Which is the most colourful room in your home?

7 years ago

I see thousands of homes on Houzz every week and find it interesting how many of these projects tend to have brighter, more colourful rooms than others.

I'm intrigued to know which is the most colourful room in your home - and why!

Let us know below and feel free to include photos of your own cheery spaces, too.

Kitchen

Living room

Bedroom

Bathroom

Dining Room

Kids' room

Other - let us know!

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ameliaelizabethp

7 years ago

My downstairs stairs loo

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Scandi Interiors
7 years ago
Most frequent used room - so make vibrant.
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Anne Haimes Interiors
7 years ago
The kitchen - reflects the vibrancy of colourful cooking and puts delicious energy into the room!
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Stephen Edwards
7 years ago
Funnily enough my kitchen is probably the least colourful (cream/grey/white), all the other rooms have strong colours on the walls, sitting room is dark purple, bedrooms , one teal blue, one dark green with a dark red dressing room, turquoise shower room, green bathroom, plus a black music room. I assure you it sounds worse than it looks. (well that's my opinion and I have to live with it)
Joanna Biddolph
7 years ago
They are all colourful. But I've tried to stick to advice I read somewhere (perhaps on Houzz) to ensure there is some flow of colour from one room to another so it's not a big shock every time you open a door. I'm still working how to achieve this especially from the sitting room (a vibrant terracotta colour) to the kitchen (red and lime green) as the kitchen colours aren't as they were meant to be.
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Katy Galbraith, Mosaic Artist
7 years ago
we have a really colourful house, all 10 bedrooms. We do B&B, and have been colourful all through the magnolia phase... such a joy for me! Our house is currently on the market, so who bets the next person is going to be going for neutral again? i will put on this link as it show all the colours in the rooms (not just the selling details) ha ha http://www.cclproperty.com/property-details/4108346/perth-and-kinross/crieff/galvelmore-street
Sonia
7 years ago
I have colour in all of my rooms, but I tend to add it in soft furnishings and keep the walls and floors calm and neutral. I'm not keen on brightly coloured walls. My kitchen is probably the most colourful, it has sky blue walls and cream units.
kevnick80
7 years ago
My entrance hall
Ocean Clarke
Original Author
7 years ago
That blue hallway is great @kevnick80!
kevnick80
7 years ago
@ocean Clarke - thank you! We love the bold colour.
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Restoration Services
7 years ago
beautiful colours
Dundrum 16
7 years ago
I generally live in a white box and decorate with art, rugs and furniture
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Strata Alexopoulou
7 years ago
All of them! The whole house was painted white with one accent wall in each room.
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MBH Carpentry and Joinery Ltd.
7 years ago
My bathroom has tango orange on one main wall, widow wall and above the door the other walls and below window are tiled.
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UHA LONDON
7 years ago
Color can lighten up interior spaces.
Ocean Clarke
Original Author
7 years ago
I love the sound of that @Strata Alexopoulou - it sounds like you've got the best of both worlds!
Laraine Clarke
7 years ago
My kitchen/ diner/living room. I wanted this area to be lively because I have a more relaxed sitting room.
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Pamela Langbridge Curtains and Upholstery
7 years ago
My grandchildrens bedrooms have patterned blinds also the living area otherwise all painted white as historical property and listed which can be a pain
wilmet45
7 years ago
My kitchen/ diner living room. I had all the walls painted white when I moved in, intending to change the wall colours later, but I like it just how it is. I have wooden floors and large windows, and pale grey upholstery, so I have added colour with a rug, cushions, artwork and mid- century pottery.
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Agilitee Limited
7 years ago
this is so
User
7 years ago
My living room, but not because of the paint, which is a creamy white, with off white sofas and carpets - it's my wonderful glass collection that provides all the colour I will ever need! It's a nightmare to dust, three hours with white cotton gloves on!! BTW there's even more on those shelves now!,
Ocean Clarke
Original Author
7 years ago
Now that is a collection - wow! Are these pieces you've acquired from different places over time?
moiraford
7 years ago
Wow Carolyn, that is stunning. I too have a glass addiction. I love your collection. Any chance of any more photos? Love it all together like that. Got glass envy now!!!
User
7 years ago
Hi Ocean Clarke ( lovely name!). I started collecting glass in general about five years ago, picking g it up in charity shops, car boots and auctions. One day I found a piece of Whitefriars glass and it knocked all the other glass into a cocked hat! I got rid of most of the other glass and started collecting Whitefriars, the best glass ever made in the UK, in my opinion. It took me roughly three years to put this collection together but it is more difficult to find, so most of it I bought on eBay or through auctions. I found the occasional piece in charity shops, and bought a lot from a retiring collector. I've virtually stopped now due to chronic lack of space but we are moving into a larger home soon and my ambition is to have custom built glass shelving with great lighting and glass doors (dusting this little lot takes three hours wearing white cotton gloves, eeeek)!!! If that happens, fingers crossed, I will post further pictures. BTW! I also collect genie bottles!
User
7 years ago
Hi Moiraford, thank you very much for your compliment. I guess I kind of take my glass for granted - there are others who have huge collections of Whitefriars - I couldn't afford to keep up with them! I. Not sure if I have more photos, I can't take pics right now as I am ashamed to say, I haven't dusted in weeks and they look awful. We are moving in October and I have to pack it all away soon, so I'm saving that horrible job for nearer the time! We have good old 70's shag pile carpet and when that gets vacuumed, the dust settles in clouds! I'm also into genie bottles (see above) and MCM furniture and decorative pieces. I'm so looking forward to moving so that I can display everything properly (no carpets at all in that house,lol). I am a fully qualified collecting nut and I've got several other collections to get rid of, there just isn't room for all of them This is a slightly better photo...
Ocean Clarke
Original Author
7 years ago
That's amazing @carolyn_f_thomas - I would absolutely love to see some more pictures if your new move does result in more space for further glass treasures! ;)
User
7 years ago
Hi Ocean, call me Carol please, only my dear old Mum called me by my full name and only when I was in trouble,lol....I've just had to empty out my garage. Gave it all to a guy who took it away as a job lot. Broke my heart as there was a lot of my earlier glass in there, but now it's gone I feel so much better. Pics to follow eventually

