Thursday I'm painting my quilting/sewing room. I love color! What quilter doesn't? First, I was leaning towards a very soft lavender but now I'm thinking soft yellow. I have white shutters and mirrored closet doors.
What color are your walls?
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Thursday I'm painting my quilting/sewing room. I love color! What quilter doesn't? First, I was leaning towards a very soft lavender but now I'm thinking soft yellow. I have white shutters and mirrored closet doors.
What color are your walls?
Off white I believe. Whatever color it was when we bought the house.
Very soft yellow.
Soft off-white. I'd be careful of putting lavender color on the walls. Although it is a calming and soothing color, it can also be sedative and after awhile, too much of it can be downright depressing! Go with the pale yellow; it's cheerful and would look great with the white shutters.
Sort of a creamy beige. Left over from my daughter. I need to paint it.
Mine is also a cream color...it is a small room, so the light color gives me some brightness...but I do have 2 windows in my sewing room...
Mines ugly wallpaper that I need to get off my duff and strip the wallpaper off and paint. When I paint it I'll probably go with a light ivory because my room is so small and dark.
White walls, Black, white and blue floral fabrics. It is a work in progress. I started a couple weeks before Thanksgiving and am still working on it. I have a vision of what it is supposed to look like but it is taking a while to get their.
Off white walls.
I have light blue walls, dark gray tiles on the floor.......all decor is in shades of blue with pops of all colors!
I have pale peach walls. Remember the book "Color Me Beautiful"? It said that peach works well for all skin tones, so I figure it will work well with all fabric tones, too.
yellow and light brown and ripped up wallpaper that was covering the yellow.....soon to be a very soft, very pale pink!! Oh, and the carpet is going to be ripped up to, so the floors will be hardwood...100 year old hardwood!
Mine are papered cream background with small flowers in blue, peach, pink , green. But if I were doing another room it would be a shade of purple.
My daughter painted my sewing room before I took it over. She painted the walls a creamy white and then sponged yellow over it. It makes for a good, bright room.
I'm taking over the garden room for sewing and the walls are ivory. My husband is going to paint his old desk and a merchant desk in a pale duck egg blue to keep my things in - mind you he's been promising this for a while now!:icon_rolleyes:
Posted the same question a week or so ago....just worded a little differently. My room is currently what I call "builders beige", the color the builder painted the entire house when it was built. Drab, ugly and can be wiped off of the wall with a damp paper towel & just a little pressure. :( Anyway, I am torn between keeping it a neutral color with pops of color in the accent (curtains, wall décor etc) or painting it a color Carpet it beige (ick!) so an area rug will be in order. Hope you can make a choice quicker than I have.
When I recently moved into my new quilt room and was contemplating what color to paint the walls, my first thought was a creamy off white. But in the end, I chose a very soft sage green that I just love! I am so happy I went with a color. Green is very soothing and earthy and visually interesting. But to each his own! I would suggest staying away from trendy colors. Go with something tried and true that will soothe your soul and feed your creative side. :icon_happy:
Just another thought -- look in your closet and see what color pops out more than any other. That will tell you what color you gravitate too the most, the one that makes you feel good and happy. Choose a soft shade of that color to paint your quilt room. :icon_happy:
My room is a very light dusty peach...white with just a hint of color. Pretty much every color seems to go with this shade.
Mine's a soft celery green. It almost seems like a soft white certain times of the day.
Mines a light sage green, but it will probably need to be painted next year so I'm thinking of a medium taupe color when that time comes.
Light gold tones over pale yellow. It changes with the amount of sunlight. But it's a color I feel most comfortable and creative being around. (gold)
Then there is the sewing closet... all primer white.. I am hoping to get it done in a green.. very pale green.. buttery green... oh, shoot.... just make it gold , too!!
Robin egg blue with white furniture. I love it!
