If you were going to paint one room a wild, unusual, or bold color...

[helena]

what room and what color would you do?

 

I'm picking out paint colors before we've even found the house :) and changing my mind everyday. So fun!

 

 

 

[Χά�ων]

Plum.

[Miss Peregrine]

My kitchen is teal.

[itsheresomewhere]

There is a this orange that is more like a burnt orange by Benjamin Moore.  It is really pretty and reminds me of zinna or autumn sunflower.  I would love to paint one wall with it and decorate the room to it.  

[helena]

Plum.

I agree! I have a bunch of magazine pages torn out with walls painted deep plum/copper-y to brownish colors. It's the most beautiful odd shade. I'd like to do a big room in that color. 

[Farrar]

Our front room is deep red, though I sponged over it in a dark sort of burgandy and people often think it's wallpaper.  When I did it, it was pretty avant-garde, I thought.  But then red living rooms became kind of a thing and now they're clearly a bit passe.  Oh well.  I still like it.  It has a whole wall of windows to support the dark color.

 

Our dining room is a nice, bright, ever so slightly peachy toned yellow.  I love that.

[peachskittles]

Orange...I want a bright orange color.  Oh, and a bright green...Green is an awesome color, not the dull greens but a nice bright, happy green.  I was actually dreaming of a room possibly with a bright green and a darker purple as an accent.  Blues are out.  I have lived in so much blue, bleh...It is really over used.  It does make a nice color for a small space, like a bathroom, but behind that, it's too much.

[helena]

I've been interested in super dark colors in high gloss... it's a cool look, but will I love it long term?? I think so!  :D

Like this: http://www.saragilbaneinteriors.com/travelfordesign/tag/high-gloss-paint/

[Woodland Mist Academy]

There is a this orange that is more like a burnt orange by Benjamin Moore.  It is really pretty and reminds me of zinna or autumn sunflower.  I would love to paint one wall with it and decorate the room to it.  

 

When we moved here our study was a color that sounds similar to this. We never use bold colors, but we decided to try living with it for a bit. (In other words, we didn't have the time/desire to repaint! ;) )

 

Fast forward several months--I cannot imagine any other color. In the morning, the walls are like the sunrise glowing around us. In the evening, when we just use lamplight, the walls seem to be reflecting glowing embers from a fireplace. Warm and cozy--perfect for a study!

[Cinder]

Dd's room is purple, ds1's is dark green and ds2's is bright blue, like the Caribbean. The rest of the house is still blah off-white.

 

I knew a family that always used the color scheme red, blue, green, yellow throughout the house--each room was one of those colors. When they owned a newer home the colors were bolder. When they moved into an older home they chose more toned-down versions to match the cottage-y feel of that home.

 

I knew someone who painted his bedroom mango. It was a nice shade but just a bit too much orange for me.

[TammyinTN]

I can't wait to have our own home...just a few more years until we retire from the military.    I would love a dark red and warm beige den.  They are my favorite colors and our dark furniture would look so good in there.  

[Woodland Mist Academy]

 

 

I knew a family that always used the color scheme red, blue, green, yellow throughout the house--each room was one of those colors. When they owned a newer home the colors were bolder. When they moved into an older home they chose more toned-down versions to match the cottage-y feel of that home.

 

 

 

I agree with taking into consideration the characteristics of the home.

 

[trulycrabby]

Well one wall in our living room was Barney Purple when we bought the house. I hated it but managed to live with it for 12 years before painting the house. :o

 

I think eggplant would be lovely.

[Slartibartfast]

My kitchen is teal.

 

 

My kitchen is also teal :)

 

Dd liked it so much she painted her room that color.

[happi duck]

I am a firm believer in "it's only paint".

 

We use whatever colors strike us at the moment. I think the rooms you spend the most time in should be colors that you love...whether bold or muted, common or uncommon...

[bettyandbob]

I painted a basement bathroom a deep teal.

 

I didn't have the guts to do a larger main room a bold color.

[linders]

Family room/bonus room. Plum. DH would never go for it, though.

[Hoot]

Well, my house has lots of "bold" wall colors.  The entire open living space is painted in Pumpkin Butter, which is a neutral deep tan(ish) color on the orange side.  The master bedroom is a burnt orange.  The master bedroom is a very deep red orange.  DS's bathroom is a deep bordello red. 

 

I think if I could choose another color it would be a velvety chocolate brown.

[Hoot]

I've been interested in super dark colors in high gloss... it's a cool look, but will I love it long term?? I think so!  :D

Like this: http://www.saragilbaneinteriors.com/travelfordesign/tag/high-gloss-paint/

 

I LOVE this!!!!!  I tried to talk DH into something like this for the bedroom but he wouldn't go for it. 

