Crane & Canopy What a great article, Vanessa! It's amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do to transform a room!

Iyare I Color is the cheapest way to change the look of a room. Love ALL the pictures...

stylinc What is the best light to medium grey colour?

olldbobbi Love the white room!

Christy Dillard Kratzer Thanks Vanessa for including my photo in this fun ideabook! I had such fun working with this red color and the being inspiration was the existing antique rug.

Dura Supreme Cabinetry I agree! Blue can completely transform a space. Like this bright blue kitchen design...

Dura Supreme Cabinetry Gray is also very trendy in the kitchen right now! We are seeing more gray stains and gray paints than ever before. Using gray paint on an kitchen island is quite common...

White Cottage Styled Kitchen
Cottage Island
Cottage Kitchen

Also, mixing in gray stains with traditional stains...
Mix it Up - Rustic Country 1
Mix it Up - Rustic Country 2
Mix it Up - Rustic Country 3

dgrantshowtosell Love the use of orange for accent walls. Try calypso orange! Benjamin Moore. Bright and bold.

gelareh mohammad you are the best thanks perfect

bunco I sure wish Houzz would show us some pictures with stained woodwork....I built a home in the early 90's and wont be able to paint my woodwork white.....I would like to add some color to my walls....Love this sight!

Michelangelo Decorative Painting One little comment: Never leave your ceiling white. White ceiling makes room look unfinished and shorter.... Darker walls should be complemented by darker ceiling ( not matching the walls, but coordinating). Also do not believe when somebody tells you that darker colors make your room look smaller. There are many rules in the Color Theory. Experiment and relay on your taste :)

Melanie Marinucci I love color in rooms. I try to have every room in my house a different color without it looking like a mess. Some are subtle, some not so much.

Faith Towers Media I've been inspired by green lately (maybe because there's so little of it this time of year) and I've noticed that a lot of people pair it with black and white in their homes. There's something about the graphic feel of the black and white against the more natural green hues that make the combo really pop. Here are some great examples: http://designfixation.blogspot.com/2013/01/black-white-green.html

Shavonda Gardner I'm an absolute color fanatic! I love bold color choices in homes. I actually just got done painting my living room black and I absolutely love it! I'm excited to get furniture in there so we can enjoy the deeply hued moody space.

cami19 I"d love to see an exploration of the how color affects the room (and its residents) by using the same room and the same furniture and layout and changing nothing but the colors.

Mona Thank you to Michelangelo Decorative for your comment about painting the ceilings. I am going to do every room!

rvficklen Can you paint over those textured ceilings? Or do you have to remove them?

justmeotessa What a ground breaking event! Colorful rooms and houses are wonderful, we wake up and go to bed with them having imagination and the inspiration of wanting to do better. It is about time we stop thinking outside the box, and become individuals in our own homes. Blue is my favorite color. I like others, but consider blue as my home color. This is me, but it does not have to be anyone else favorite color. Now, I would like my kitchen cabinets to be a deep glossy red color, blended with others. Modern furniture I do not like, because it is too bland without any character. It is refreshing that each one of us can decorate differently and be individuals instead of following some kind of crowd.

keribowers Does anyone know what color of gray the dining room on this page is? It almost looks charcoal...I love it

Marta Gayoso Is it ok to use a different color in every room? I have a small bungalow, and since the rooms are small, I'm nervous about painting each room a different color. Will it look too patchworky?

carolberg11 I am afraid with Minnesota winters, black would be very oppressive

olldbobbi Marta, just about every room in my house is a different color! How boring would it be to have no change at all from room to room?

patscats2 All my rooms are diffferent colors. I painted each room with its' function in mind as I am affected by color.

Do you remember Christopher Lowell and Lynette Jennings? Those two designer's taught me how not to be afraid of color on my walls.

Kathryn Allen lovin the Tiffany box blue

Merrill B. Domas Antiques and Interiors The gray in the dining room is caviar - sherwin williams

Jae Vinson My dining room is bright red and I've used several other bold colors through out my home.
Bunco, I also have a room with stained wood molding that I cannot paint at this time.
http://www.designocd.com/2011/08/the-room-that-started-it-all/

cdg4ahappyhojme What fun!!! I love color!! Congrats for all the brave people that take paint brush in hand and "go for it"!! I have turquoise walls in my bedroom, love it.
I've tiled my guest bath with antique tiles in deep blue, turquoise, white...so cool. Green wall in my guest room with free hand ferns painted in cream color..need I say more. Do what makes you happy, it's your home!

JOYCE MTIYANE I like my white colour, it makes my room looks big and bright

mere bitu thnx alot for beautiful designs..giving me many ideas...:)

danavalery We are repainting interior of old Victorian with tons of trim- woodwork, dental molding, wainscoting... - some areas have a color I like and seems to be an ivory white by bm. We need to do whole house in same trim and ceiling color and I am struggling to decide. I like a lot of the grays out now but worry they need a brighter white. Any suggestions? The dining room has an old hand painted paper on it with lots of greens and browns and orangy golds- very Asian with birds and trees. We are keeping that.

Dura Supreme Cabinetry Adding bold colored backsplash is a great way to incorporate color in the kitchen!

Like this Purple Backsplash with Bamboo Cabinetry...
The Beauty of Bamboo 1
The Beauty of Bamboo 2
The Beauty of Bamboo 3
The Beauty of Bamboo 4

and this Gold / Orange Backsplash with White cabinetry...
Dreamy Creamy Kitchen

bignabber Do You have a supplier for the blind in the pink room ? Would be perfect in my daughters room

dylan7gig great rooms!!

olldroo Marta - if you are nervous about using different colours for each room, choose 4 colours that co-ordinate and use one of those colours in each room with one, two or all three of the other colours as accents. This allows you to make each room look different while co-ordinating the colours through the house. I like to add white to keep the colours fresh.

trobade All the colours and designs are so perfect and amazing; shows there is more a coat of paint can do to a space.. Thanks

mere bitu very nice

Dina Goebel Love this article and I have embedded into my blog .. it helps others feel confident that using color is in your home is ok! In our home we used green in the bathroom and grey in the spare room.

23690178 liked pink n yellow rooms

mccutcheon1 Marta, my house is small too, but, for me, a variety of colors makes me feel the difference between rooms, instead of feeling trapped in one big room. And the sight of another color through a doorway also gives me a sense of moving through space.
I used an old K-Mart Martha Stewart four-color card and took the kitchen and dining room from it (Westport Tan and Soft Brick). Then I used another card with the tan on it to find a blue for the bathroom. The living room had to be green, so I was on my own.
Knock yourself out!

ansleydcosta Home Decor at proper times makes your home feel fresh and lively. But once should know the right ways to make it beautiful. Small small things can add beauty to your sweet home. A interior designer can prove quite helpful and provide you the right suggestions. Some sites like www.quoteworld.com.au/service/interior-decoration/interior-design-and-decoration you can find quotes from professional home decors.

Beth Harper As a decorator, I've said that I want my tombstone to read, "No white ceilings, ever!" I think many of these rooms would look better with color on the ceilings so the crowd moulding pops.

Paintings by Kirsten Elizabeth Gilmore I never considered black for walls to be cosy, but I would gladly move into that last room of yours. :) Thank you for this article.

Michael McHale Designs really great article thank you. loving these ideas.

colorguru99 Wonderful article!! thx!