Our walls are always white but we have warm colored furniture. Walnut woods, brown leather sofa, etc.

Can't get the survey to work for me for some reason. Count me cool, even in the warm range, like red. I like cherry instead of brick for example.

I am undecided. I wear (and look best in) warm colors, but until recently I have always decorated with cooler tones. Last year I had a color consultation done, and the woman who did it recommended warmer colors. Now our downstairs is painted in shades of yellow, orange and coral, and I couldn't be happier. It is so much warmer and cozier than the blues I used to gravitate toward.

We still have blues and greens upstairs, in the bedrooms. The main floor of our house has the original unpainted wood trim, but the upstairs trim and doors are all white, so it really works well, and it's like the best of both worlds.

I have tried to keep it from looking like two separate houses by using some of the same colors up and down. We used leftover blue paint from my daughter's room to paint the back porch ceiling, and both bathrooms (one up, one down) are painted the same coral color. The hallway is the transitional area, and we have filled it with art and pictures that have lots of blue, but also the warmer tones (which really wasn't even intentional--we had a plan to do a gallery there, and it just sort of worked out that way) and there is a small, old, blue dresser at the top of the stairs that is visible from the door.

really appreciate both, but my place is all warm colors.

I'm cool colored all the way! The description fits me very well. My recently painted bedroom is a charcoal gray and the new bathroom is a nice light/medium gray. My living/dining area is Benjamin Moore Seattle Gray with a deep blue accent wall! Personality fits well, too. Home is a space for relaxation and contemplation. Oh, and the occasional party of course.

I just did a warm and cool mood board for my first client. They picked cool and, so far on my blog, it's winning hands down.

http://thenestinggame.com/2011/08/09/sunshine-and-sea/

I called the pallates "Sunshine" and "Sea," mostly because I can't admit summer is winding down.

I'd love for some AT Readers to give me their opinions. Any love for "Sunshine"?

Well, I love green but not blue, yellow but not red. And to muddy the issue, I like to use a lot of black and white (but not harsh white!) and gray (but not cool grays!)

Going to say warm because while green is my single most favourite decorating colour, I find too much blue usually ruins it before too much yellow does.

I have chosen the colors for my home from antique Japanese prints my mother bought in San Francisco in the 40s. Teal, persimmon, grey, indigo, celadon and khaki. They have the perfect red bamboo frames. It gives me options that work well with the light. However, I am putting plantation shutters in my living room and may need to make some changes. I also have some new, wonderful paintings to add to the mix. It is very exciting.

What I have found is that for me, color & decor is dictated by climate & surroundings. For ex. We moved to an island in the Caribbean & had to build out and decorate a grocery store & restaurant on the water. I went down with my favorite RL colors from living in CO & they looked horrible there! Went with the local flavor of tangerines, corals, yellows & bright blues and fell in love with it. Moved to MN from there and went back to warm comfy colors & decor.

Warm colors to make my living room cozy. Cool colors for my bedroom to make it serene and calm.

Warm, definitely warm!

So I just moved into a new apartment, where I'm not allowed to paint, and the walls are a cool grayish color. While I'm usually more of a cool/lilac person, I'm finding myself looking longingly at all these pictures of 'warm' spaces and thinking my living room needs some warmth. Any suggestions for someone who can't paint a whole wall yellow? (Furniture is also already in place and it's a cool beige color).

Ok, I'm a warm, which explains why I like most of the wood "before" pictures, would only paint wood if it was beyond restoring, and find most of the white painted kitchen cabinets to make for rooms that are too "cool" for me. And I see now why that's a minority viewpoint on this blog ... there are more "cool" loving folks here! (So there's really no point debating which looks better, as it is likely hardwired personality type that determines our preference in design. And, sure, some of us do find Meyers Briggs personality types and sun signs to be surprisingly apt descriptives.)

Some good insights here. I also tend to decorate warmer in living/dining/kitchens, and slightly cooler in bedrooms. I think the climate does have something to do with it, largely due to the quality of the light. Wintry climates can use wam colors sometimes, and a cool colored room is a respite from heat and harsh light.

On this hot summer day, I am attracted to the cool colors. But I wonder - if instead it was snowing outside, might I label myself as warm?

I've always loved cool colors, even in the middle of winter. Toss in some blues and greys, silver and steel, maybe a fireplace and some light colored woods and i'm pretty much happy.

