A $200 Redo Made Her “Ominous” Gray Hallway Feel Like an “English Dollhouse”

There are certain paint shades that countless experts have recommended over the years for being pretty much universally appealing. There’s creamy white, of course, which can be used to revive a dark kitchen or create a spa-like bathroom.

Blue and green have been recommended as calming shades for cabinets and bedrooms. And gray? For a while there — at least between 2013 and 2020, if not longer — gray was the “it” neutral for everything from living rooms and basements to nurseries and entryways.

Gray Was Not Her Color and She “Despised It”

Many homeowners loved how it looked! It’s just too bad that homeowner Guerin Piercy (@guerination) was not a fan of it in her own space. “I hired a painting company to do some repair work on the plaster and paint the hallway gray when I moved in,” Guerin says. “Turns out, gray is not my color.…