Help with painting walls?

Personally I like light walls and one wall darker wall the contrast looks good to me.

Damn I thought you were looking for a labourer lol.

I’d go one wall dark .

I wish I could afford a laborer! Im getting old, but redoing your house can make you happy, I think.

Yes, all my walls are dark right now, and maybe I will go with that.

All walls dark makes the room look small and feels a bit like a prison, especially if you are using gray.

Gray and black inhibit creativity. Deeper shades of blue, purple and green make a room feel more alive and stimulate the brain.

Wow, thanks for that input! All my walls in the living room are French grey, which is like a dark blue. I guess it DOES make it look smaller.

For sure.
Those 2 colours you showed in that image look fantastic together!

Yes I agree. I like the deep blue. It's almost a cooling color.

How about all but the back wall black, the room dark, and you project images onto the one white wall. Then invite your friends over and see who is best at describing the images. The best gets to where the biggest hat.

LOL!

I did faux finishes and Venetian plaster for a living.

Behr picked up one of my custom colors (deep cobalt with a ton of magenta in the tint, so it was hard to tell if it was blue or purple).

In the last few years (before I moved to Central America), many of my young and/or single male clients worked in the oil industry (traders, schedulers - high stress jobs). They all wanted dark colors to look modern.

I had a few aesthetic conflicts with a couple clients who wanted the modern architecture/tomb look. I told them I didn't want the drab colors in my portfolio. No sense in wasting my artistry on something that on cannot see. Two clients hired someone else and a year later I was hired to repaint the rooms with stress easing colors. Both said they felt their blood pressure increase after sending so much time in darkened rooms. Eggplant works well for a dark color without going into the gray zone.

A single dark wall looks elegant, especially with a nice piece of furniture or artwork. Given the darkness in the world now, I think it is important to have happy, soothing colors rather than colors that reflect a police state.

Just my two cents. The photo looks lovely, though.

I feel honored to have your input!
You have some serious background in art and architecture.
I think eggplant is a lovely color! That's another one I will put in my list. I wish I could find your custom color, that would be amazing.

Depending on how sunlight hits, go w/ color that will take advantage of lighting. You can paint one wall as an accent wall, pick a great color but which wall to use it on?

Good luck! I used to do a stint as interior specialty painter but gave it up due to health hazards. Lady I learned from under died from exposure.

Last Edited by Deplorable Zenobia on 03/22/2022 10:55 AM

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A highlight wall is cool

Yes my living room is south facing, lots of light.
Oh my! Exposure to paints? Wow!!

I cannot remember what they called it. My name had Picasso in it, but they couldn't use the name of an artist in the color. They picked it up right when I moved to Nicaragua.

It was a fluke that they picked it. I was at Home Depot because they didn't mix the color properly. (I was on the fifth five gallon bucket, painting a wooden fence.) When I saw the wet paint, it looked like they forgot the black. I painted a small swatch and it was definitely missing the black. I went back to HD and had them remix. The technician couldn't see the difference and insisted it was mixed properly. I told him to add the black from the formula and I would accept full responsibility if I was wrong.

The amount of black in the formula was minuscule, but it made a difference in the color. There was a Behr rep at the counter who was amazed that I could spot the missing tint. He loved the color and submitted it to their color council.

That's absolutely amazing. Im impressed.

Contrast such as in the picture provided is modern looking.

Also, all neutral light colors for walls and contrast provided with slight variation on trim color and window curtains and furniture works as well.