[ellenwelsh]

Neutral colors are boring or for houses on the market. Make you home your own. My great room is raspberry red, looks great with my gunstock oak floors and burgandy Persian rugs. Dont be afraid of color, it makes life interesting. Be yourself, don't follow the crowd

[Debfrommaine]

Sherwin Williams Big Chill is a very neutral gray with no brown undertones, looks beautiful on the walls, light and airy.

[Preilly111]

Benjamin Moore Glass slipper color. Did entire house and each room with different lighting made it different in each room. Glass Slipper is great with white baseboards. Good Luck.

[Joe C.]

IMHO, it certainly makes sense to coordinate wall colors with your floors and furniture. But if you have large windows and have a "view", then my preference is to be sure that the interior walls don't clash with the colors in your "view".

[Mamaderby]

Can’t go wrong with gray’s. We did two shades that had a greenish tint... very happy. sherwin Williams Sedate gray and Chatroom.... and woodwork is white

[stargirl]

If there’s any chance you may want to sell it (most do not stay in their original villages home), stay with a neutral color. Gray is the popular color right now and easy to decorate around and feels very cool and serene. You can choose a couple shades off the same color chart but don’t mix and match your colors.

[17362]

Sherwin Williams app. called ColorSnap. I took a picture of the colors in my decorating and matched to their colors available.
It’s quite useful.
Several choices in the app.
You need a smart phone though.

[ohio tim]

Schedule a decorator from Sherwin Williams paint store for a minimum charge. We have used them twice. Were very helpful. They come to your home for an hour and discuss your preferences, furniture, and flooring and offer suggestions. Great process.

[Gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by John_W

In 2008 when my home in Baltimore was exactly ten years old, I repainted all 3 levels. I had originally used a light yellow. That color wore on me after awhile and didn't hold up as well. So I changed the pallet completely, going with a medium blue. With our bamboo wood floors, off white plantation shutters, and white kitchen cabinets, and with the help of some tropical artwork, when folks would visit they say, did I just go to Key West.

In April 2011 we listed the home so we could move to TV, the agent put it into the MLS system at 8pm and the next morning it was shown at 10am. The first viewer, who just happen to be the next manager at the Wegman's Grocery Store a block away, bought our home.

When we purchased our new CYV in Tamarind Grove in 2011, we hired Investment Painters over the phone from Baltimore from reading all the reviews on this site. BTW, I had a 20 page pad filled with contractors names and numbers just by using the 'search' button on this site for six months before moving here. The day after closing, Chris the owner, was at our villa with his crew of four men and I handed him the exact same paint chart I used up north. While his crew was masking and removing the blinds, he went to Sherwin Williams and picked the paint. I have to say it looks just as good as it did nine years ago. I would say think outside the box, earth tones are nice, but to me, they're boring.

Our Baltimore home.





Our Villages villa, I only have this one photo

I love that blue paint color! Do you mind sharing what paint that is?

[ron32162]

Painting all the rooms in a neutral color I like a light grey especially a courtyard villa or patio villa will make the home look larger and not chopped up, bring your color in with the comforter, pillows, and artwork

[Dlbonivich]

Be careful of creams yellows or paints with yellow under tones it tends to get very yellow in the bright Florida sunshine.

[champion6]

Originally Posted by Kilmacowen

I believe Sherwin Williams offers a color consultant free of charge it you purchase the paint from them. I would definitely use them if I were you. A win win! Pick out furniture first as others have suggested.

SW does offer consultant advice. We used it and had a consultant came to our house. She was excellent!

It cost $95 for the home visit and we received a $50 SW gift card. Then we got bids from painters and specified they use SW paint. When we chose the painter, we simply gave him the gift card and he reduced his quote by $50.

Net cost for SW consultant was $45.

[Rsenholzi]

I have a courtyard villa and left it white throughout for 3 years until I decided what I wanted to do. I found it cold and impersonal and definitely not me. I finally painted all the rooms And hallways , except the bedrooms a pale blue lighter than the sky. It suddenly became mine and everyone who walks in comments how beautiful the color is. However, I left the bedrooms/ bathrooms the neutral white, so I can change the bedspreads , curtains , etc to whatever color I want. Holiday/ seasonal spreads and shower curtains look great as a result! You should decorate in your own taste but if you have it in mind to eventually move, I would definitely keep it neutral( grey or beige) and not any bright color. If you do this though you may never feel it’s your own.

[MandoMan]

I looked at hundred of homes in The Villages over many months on Zillow before I found what I wanted and bought it (furniture included). One thing I noticed was that there were a lot of houses with a white or light cream color that were just fine. No trouble. Often they really lightened up the rooms. There were some with rooms in dark colors that looked very nice, such as hunter green or a deep rose. I would have happily moved in without repainting. Then there were houses with rooms with dark colors or pastels that I couldn’t stand. For example, anything purple is unbearable, or a bright green, or a pastel green or blue. Horrors! I didn’t necessarily cross those houses off the list, but I knew that if I bought them I’d have to repaint. So much easier to not repaint. So I would say that it’s good to consider how long you plan to keep the house. If it’s just for five years, say, that special color may prevent a sale, though it might also lead to one.

I agree with those who say get the biggest paint sample you can and try it in different lights. If you are basing it all on, say, professional photos on Zillow or other sites, bear in mind that those photos are taken with extra lighting, and what you will see in person will be much darker. (Also, they are taken with the equivalent of 24 mm very wide angle lenses that make the rooms look MUCH bigger than they really are—or is that bedroom door actually four feet wide?)

I had a girlfriend with a good eye for paint colors, and ten years ago I asked her to choose colors for my bedrooms. I took all of her suggestions because they looked really nice. Thus, one was two colors of dark green, and one was two shades of sort of chocolate milk color. The third was a dark rose and a darker one. I ended up repainting the first two immediately, before I’d even finished. They were nice colors, but the rooms were too dark. So one I painted Irish linen with white trim, and the other I painted a very cheerful yellow, which looks great. I tried the same yellow in the kitchen, but hated it. I ended up with two tones of avocado to go with the solid natural cherry cupboards. Then next to that, a small wall of hunter green mixed with sand. It’s very hard to know.

May I mention that while the very classy furniture in my new house was a major selling point (tan leather, rough chiseled marble and glass, and all the wood pickled), there was a lot of expensive furniture in homes for sale that I couldn’t stand. There was a lot of imitation dark wood and glass China cabinets that I couldn’t stand. People like what people like, but a lot of that expensive Ethan Allen and Raymour and Flanagan stuff does not appeal to everyone. Takes all sorts. Most of the artwork was even more of a turn-off. Not necessarily cheap, but imitation art painted in China a dozen at a time. If you love art museums, you can’t bear that sort of thing.

[Jacob85]

We have never repainted ours but our baseboards are white but appliances are beige and the walls are all beige of all the rooms. Since we tend to be conservative we like this. The ceramic tile is beige and white.