I prefer saturated, clear, bright colors. I'd guess the people who like putty are the same ones who like gray. They seem about the same to me.

I think it's elegant.

Love it. Our bedroom (before recently moving) was the perfect variation of putty, that was bright and warm.

I'm not a fan. I can't see bright accessories working well with it. I prefer bright white walls and tons of color everywhere else.

It's classic.

I always go back and forth between neutrals and saturated colors. But I love some of these images. These rooms are quite soothing and elegant.

I have always wanted to try this but fear that m house would seem boring. All of the pictures I pin though seem to be this colour. Maybe next house.

I like these rooms, but I do not think I am a "putty" person.

I love image 4. But I see gray (floors), green (closest and furthest walls and sofa), brown (fireplace), black (doors), and white (fireplace-adjacent wall, carpet). No putty?

Love the color and the pictures....I think the color is great as long as your furniture/accessories have some kick..and to me the furniture and accessories in those pictures pulls the color off-Great Job!

Isn't putty close to 'greige'? I have to say I wasn't that into it until I decided on Benjamin Moore's 'jute' for the dining room, with creamy white for trim ('mascarpone'). We have TONS of bright colors in the dining room/kitchen/living room, and it's a great backdrop. It's a real color, but it does change with the light, so it's more than it seems.

So, putty = greige, right? I do like it a lot, especially if it's not too green or brown (ideally like the 2nd or 3rd pic, not #4 or #5). One of those soothing colors that lets you know it's there (i.e. isn't just neutral contractor's beige) but goes with everything and feels both traditional and modern, comfortable and sophisticated.

Elegant but dull. Sophsticated but boring. Soothing but muted. These rooms look nice, but if I needed a home THAT soothing I'd be looking to de-stress my life. They just don't seem to have any fun to them. I'm not anti-neutral, I love grey rooms and white rooms (although there are none of either in my home at the moment) but this neutral just doesnt do it for me. Makes me sleepy.

I never thought of myself as a putty type of person until I tried picking out wall colors with my husband. It was an excruciating process, and we finally ended up with a griege as the color we could both be somewhat happy with. It does look sophisticated with white trim, and it is calming, but to me a bit boring.

To me Greige = the compromise color.

I think this color has its place - when I said we chose it for our dining room/kitchen/living room, it was in the context of every other room in the house, including hallways, being painted a grayed out deep color or gray itself. We have a small Cape Cod and most rooms are small so deep colors make them cozy, but the dining room/kitchen/living room are all one flowing space, with regular height ceilings in the dr (originally the living room) and kitchen; the living room is an addition with two story pitched ceiling. The previous owners painted the living room and the wall joining it in the kitchen a deep burgundy with a bright white ceiling, which looks okay but kinda contrasty. The putty color we're using now allows those three spaces to flow better (they're linked visually and physically) and is a great backdrop for books, art, and all the color. Not boring at all, in my opinion. Plus, we used the Affinity line from Benjamin Moore and the colors really do work well together.

Putty? You mean the beige and taupe colors in the examples? "Putty" is just cop out way of saying you like beige. I like beige, it gets a bad wrap. It's not the color, it's the way it's used (or over used) that's bad.

Before we moved in a few months ago, my landlord painted our entire apartment putty. It's quite nice, but we've run into a little predicament. The kitchen is white on white on white and all different shades of white.

There's nothing to be done about the white cabinets and white subway tile backsplash, but we want to paint the walls a strong colour. Something in the orange spectrum.

Since the kitchen and (putty coloured) living room open into one another, will this be a mistake?

I'm not a fan of putty, I find it kind of blah. I do love grey, but a colder more bluish tone.

Coming full circle back to renter's beige.

This colour killed me during the year that I had to live with it in my loft. Far too boring and suffocating to me.

I prefer even neutrals to be clearly identifiable colors, painting bright white on interior walls and pale gray that reads as white on exterior trim. I avoid putty, most grays, beige, greige, sand, and taupe since they seem dusty, muddy non-colors. Putty in particular is associated with old office equipment and business offices, utilitarian rather than homey or elegant. That said, color preference is so personal that putty could work with others' palettes and home styles.

Well...I hate to go against the flow, but mark me down for a HUGE fan of putty. And, it's SO NOT beige.

Not to be harsh, but I despise this color. Bleh! If it's going to be "neutral" I prefer white. It's crisp and clean. The putty makes me sad and depressed.

I have very seriously been considering a Putty & White chevron pattern for my bedroom walls, but this post really puts me off. Truthfully it is a cop out, in that it's the only "color" that went okay with all the rooms (3) that the bedroom leads into. Back to the drawing board. Gray is next up in line so we'll see...

what I really like putty is leather: boots and purses!

my walls need more "life"

I only like #2.

I see the various putty tones as naturals in an earthy spectrum.
A couple photos show that it can be bold or unassuming.

Maybe it is my attraction to the desert southwest and mountain west, and my desire to build a cob or straw bale home, but I see these tones as beautiful.

Do I want to see them EVERYWHERE?
Certainly not...
But Imagine some of these against rich golden woods, red brick and such.

Geh! Our apartment is painted with yellowy cream walls and greenish-beige trim (the trim is not even close to the elegance of putty.) That first picture has me longing to do up the bedroom with putty walls and white trim. We painted the living/dining space with a cool gray wall and white trim...putty in the bedroom would tie into the neutrals, and warm up the space without making it feel smaller. Love the first example pic.