You just have to remember that decorating is all personal taste and the people you buy the house from will inevitably have bad taste.
I don't think that any of those colours is too bad though I will tend to go a little darker and bolder than those when I paint. Right now I am looking for some decent art work for my back bedroom/office and will use that as a jump off point for the wall colour. I was in a poster / repro print shop yesterday filpping through and think I will go with some of the botanical detail drawings and perhaps some macro flower photos in that room.
I had to knock out my tub and tub liner not for the looks but because the seam at the back where the wall mates with the tub split and the green board was soaked and molding. So I'm going to have one long hard working weekend where I remove the toilet and sink then knock out a mix of plaster and drywall only to hang hardi backer and place tile there. Did I mention my whole experience with plumbing has been installing my new tub and reworking my (formerly dripping) kitchen sink along with adding a filtered drinking water faucet.
When I walked in here the carpet had been down since about 1995 and three rooms had that lovely masonite wall board faux paneling. Two of them were painted so many times the grooves had started to fill in.
I also had to replace the most of the fence and gate. When doing that I found that my neighbors yards are 8" above mine and the fence was a retaining wall. So 60 running feet of block retaining wall later I have a nice large raised garden around my yard.
I have a bunch of photos on my photo bucket but they're all older (all interior shots are from the inspection). I have about 90 more on my camera but can't find the link cable after my move.
My photobucket:
rhitsomething - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
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