Muted color palettes

[CouttsClient]

I'm a big fan using shades of grey. The additional benefit is bringing in color is just a matter of art, changing pillows, drapes, flowers etc.

What are your thoughts of muted color palettes in interior design?

 

[milosz]

Blues/grays/greens for me.

Seems like most of the houses we've built over the past few years have opted for beiges and pale yellows for the dominant colors. Hate that ****.

 

[mordecai]

my palette is pretty consistently whites and grays. usually hate colorful walls and trim on interiors.

 

[SladeDT]

nice examples there.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Don't like colors, but the use of all those grays and silvers screams haute hotel suite. If that is your thing...

I find those pictures to me mindbendingly vile.

 

[tattersall]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Don't like colors, but the use of all those grays and silvers screams haute hotel suite. If that is your thing...

I find those pictures to me mindbendingly vile.

You're not trying hard enough - picture a Bentley Brooklands parked outside and the help from a domestic staffing agency padding noiselessly across the carpet...

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

Muted colors I like, but that's very monochromatic.

Maybe I just hate 'themes', i kind of find them a bit ridiculous like a guy dressing with a theme.

 

[gomestar]

my living room has a good amount of grey, but it's not all muted or Christian Liaigre-y like some of those.

 

[gdl203]

I'm confused by the pictures. #3 and 4 show high contrast decors, not really muted.

I don't get the use of color much in interior decor - I don't particularly like greys either. I'm very simplistic in what I like: wood (lots of it), white (lots of it), steel (some black steel for windows, beams or stairs a plus), concrete. Simple, whitish colored tiles and marbles for kitchens and bathrooms. Green and color accents come from plants, flowers and art. Done. No red, green, yellow or blue walls, no gold leaf bizzazza (or whatever that's called), certainly no black furniture.

 

[Fuuma]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Don't like colors, but the use of all those grays and silvers screams haute hotel suite. If that is your thing...

I find those pictures to me mindbendingly vile.

+1

 

[mordecai]

i like the paint job in the photos alright, it's the decor and moldings that are atrocious. plus the wall textures in a couple of the images are really cheesy.

 

[gomestar]

Originally Posted by gdl203

I don't get the use of color much in interior decor - I don't particularly like greys either.
-1 on that for me, I like grey as a base color.

Originally Posted by gdl203

I'm very simplistic in what I like: wood (lots of it), white (lots of it), steel (some black steel for windows, beams or stairs a plus), concrete. Simple, whitish colored tiles and marbles for kitchens and bathrooms.
but a +1 for this. Our walls are grey, but the accents are all white (lots of white picture frames, white marble side table), with a good amount of steel (bookshelves, desk legs, lamp, wall shelves), and then wood flooring, desk top, and coffee table. The LC3 is like a whitish beige, but it works with the steel frame and everything.

one of our bookshelves...

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by Fuuma

+1
I was at a place like that last night, except it was beige rather than gray. On the upside, they had phenomenal art rather than Richard Serra prints.

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Richard Serra prints.

:roma: ?

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by gdl203

:roma: ?
Above the fireplace.