Pondering

[devi]

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[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

Those are the colors of my hallway, living room, and kitchen (from left to right).

Of the three, I like the red best. But I like them all.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

That's kinda spooky-cool. I presume you're leaving out the safe-but-boring-cream?

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

Ooooops. I didn't even really spot it! Cream is ok. If you like that sort of thing.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

It's hard to like, exactly, or have feelings for beyond 'meh', but I thought I might do one wall in it.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

Actually, most of my living room is cream, but because I have a through-lounge, there are three bits of wall that are set back behind the two chimney breasts. We've painted the recessed bit red on the biggest one (it's a bad photo, but it gives you an idea), and are planning to get around to the other two parts eventually. But it does give the impression that my living room is red, even though it's actually mostly cream.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Nice. But your description seems to support the feeling I'm getting that a little red goes a long way.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. But also, a little red is a beautiful thing.

In case you're interested in the rest of the catalogue, our bedroom is sage green (no photo unfortunately), and our bathroom is currently a hideous pink (we inherited it and haven't fixed it yet).

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I just love the way even the url says 'hideous bathroom' on that picture.

[lzz.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that, actually. My friend who is quite into her interior decorating has painted every room cream + a strong bright colour (on one or two walls, or in the case of the hall, up to dado-rail level).

[tackline.livejournal.com]

Flicking through daytime TV, it appears that filling the room with a deep colour will make it dingy. But with the colour on one wall and the rest near white, you get a light room with deep colour. You also get to actually see the colour as there is a reference.

A flat I looked at on the first floor in Highbury had a wall of orange. Orange, yuck. But it looked great.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

Also, if you're interested:

hallway (the blue is much darker than it looks in the photo; the flash lightened it quite a lot.

kitchen (the walls were originally yellow with these blue tiles, which looked surprisingly nice, but we painted them the same blue because it needed paint anyway.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

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