Favorite colors

I want all of my furniture to be upholstered in forest green.

My permanent home is going to have a lot of sea blues on the walls - very light in the public spaces and much darker in my bedroom and bath. Sea blues are serene and soothing, and make a room seem larger.

Pompeii red? SMH. Too soon, OP. Too soon.

Cobalt Blue!

Which is very flattering to almost every skin color or tone.

I call your color crimson, OP. It's nice, but I prefer this one.

I like pastels but very light. I don't want my walls to intrude into my other decor. They should stay in the background and provide warmth or cool.

Navy Blue & Medium Charcoal Grey are my favorite colors. Jewel Tones, & Earth Tones are my favorites families.

I once had an apartment with twelve foot ceilings, and painted the living room & dining area in a semi-gloss red (I don't recall the listed name) that was just slightly darker than Atomic Fireball cinnamon candy.

My friends called it "Gay Bar Red". It was definitely fitting.

R7 Here. *I Really Want A Room In The Color Above

I had my living room painted in Tiffany Blue, and I love it, and visitors always compliment it. I love all sorts of colors, but I still had to temper my desire for color with the idea of living with it. I love Majorelle Blue, but I'm afraid it would give me a headache if I attempted to paint even a single wall in that color. I love a strong, cinnabar red, but I stick to owning a few pieces of lacquerware for that.

Yeah that blue is intense.

Yeah... Majorelle blue is a really stunning color, but I think it's just a bit much for interiors!

Cerulean blue works on everyone except Asians who look great in more intense warm colors.

This hue of lavender

All the blues look the same to me.

OP, that Pompeii red looks stunning. But do you have the right complexion to live with it?

A man like this would be preferable.

" I've had two years to grow claws mother, Jungle RED!"

Lemon Green

Turquoise

It would be totally cool to have a meditation room in some of those intense colors above, plus some others like yellow and green. Like of course I wouldn't want to live all the time with those intense blues or OPs red, but it would be fantastic to go into a room saturated with whatever color resonated with me on any particular day and just soak it up and vibrate in sync with it for a few minutes or an hour.

OP, darling, if you've always dreamed of it, then DO IT.

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Loving the Pompeii Red OP, but the problem with red is that it takes so many coats (even with a red tinted primer) to get it even, that by the time you're finished coat #6, you're sick of it. I think it'd be a lot different if someone else did the work and I just got to enjoy the finished work. lol

I haven't fulfilled my dream because I don't have a dining room.

"it would be fantastic to go into a room saturated with whatever color resonated with me on any particular day "

What you need is a spare white room, and some blackout curtains and colored lights! You can't repaint a room every day to suit your mood, but there's got to be a method of putting various color ed gels over the lamps in your relaxation room.

Dark plum.

Dark plum.

OP, my first husband and I painted our dining room in that rich Pompeii red colour.

It was a Dining Room which didn't get much light and it was chosen to enhance my husband's two fabulous antique cedar chests of drawers.

I like the Pompeii red, Op. I have a small characterless condo that's painted the same off white throughout and was thinking of painting an accent wall red. Condo doesn't get much natural light and I was worried about it being too dark.

That rich Pompeii red was actually ochre.

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Pompeii red is a good choice for a dining room, because it looks much better by artificial light than by natural light. And since dining rooms are mainly used after the sun goes down, and generally have soft flattering lighting, darker reds can look fabulous, when they'd look awful in other kinds of rooms! But I don't generally like reds as an interior color, most reds are too harsh for enclosed spaces, and get on my nerve.

That's something to consider when decorating a room, R29, how the colors will look by both daylight, and the sort of artificial light you will be using.

Black

I wanna see it painted, painted black

Black as night, black as coal

I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky

I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black

Paul Lynde painted his dining room red, and had a mirrored table top. It was supposedly a very warm and welcoming look.

I painted my bedroom a dark copper shade. I live in a cold climate and the warm color really seems to make the bedroom feel warmer and cosier on the cold winter nights. In the summer, the sunlight makes it glow.

R32 Lighting is so important. I understand Victorian peoples' attitudes to complexions and ladies dresses changed as they adjusted from candle light to kerosene and to gas light.

And I remember the shock transferring from incandescent to fluorescent light.

R33, I once read an interview with a football player, who said he'd painted his entire interior black, and bought deep black furniture. He said he had to change, because people kept tripping over the furniture or banging their shins on stuff. Without shadows or contrast, everything blended into everything else, and people couldn't see where the run ended and the furniture began.

Yeah, he seemed to be a bit dim.