Not here. Mom grew up with lots of green, yellow, and orange so their house is loaded with blue and it's her favorite color. When I first moved out, I liked blue for a short time but, as I started to find my style, that changed. My go tos are warm colors - red, green, gold, rust. I do happen to really like navy blue though.

Like many of of us here, I can apprecite blue and other colors not listed above in other people's homes.

definitely not! My mom was a white walls, plaid furniture, and dark brown carpet kind of gal. My parents didn't have decorating high on their priorities of life (they were more gardeners and their decorations were all the flowers in their yard). My dad never let us hang anything on the walls either. So I'd say my dh and I are quite different!

No. My mom was a great decorator and loved it. She had more blue than we have in our home and more pale shades. She had wonderful taste. I have inherited her love of antiques and use many in our home. I have not kept our home the same colors over our married life either. Seems as if each home has had it's own color scheme.

A happy memory of my mom is her always allowing/encouraging our creativity. She was always happy to help us decorate our rooms and let us choose the colors. She was a whiz at sewing and could whip up a set of curtains in a flash. My favorite was my pink/green bedroom.

tina

My mother has typically always leaned towards neutrals. Beiges or sand color as she calls it. If she introduces any color it's maybe a true blue or a primrose mauve. My colors are yellows, blues and greens and I use very different colors of blue. I do lean towards Gingham fabrics though. They were big in our house growing up. My whole bedroom was done in varied sizes of gingham fabric (blue) and I have a pair of curtains my mother sewed for the kitchen window once when I was about 6-7 years old. Yellow Gingham with rick rack trim. So maybe I do just a tad.

No copying here either. My parents used pastel colors with bright white ceilings, primarily blues and greens. I wouldn't be caught dead with those colors in our home, largely because I can't stand those colors and also because we're in an old Arts & Crafts home and those colors look horrible with all of the stained wood. Dark earth tones will always be used on the walls in our home and ceilings will either be a lighter shade of the wall color or beige.

Not really. My mom prefered soft muted colors. I like more vibrant colors.

When my mom owned a house her sofa was red. My sisters and I have red sofas. So...to that extent I'd say we inherited some of her decorating palette. Now Mom's sofa is blue. Mom and my baby sister tend to be much more conservative and like things to "match". My younger sister and I, not so much!

But the family joke amongst we sisters is "There will ALWAYS be a red sofa!"

No, Mom's favorite color seems to be yellow ... my colors are deep grens, blues and purples ... totally different.

No, my mother has had many color schemes over the years, but my colors have always been different from hers. My mother is a blond and I am a brunette. I suspect that the differences in our color schemes have a connection to our choices of colors that look good on us as clothing. I think that we translate those clothing colors into colors we use in decor.

I sometimes think my traditional leanings stem from ideas of how I wished my childhood home had been. I never knew my Mother to decorate. I don't remember any rooms ever being painted (and if they had been I am sure children would not been consulted). I think they were probably more into washing walls than painting them (TV shows were black & white & not a decorating show among them). My DS room has been painted 3 or 4 times as often than any other room in the house, and with his input.

Mostly I would say no. Decorating at our house growing up was not a top priority since the family was big. My mother decorated in the golds, avocado and browns in the house I grew up in. Now her small home is blue, everywhere blue.

I tend to like red and greens with a bit of neutral tan or beige. Her's was and still is the colonial look while mine - well I haven't figured out the name just yet : ).

Although, I do remember my DIY father coming home with the "perfect" new tiles for the kitchen when I was a teen. Gray and maroon - I can't remember what color he thought they were - he was color blind - but he just thought they were the best. They stayed up for many years until the kitchen was redone! Still makes me smile.

Chris

I inherited her sensibilities, although I am a more self-motivated decorator than she was\. She always said she had the self awareness to know that she needed someone to do it for her, even in her taste. I got a degree so I could do it myself.

But I got a lot of my taste and feelings about how to do things "correctly" from her,,,more than a specific "scheme".

If you mean builder-white walld, then yes. I had no trouble painting our 1920s homes. But this one? It's still the bland off-white that the POs chose, and we've been here four years. I don't recall my mother ever painting a wall or changing a piece of wallpaper other than repainting the same colors after about 15 years.

As for decor, my mom doesn't really have a decorating style other than "cheap and comfortable". She doesn't consider the big picture when making her choices, so everything ends up hodge-podge. I just kind of cringe and look the other way when I look at her choices. I'm sure she does the same with mine.

colors..no, skill, talent yes!

