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vegalady
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If you moved into a brand new home???
that u just finished building would you paint the walls? I want to do our bedroom in Tiffany Blue using the BM Brittany Blue color and also need some curtains for the window. However, DH says we shouldnt paint the room b/c we just moved in. Sound silly or am I just not understanding his reasoning? 
ETA the walls are white
Message edited 3/17/2009 11:37:17 AM.
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babymakes3
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
That's silly. Paint makes it feel like a home and comfortable.
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| Posted 3/17/09 10:37 AM |
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GoldenRod
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
What does the age of the house have to do with painting? Even if it was painted last week, if you don't like the color, repaint it! Paint isn't that expensive. It's not like you're tearing out brand-new hardwood flooring to put a different species of wood flooring down.
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| Posted 3/17/09 10:38 AM |
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tourist
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
Maybe he feels that you already paid for it to be painted (white, I'm assuming) as part of the construction process, so it is a waste to do it again?
I agree with you though--it's a new home & you want to decorate, so painting is part of that!
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| Posted 3/17/09 10:44 AM |
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JldDolphin
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
I would want to make the house my Home and you def. can do that with paint color. Unless you had the rooms painted with color already and your DH is mad that you want to change it already. But I'm assuming that the house is just painted white at this point. I would want to paint it and make it my own.
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| Posted 3/17/09 10:55 AM |
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want2beamom
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
We didn't move ino a brand new home, but we gutted it, and now have to repaint everything. It's soo hard trying to figure out colors.
I was at a benjamin moore store this weekend, and I was talking to the lady there. She said that I should paint all the walls beige, and then paint color down the line so that I get a feel for the house. While this sounds great, I can't live with just beige walls---so it's on to the stress of picking color.
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| Posted 3/17/09 11:27 AM |
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Megs4
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
I definitely did not move into a brand new home, but in the home I moved into every room was painted white. We didn't have to paint right away since that was the case, but I have only been living there a week and only one room is not yet painted.
I love how quickly it made it feel like our house and our taste/style.
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Otherme
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
I don't think it makes a difference if the home is new or not..
paint color is part of what makes a plain house into your home when you add your touches to it. Think of it as a blank canvas waiting for you to make it your own.
Maybe your DH doesn't understand that and is being more practical about it rather than thinking of decorating to make it your own home
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MarisaK
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
Don't they say w/ new construction that you have to wait for the house to 'settle' or something before you should paint??
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| Posted 3/17/09 11:51 AM |
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MommaG
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
Posted by MarisaK
Don't they say w/ new construction that you have to wait for the house to 'settle' or something before you should paint??
Exactly what I was thinking - they say to give it a year for any nail pops, little cracks from doorway corners, poor spackle and tape jobs, etc to show up so you can fix them before you paint your final color. The house will settle and you never know how many of those little annoyances will show up. Maybe that's what your DH meant?
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Jenn627
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
We did new construction (kind of) and painted our house right away.
The only thing that's "settling" is the crown moulding. We have spaces in the corners and where the pieces meet. We have ZERO problems with our paint.
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| Posted 3/17/09 12:26 PM |
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vegalady
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
Posted by MommaG
Posted by MarisaK
Don't they say w/ new construction that you have to wait for the house to 'settle' or something before you should paint??
Exactly what I was thinking - they say to give it a year for any nail pops, little cracks from doorway corners, poor spackle and tape jobs, etc to show up so you can fix them before you paint your final color. The house will settle and you never know how many of those little annoyances will show up. Maybe that's what your DH meant?
yes i think that i what he meant. Its been one year now so i guess its good to paint now.
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| Posted 3/17/09 12:37 PM |
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GoldenRod
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
Posted by MommaG
Posted by MarisaK
Don't they say w/ new construction that you have to wait for the house to 'settle' or something before you should paint??
Exactly what I was thinking - they say to give it a year for any nail pops, little cracks from doorway corners, poor spackle and tape jobs, etc to show up so you can fix them before you paint your final color. The house will settle and you never know how many of those little annoyances will show up. Maybe that's what your DH meant?
A year!?!??!! Who's going to live in a brand-new house for a year with just spackle on the walls? That's insane... You don't want spackle exposed to the elements. It's easy to nick it if it isn't painted, and it can absorb moisture if it isn't sealed.
Half of our house is brand-new, from the foundation up, and there's no settling. If you're worried about settling, even older houses settle. Sometimes, it's just what a house does, whether it's 1 year, or 10 years old.
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TheLorax
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
Yes! I would definitely paint. I LOVE color, and I feel like painting the walls helps make a house feel like a home.
Tiffany Blue walls sound GORGEOUS! 
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IrishLasss334
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
Posted by MarisaK
Don't they say w/ new construction that you have to wait for the house to 'settle' or something before you should paint??
Yes, ths is true. My friend built a new home and the contractor put Apache White (basically a light beige) on the walls because in the contract they have to come back in one year after the house is finished to fix any cracks in the wall from the house settling.
I told my MIL this and she thought I was crazy, so she painted all the walls in her house. Now, in the blue den, there is a crack from coming down from the ceiling that is highly visible. It would not be so visible if it was a light color.
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GoldenRod
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
Posted by IrishLass
Posted by MarisaK
Don't they say w/ new construction that you have to wait for the house to 'settle' or something before you should paint??
Yes, ths is true. My friend built a new home and the contractor put Apache White (basically a light beige) on the walls because in the contract they have to come back in one year after the house is finished to fix any cracks in the wall from the house settling.
I told my MIL this and she thought I was crazy, so she painted all the walls in her house. Now, in the blue den, there is a crack from coming down from the ceiling that is highly visible. It would not be so visible if it was a light color.
But the crack needs to be fixed no matter what. If the entire room is painted the final color, it takes 15 minutes to patch the crack, then 1 minute to paint the patch. If it was white, you would spend the same 15 minutes fixing the crack, then hours emptying the room, hours taping and masking, hours painting, then hours moving everything back into the room.
I'd vote for painting now, and maybe spending 16 minutes in a year to patch any problems.....
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vegalady
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Re: If you moved into a brand new home???
i do notice that we do have some cracks but they are not visible at all they are like in the ceiling in the corner. but that is from the house settling i guess.
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