House Beautiful calls it “a paint color mistake you should never make,” and they’re in good company.
THE WHITE DOOR DANISH PAINTING PROFESSIONAL
I was surprised to discover that professional designers don’t like all-white walls. My friend Myquillyn calls this “quieting the house.” What the pros say about all-white walls: Don’t worry, the tv hasn’t been over the mantel for a long time.īut also, we liked the look-and when else were we going to get the chance to live in an all-white home for a while with so little work? We viewed it as our opportunity to experience the house with a neutral-ish backdrop so we could decide how we wanted to move forward.
Our living room six weeks after we moved in. Moving is exhausting, and not painting is easy. We decided pretty quickly to leave the white walls for the time being. It’s a 1912 Craftsman, with lots of light, ten-foot ceilings, and interesting architectural details. My previous white spaces looked blah, no matter how much texture or pattern I worked into the room.īut then we saw this house. In our old homes-built in 19-they didn’t look pleasingly simple, they looked unfinished. We’d tried white walls in the past, and weren’t happy with the look. I hope these pictures give you an idea of our space and how it impacts our white wall satisfaction level.
Specifically, Benjamin Moore’s Simply White.Ī quick note about these photos: I love you muchly, but I am not a home blogger, and this is not a house tour. (They even moved a staircase!) And every wall in the house-with the exception of an attached porch off my office (beige)-was painted white. The house was built in 1912, but the interior was completely redone the year before we bought it. (Me: Is it annoying that I keep telling you how much I love our house? Will: Nope, because I never want to move again.)
Where did the time go? A year ago yesterday, we moved into our current new-to-us, really old home, a house we didn’t originally intend to seriously consider buying, but that we all really love.
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