Is having one different coloured wall is old fashioned?

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This! 👆

Painting everything the same colour.

Like an institution.

What is colour drenching?

Yeah, I can’t work out if that was a joke or not.

Doesn’t that then become a feature wall?

Dreadfully old fashioned, the new look is to paint three walls and leave just one!

I have just the chimney breast painted. I am happy with it, so don't care if it is dated. When i moved in there was an avocado bathroom and apparently they are becoming trendy again, although I struggle o believe it.

Yes! This is what we've done and I love it.

Why does it matter?

Our living room is painted two colours - a nice, bright bold green and (MN hated) grey to lighten it up a bit. I couldn't give a fuck if some designer has decided it's "dated".

@Littlebuddhplease please please post some pictures! I love strong colours!
OP I’d lean into the dark side, in a north facing room. As PP said you can’t brighten up a north facing room with pale paint, IMO it just looks washed out.
I have a north facing sitting room which I have painted dark green (F&B Green Smoke if you’re interested). I’ve also painted the hall dark navy below the dado rail (Mylands Bond Street).
I mean what do I know, I’m not a designer and I don’t have to please anyone but myself!
WRT feature walls, I have sort of done this in the kids rooms. I let them choose a colour when we moved in, painted over the magnolia with white and chose one wall for the kids choice. DS2 wanted a very strong blue green colour so I painted the wall around the window in that colour. Adds interest but doesn’t overwhelm.
Anyway just do what you like, it’s your house! If you really don’t like it you can bust out the magnolia 😁

Quite a few rooms in our house are odd shapes, or are two/three rooms knocked into one....I quite like using feature walls for "zoning". For me, this usually means more than one wall in a different colour. In our kitchen (mainly creamy beige walls) there are two perpendicular walls in the end section in a deep french turquoise. In the living room most of the walls are off-white, but three walls around the staircase are a greeny-blue. In our bedroom we have two perpendicular walls which go around the dressing table area papered in a pale silvery teal, but the rest are plain/painted.

It's quite difficult to explain, but it just "feels" right to have a mixture, particularly when one colour is a bit too strong/rich to go everywhere. It breaks up some of our large rooms, cocoons some areas, allows a splash of colour I can pick out with accessories etc. I find colour-drenching a bit claustrophobic, to be honest, and I like the lift of a white ceiling.

In some of our rooms, mainly bedrooms we have feature walls with wall paper, I then tend to colour match paint in the background colour or go a few shades lighter for the other walls. I little texture and print but our rooms aren't grand enough to pull off wallpaper on 4 walls. I don't care if it's on trend or not. I like colour, pattern and texture so that's what I have.
To be honest if you go too on trend it dates quickly. I think colour drenching will be the new greige

Can’t believe there are people who really worry if their house looks ‘dated’ or old fashioned. Everything dates, and interior designers are always pushing for the next trend. Why? To get those tills ringing.

The only question is do you like it? Trust your own aesthetic judgement.

(However I am very glad grey decor is finally over. So depressing)

Hello, my sister-in-law is an interior designer. Yes, it is very dated. A bit like the trend a few years ago to paint a wall dark blue on navy blue. That now looks dated.

Something I would tempt you away from is the current trend of colour washing. Where you paint the ceiling the same colour. Not because there’s anything wrong with it, but in five or 10 years when it drives you mad you’ll have to pay someone to paint the whole ceiling white & cut in all the lines where the wall meets the ceiling.

I have a feature wall around a real fire. This is because it does get very grubby and needs regular repainting. But its tonal colours which blend well and I boringly stick to this.

My gs and my dd have both used strong colours in Victorian terraces. My dd says if a room is dark, its dark and embrace it. Hers is a forest green. It looks great with period features and industrial type furniture. The front room is light and is dark blue. Just go for what suits your house and you.

I’m literally sitting below my different coloured wall that was decorated (not by me) this very year. there’s also one in living room

It might be dated, but if you blindly go and decorate with what’s in right now then it will also look dated in no time.

I agree with a PP who said keeping it tonal would work best. And you mentioned being north facing, I’d say well clear of brilliant white. My place is completely north facing and I didn’t think of that, but the brilliant white makes it look bleak as hell. It needs to be a off white type.

For a small, dark bedroom, I am a big fan of leaning into the cosy nighttime vibe, rather than trying to make it light and airy. So I would paint in warm, earthy colours on all the walls, and have lovely knitted or fluffy throws and pillows, and lamps with warm toned light bulbs. Make it a place to cocoon and sleep.

Sorry, just realised you said living room, though the photos look like bedrooms? Anyway, the same can be true for a living room. Lean into the warm cosiness.

Earthy tones are definitely having a moment. As is colour drenching, but that’s a hard one to carry off.

Shiplap is popular and is replacing the ghastly cheap panelling so beloved on Instagram home accounts.

it can be a bit dated or as I think over done. but if done right it can be fab and suit the house. I always think does it suit the style of the house and how you live. my living room is walpered a dark blue velvet like material. it's not on trend as such but suits the style of the house it makes the room feel cosy and I love it. plus i will not be touching it for at least a good 10 years 🤣

I don’t like “feature walls” so I have every wall in my lounge a different colour, which includes 2 different wallpapers meeting at the same corner.

Couldn’t care less if it was “in”.

You paint your feature wall unashamedly OP 😄

Just do what you want, it's your house! Who cares what is on trend. I love maximalist decor and splashes of bright colours like yellow and orange, alongside quirky decor. If it was up to me I'd have rainbow stairs, and I'd paint my own murals on to the walls, but my partner is more minimalistic than me 😂

I think feature walls are still fun!

“drenching” is in…it looks awful in my opinion…that’s why it’s neither here nor there what’s “in” if you don’t like it, then it’s a moot point

Feature walls are dated, but they look more or less dated depending on how you do it. One wall of wallpaper is particularly dated, as is a single wall of strong colour in a living room, with bright white on all the other walls.

If you want colour though, it doesn’t always work having it everywhere and you have to be guided by the room more than what is trendy. Options include:

• Blocks of colour (eg a broad stripe)
• Colour just on the ceiling or trim.
• Colour on 2 or 3 walls instead of just one.
• The ‘non-colour’ walls being tonal or off-white.