[regentrude]

I have a buttercup yellow dining area in the kitchen. It is very uplifting to have breakfast ;-)

[Julie Smith]

I simple wouldn't do it. :p 

 

I have lots of stuff on the wall, lots of windows, bookshelves, even some art and family photos. So everything is one shade of blue. All the trim is a darker blue. The bathroom and some doors are white. 3 colors only make touch up jobs really easy. (In theory. - In reality we have lived here for 4 years and I have yet to touch up the paint)

[dbmamaz]

I've had a fantasy of paining my laundry room sky blue and stenciling butterflies or flowers or something around the cieling and doors and window 

[LostSurprise]

My bathroom has one dark red wall. The other walls are light-med. brown. People tend to think that's a little weird...maybe too boudoir-esque? 

 

I'd love to have dark gold. 

 

I had a friend with a kitchen which was orangey (tangerine?), yellow, and turquoise. Believe or not, it was really zesty and fun looking. Their house was very angular, very prairie school, so it came off as a very modern combination. She actually started with wheat colored walls with turquoise around the cooking area. Then they added the tangerine in the eating section. Then the yellow as an accent to the tangerine. I know I'm not describing it properly and it probably sounds like a badly painted clown. Her husband had a degree in art and it really looked fabulous when they were all done, but she always worried that it was just a little *too* much. It suited them very well. 

 

They painted it back to wheat before they moved. 

[Jackie]

I used to have a bedroom painted Chocolate Raspberry. I loved the dark color on the walls of a room that was meant for restfulness and sanctuary.

[gardenmom5]

wild and bold?  for me, a vibrant turquoise is intriguing.

[reign]

My living room is painted in a color called "Pompeii" it is a very pretty orang/red. I also really love turquoise.

[Mergath]

I've always wanted to paint my bedroom black.  I saw a bedroom in a magazine once where they had painted the floors, walls, and ceiling black, and had a white bed.  It was like the bed was floating in darkness.  I loved it.  Dh would never go for it, though.

[helena]

I've had a fantasy of paining my laundry room sky blue and stenciling butterflies or flowers or something around the cieling and doors and window 

Yeah, something happy!

I dream of a laundry room with 60s flower power wallpaper. 

[Guest]

My library/school room is teal. I used the extra in the laundry room. Makes me so happy to be in those rooms. :)

[helena]

What I'd really like is a flocked wallpaper! 

[helena]

I've always wanted to paint my bedroom black.  I saw a bedroom in a magazine once where they had painted the floors, walls, and ceiling black, and had a white bed.  It was like the bed was floating in darkness.  I loved it.  Dh would never go for it, though.

I like the sound of that! Have you ever watch The Ladies Man with Jerry Lewis? There's a scene in it with an all white bedroom... I always thought it'd be so cool to have a room like that. Still do. :)

http://klipd.com/watch/the-ladies-man/miss-cartilage-scene

[Ripley]

My office is a deep charcoal (SW Peppercorn).

My living room is a deep gray-blue (SW Smoky Blue).

My laundry room and guest bath are a deep truer blue (SW Distance).

My son's room is a dark gray (SW French Gray).

My kitchen was a super deep purple-gray (SW Quixotic Plum) but I recently switched it to something lighter (SW Light French Gray) when I got a new dining room set with a funkier color chair. I may paint my hutch the Quixotic Plum because I love the color so much, but I don't know - I really like the "color" of natural wood; we'll see.

[elegantlion]

The classroom is a TARDIS-ish blue

 

My bedroom has an accent wall and the rest will be light purple. The accent wall was the result of me adding white oil paint with burnt umber and doing about 3 coats that weren't entirely mixed. It looks like layers of purpleish brown soil, similar to the effect of looking at Jupiter, but different colors. 

 

I'm considering peacock blue in the kitchen or living room. 

 

Another wild idea I had has to do with my kitchen floor. I'm replacing the plastic cheap laminate with simply 1 x 6"s cut into various lengths. I planned on painting it white. The wild idea is that I would paint it to look like sky with clouds. Then it would look like you're walking on the sky. I have a very subtle Alice in Wonderland theme happening in there anyway, so it would only add to the effect. 

[KungFuPanda]

My dining room is a Ralph Lauren (do they still make paint?) Kiln Red. When I got the paint the mixer guy told me he'd never seen so much magenta in a paint ever. It's a deep, dark, cranberry red. I love it. My house doesn't get enough light to pull off a color this dark, but I love it anyway.

[melmichigan]

I love color.  We have crown molding through our whole house, usually in various shades of white to offset the darker wall colors.  My living room is dark cranberry red (14 years ago it was unusual), my workout room is purple with a cyan bathroom attached.  My long hall is white with chocolate, I love the chocolate. I'd love to paint a room a deeper mediterranean blue, maybe the next color for my living room.

