Comments on: House Hunting in Oregon

By: Gloria

Gloria — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:23:36 +0000

You have to have the colors you love!

I prefer colors to neutrals. But it helps to know something about the psychology of different colors. For instance, greens can promote conversation. Reds/oranges can make you hungry all the time. Blues will tend to calm you or put you to sleep. If you want a sunny effect go with some shades of yellow which can pep you up on cloudy/rainy days.

Having said I love colors, I do have one neutral that I adore, and that’s a medium to light shade of gray which oddly can also make rooms more pleasant to be in when it rains. Gray will make the colors of your artwork, drapes, carpet, and furniture really POP and you have to see this to understand how gorgeous that can be.

I don’t care much for formal living rooms (the kind where guests fear to tread because they might leave a trace behind) or formal dining rooms. A nice office and a nice library/study though? Wonderful!

Good luck on selling your house (I feel it’s impossible to sell a home) and also on finding a place in Oregon to love.

By: Bettye Griffin

Bettye Griffin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:22:43 +0000

My husband and I are looking for a house now.

A formal dining room is on the list of must-haves. We had people over fairly often for dinner, and I like it in that setting.

I’d actually prefer not to have a formal living room. I prefer a comfortable family room atmosphere, attached to the kitchen, where we can put our feet on the coffee table and we also plan on finishing the basement for a recreation room.

As for bold colors, our old house is Florida has the living room painted a soft peach and the dining room painted maroon. The rest of the house was either white or beige. The peach is more soft than bold. The maroon is dramatic, however, because the dining room only had two walls it wasn’t overly so. I would, however, recommend to people trying to sell that they paint the walls white. It’s been off-putting for me as a potential buyer to see walls painted bright yellow or green.

Bettye Griffin
http://www.bettyegriffin.com

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:08:46 +0000

Hi first I want to say I grew up in Oregon be sure to go to Cannon beach, Ft.Stevens is neat too. We just built a house in Florida and I wish I would of done a big great room we have a formal living room I don’t even have furniture in it yet lol and our formal dining room we have eaten it twice since moving in in August. as for the pain it is pretty neutral throuh out the house except for My daughter’s room is Limecicle green, and my son’s room is corn flower blue.

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:15:58 +0000

That kitchen is a BEAUTY! I don’t like the bold colors either…but I do like just a hint of color. What worked for me in our family room was one wall is a shade darker than the other walls and the vaulted ceiling is the darker shade of blue. Sounds confusing!! Good luck in your house hunting.

By: Ann M.

Ann M. — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:40:36 +0000

We have a formal dining room both here and in the States. We sent back the rental furniture because we just didn’t want to use the formal dining room here.

In the States we use our formal dining room for large family events.. Passover seders, Thanksgiving dinners and will use it for Friday (Shabbat) dinners. Otherwise we are in the kitchen area.

Bold colors that one can blend with are nice. That lime green room would have to go.

Good luck with the house hunting.

By: Heather Mairi (Ev's daughter)

Heather Mairi (Ev's daughter) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:48:13 +0000

We don’t use the backroom except for at Christmas, our kitchen is horrid and not functional in the least bit - except for making mac and cheese or using the microwave.
Like my mom said - she wants to paint the kitchen purple - why? I have no clue since she just painted the horrid thing this bright yellow like 2 years ago.

As for rooms being different colors and what not - my room has been sunshine yellow (seriously) and now it’s gold. I want to paint it black but my mom wont let me, so as soon as I get my room cleaned *again* and all the posters I have on the walls down *and there are so many of them I just want to paint around them* then I’m going to be painting my room grey and not just any grey - Sparrow grey - as in Capt. Jack Sparrow - I love Disney colors. The walls outside my room right now have this thing my mom did when we first moved here - a sky and an apple tree - which still wont give me apples - but soon that’s going to be covered up with sheet music and then over that I’m going to be hanging up my guitars and some of my photography.

When I ever do own my own place, each room will be a different color. I can’t stand plain walls, they’re just not me. There is nothing “normal” about me so why should my house be normal? I’m even going to have a Tim Burtonish room as well as a theatre room which I’m planning on having a projector and a projector screen in there to watch movies with movie posters *the classics and my faves etc* all over the place - pretty much like how Quentian Tarantino has his house.

By: Paula R.

Paula R. — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:51:59 +0000

Thanks Jules, that is my bad for not requesting that they ship separately…I will go online and see if I can change it….I don’t mind having two copies though because then I can loan one of them out and keep the other without worrying about people messing up my book and the pages…I am a book snob…what can I say?

Peace and love,
Paula R.

By: Janelle

Janelle — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:37:10 +0000

I’m back from Oregon — and it was a great trip! The girls went with and loved it there, too, and can’t wait to move! Lots of house hunting, and I truly did try not to let those bright colors affect whether a home was right for us, or not. All in all, we looked at 22 homes and only 2 of those are ones we’d consider. One of them I’d buy RIGHT NOW if our house was already sold. It would be perfect for us — it does have a formal dining room, but no formal living room. It has a HUGE kitchen, great room, master bedroom and secondary bedrooms. So, I’m hoping no one buys it before we sell this house. I want it!

It was interesting to read about everyone’s tastes. I did see some homes that looked good with the darker colors on the walls, but ultimately it’s just not ME. Different strokes for different folks!

I hope you all had a good week. It’s nice to be back!

By: Julie Leto

Julie Leto — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:19:03 +0000

Paula, if you tell them, they’ll ship separtely, but you might have to pay a lot more for shipping. I buy so much from Amazon, that I subscribed to Amazon Prime. For $50 a year (might be more) I get 2-day shipping for free on every eligible order.

By: Paula R.

Paula R. — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:55:50 +0000

Hey monkeys…I don’t have a house, so can’t answer the first question…I have a friend who painted every room in her apartment a different colour and it seems to work for her…I think it all bowls down to the type of colour that you want on your walls…personally, I don’t have rooms with different colour walls…Janelle, I am boring too…my friend actually told me that I needed some colour in my apartment, but I can’t see it…if I didn’t paint something, it would be the bathroom though…a nice soft pastel green or blue, but tha is the extent of the colours right there…I too like to add colour through the decor…Good luck with the house hunting…

Update on my Amazon package….they are not shipping it until July…I have 5 pre-ordered books in there, and I am guessing here, they probably want to send one big package…I am kinda bummed about that though…I am just going to have to make a trip to the bookstore and get your book Jules, and thtat goes for Janelle’s and Leslie’s too…Carly, I think that yours will come on time…if not, I will just pick up a copy…I am so jealous of all those who actually got their book and finished it already…neither the Walmart or the Sears Essentials near my house had Jules’ book…

Peace and love,
Paula R.