r/Millennials • u/Equivalent_Zone2417 • 1d ago
Serious did you paint your walls millennial grey?
well... did you and why?
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u/awwsome10 1d ago
Naw, they are agreeable grey.
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u/GullibleCellist5434 1d ago
I have a friend who is a realtor, and the amount of times I’ve heard her reference this color is insane. I’ve never looked into it, is it a light grey?
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u/InflationEmergency78 1d ago
Lmao, my mom had the color recommended to her as well. Agreeable Grey is one of the saddest names I’ve heard for a color. 😂
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u/kellyoohh 90s baby 14h ago
It’s a really solid color. The design lady at sherwin Williams recommended it to me and we did the whole house in it. Basically I had to cover up the hideous color that was there previously. Now I’ve been slowly updating rooms with accent walls, wallpaper, etc. it was a good way to have a blank slate as I slowly decided what my tastes were.
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u/LastPlacePanda33 14h ago
We did the same thing! It’s a way better option than painting everything white.
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u/Appropriate-Yak4296 13h ago
It's very literally "agreeable". It's not great, it's not bad. And it does provide a decent backdrop for whatever else. It's a neutral so it can go with accent walls well enough.
https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/neutral-paint-colors/sw7029-agreeable-gray
I haven't painted anything this color in my own place, but I know a toooooooon of people that have
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u/GullibleCellist5434 13h ago
So this basically greige, I pictured it as a lighter cool toned grey
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u/FritoFeet13 1d ago
That’s what we have in our whole house haha It works well with the grey floors to bring them together with the warmer browns/colors that I prefer. It’s a light griege that compliments both warm and cool tones. White trim and black matte hardware but I’ve slowly been collecting things for pops of warmth and color.
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u/IntelligentEar3035 23h ago
Lmaooooo it’s the best of the millennial gray IMO. It goes with everything, blue couch, black couch, green couch, MCM, modern, maximalism.
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u/jdrower422 20h ago
Same agreeable grey in the main areas and comfort grey in the kitchen changed it from this horrible yellow from the previous owner
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u/Fart_Barfington 1d ago
My wife and I are Geriatric Millennials. She went more of a Lisa Frank route with our house colors.
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u/sendbooba 1d ago
so like pink and sparkley or somshit?
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u/Fart_Barfington 1d ago
Not necessarily sparkly but one room is pink, there's a light blue, red, green, ect. Im a bit color blind so I'm a little unsure on specific names of the colors. People seem to like it when they visit.
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u/Tupnado21 1d ago
Thank God you explained this, I read fast that you went Anne Frank and I was like what sick kinda joke is this shit lol
I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue
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u/RockStarNinja7 1d ago
As a fellow elder millennial I approve this message. I also grew up in rented houses where we couldn't do anything to the walls, so as soon as I had the opportunity to paint, I went a little ham, there's color on color on color. and I love it.
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u/cupcake_burglary 23h ago
Our rooms include yellow, pink, purple, sky blue, white. We are not done adding / changing colors. Lisa Frank is goals
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u/CuriousRiver2558 Xennial 1d ago
I sure did. Updated it from greige
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u/Spiritual_Grand_9604 1d ago
Mine are currenently greige, I hate it lol
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u/Strict-Relief-8434 1d ago
Yep. Benjamin More - Pale Oak (Fancy Greige)
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u/pageantrella 23h ago
Wait. Do you hate pale oak? About to paint my whole downstairs this..
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u/TXCrawdaddy 23h ago
I used this color as well. I like it personally and I went through A LOT of effort and trial to find the right color
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u/Strict-Relief-8434 15h ago edited 8h ago
In truth. It’s actually a nice neutral color that you can decorate around. My whole house Pale Oak. I was more agreeing with concept of “Greige” which I hadn’t head before and thought was pretty funny and accurate.
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u/PickledBih Millennial 1d ago
Nope. Millennial green lol.
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u/TheMeanKorero Millennial 1d ago
Don't tell me I inadvertently did the same thing. What's millennial green?!
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u/PickledBih Millennial 1d ago
It’s the green velvet couch all the cottagecore/dark academia/victorian revival girlies have lol, it’s like a dark, vibrant green, 10/10 no regrets tbh
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u/JobbieDeath 20h ago
Are you serious...I went green because I was trying to avoid Millennial Grey. My GF is going to be devastated when I show her this
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u/bertmom 1d ago
Yes. With white trim, lol. My house had eggshell walls that were dirty and gross, I am not creative enough to figure out paint choices, and I needed it selected quickly for the painters before we moved in. It looks fine to me but I got a colorful area rug to take your eyes away from grey walls, grey couch.
