I HATE WHITE WALLS! A Designer & Painter's Rant (You Won't Agree)

I love white walls in a house not cluttered. If you have white walls with a cluttered house, it just looks like you gave up on customizing the place

Love my SW Pure White walls and ceiling with the natural stone fire place and natural slate floors. These walls were a depressing mustard brown with little natural light in the summer. Pure White lifted the whole space. It is light, clean, and rustic. Took a primer coat and two coats of paint. The walls have a knock down texture and had the popcorn removed from the ceiling. Perhaps a taupe color would have worked but I wanted a contrast to the stone fireplace. No regrets.

White walls are so bland. People use it thinking it’s a safe choice and it’s not safe at all.

In our house, we have a few white walls, but used in contrast to the color. My husband likes the effect of the line of the color wall meeting the white wall. But no room completely white and most rooms are completely one color. I lived in rented apartments for some years and just came to hate the all white.

Last year, I repainted my guest bathroom walls from a green pastel (Sherwin Williams Opaline) to Valspar's Paramount White. It took four coats to get rid of the green. I swear I can still see the green through four coats, but it is probably just anxiety and a paint trauma response...😅

I love the spaciousness that white walls create. I bring my colours in through artwork, furniture and pillows and can change those up easily.

We finally agree 100%....remeber Christopher Lowell? " no more white walls"

The house depends

I hate white walls too!

Oh no! I was going to paint my walls BM Swiss coffee! I love bright art and patterns in rugs I wanted my walls to just chill in the background! Also Seattle is so gray wanted something sunny without being actual yellow! Paint is so hard

I'm going with white walls. I have had Country White. (yellow leaning for 20 plus years.) I'm ready for less yellow. ;)

I got the cheapo bug and tried using a Home Depot white latex semi-gloss paint for trim in one room. After three or four coats on well-primed wood, it still didn’t cover well and remained streaky. I ended up re-priming, then going back to my usual Benjamin Moore oil-based enamel and it worked beautifully. Trying to save a few dollars with a cheap paint ended up costing much more in time and effort, and some money. I just don’t like latex paints for trimwork, they show brushwork and streaks, don’t level well and never harden like oil-based enamel. (I use only the very best natural-bristle brushes and a careful technique for painting trim, it wasn’t that). As for white walls, they’re a bit of a cop-out in my opinion, the usual “safe and neutral” contractor’s option.

I also dislike white walls - such a dirt magnet! I prefer off white, with a tinge of yellow or brown (not grey).

Can you please tell me - color drenching/monochromatic my interior of the home - Which is it Walls -flat? Or satin? Baseboards & cabinets & doors - satin or semigloss ? Im about to start painting portion of our build and I’m not sure what finishes out of these look “best” on the standard medium orange peel textured walls 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Help plz!

Something else about white walls. And this something else…depends on the lighting in the room. Whether the lights are of natural light, LED or by and off of incandescent light bulbs from lamps and ceiling fan lights, white walls…look more like…a sandy white-ish. Your white walls will come off as a…different shade of a brownish white, somewhere between a light to hazy taupe-y color, in layman’s terms, it’s a lot like a load of white clothes going in and through the washer time after time, wash after wash, to further that by saying white clothes…will start to yellow overtime, i.e. your basically looking at and surrounded by yellowed white walls. So, yeah, James, I’m on the same page with you. I am no fan of white walls. It looks great and gorgeous at first but, like that load of white clothes? Give it time and they will start yellowing on you.

I have honey oak trim all over the house. Window molding, baseboards and doors. White would make the wood trim darker and stand out more🤢🤮

the white bathroom at 3:50, all black metals is way too much, should they have not mixed the metalsi

I grew up with white walls (that my parents meticulously touched up on a regular basis). I doubt I would ever have them again. White is a hard “color” to pick right, also.

Me tooooooo😢😢😢😢😢😢

can't stand white walls, but I dislike gray walls as much as that.