New house - paint color ?'s

meringue57

Good morning everyone -

I'm usually a lurker here b/c we've been house hunting for the past year.  Well, we finally found a house we both agree on and have a signed buy/sell in place, the inspection is done and I'm finalizing our financing.  Phew!

My question:  we've painted our current house with some awesome colors that I love - yellow in the dining room, green in the master bedroom, etc.  Is it lame to just repaint using those colors in the new house?  I'm a little worried that the light might be different in the new house and those colors won't feel the same...but I also want to paint before we move in.

Thoughts?

Thanks, ladies!!!

candreco

We're getting ready to move too, and yeah, I'm definitely tempted to keep some of the same colors.  But I don't "know" the new house, so we'll live with it a while first and we may reuse colors, in the same or different rooms. 

SSM&JLM

If you like the colors, I would say why not.  I would be hesitant if the light in the rooms is a lot different though.

With that, my mom has always loved gray, we've had it all of our houses since I was a kid.

VMRRN23

We're closing on a house in June and repainting the entire interior before move-in. I had a related question on the crafts board, and someone suggested painting white poster board the colors you want, then hanging it in each room so you can see how it looks in various light. 

IMO, if you love the colors and you're not planning on buying a bunch of new furniture, then keep them-but try out samples first just to be sure.  

meringue57

Nice!  Thanks, ladies!  I do still have some paint (for touch ups) so I could totally do the poster board idea.  Awesome!

 

TheyCallMeLiz

I just did this and was very happy with keeping the same colors. Unless you have MAJOR differences in homes with lighting, then you should be fine. One less thing to worry about!

meringue57

Good to hear!

I'm not sure the new house has super different light - the seller's have tons of blinds up, so it appears darker than our current house.  But we keep everything very light, so it could be very similar once we get their curtains down.  We'll see!

TarHeels&Rebels

Unless the new house is situated facing the same direction as your current one with the same trees (or not) in front of windows, the lighting will be different.  Orientation makes a big difference - northern light has blue to it, western light has orange, southern light visually bleaches the color you're looking at, eastern light is yellow.

But other than being realistically prepared to choose similar colors if the exact ones don't work, I think it's fine.  I use the same blue in my laundry room every time we move because I know how it looks in a small laundry room - nothing changes except the shape of the room   My LR walls have been some form of griege in the past 2 houses and probably will be again in the next one.

Knitty

I think that the light makes more difference with paler colours.

TheBridesMom

I think there is more to it than just choosing colors that you like currently and considering the lighting.

Sometimes a house just has a different feel and seems to need to be different, even if just a slightly different shade, than your last house. The things that I was surest about before we moved into this house wound up being the things that didn't work once we lived here a bit. 

I keep saying that when we get our next house I am going to have the whole house primed so that I can start with a blank slate and let the house reveal itself to me and not be swayed by any color that may be there already.