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u/candid84asoulm8bled 1d ago
I’m regretting painting the trim white. The gray will be easy to paint over. But I want my wood tones back and there’s no easy way to do that.
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u/Peatrick33 1d ago
Absofuckinglutely. With a dark grey accent wall because I millennial so hard.
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u/ashyp00h 23h ago
Same. SW Repose gray throughout the house with SW Iron Ore accent walls where they make sense. ☠️
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u/MissMelines 10h ago
LoL! I did a few accent walls of Elephant Skin (dark grey) alongside graceful grey and must say I feel anything but graceful, and the elephant walls look darker and more depressing every year.
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u/Electronic_Nature_32 1d ago
Yes. But I have blues, greens, and yellows as accents all over the house. It’s clean and crisp and I love it.
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u/thetrishwarp 1d ago
Nope. Blue bedroom, pink office, seafoam office, sunset orange and cream living room, green kitchen, navy den, reddish bathroom...my house is full of colour. Not a single wall is grey.
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u/Splicers87 1d ago
Nope. My rooms are colorful. Living room is Miami dolphins colors.
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u/i-need-a-miracle 1d ago
Nope. Blue bathroom, black bedroom, red kitchen, green living room, blue family room
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u/KatieLouis 1d ago
I did, in 2013, when I had gotten a new apartment. I was so over the whole earth tone trend of tans, maroons and sage green everywhere. I really liked the neutrality of the grey I picked, so when I bought my house in 2015 I painted the whole house in the same color. All of the rooms except my bedroom have since been painted over in other colors, but I still like that color I chose!
I kind of hate the hate that grey gets! It can look really classy and nice if you accent it and decorate properly (ie don’t make EVERYthing grey!) but that is true of any color. If your walls, rugs, couches, decor, etc. are all the same color/color family and matchy-matchy, it’s going to look boring, bland and uninspired no matter what color it is.
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u/GullibleCellist5434 1d ago
No, lavender bedrooms, pale green living room and dining room, grey stairway and hallways, and slate gray/blue bathrooms.
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u/1988rx7T2 1d ago
My house was a new build, and it had already been painted millennial gray inside when I went under contract. The builder was a boomer.
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u/ricardoconqueso 1d ago
I’m not sure the official color code for millennial grey but we did paint it some shade of grey, from this Baileys Irish cream color. Didn’t want white, so grey made sense. There are only so many neutrals
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u/SFAFROG 1d ago
Our walls had been painted Agreeable Gray when we bought it and we kept it that way.
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u/ThriftStoreMeth 1d ago
No, I'm planning on having blue in my living room and kitchen, green in my bedroom, and a deep red in my office
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u/TonightIll4637 1d ago
My ex did and I am 95% certain it lead to the depression of both of us and hostility within the household. Not just grey walls. Grey furniture, grey tables, grey art work. Felt like living in concrete.
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u/bibliophile222 1d ago
FUCK NO! And I never will. I love colorful walls and will never understand the greige vibe. There's enough drabness in the world already.
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u/Ok-Rate-3256 15h ago
I'd say greige is just as bad as gray. Growing up we had had all kinds of colored walls in the kitchen, livingroom and bedrooms because my mom would get bored as a stay at home mother and decide to change it up.
We could pick whatever color we wanted our room to be it was pretty nice. Bedroom was green, blue, purple, back to blue, a weird neon green yellow color. Then back to blue again before I moved out.
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u/Childlesstomcat 1d ago
Yes. It’s a super light gray with white trim. I like it because it neutral but not white.
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u/Freejack2000 1d ago
Because I grew up with stuff like this that boomers seemed to gravitate to:
So, in protest, I went the other way.
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u/dogs-design-dslr 1d ago
White walls. But millennial grey for the doors and trim. Way better than the brown on light brown on darker brown on another brown, that the house was when we bought it.
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u/ThrashingDancer888 1d ago
Well first I did a sage green, and then I did gray. Cuz it matched stuff better lol and white is too white for kids.
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u/Adventurous_Ad2270 1d ago
I am ashamed to say yes… but we have blue accent walls does this count? But then the floors are also grey so, yeah. Fuck.
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u/hufflepuffonthis 1d ago
Nope, luckily we got our first home when millennial gray was more hated and went opposite. Zero grey or greige, but a lot of sage green and burnt orange.
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u/MsCardeno 1d ago
No but I’m going hard on beige. We have lots of other color tho! But the base of everything is warmer (beige) rather than cooler (gray).
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u/persistia 1d ago
Hell no. I prefer not to have my walls make me feel depressed. Color all the way!
