it will have a new special feel about it