My husband and I are buying our first new house and moving in the end of this month, we are so excited and I can't wait to start painting and decorating everything.
the entire house right now is this really light purple almost a grey color, which I'm not really a fan of. we plan on painting the entire house before we move in.

I have some ideas of styles to do but I'm worried that the different styles will clash with other rooms.
I want to do a tuscany style kitchen/dining room with a terracotta or goldish paint color (can't decide which) but the living room I want more of a contemporary feel with a hazel blue and chocolate color palate. then the guest bathroom (which is right off of the living room), I'm wanting to go for a safari theme.

what are some of the basic design rooms when it comes to room to room styles and how do these styles i've mentioned as a whole sound in one house together?

this new home owner/decorator will really appreciate your advice

Welcome to the boards and congrats on your house. My only advice is to take your time. You've got great plans but don't feel like you have to get it together in a couple of days. Live in the house, see how you move around in it. That will help you with accessories and furniture placement.

I'm not sure what you mean by basic design rooms, but you if can post pictures, especially over in the general decorating board, you may get lots of assistance.

Congrats again.

Ditto what Clarosie said.

While a whole house does not have to be decorated the same it could be quite jarring if you can see 2 rooms at the same time and they are a totally different style. But maybe jarrring is what you want.

Generally ( and this is just a generalization so do what you want) if you are in your living room and can see your kitchen there should either be a color or a style to make it cohesive.

Whatever you decide have fun!!!

I was exactly in your shoes a couple of months ago. i spent so much time decorating the house in my mind - shopping for things that I wanted,etc.. but when I moved in, I found that I had to change a lot of my plans. So I guess what I am saying is you may want to brainstorm, but really wait until you are living there to make final decisions.

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Originally posted by poteat_3177:
My husband and I are buying our first new house and moving in the end of this month, we are so excited and I can't wait to start painting and decorating everything.
the entire house right now is this really light purple almost a grey color, which I'm not really a fan of. we plan on painting the entire house before we move in.

I have some ideas of styles to do but I'm worried that the different styles will clash with other rooms.
I want to do a tuscany style kitchen/dining room with a terracotta or goldish paint color (can't decide which) but the living room I want more of a contemporary feel with a hazel blue and chocolate color palate. then the guest bathroom (which is right off of the living room), I'm wanting to go for a safari theme.

what are some of the basic design rooms when it comes to room to room styles and how do these styles i've mentioned as a whole sound in one house together?

this new home owner/decorator will really appreciate your advice

Two rules of decorating:
Rule #1 - Don't rush into anything. Take the time time to buy what is right.
Rule #2 - See rule number one.

I know it's tempting to want to paint the entire house before you move in, but if you don't know what you want, I would recommend taking the time to live in the house and find out what paint colors you like and what will go with your furniture. If there is one room that you are certain about, then paint that one, and build your pallete from there.

One thing you could do for continuity is keep your flooring and the paint basically the same (you could go lighter or darker of the certain shade), and then be a little freer in the decorating.

It's funny some of the very things I detested about the house we bought, I have grown to actually like. Now there is one thing I just hands down know I won't like..my icky tile kitchen countertops.

I guess what I mean to say is, you may want to slow down and live in the place first to get a feel for what you truly want. I found what I wanted changed a lot once I moved in.

Grats on the new house!

One important aspect when it comes to choosing paint colors is the lighting. Paint appears different at different times of the day under natural and artificial light. One must be in the house to study the lighting and sample paint colors to make a selection that works. It is not so simple as going in and slapping paint on the walls before you move in.

It is important that the color scheme flow. As indicated, if the guest bath is off the livingroom then color scheme in bath should pick up one of the livingroom colors. This is usually a small room, so lighter color for the walls and accessories and accents to pick up the dramatic color(s) of your scheme. BTW, the decorating police report that theme rooms are out.

As indicated, if kitchen is visible from the livingroom, there should be some cohesiveness or continuity of color scheme. This provides the flow from one room to the next. Pull a color or two from adjoining room(s) in accessories and accents to provide the continuity.

Terra cotta, gold, hazel blue and chocolate will work as a color scheme as long as you mix those colors through out. An easy way to pull colors throughout is through the use of color in accessories and accents.

Very good advice all the way around.

In the meantime, get a hold of the book "Christopher Lowell's Seven Layers of Design: Fearless, Fabulous Decorating." It offers a simple strategy -- and great pictures--for planning and executing a design scheme for one room or the whole house.

I am no longer a novice at designing and decorating my homes, and yet I still re-read his book. It's a great refresher course.

It is available on Amazon.com

Don't be too over-anxious about things. Take your time. If you don't like the current color of the walls, put primer on them. Then when you're ready to paint, some of the work is already done. That's what I did in the breakfast area of a house. I'd faux-painted it but got tired of that after a couple of years so one day after I finished priming another room, I primed the breakfast area. It stayed like that for almost a year until I could refocus on that area and redecorate it.

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what are some of the basic design rooms when it comes to room to room styles and how do these styles i've mentioned as a whole sound in one house together?

I was following you up til the safari bathroom, at which point wrinkles appeared in my forehead. Sounds jarring. Like the terracotta tuscany design for the kitchen, would pull some of the color from the kitchen to the adjacent living area, substitute the hazel blue for a wall of apricot and keep the chocolate. I have variations of tan in my open kitchen area, with a red dining room that is small & needed to stand out as a separate space-- and there's red accents in the kitchen & living area. The reaction is aaaaahhh (okay), rather than ooooohhhh (bewilderment).

hi and welcome. my DH and i just moved into a large home on 5/2 so i understand where you are coming from. all of the walls are white. we haven't painted yet because i want to get the feel of the house. (we just purchased a dining room set that will be delivered today.) several rooms are empty. i haven't figured out what i want in them. i know how excited you are but take your time with adding your personal touches. debbie

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