I need paint help please.

Have you considered a pale butter yellow?

 

How about one or two walls YOUR color, and two or three walls HIS color?

 

I disagree about grey making the room look cold and prison like. I put super dark grey in my boys room and I must say it looks awesome!! I'm no help for light colors really though - I go bold, lol. OUr living room is milk chocolate colored. Our bedroom is going to be black/red. The only sane walls in this house are my girls room which is beige with a darker beige sponged on.

 

Paint it when he's not home. That's what I do.

 

We did grey in both dining and living rooms. The living room is slightly darker, but it is warm... not prison-like. LOL. People have really liked it when they've visited.

We have similar flooring in the kitchen. We have a two-tone scheme with pale aqua and then turquoise trim with some little red pops (kitchenaid mixer, etc.) It is fun.

Here are our colors...

 

I have a really light gray in my kitchen and boys' rooms, and I really love it! The trick is to warm it up with your furniture & accessories. Those floors would really warm the room up a lot! Have you shown DH pics of rooms with gray walls that still look warm? But if he still can't be swayed I was going to suggest a light blue, similar to the glacier bay in Kimberlee's post.

 

I know you're not painting a nursery, but I think this is a great example of using furniture and accessories to make grey walls look beautiful.

If you don't go with grey, I like the glacier bay color from Kimberlee post.

 

Me too. All improvement projects that don't require heavy lifitng happen at this time. In fact, I think I'm installing a new light fixture the next time the hubster goes on a business trip...

 

It's really better for everyone involved if my husband is not around when there are tools involved.

 

Hmm... Some wives need to remember to close their browsers when they leave or their husbands might catch on to their sneaky plans and lock up all their tools.

 

Didn't Jacque paint her house gray? Maybe she could post some pics you could show him about how freakin' awesome it looks and he'll be convinced. She convinced me. {At least I think it was Jacque, lol}

 

Here's an option... we have Behr's "Creamy Mushroom" in our office and I LOVE it!!! It's kind of a light taupey gray

 

I'll see if I can get a picture tomorrow of our office for you, if you're interested in seeing it

 

Love the idea of splitting the decision making down the middle. That's what we did when we bought area rugs for our house. We each picked three and it worked out great because we both got what we wanted even if we had to compromise on the other ones. Also love gray with bright accents-- I might actually design a layout with those colors because that nursery photo is so cute! Creamy mushroom is also wonderful.

 

Ha! Way to wear him down! You'll have to post pics when you get it done!