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[meanfreepath]

One decision I do have to make in the near future is the color in which my bedroom in the new place is to be painted. The current occupant wanted the room in a dark blue, which the landlords agreed to on condition that he repaint the room to the desires of the next occupant before leaving.

I've never had a room be anything other than white, and indeed have never really done anything remotely creative with my living space. areyououtthere used to complain about the white, barren walls in my apartment, and in hindsight I think I'd have to agree with her.

I went over to the hardware store today to look at paint swatches; the trouble is that paint comes in about 10 million shades. I have not the foggiest notion of the rudiments of interior design so I'm sort of at a loss for where to begin. The floors are hardwood and most of the furniture I have is wood-toned, although nothing really matches. At the moment I'm leaning towards either cream or a gentle yellow, although I was mulling over light greens, blues, and blue-grays.

Thoughts?

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[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

One wall in my bedroom at home is two different shades of muted green. (The other three walls are the same shade as my room in our old house - a lavender so pale as to be almost white.)

I live for green spaces, so having a leafy green wall makes me like my room more. Especially in the winters, when everything is gray and leafless and all of the fresh produce tastes like it's been shipped, having that green wall really brightens up my day. (If I had my druthers, two facing walls would be green and the other two would be smooth cream, but I haven't my druthers.)

I would say to go with the color that makes you feel happy/calm/at peace because that's what you need in a bedroom. For me, that's blue or green, but blue wouldn't go with anything and come hell and high water, I'm not getting rid of my grandmother's rug, so green it was.

[glynhogen.livejournal.com]

I had a bright yellow room when I was a kid and allowed to pick; I don't think I'd recommend it now. (And apparently yellow is the one color you should never use because it activates the Crazy part of kids' brains.)

I would worry that a gray-toned paint might easily look dingy. I think the warmer, creamier shades of off-white do pretty well. We're looking at light sage tones for when we repaint the office; while some are a bit too pastel, there are some good ones. I think the same applies to blues.

[aurelia-star.livejournal.com]

Either a cream or a soft Yellow would be great, I think! I feel like whatever color you choose, it needs to be a warm tone.

~Emily

[magidnaywards.livejournal.com]

The recommendation I've always heard is to do warm tones for communal meeting-area rooms and cooler darker tones for sleeping/private areas.

[bhadrika.livejournal.com]

Just know that colors often look way stronger when it's a whole wall -- if you like the soft yellow, it might end of being overwhelmingly YELLOW when on the wall, so you might scale it back (paler) a few shades. And just about anything you pick will likely have a hard time covering dark blue without multiple coats. You could also consider what items you have in the room, and get a color that picks up a shade in, say the bedspread. Not that I've ever managed to be so coordinated.

[meanfreepath.livejournal.com]

I asked the guy at the hardware store, and confirmed with my architect roommate, that a heavy coat of primer would be necessary to coat the dark blue before applying two coats of the yellow paint.