What color is your sewing room?
 

Planning on painting my sewing room this spring. We've been living in "the white house" for way to long and bored with it. Been looking at "perfect" sewing rooms on line and see lots of pastel colors, pink, yellow, lime green, even a brick wall! So if you are redesigning your sewing room, what color for the walls did you choose? Will you have an "accent color" wall? My fav color is red but I know that's bad for walls, best for accent...probably accessories. My room is small, about 10x10 so I know bright colors are out. Way too many color options.

Mine is sort of a spring green color...brighter when the sun is shining.

Color tolerance is such a personal choice. You might not like my choices. I don't tolerate drab or gloomy colors. Our house colors are bright tropical colors. My sewing room is painted in SW 6786 at the moment. It will be re-done this year. No white walls ever! I suggest going to a paint store and purchasing one the fan decks with chips or get some of the sample brochures. I like SW paints typically. Start a notebook with some sheet protectors for ideas/samples. Add a layout of the room. Make notes of the activities or spaces you need to organize.

Storage needs?

What direction does the room face?

What type of lighting do you have available?

What flooring is in the room that needs to work with the paint color?

I like to start with a fabulous fabric and make a fun valance. Then work through the paint sample process. You want to purchase a pack of wall boards to put the samples on. You can move it around the room and take it with you when making other selections. Don't put the sample directly on the wall over the current color.

I love the planning part. It's a time to play and dream! Good luck!

My walls are an off white color, but I have one wall with red accents such as mini quilts, a small barn quilt, button jars on a shelf, etc. all in red. My curtains were made from an old red and cream checked table cloth. The red really brightens my room and is my focal point.

tee hee.....I don't even know what color my room is....too much fabric all over the place. I actually would think I would pick a boring neutral color especially if I am planning on having a design wall so the color of the room would not influence the color of the fabric I am working with. Oh, my grandparents did have a bright red ceiling in their kitchen....I loved it. They also had a red gingham checked table cloth and red accents. I drank much lemonade out of that red ceramic pitcher of my grandmothers.

My sewing room is my old lavender bedroom. The focal point is a painting by my talented Aunt Marian of lavender and white lilacs. It is so cluttered I barely notice the lovely walls.

Jmoore, love your color and sewing studio. ????...is your studio always so tidy? lol

Mine is a pale cream above the chair trail and SW Commodore blue below it. I have a bright red giant cabinet so it’s a colorful space.

By default my sewing area is brown...wood paneling, brown window frame and cill, brown cork board which is pretty cool for arranging blocks, wooden machine cabinet and forest green carpet. All came with the walk out lower level which was decorated in rustic lodge motif. There is a "bar" that opens into laundry room with sink, frig, microwave and old fashioned ring burners. I can face out the window and watch the birds, or turn towards the woodburning brick fireplace. DH doesn't seem to mind the setup which can be all folded up and "put away" for parties. I mostly do what I can with what I have. There is a high shelf around 3 walls and it is great for my see through plastic boxes of scraps, mason jars of clips, pins and used needles. I have an old small library card catalog for threads, zippers, trims and more. There is a tray of old wooden spools from my mother and mother-in-law. So brown it is. I cannot complain and will focus on the pleasure of sewing and the views the room commands.

this is funny sort of. This past summer I painted everything in my sewing room white. All my cabinets are white too. Makes my room look brighter and shows off my fabric on shelves real nice. Hope you find a color you like.

Mine is being painted today in SW white mint. Very pleasing much like the spring green mentioned above. Green is my fav color and I wanted it light.

“Costal Fog” by. Benjamin Moore. I love how it seems to change colors with the light. It is a greenish grey.

I have about the same color as Jmore, a light spring green. My whole house has this wall color. I took a fabric scrap to the paint store and had the paint mixed to match it.

I've never been able to select a color for my sewing room since it was unused bedroom. I waited over four months before I moved my stuff in for my hubby to paint it.... never happened so I moved everything. THEN he says "I was going to paint it for you!" Since it was the start of planting....
Now I'm in an apartment that I'm not allowed to paint so the walls are a creamy beige. But I have a big window and good lights. I'm aiming to cover the exposed walls with a displays and storage.... and quilts and wall hangings.
The people who bought my house mentioned to my neighbour that "this lady sure liked blue!" The whole main floor was painted a mediuim sky blue. Wonder where she got that idea? ;)

To make for true color readings in designing a quilt, I want my sewing room bright white with “daylight” bulb lighting. Colored walls make colored fabric “read” different.

