If you'd like to totally screw with yourself walk into any DIY store and stand in front of the rows and rows of tins of wall paint containing tiny variations of off-white and try and choose the one you like best. A Whisper of Stone, no, Parchment White, no, Lace Undergarment, ah what? Which one? WTF are we here for anyway?
Truth is, I like off-white, I painted my bedroom bright yellow when I was about 10 and then had to spend most of my teenage years in a dayglo hell. When I was a student I painted my bedroom a rasberry colour and lived in a perpetual half light for a year. Now I crave soft, delicate off-white walls on which to hang my prints and which make my home light, bright and beautiful. But the question is which off white do I go for? Hell, I'll even stray a shade darker than off-white if the colour is that perfect.
However, that's not to say I don't like a sprinkling of colour here and there, in fact I love colour, I adore colour, it's just that I now know that, for me, colour looks so much better framed by an off-white background. OK, so I think you got it, I like my walls off-white.
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Lighter shades are almost always best. Although, I've lived in rentals for the past ~8 years, so I don't have much choice. I always have off-white walls :)
ReplyDeleteThat being said, when I was in 4th grade my parents let me paint my bedroom walls a neon-ish green. Not my best choice.
i love white rooms as well and picked up a colour chart of various whites and off whites at the hardware store and had no idea where to begin! they're all the same and yet i know that they're different!
ReplyDeleteHi, nice post since Im an architect; I would think about the ceilings and the walls together, light bounces off better with white ceilings and a few shades darker walls; whether it be beige or off whites. I like whites that have a cold base to them, some whites have a hint of yellow or warm base. It also depends on the color of your floors, how the wall color matches the hues of the floor. I dont want to bore you, overall I would make sure the ceilings and wall mountings are white; that automatically brightens the room. If your going to hang white frames on the wall, an off white/creme color just makes those frames pop.cheers
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I absolutely love that last image. I want that to be my own personal play room. And I do like off-white but I HATE cream. Bleh. A crisp white or soft white is the way to go for sure.
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Wow, pintojak, thank you so much for that advice! How great is the blog world for connecting with talented and knowledgeable people?
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My bedroom has been off-white since I was a kid. It's light on the eyes and makes me feel at peace. Everything else in my bedroom was a mix of pink and white. =)
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