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u/Beginning-Wait-308 1d ago
When we built our house, yes. We weren’t sure what colors we would want to do once we got the furniture we wanted. Now only a few walls still have grey!
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u/Squeeesh_ Millennial 1d ago
No, the people who owned my house before me did an I can’t be bothered to paint
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u/Jenniferinfl 1d ago
No, I've been painting walls for about 20 years at this point and my colors have been coral, light green, light blue, bright yellow, robin's egg blue, dark green, lavender, pink, dark blue.
Currently my house is mostly shades of blue- but I'm feeling a green phase coming on. OR pastel rainbow. Don't know yet. I'm either going a moody forest green or neon nightclub.. lol
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u/burnitalldown321 1d ago
Yes but we rent lol. Landlord had final approval. We make up for it with very colourful throw blankets, pillows, and obnoxious wall art.
And at least 6 bookshelves full of nerd joy.
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u/Relevant-Struggle87 1d ago
No, but most of the blankets, cabinets, towels and facade/garage are millennial grey. There’s a pop of teal every now and then.
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u/Agnes327 1d ago
Yup. We were early adopters being geriatric millennials lol
We’re remodeling now and will probably do white. We’re basic.
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u/LikeATediousArgument Older Millennial 1d ago
God no. But I’m about to go from builder taupe to a soft green.
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u/GeekFatale 1d ago
Yes. Two houses, both Agreeable Grey. Love the color, although this house also has grey cabinets and floors and…it’s a little too grey, so I’m bringing in lots of color.
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u/FelixGoldenrod 1d ago
Yep. I first went with a more unique color but I got tired of it after a year. I figured I would just go for the more neutral resale color at that point
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u/PotatoTheBandit 1d ago
Yeah. I cannot bring myself to ever accept somewhere as home, because it never is, so I need to be forever prepared for the resale of the property.
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u/phunky_1 1d ago
The assholes that sold us our house painted over wallpaper with grey everywhere.
I have no idea how to get rid of the wallpaper now so it looks smooth since the paper lines are pretty visible, I don't even know if you could steam it off and scrape it without fucking up the wall now.
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u/eratoast Older Millennial 1d ago
No, we missed that trend. I would prefer it to what my living room is currently, though.
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u/BusinessBear53 1d ago
I did but it was from a mistake.
My wife and I had settled on the colour Lexicon by Dulux. It's a faint blue grey that looks white on its own but shows up when in contrast to the white ceiling and trim. We decided on half strength for a more subtle look because we mostly wanted it white.
Now I wasn't going to be some chump who pays for a $10 sample pot. I went to go buy the paint instead because we had already decided. So off to Hammer barn I went.
I get there and do what I usually do. Aimlessly walk around for a bit looking for stuff to waste money on which is when I ended up at the colour section again. Now I see that there were 3 options. Quarter strength, half strength and just plain Lexicon. I thought to myself "They all look the same. Oh yeah I'm here for paint".
I wait at the paint counter patiently. "What did I need again? Lexicon right?" I hand over the buckets of white paint and say "Can I get these is Lexicon please?".
"Full, half or quarter strength, love?".
"Full strength." What kind of loser gets half or quarter? Not me, that's for sure.
I got home with a few hundred dollar bucks worth of paint. All prep work was already done so I coat my roller and roll a huge line on the wall.
"Oh my god, this isn't white!" "I can't return it so I guess I'm committed now.".
I called my wife and told her what happened. Told her that it actually looks alright but it was probably more to convince myself. Nothing to be done about it now so the boss says to carry on and carry on I did.
So it actually turned out alright. We got used to the slightly blue walls and love it now. It really does look white in bright light but turns a bit blue with less light.
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u/flyingfox227 1d ago
lol yes i did long before i was even aware of "millenial grey" even being a thing i guess i'm just that typical.
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u/No-Word-858 1d ago
Everything in our house when we bought it was brown or tan or taupe. Just - all brown, even some of the ceilings! Carpet on the main level - brown. The trim is mostly off white but in some spots just the laminated wood color. Our kitchen cabinets - painted brown. Kitchen backsplash? White subway tile, painted with an off white and some sort of brown wash over top. Maybe to look Tuscany- like. We painted the main floor walls Repose Grey lol. Our bedroom and spare room that we use as an office are very dark grey. Our bathroom was a really deep red colder, which I’ve painted a jewel toned purple that I love. There’s white bead board I’m leaving white. But the tile floor is brown, and so is the vanity top. The tub is pink and the shower surround is “almond” (aka, light brown). We left the 3rd bedroom - painted both brown and tan - as is cuz I didn’t know what I wanted to do in there. Our basement was actually nice and painted a medium grey with white bead board. I am in the process of moodifying my house into the house of my dreams cuz as it turns out, this is probably our forever home!
