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Quoted: Grey is a neutral tone and that's why it's used in construction especially. View Quote Yeah. I was told it was easier for buyers to imagine their stuff in a neutral house. And then nobody changes it. My house was almost all beige. We have a cobalt blue library now, burgundy dining room, etc. I like colors. A lot of our friends are like "oh, I love these but I could never be so brave to do that in my house" and they leave theirs beige. It's freaking paint. It takes a couple hours and 60 bucks to change. |
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Quoted: I hate that. A few months after I bought my house, I realized all the cabinetry and the island in my kitchen are solid oak. They painted it all white and grey. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I just bought a house that the PO painted all of it inside grey. Place is a cave. Just got done painting it an off white. Motherfucker painted all the mahogany trim white. I hate that. A few months after I bought my house, I realized all the cabinetry and the island in my kitchen are solid oak. They painted it all white and grey. Ok boomer lol. Dark wood is 70s and ugly as fuck. White trim on white or grey walls just make everything look more clean and rooms larger. |
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Any designer who wants you to have White cabinets should be fired.
Also bleached gray floors .... Ugh I get why realtors want it... White is a blank canvas that the buyers can make what ever they want... |
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All my recent flip houses have been light grey walls with white trim and cabinets
Counters are a white/grey granite swirl Stainless appliances Natural oak floors (if I'm using real wood) or grey vinyl planking Buyers still think it's modern and "clean" compare to the bone white/beige of the 90's |
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Gray is awesome. It makes anything in it or on it stand out by default.
So fill that gray kitchen with bright things and you'll notice them more. I painted my laundry room a French gray and it's awesome. Now I want to paint my home office that color. I do some color retouching and like a good neutral gray for my computer desktop. Why not do that to the walls too so my hangings jump out more? |
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The gray wood grain tile trend can’t die fast enough.
My niece did her whole house in that. Looks so cold and depressing. |
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Haze gray
Gull gray Machinery gray Deck gray All fine colors IMHO. OP must be a landlubber. |
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My Mid-80's house exterior is stone and gray, white trim. I was afraid it was starting to look dated.
I knew if I just waited long enough. |
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Quoted: That's a fucking sacrilege. Prior owner worshipped the devil and fucked little boys. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Motherfucker painted all the mahogany trim white. That's a fucking sacrilege. Prior owner worshipped the devil and fucked little boys. My parents house is from the 1920s. Every second floor door is white and custom fit to each door frame as none match exactly. One day somebody hit a door with something on accident and the paint chipped and my mom could see wood. So they took em to a wood guy. After stripping many layers of paint there was the greatest looking mahogany doors under all that. My parents have been fixing that as they can. |
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Agree the grey is way overdone, especially on the interiors. My wife hates the trend. May gold an avocado green will make a come back making it the worst again.
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Give it 13 months then Housewives and Realtors will call the look “dated”.
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Now that you mention it I was actually thinking about re-siding my house in gray... thanks for the reminder OP.
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Quoted: It's a world built for these guys https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/NPC_wojak_meme.png View Quote Exactly. |
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Quoted: My parents house is from the 1920s. Every second floor door is white and custom fit to each door frame as none match exactly. One day somebody hit a door with something on accident and the paint chipped and my mom could see wood. So they took em to a wood guy. After stripping many layers of paint there was the greatest looking mahogany doors under all that. My parents have been fixing that as they can. View Quote Wow. What a great discovery. Bet they look great. Bless your parents for exorcising that historic home. |
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Would using fire it on it....just turn it a slightly darker gray?
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Stop living a lie and get out of the closet and embrace your graydom
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Every car I've owned has been some sort of dark steel/metallic gray since Mercedes started offering it on the W124.
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I wish I had enough spare time to get worked up over nothing.
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OP is wrong.
bright colors generally suck for pretty much everything. its 2022, dark themes are a thing for good reason. |
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I hate it too. Every house that was getting redone in my old neighborhood ended up looking like that.
Many of the houses were built in the 60s, and that gray/black/white color scheme just didn't work. But hey, we gotta be trendy, right? |
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Quoted: You mad bro? https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/145048/1E900040-9278-472B-8B0A-47495FC56C1E_jpe-2247408.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/145048/9F40D9A9-1670-42FE-B983-B06F749E4DF1_jpe-2247410.JPG View Quote |
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We need the pink toilets and seafoam green carpets again like in the 1960’s and 1970’s
….. said no one ever |
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Quoted: I hate that. A few months after I bought my house, I realized all the cabinetry and the island in my kitchen are solid oak. They painted it all white and grey. View Quote Oak cabinets? I'd paint those fuckers, too. Shit should have died with poofy hair and stonewash jeans. Oak-and-plaid furniture, too. So gross... |
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This is just an outgrowth of the earth tone thing that we did 10 years ago.
We just moved on to mineral tones. I mean what color do you want your car painted? Really there are only two colors that have more or less disappeared that were popular at one time - Beige and Yellow. |
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Quoted: Ok boomer lol. Dark wood is 70s and ugly as fuck. White trim on white or grey walls just make everything look more clean and rooms larger. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I just bought a house that the PO painted all of it inside grey. Place is a cave. Just got done painting it an off white. Motherfucker painted all the mahogany trim white. I hate that. A few months after I bought my house, I realized all the cabinetry and the island in my kitchen are solid oak. They painted it all white and grey. Ok boomer lol. Dark wood is 70s and ugly as fuck. White trim on white or grey walls just make everything look more clean and rooms larger. Who said anything about dark stains? Real hardwoods will always be beautiful. Mahogany, oak, walnut, whatever. As long as you don't go full on fake wood paneling '70s and '80s style, and as long as the room has sufficient light and contrast it's good. |
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The house looks great, and gray is the best color for renthouse interiors.
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Quoted: I just bought a house that the PO painted all of it inside grey. Place is a cave. Just got done painting it an off white. Motherfucker painted all the mahogany trim white. View Quote Not all grey is made the same. Plenty of shades of grey that are timeless rather than trendy. Furthermore, it also depends greatly with how you handle trim and floors. I think this look with the trim and floors all in consideration is generally pretty timeless: Attached File I think it gets a bit out of control when people carry it to the cabinets and floors at the same time to the point that the entire house is monotone or when they don't get the shade of grey right (too dark or too cold). |
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Quoted: That kitchen looks great except that light fixture. It doesn't fit with the rest of it at all. Easy fix though. View Quote And thank you! It was my after divorce present to myself. built the way i wanted it, small 1800Sqft ranch 3 bed 2 bath open plan and a huge 4 car 1400 sqft garage / shop which I absolutley love. |
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