I can't listen to the video right now -- so count me as uninformed, but I thought warm and cool referred to hues rather than colors?

That said, I tend to like warm hues of traditionally 'cool' colors. I like charcoals, fern/mossy greens (but not lime), the blue from real blueberries (I'm warming up to teal, but still not quite a fan) -- all of which are colors that go great with natural woods. This is in addition to rusty oranges (not traffic cones) and brick reds (not fire-engine).

(As a note, everything but the wall-color in the left "cool" room below the jump, for me, runs on the warm side -- even the i'm-growing-to-accept teal chair. Meanwhile, the white trim in the left "warm" room is decidedly cool, which makes the contrast with the wall color rather uncomfortable.)

I prefer the cooler hues of all colors. Except oranges, I guess. There are cool hot pinks, seriously. They are the best hot pinks. :p

Always preferred warm colors, but since we're now decorating a concrete house in a hot tropical city... we're going mostly for cool colors. hello, teal!

Both. Mixing the two into harmony is the only way to go.

To Spectogram: I'm an ISTJ Meyers-Briggs and I'm COOL for color choice. I don't know your first 3 letters on the personality quiz, but you appear to be as judgmental as I am! Oh, and I'm Aquarius, in case you were at all curious.

"If you've answered warm, it's likely you're an outgoing, exuberant person who loves to surround themselves with friends and family. You'd also love to entertain more, right?"

Nope. I just like warm colours.

@Spectrogram:
I don't apply simplistic labels to myself. I don't remember my Myers-Briggs classification even though I've done the test a couple of times. Yet I found this thread interesting: because it's something I had never thought about before. I thought I was open to all colours, yet this post and the colour cure video made me realise that I am overwhelmingly drawn to the cool colour family. That doesn't mean I'm pidgeon-holed; it doesn't mean that these are the colours I'm stuck with for life; it just means that this is where I'm at at present and will assist me when I'm impulse-buying things for the home. So, all in all, a useful thread.

I like a mix. I can't imagine all of one. Although in my own home there are rooms that are mostly one and mostly the other. In the dining room/sunroom, the sun rises so I used a lot of white and blue to accentuate the morning light, and in the living room the sun sets so I use yellows, reds, and tans to emphasize the colors of the sunset.

I tend to like cool colors in the bathroom and kitchen. IMO cool feels more clinical and clean and warm is more cozy.

buuuut if I had to pick I would choose warm. Colors like golds, reds, oranges, mustard yellows and natural colored woods.

It's a minority position here, but I very much dislike gray because to me it's depressingly ugly. I much prefer white with black to gray. When I'm around only grayed, cool color I feel low on energy compared to when I'm around at least some pretty warm color with high contrast.

I think it really depends on the space and my mood. So I'm undecided.

I love the white couch in the second picture - anyone know where it's from?

I am neither warm or cool colored and so I don't understand how one could be either one or the other. In the spirit of the post I will just accept that one can in fact be one or the other and say I am neither/both because I require contrast, as in, I feel rooms should be balanced with both cool and warm colors. At first I agreed with Spectrogram that simplistic labels are stupid until I realized I used the word balance in my response to warm and cool colors and remembered that I am a Libra. I hate when this sort of thing happens.

It's interesting that cool is winning by a large margin. We frequently see comments from the warm fans that say the room needs to be warmed up. You don't see the cool fans criticizing a room for being too warm.

warm in colour identity; but cool in the sense that I treasure my 'room of my own'. I don't liek too many people. I like it quiet. I don't even watch tv. I just read. But I get my energy from vibrant colour.

I am mostly cool, but I shift into the warm range as well. It depends on the room, what I want to evoke, which color, etc. Morning rooms: kitchen and bath, I prefer warm. Cool colors don't work in my mind where things get hot and humid. But if I want a cooler feel in my relaxing rooms and living space.

love cool but live in a 'warm' rental. trying to make it work. How do you cool down butter walls and mahogany colored wood floors?

ngnerd: There are a lot of people saying that "the room needs decluttering", or that "it must be a nightmare to clean" or "you have too much stuff !". I'm guessing those are the cool persons.

I'm a "temperate" person: warm bedroom (I hate to wake up), warm kitchen and bathroom (hello, mornings), but cool home office, living room and dining room. I guess I need warm and cool colors at different times in my day.

I love being a warm person but am SEW tired of all the browns and reds in my home so I'm inching my way towards the cooler side of life...or at least a happy medium.