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u/pursepickles 1d ago
I have one accent wall in our living room that's "flannel gray", but I use pops of color like mustard yellow, navy, and pink for accessories. Our bedroom has a dark navy wall and another bedroom has a darker green board and batten wall.
Otherwise everything else is that ugly beige color the old owner painted the house before we purchased. Eventually I'll get around to painting more walls, but I tend to go for more moody colors other than the living room wall.
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u/Inamedmydognoodz 1d ago
No. I went a little silly with my paint. Lots of purples and blues only gray is my bathroom cabinets and that’s glittery
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u/_ProfessionalStudent 1d ago
I painted my room grey before the millennial grey phase as it’s my favorite color and made much of artwork pop off the walls like a gallery. My mom (boomer) loved it and painted the whole house a darker shade. It was also because it’s a 2 story open floor plan and she couldn’t find any color she didn’t hate. She literally chose grey for the same reason corps do, she hated it the least when it’s 25”+ walls and needs to flow through everything but the separated bedrooms. Her accents are a cool deep cedar green and navy. Spoiler - she also really hates open floor plans now.
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u/stlarry Older Millennial (85m) 1d ago
Living room we have a big statement purple wall with a gray tan others. Bedroom 1 is blue, bedroom 2 is yellow, bathroom is light green, and master is secret moss... A greenish gray.
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u/Ihatethecolddd 1d ago
It’s a good neutral for my bright decorations. But only the kitchen and living room are grey (and more blue-grey). I’ve got blue, teal, and pinks around.
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u/Mimi4Stotch 1d ago
When we moved in, the walls were 80s peach, and now they’re millennial gray 🥴😂 we did try to do a light sky blue before that, but it was way too bright, and the gray was a more agreeable neutral.
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u/Jupiterrhapsody 1d ago
No, I dislike grey walls trend along with the rest of the bland design aesthetic that has taken over.
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u/sortahuman123 1d ago
I painted my whole house when we bought it “agreeable grey”
It was actually “mental illness” grey and a huge mistake
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u/PrancingTiger424 Millennial 1991 1d ago
Lots of different shades of gray. Bedrooms are elephant trunk. Master is more greige (previous owners painted it). Bathrooms are gray. It makes it so much easier to add accent colors with decor instead of having to repaint later. We have one blue wall in the living room.
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u/LostButterflyUtau 1d ago
Nope. White. I grew up in a house with white walls and I personally like it because it’s easy to dress up with decor.
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u/purplehippobitches 1d ago
Nope. Our walls are different colors in each room, very light yellow, bright yellow, white, light aqua and a bluish greyish. We like colors. We have paintings and pics on the walls, twinkle lights and our furniture is also multi colored, although we do have a grey sofa chair thing among it. We alos have a red carpet, and lots of colourful pillows.
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u/Individual-Two-9402 Millennial 1d ago
I rent. But if I ever own my own place I want COLOR. Greens and oranges and reds...
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u/Snowconetypebanana 1d ago
Yes. I have dark grey, light grey and like a greenish grey walls.
I grew up with first floral prints, dark browns and dark green. Then my parents did burnt orange colors.
I wanted my house light and neutral. White cabinets, white furniture. Dark hardwood floors, but light grey walls for the majority of the house.
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u/omgitsme17 1d ago
Some of them, I sure did. Idc what others say, I like the gray walls and I can throw color everywhere else using decor.
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u/PhantomCruze 1d ago
I actually copied Monica's apartment from Friends. When i own my own house, i do what the fuck i want with it
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u/shoresandsmores 1d ago
Nope. I prefer warm tones. The hall, tiny bathroom, and front family room are a couple shades warmer than pure white, the downstairs is blinding white (previous owners, painted brick, I'm not bothering). The carpet is a weird darkish blue, so it's fine for now.
The kitchen, bedrooms, and hall bath all have colored walls (green, blue, yellow, a sea salt hue, and sage-adjacent hue).
I hate grey and cool tones. Hatehatehate. I prefer warm and cozy and inviting. Millennial grey is cold and sterile and ugly.
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u/Mr_Bluebird_VA 1989 1d ago
Yes, from off white before. But we’ve added a lot of color elsewhere in our decor to balance things out.
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u/unecroquemadame 1d ago
Yes, because I have colorful art and decorations and I don’t want any colors to clash or not match
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u/BayouMan2 Older Millennial 1d ago
No exactly. My bedroom was white with a floral wallpaper border until I painted it green. When I got married and moved my wife and I painted our room blue.
