I hate people that think like this. You are living in this house, correct? It is your home isn't it? Why are you so scared to make it yours.
First thing I did when I moved into my house was paint it. Every room. It didn't matter what the colour was before because I made it mine.
And I can't stand Beige.
It takes a day to paint a room, your not inheriting anyones paint job unless you want to.
[edit] punctuation.
Edit: I should also add that since we will be selling our house we recently painted the rooms that were "our colors" to more neutral ones to make it easier to sell.
And how is that? No one is coming to buy it while it is my home. Oh, and it was painted not beige in the first place, so apparently it didn't cost them 'future money' either.
Your home isn't an investment.
Make the house you want to live in. There are enough people that someone else will want to live in it, too, and in the meantime you'll be happier.
>There are enough people that someone else will want to live in it,
Sure, but not nearly as many as would want to live in it if it didn't have a purple shag carpet and black walls.
Anything you do to reduce your buyer pool costs you money. You either accept a shallow pool of offers or repaint it to undo whatever it was you did to start with when you're ready to sell, which also costs money.
This argument applies equally to people who like beige, if they even exist. Some people are good at imagining what a house will look like after painting. Most are not. Of the latter group, some like bold colors. None of this should be controversial at all.
Baseless conjecture. If what you were saying was true, we wouldn't be in the situation of having so many "blank slate" colors as the housing standard.