I must change my ID on here, it's far too cumbersome......
Joanna Biddolph
7 years ago
Hi Carol. That's me, too. Joanna when being ticked off by parents; Jo, please, to be used by everyone else. Though I do really love my name and wish I could overcome this childhood association with it.
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7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
I've been Carol since my parents emigrated to Canada in 1957! The Canadians automatically abbreviate everyone's name, my brother went from Richard to Rick and we have both used those names ever since. I'm just getting into HOUZZ, hope to spend more time on here once our house is finished and we move in. Nice to meet you Jo, everyone is so friendly on here and it's full of great ideas and photos.
Joanna Biddolph
7 years ago
I love Houzz. Have learned a lot and while I'm no designer, it has given me permission to be as bold as I want to be. And I am being bold in my new home. I hope you are finding it as helpful as I have and still do. Nice to know you are in Canada; I'm in London (not Ontario, though I have been there - way back in 1975 when I went to see Shakespeare on a rare day off as an au pair). Anyway, back to Houzz stuff ... The colour I wanted to paint my main bedroom is the gorgeous blue in the top left photo of this post. It is the blue of the lagoons in New Zealand. Unfortunately, I lost the plot; forgot about Houzz; tried a million testers and ended up with something much darker. It will look better when I've hung pictures, I keep telling myself ...
User
7 years ago
Sorry, I forgot to tell you we all came back to the UK in 1972! I'm in Plymouth these days and it's the land that time forgot! I'm going with the palest of greys as my main colour, with teal, teak and copper accents. I'm off to bed now, had a mega busy day so I'm goosed! TTFN........
Naima Mohamed
7 years ago
My children room is the most colourful room in my home. because I have two little boys aged 5,2 me and my older son chose a colourful wallpaper together.
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Caldicot Kitchen & Bathroom Centre
7 years ago
My garden!!