Hard to know because there was no money for decorating when I was growing up. Also, my dad is a beige guy. Would never let her do any kind of color on the walls. He usually wanted everything wall papered (so he didn't have to paint) and even then the paper had to be beige with almost no pattern. So, their house now that they moved to in an adult community (over 20 years ago!) is completely wall papered and very beige. I tried to help them pick it out when they moved in but my dad hated everything I picked. I think my mom likes my taste, but she never gets to do anything like what I do. I am sure my dad hates my house. Lots of not beige rooms!

I do notice that my daughter has very similar taste to me. We have a great time shopping for things for her and her boyfriend's new condo. When he bought it, he told my DD that he wanted it to look like my house! OK, he can marry my daughter:-) He he he.

Jakabedy and I share the same mother. Mine is the wall paper border Queen.

She did have some bold color choice when I was growing up, but nothing I would have chosen. Now her house is pretty beige & boring with the exception of her beloved borders.

My choices are always bold and somewhat eclectic. My sister, however, is more like mom with her color choices. But she's got to be match-matchy, which my mom definitely is not.

i think my mom was a 'safe' decorator... not too strong of a statement. walls were more often than not an off-white color, which i always thought to be terribly boring. i prefer much more color than my mom did---she also didn't make too many changes---she owned the same living room furniture her whole married life-nice quality--reupholstered it only once or twice...!!

Not a chance of that happening. My mom has nice taste, simple and elegant and traditional, But, all white is her color scheme. Her kitchen is immaculate, but she has NOTHING on the counters, and with everything all white, it looks like an operating room. Oh, and not one, but twice, because both her home here in IL and the one in FL are basically the same.

Of course, she hates my house because everything ISN"T white!

My parents used whatever was available for free or cheap... I grew up with an orange carpet remnant in my room and now that I'm married, they've made my room her sewing room with purple carpet squares that they got free somewhere, LOL.

Mother enjoyed rearranging furniture, restaging things, flower arranging, and tablesetting. I've definitely inhaled and ingested that part of her. I think much of the color schemes of her house were filtered through Dad, though. He was not to be messed with so she had to quietly work around him.

When I was in gr. 9 I watched Mom redecorate the first floor of the house. That educated me for all kinds of things, real modeling of the process. She would share with me swatches of fabric, paint colors, etc. and said "I'm going to see if we can pull this green out of this drapery print and use it on the walls." As long as Dad was happy with her decisions, it happened.

In her Dad-less widowhood in an assisted living apartment, she's still got the red reuholstered furniture, but I notice that there's a lot of yellow in her choices, if she gets to make any choices. The walls of the 1960 redo were apple green. All of these colors are in my house, but no blue. She chose more blues than I do.

Sorry I didn't get back sooner, we lost our internet after I did this topic and only now got it back!

My mom was a natural born decorator, but I don't have her genes.

I wonder if I lean towards the colors I have because of the comfy/secure feeling of childhood, and now my son is doing the same?

I need a good shrink. :)

No. My mom had red orange oriental statuary all over the house. Black stained oriental coffee table & end tables. Two black vinyl club chairs and The Four Seasons oriental lady pictures hung all over.

NO WAY!!!! :0)

No...

My mom might have painted an accent wall or two in a bright color but that's about it.

I did acquire a love of antiques from her, but not her decorating sense. She currently decorates with tuscan colors and a contemporary style. I'm a neutral girl who trends towards beige palettes and traditional/vintage pieces.

There are three decades between us.... I think our styles have been influenced by very different experiences and passions.

My mom had a lot of blue and teal streamlined type furnitue mixed with quirky. I like a little teal and a little quirky but thats the end of being alike on decorating. My mom also had the couch covered in somewhat matching cloths and we were not allowed to sit on it without a cover. When my parents divorced 14 years later my dad got the couch, took off the covers and it looked show room new. Unfortunatley he then mixed that cool couch with a wagon wheel love seat and nasty left over from the sixties yellow and brown wall paper in a large print...I shutter!!! Sometimes city and country do not mix in more ways than one.

Yes, there is a paint color that my Mom used years ago in her home that continues to be used in her current home, my sister's master bedroom, my old master bed/bath, and will be used in my new master bed/bath. :) BM 1586 Silver Mink

I think my mom and I have similar decorating styles. Although my house is more rustic and hers is definitely not, we both like cottage style and use similar colors and accessories.