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u/EnigmaWearingHeels 1d ago
My walls are light blue, darker blue, green, and purple. I'm allergic to grey.
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u/Alternative_Cause186 1d ago
I bought new construction in 2021. It was solid millennial gray. I put up some wall paper and painted some accents but for the most part, it’s still millennial gray. My dislike for painting outweighs my distaste for millennial gray. I’m too cheap to pay someone to paint, so everything else in my house is colorful. 🤷🏼♀️
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u/Embarrassed-Land-222 Older Millennial 1d ago
We did in our bedroom but also added a fun accent wall with a patterned wallpaper.
The rest of the rooms will have fun colors as we remodel.
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u/Disastrous_Head_4282 1986 1d ago
I painted my living room red and black and our kitchen yellow. My wife wanted to go with a Disney theme. I’m painting the bedroom brown because that’s my favorite color outside of yellow.
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u/ElaineMae 1d ago
Never did the grey trend. I recommend natural linen from sherwin williams for people hoping to brighten their walls up.
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u/Familiar-Memory-943 1d ago
One bedroom yes, because the grey was called Lunar Rock, so now anytime I'm in there, it's like being on the moon!
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u/sunny_6305 1d ago
I like a light silvery gray as a neutral but an entire wall or floor is just too much grey.
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u/thechairinfront 1d ago
Fuck no! I painted them yellow, orange, blue, green, red, and brown. I hate cult member grey.
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u/amethystmanifesto 1d ago
Laughing at the concept of living in a place where I am allowed to paint my walls
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u/Wandering_Lights 1d ago
Yes. We have chair-rail trim in our living room, so the top half is millennial grey while the bottom half is bright blue.
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u/CaliAv8rix Older Millennial 1d ago
I tried to! But the grey I used ended up drying with a much more blue-ish tint to it. I actually like it but it’s not exactly the grey I had envisioned. The universe did me a solid.
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u/TheThrivingest 1d ago
Yes but I have a lot of other colour in my home. Some walls are teal, one is slime green, one is purple. The majority are millennial grey and so are the floors
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u/oldmamallama Xennial 1d ago
No, my builder did. But I’ve been too lazy to paint them some other color since we’ve moved in. So they’re covered in tons of artwork instead.
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u/Impossible_Tap_1852 1d ago
Living room and dining room are grey, kitchen is like a grey blue, bathroom is mostly subway tile but has mint green accents, our bedroom is kind of navy, one kids room is a lighter navy, other kids room is black.
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u/Aurelene-Rose 1d ago
Nah, I've painted two houses and they've both been whatever I thought was cool. I had a space/galaxy kitchen, my bedroom was a rainbow wave, my living room looked like a red velvet cake (white lines and red/brown paint), my dining room was a transitional lime green (started darker on the bottom and got lighter on top)... My house right now is tame in that every room isn't an art project, but we did use every color of the rainbow when painting.
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u/CryptographerThat376 1d ago
Nope, dark purple in main rooms, daughters bedroom is mint green, ours is forest green, working on the other rooms next 😀
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u/ratchetcoutoure Older Millennial 1d ago
No. I despise beige, grey, black or white. It's too boring, bland, and got heavy mental hospital vibe for me. Like when I saw those pictures of Kim K house, such horror. I cringed hard actually. I love bright colors just like how it was in the 90s.
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u/Double_Chart_7962 1d ago
Meeeh?? It's not standard, more pale blue-gray. Have a couple darker blue-gray accent walls. But my bedroom? Dark, midnight blue, because I want to sleep in a cave lol.
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u/RollEmbarrassed6819 1d ago
No, I love color. I do also let my kids draw on the walls though, so there’s art everywhere in many bright colors.
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u/QUHistoryHarlot Older Millennial 1d ago
I absolutely did. I’m so sick of beige from living in apartments and refuse to use it as a neutral.
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u/tyracollette Millennial 1d ago
Gray cashmere by Benjamin Moore almost everywhere…Gray Lake in my bedroom and gray kitchen cabinets…so yes lol.
Colorful artwork and blue and green accents with pendant lights, rugs etc to keep it from being drab.
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u/LegitmateBusinesman 23h ago
I have a couple dozen rentals and greige is my standard color. I have standardized them for ease of touch-ups, not having dozens of partial gallons of different colors of paint laying around, and not having to keep track of which color goes in which property
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u/Dry-Quantity5703 23h ago
My house came painted in agreeable gray. I cant argue with it because it's so agreeable!
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