[Alessandra]

Our front room is deep red, though I sponged over it in a dark sort of burgandy and people often think it's wallpaper. When I did it, it was pretty avant-garde, I thought. But then red living rooms became kind of a thing and now they're clearly a bit passe. Oh well. I still like it. It has a whole wall of windows to support the dark color.

 

Our dining room is a nice, bright, ever so slightly peachy toned yellow. I love that.

I love red! My old living room was glazed a deep, rich red. I mixed up the color from artists oils -- scarlet, crimson, burnt sienna, kicked back with a touch of burnt umber.

 

I am debating whether to do my current living room in red or Colefax & Fowler yellow, which has a touch of burnt umber in it. Greying a bright color slightly makes it look rich rather than flashy, IMO.

[kroe1]

I have had rooms with Easter egg colors overlayed with glitter and now have several in purple. No room is safe from my paintbrush.

 

Have fun. Go wild. I do like mine to coordinate from room to room.

[Melissa in Australia]

I am usually a pastel girl, but I did at one stage paint my bedroom a rich plum pink. My bedroom has 3 walls that are windows or part windows, floor to ceiling. It looked great. DH hated it. just last year I painted it a deep yellow. I think it was called cactus yellow.

 it is terrific. it sort of absorbs some of the light in the room, the walls seam to glow.

[LivingHope]

One of my living room walls is painted black chalkboard paint from floor to ceiling...the children and I draw on it with sidewalk chalk. It's always a masterpiece.

[J-rap]

I would paint my living room (or whatever our main hang-out room is) gold.  Not a metallic gold, but kind of a yellow gold.  It doesn't fit our house and furniture now, but someday, I think I'd like that.

[dbmamaz]

yeah, see, I need light.  I think dark walls look cool, but I wouldnt want to be surrounded by them.  My bedroom has a medium green below the chair rail, which is brown,  and a pale yellow above, and i really love it.  The tv room is a medium shade of green (chosen in large part because it compliments the wooden paneling).  youngest son's room was red below the blue chair rail and white above.  Poor dh . . .. he does the painting.  He's totally anal about it, 2-3 layers of primer and 2-3 layers of paint.  

[Vida Winter]

We have a small bathroom with rust-colored textured walls. The paint was Ralph Lauren but I'm not sure they make it anymore - it was difficult to apply and expensive but it works well for a small room. It feels like rough sandpaper. Our large rooms are a more neutral taupe.

[mommymonster]

For my laundry, lime. But only half-way up the walls. Then a chair rail and bright white on top. My laundry doesn't have windows, so it would be nice to have it make some of its own light.  :thumbup1:

 

 

[helena]

I would paint my living room (or whatever our main hang-out room is) gold.  Not a metallic gold, but kind of a yellow gold.  It doesn't fit our house and furniture now, but someday, I think I'd like that.

I've always wanted a gold room or wall. I'd be happy with non metallic, but I'd love a metallic, gold leaf kind of look... or even a wallpaper with metallic gold on it.

[helena]

We've done a lot of colors over the years... greys, fern green, yellows, charcoal, purple... Our classroom right now is a super bold kelly green, we've really enjoyed this color. 

 

Now that we're finally buying, I want to stop playing around with colors and pick the ones I've always truly loved. Unfortunately I'm realizing I can love just about any color in the right shade.  :lol: Our houses here are so ugly on the outside that you can just kind of recreate any look on the inside and it's fine. 

 

I'm reading through a design book right now on black and white homes and that's a great look. 

Then there's the Mexican California look that's most appealing to me. 

 

The girls and I have settled on calling our look Hollywood Regency. It kind of sums up the eclectic thing we have going on. 

 

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[mom2samlibby]

Martha Stewart Plumage. I'm planning on using this color in our school room.

[milovany]

I have a hot-chocolate-with-whipped living room.  It's my favorite color.  In our rental (where we used to live) I have the passe ;) red living room and I like that, too.  Our mudroom area is orange.  That's fun, but I never go out there so I don't see it.  And it's a mess.  For exterior, I've wanted to do black on our rental, but so far I can't get my husband to go for it.  It's a smallish house.  I saw one in a magazine once that had black paint and white trim (I think?) with these really pretty sunflowers out front.  Looked beautiful.  Right now, our house is slated to be painted a dark, dark purple -- almost black but just purple enough to not be black. 

[Χά�ων]

This is a dangerous thread. I am tempted to by high gloss dark paint. I have an open house and I want a maroonish purple in the office/music area, black or charcoal for my room, deep forest green for my bathroom, midnight blue for other bathroom, rose for the laundry room and closet. no clue on the livingroom and kitchen.

[SadieMarie]

I have already done it and I love it.  I have orange, yellows, greens and turquoise.  My favorite is my orange kitchen though. so warm and cozy in the winter.