Suzette - I'm on my bed looking into my closet full of aqua's and light greens. At the same time the door to my porch/sewing room is open with its walls of light minty green and white trim / furniture with a few teal and purple accents. I just love being in that room - it must be because I feel so peaceful with that combination of colors. I so agree with Suzette. Check your closet and think of your fav clothes and paint your sewing room the same color. I think Nana Margaret's room is about the same colors as mine but in reverse. Ahhh - Doesn't color soothe your soul?
Yellow with white furniture. It's my sunshiny happy place.
My sewing area is in our bedroom so not very big. The color of the room is two soft greens. I love it.
Mine is very bright white. My room is in the basement with no natural light. DH put in lots of good overhead lights and tried to talk me out of white walls, but I said no, I need light. Well its light! Everybtime I flip the light it reminds me of that bright light that is the last thing you see before they put you out for surgery! Then my middle age eyes adjust and its all good. With your decision being lavender or yellow, I would choose a cheerful yellow.
My new sewing room is my son's former bedroom. It is mostly tan, but one wall has been painted in a desert camo pattern - my sister did it for him when we moved to this house when he was in 8th grade. It has his name and his dad's name and both grandpa's names hidden in it. I do plan to paint it, but it is gonna take a couple of coats of primer. If I am painting it, I might as well paint the other walls, right? I am thinking maybe a very pale yellow.
I so agree that your sewing room should be your happy place. The rest of my house is neutral period color walls, (except the bathroom) and although there is color and pattern there are no flowers anywhere. So in my sewing room I have white walls, black furniture, mid tone wood accents and flowery fabrics. Girly fabrics. It is truly the only girly room in the house. My hubby came in today and told me that I did a good job turning black into a feminine color. Apparently he thought the black cube cases I bought for storage were masculine looking. I didn't happen because of all the colorful fabrics and flowers I have in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinaG
I think whatever color anyone chooses should make them happy. When I walk into my sewing room, even now when it is a mess is makes me smile.
White. Blah! But we lease from a business park so we can't paint. (We own a plumbing company and my studio is the plumbing company's extra office space)
Very soft yellow with white woodwork
Great posts everyone! Well I just adore my lime green sewing room with white trim.... It is definitely my happy place and no matter how down I get, it always cheers me up... The sun shines in and makes it even brighter. Its funny eh how the colors we,love to wear are what we love in our sewing room. DH put up two Ikea white shelves and i bought a tall bookcase which look really nice against the green. I've thrown in bits of dark pink and orange too. Now just have to get some airy white curtains. To save the wood floors, I bought a low pile carpet from a discount store and it's perfect. Before, if I bent down to pick something up, the chair would whip behind me and here I'd be sitting on my massive butt on the floor! You only do that once! Hahaha!
SuzyQ - Airy white curtains on the racks at walmart and target - cheap. I used ribbon to tie them back when I didn't need some privacy -then realized the trees gave me all the privacy I needed even at night so I took them down. Now I use the airy white curtains on a tension rod under my sewing table to hide the clutter.
Builder egg shell white with one beige (LOL same color as Guttermann 829 thread) White sheers on the big window.
My sewing room is the same color as the rest of my house - apartment beige. I hate it.
Industrial cement gray. :lol: No, it was not my choice, my sewing room is in the basement and it will be the last area that will get any TLC in the decorating department. (We are slowly making our way through our home as it has been over 20 years since it had a makeover.)
But honestly, I do not find it depressing, every fabric I touch looks so crisp and cheerful down there. Plus my head is either staring at the sewing machine, or my mat where I am cutting stuff. :icon_rofl:
Lol, if you look in my closet, there's a lot of black.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Suzette
Many thanks Lilly! Great idea for the curtains. Off to Walmart tomorrow, Target stores are just opening here in Ottawa but no doubt we won't get the same prices we enjoy when traveling to the US....
I have a lighter shade of tiffany blue painted in eggshell so it's got some shine. Then I have white furniture for the most part. Lots of blue/purple/green decorations.
:icon_rofl: That's my closet too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mchelem
My closet too. That is why I went with bright white walls and flowery fabrics. Everything goes with black and white right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mchelem