Last painting of house

[BikingLady]

I paint every winter. We decided we will stay in this house....for how long? Anyhow this is the 8th yes 8th time in 8 winters repainting the living/dining and hall. This falls under organization as I said this is the LAST time for sure! I am priming first and then paint. This will be a total of 8 gallons I hope maybe 9 with accent wall. My choice is a non trendy color that will last the years here. I have done every "color of the year" and am so tired of them. Today will be the last 1/3 of priming and I am questioning my sanity!

How often do you paint to change color???

[rosarugosa]

Why so often, BL? We have been in our house for 33 years and the interior has always been all white. We only painted ever few years, even when we smoked in the house. The interior is overdue for a paint job now, but we haven't done any interior painting since 2010.

[sweetana3]

Our house is in a historic district and they make changes so difficult the house will be the same color as long as we own it. It has Hardiplank siding which holds onto paint really well so maybe every 10+ years it might need repainting. I do the trim check and repaint where there is wear but that is it.

I have never heard of anyone repainting every year unless there is something unusual about the area like sea spray that damages wood.

[razz]

I chose a neutral shade in my previous home and never changed it in 24 years. I just remembered that the BR's were brighter colours so as part of the preparation to sell I changed the colours to the neutral. I was highly amused when the purchaser told me that they found the original colour in the closet and chose to repaint the BR's in the same colours as I had. Life is really funny sometimes.

My new house is neutral soft cream/taupe with the BRs a soft grey. I love the grey except in the middle BR facing north and it feels too cold a colour in winter so had it painted a soft coral with a cream bedspread with rose accents. All trim is a soft white. These colours are timeless IMO so won't be changed. I love a soft pink with the grey. One day I might find the perfect colour duvet cover for my bed that is the right pink with grey accents.

[Float On]

I can't imagine moving all the art work and furniture to repaint the interior on a yearly basis. I do want to paint the kitchen/dining. I did it 12 years ago. I redid the hall bath 3 years ago and still have a few things that need to be hung.

[iris lilies]

Good Lord BL! I can see maybe painting one accent wall yearly, but not multiple walls.

I do like color, though, and cheer on those who paint actual colors on their walls, thoughtfully, rather than dwell in bland land. I do enjoy decorating done with a sure hand even if it is not my style.

[catherine]

I agree! I thought my MIL was an aggressive house painter, but you've definitely out-paint her, BL!!

I paint maybe once every 6-7 years. I should paint more often, because DH smokes and even though he only smokes in his home office with an air purifier, it still gets into the main house, unfortunately.

I really love my family room color and if I painted, I'd probably re-paint it the same color. It's "Silver Sage" (Restoration Hardware)--kind of a grayish bluish-green, pale and neutral.

When I went to Taliesan West, Frank Lloyd Wright's Phoenix home, the tour guide said that entryways should be dark and dramatic, leading you into a light, bright living area (She called it retract and release. It wasn't "retract" but something like that). So my hallways are all a dark red pepper color. I love color, too, so while the downstairs is neutral, I have a dark taupe bedroom, an eggshell blue bedroom and a dark grey bedroom. And a Waterford blue bathroom.

I did use the Benjamin Moore color of the year with the blue bedroom (I think it was 2013's color of the year). I was just tired of years of analyzing minute differences in paint chips. Going with specific colors that someone else tested makes it so much easier.

[pinkytoe]

I think we averaged every 5-7 years in the last house on walls. The only accent wall I have ever done is in this house. Our office is one of the bedrooms with a slanted attic roof so the wall behind the desk is a deep blue green color. I still don't know what possessed me to paint that color but I like it.

[nswef]

We had our interior painted 2 years ago and I chose all the same colors, almond in the kitchen, pale yellow in the hall and one bedroom, white in the main bath, blue in the other bath, green dining room and cream living room. Had I been thinking sensibly I'd have done the kitchen, hall and dining room all the same color because we have paint cans galore! The last time we painted was in 1995 .

[SteveinMN]

I painted shortly after I moved into this house in 2003. All one color (mocha/greige; you know the color) except for the master bedroom (almost a cobalt blue). We have since repainted the master bedroom (more neutral color for when we thought we were sellling the house just as the market cratered) and the bedroom that DW has taken over (a shade of green that looked much better to me on the color chip but she likes it). The paint elsewhere is in fine shape but there have been enough wall dings and the like to warrant painting again. So ... once every 15 years or so. I don't even know as I'd change the colors. But I'll bet DW wants to.

[Zoe Girl]

My favorite house painting was in California when we bought a house. I was able to paint it myself which was the best (after that I had a house with high ceilings and didn't paint common areas again). All the colors were nice but not so trendy they couldn't stay the same for 10 years. My favorite colors were
* a peachy paint called skinned knee in the dining room, it was chosen to match the existing wallpaper until I could take down the wallpaper but the color was nice based on how much light the room got.
* green tea for the small office that got a lot of light, it toned it down a little and made it a good place to work
* white for the small living room and all the narrow hallways, I even did the 5 doors that were in the hallway white to make it look more open


Once I did a bedroom black and gold with a deep red trim. Very asian, my daughter loved it. And a major PAIN to cover up when I had to sell the house. So I do not recommend dark colors.

[Chicken lady]

Let’s see, the first three houses we lived in for 6 years or less. The only thing we painted was the room we built in the unfinished basement of the third one.


this house was a gut renovation. I painted everything white. Not white with a name, the white base they use before they add tint.

When we built the porch into dd1’s bedroom 11 years ago, she painted it cream and two shades of blue. It has not been repainted.

When we put windows into two bedrooms after the kids started moving out, we repainted the original white base color. Same for the gut remodel on the upstairs bath.

when we gutted and redid the guest bathroom we tiled halfway up the walls and painted a soft green above them.

With the new addition dh insisted on white with a name.

the exterior we have repainted twice in 15 years. The first time we changed the color from yellow/brown/grey to evergreen/white.

[BikingLady]

All different I see! I finished with 9 gallons total of primer and paint and sore arms and tired back. But hey I did not fall off the ladder as I was painting with brush on yard stick to hit the high point! I am done now as long as I am here except for the accent walls or the kitchen sometimes. I just like change of color that is really why and I have it to an art of how and speed. I did get a sparkle toss in the paint gallon, gives a ever so slight sparkle to the walls and I love it! I even painted the heat grates with a bronze crackle paint, they looks brand new.

I know my neighbor just had her home professionally paint inside first in 22 years and the dilemma of color was so stressful for her......I was thinking heck I would just repaint if I did not like. Paying to have done is so different I understand.

[BikingLady]

Zoe Girl, the covering of dark colors, I hear you! I looked at all the paint sites and the ceilings are all colors. I thought Oh My in a few years when that is out of style think of the repainting!