13 Paint Colors You Should Never Use in Your Home, According to Experts

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Do not use yellow on the exterior

Even though we spend a lot of time renovating our house both indoors and outdoors and also huge amounts of money to make everything look beautiful, it seems that we can ruin everything just by using a simple unsuitable color, in this case, we are talking about yellow. Not only do we damage the entire exterior design, but also the overall value of our house. 

To be more specific, the effect of colors on the value of houses has been scientifically analyzed by Zillow in 2018 and the results have shown that using yellow on a house’s exterior will significantly decrease its value by approximately $3.000.  

“No matter how beautiful the interior, a yellow exterior fades away the whole look of your home,” says home improvement expert and founder of Renovation Boot Camp, Krishnan Archana. 

Moreover, even though yellow has been a very popular color because it is sunny and bright, some interior designers say to avoid this color even on the interior walls. 

“You have to be very careful with it. While I can see some buttery yellows feeling bright and cheery, bright yellows are aggressive. They can make people feel anxious,” said Heather Humphrey, a founding partner of the interior design firm Alder and Tweed.

This next one can be a royally bad idea…..

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    Pink tile bathrooms!
    I had an idea to paint the ceilings in all rooms and halls one color–off-white veined with gold–and use a different color in each room. A color I’d pick for a study, library or man cave was favored by the Romans–a Venetian or brick red, maybe russet ..

  2. Michael T Greene
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    You probably should not paint any exterior surfaces in sea; brown…unless you don’t mind your place being mistaken for a UPS facility.

    1. Chocolate brown houses are as classic as architecture itself starting with log cabins To early barns and farm houses and classic tudors and Lake Lodge homes.. dark brown homes are classic so they are not as popular and fashionable at this time due to younger less educated and historically inappreciative people …I believe they will always survive if you look in any historic district or places like Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts you can educate yourself to know that chocolate brown was popular and will continue to be popular long before UPS was even in existence and you’re loose association with it is inappropriate and as important as comparing a gray home with a prison floor or a green home with the US Army all colors have their proper place on the right Home with people who have studied color for years and don’t allow their personal emotions to get involved with color selection. We have color trends and we have color style and there was a world that existed way before retro ranches which I happen to appreciate that includes early colonial homes and even early 70s ranches or contemporaries or lake cottages that embraced chocolate brown. Historic homes were often painted dark brown with barn red trim …do your research and maybe you might appreciate it more but I doubt it …reducing dark brown by comparing it with UPS may sound humorous but it’s completely disrespectful to a color that’s always been important in American architecture.

  3. Elizabeth McDougall
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    Trump had destroyed this country ! He is seriously mentally ill !! He has some real mental problems ! That man needs help !! I can’t believe the people that are still following him ! That tells me something about their mentality also !!

    1. uuh souldn’t we be discussing paint colors? if you wish to call people mentally inapt why not target an audience in a forum that wants to hear your Rederic!

  4. This also depends upon whose bathroom we’re discussing. In a child’s bathroom, white would be a problem. But I’ve used it in a master bath with fabulous results; white doors, a wall of built in cabinets in white & bath & shower surround & vanity in white Carrera marble. The room had a bright, spacious & relaxing feel.

  5. It depends who is using the bathroom. Children ? White is a big “no.”
    But it’s great for a master bath. A wall of built ins, white doors on the closet, & white Carrera marble for the tub & shower surround & vanity gave the room a bright, airy & relaxing vibe.

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