Comments on: From Colour to White

By: Carolyn Coote

Carolyn Coote — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:09:48 +0000

I love your use of white. We are yet to do the interior of our house but it will be using a colar called Polar white. We have one green feature wall in the house in the lounge which has a series of leadlights in it but the rest will be white with off whitre ceilings. The outside colurs will refelct enough through the windows.

By: Emira

Emira — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:26:50 +0000

I struggle with this one too! Right now most of the walls in our house are some colour or another, all of which we painted right when we moved in. Now that we’ve been here for a while, and lived with the light, space, etc we’re thinking of repainting. And, I’m half drawn to white for exactly the reasons you quote. That said, my sweetie prefers very bold colours, so it is always a struggle.

I can say, that one of the tricks with white really is finding the right white for a room. I second Holly’s thoughts on the BM decorator’s white, but can also say that in some rooms different whites will read really differently. In our office for example, we wanted a nice soft white and picked some chips we liked, but in the end, in the space we picked one that read on the chip as having a lot of purple in it (not mauve, not lavendar, but actually really purple). In the space, it is exactly what we wanted: soft, a bit of depth but not beige or dirty looking and I would never have chosen it based on the chip alone.

By: Tomoe

Tomoe — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:45:32 +0000

I like white walls, but like you, I’ve been living in places where I haven’t been able to paint and I’m getting desperate for color. If you want to stick with white walls, but want to spice it up a little, how about selecting a white on white brocade wallpaper for your walls? It’ll turn otherwise blah walls into elegant and beautiful walls that’ll add to your room without committing to color.

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:17:49 +0000

All the walls in our home were white but when my husband’s son told us that it looked like a musuem-hey, we had just moved in-I decided to add some color and painted one wall textured ochre and a little wc Provencial blue. I love both of them and am now ready to paint a wall in our bedroom. Haven’t decided on a color yet.

By: decor8 Holly

decor8 Holly — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:42:34 +0000

I’m a lover of white, too.
It doesn’t get ANY better
than Benjamin Moore’s “Decorator’s White” in my opinion. It’s not stark white, but it’s also not greyish or blue or pinky, it’s just dead on beautiful white.

Holly