Creating a whole-house palette makes it a very cohesive place with good visual flow. It doesn't have to be boring; you don't have to do all the walls the same color. Just one of the colors in the palette.
For example, using the palette to the right from the wondrous Design-Seeds site, you could have the bathroom be the white, the dining room the celadon (light green), living room the sage green, the office in the blue, bedroom in the brown, and kitchen in the yellow. Then in each room, you'd use the other colors in the palette to enhance and accent the wall color.
The bathroom could have sage and blue towels, brown wood frame on the mirror and bronze shower curtain rod, celadon shower curtain, and soap and lotion dispensers in yellow.
The living room could then have a blue sofa, brown leather chair, yellow throw blanket, celadon throw pillows.
The office could have an area rug in the celadon and yellow, brown leather chair, curtains in sage and white print.
The bedroom could have sheets in sage, bedspread in white, curtains in celadon, throw pillows in blue and yellow.
The kitchen could have a blue tile backsplash, white cabinets, sage curtains, brown wood table and chairs, and chair cushions in celadon.
As you can imagine, there's plenty of variety and no boring sameness from room to room, but everything still goes together.
Conclusion
Whole-house palettes might not work if there are a lot of people living in the home-- not everyone will feel the same way about a palette. But for a single person or a couple who do agree on it, they take a lot of guesswork out of putting together a cohesive look for a home.
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