Am I the only one who thinks "leave the wallpaper, it's great"?
Yes. Yes I am.
One of the walls of my living room/dining room was painted that red (or thereabouts) when I moved in, and my first order of business was to paint it safe but boring lilac. I do hate to be so influenced and tricked by colour. I feel almost as if it's some kind of weakness that I found a red wall so oppressive. Likewise, I'd like it if I could have a room in your sample Very Dark Blue, but I know my mind would be tricked into seeing it as a smaller room than it actually was. As I have also been driven mad by the blandness of a Safe But Boring Cream room, I can only recommend the Sensible Pale Blue.
One thought - you could do something I saw Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen do once, and do semi-randomly ordered and widthed stripes of the pale blue, the dark blue and maybe another blue. He did it with pink, and it allowed him to get some interesting rich colours on the wall, without them becoming oppressive.
Or, less labour intensive, how about a couple of walls in the Very Dark Blue and a couple in Sensible Pale Blue?
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Date: 2005-12-19 08:06 am (UTC)Yes. Yes I am.
One of the walls of my living room/dining room was painted that red (or thereabouts) when I moved in, and my first order of business was to paint it safe but boring lilac. I do hate to be so influenced and tricked by colour. I feel almost as if it's some kind of weakness that I found a red wall so oppressive. Likewise, I'd like it if I could have a room in your sample Very Dark Blue, but I know my mind would be tricked into seeing it as a smaller room than it actually was. As I have also been driven mad by the blandness of a Safe But Boring Cream room, I can only recommend the Sensible Pale Blue.
One thought - you could do something I saw Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen do once, and do semi-randomly ordered and widthed stripes of the pale blue, the dark blue and maybe another blue. He did it with pink, and it allowed him to get some interesting rich colours on the wall, without them becoming oppressive.
Or, less labour intensive, how about a couple of walls in the Very Dark Blue and a couple in Sensible Pale Blue?
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Date: 2005-12-19 11:50 am (UTC)No. No you're not.