Mine looks almost the same as jmoore but more to a blue shade pastel. I am very happy with it and it works well. I have had avocado green and yellow also but prefer this.

I like to keep my sewing room walls as light as possible-this room was already painted boring beige lol but it works because my room is so colorful.

What color is your sewing room?
 

I just couldn't decide.....so I used 'em all. :)

My sewing room is a pale orchid color with a hint of grey to it. Goes with pretty much anything on my walls.

Mine is a light green

Mine is such a pale blue it looks white with light yellow closet doors. I have recently changed all the light bulbs to the daylight so there is no yellow haze anymore. It's drove me crazy that fabric seemed to change color when I would take it outside. My DH walked in and was amazed by the difference.

I love my sewing room so much! We painted it Tame Teal by Sherwin Williams in semi gloss that we purchased in Lowes. All the cabinets are white. The cutting table is white and so are the countertops. I used glass drawer pulls and glass door knobs. It is in a daylight basement facing north with two large windows. Lots of ceiling can lights and white Christmas lights around the perimeter of the room makes for a light, bright, clean feeling wonderful sewing room. I have only my amazing husband to thank!

my room is a very light purple/white
 

But I wish I had painted it a very light gray, I'm a dental lab. tech. and we work in rooms that are very light gray so they don't effect the colors your eyes see, we also use daylight bulbs to keep the light in the room from casting yellows into the room. I also have a dark purple accent wall made from chalkboard paint, wish I had not done that too... I may change it this year.

I was going for lavender, myself, until our child with a fine art degree said that color reflecting from the walls would affect how I perceived colors of fabric and thread. There are several windows that I thought would help with that, but I followed her advice, anyway.

hugs,
charlotte

When we moved here I couldn't decide what color so it is just a cream color with white trim. I could change it easily, but, it seems okay. I'm not distracted or disturbed by it. I'm comfortable in there.

Mine are a soft floral wall paper. It is very relaxing when sewing. I have never thought about changing this room. I would love to redo the ceilings however. They are just not in the budget right now.

I am also aware of how colour can affect what you see. After the floor is done I will change the dark turquoise walls to a light yellow or a dark cream. I am thinking then that with the right lighting that my fabric colours will be true.

My studio is “Butter Yellow” and is located in the SW corner of our home with almost floor to ceiling window (with vertical blinds) on the west side.

Judy in Phx, AZ

I moved into my current home in May. All walls except the main bedroom were a cream color, probably due to realto.advice to the previous owners. My sewing room is the 2nd bedroom & is on the SE corner of my house. It gets great light. I did want to change the room some, so I bought a pale yellow for it. I have Ott lights on my cutting & sewing tables to assist with true fabric colors. My drawer space is a wonderful 12-drawer cabinet rescued from a redo of a college biology lab. A friend & I sanded it, painted the insides of the drawers (due to college kids' graffiti) put a polymer coating & casters on it, & moved it in. It's wonderful, & a lovely golden oak color.

I live in a cabin, so my walls are an aged fir...amber brown. If I had drywall on my walls, I'd paint them either white, or a very pale gray to show off all of the other colors of the quilts.

I have a very soft aqua color, all white furniture. If it wasn't such a mess most of the time, would be a very calm and soothing color scheme

Mine is pretty much the basic beige, came with the house when we moved a couple of years ago. Do what makes you happy.

Mine is a pale grayish tan. I really really wanted a bright color, but I worried it would get to be too much once I started hanging up things.

I painted all my walls the whitest white I could find. My thinking was that color on the walls might reflect on fabric and change the way I perceived the color. Also that there would be plenty of decorative color what with brown cabinets, colored fabric on open shelves, books, stencils, and books. I only have one very tiny window so there is not much light. My choice was right for me. There is so much to take into account. If I had big windows the white might be too bright on the eyes!

I'm chuckling to myself..my sewing room was a bedroom with walls painted 14 years ago. I guess my choice of SW Muslin was destined to be the color of a sewing room...now to add some mini quilts to brighten the walls up a bit!

Mine is a pale buttery yellow, a bit paler than the yellow on this site.

My sewing room is in the basement with a fairly large window just above ground level that faces NW, there is a fence about 6 feet from the window so it gets limited natural light.

Thanks Julie, I love it too...and yes it is usually tidy. DH says I am anal and a bit OCD but I have a room all to myself and so it stays clean.