How awful is this colour?

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RachyB86 · 06/10/2023 10:32

We have just spent a small fortune having the majority of our home decorated for the first time ever, it’s still ongoing. It has been a huge upheaval and I am fed up of living around the decorator, it is actually making me quite depressed as we are now 4 weeks in…however - I hate this colour paint!! I adore the emerald and gold wallpaper, but the colour is just so drab. Should I book a repaint?! If so - what colour?! (In case it’s not clear, I am not good with this stuff, I thought this would look nice but clearly I got it wrong 😩) everyone is telling me to live with it because I am finding the whole decorating process so stressful they think I’m crazy to voluntarily go through it again, partner included even though he doesn’t like the colour either.

YABU - it’s not that bad, just live with it

YANBU - yes it’s awful, change it (please give a suggested colour too!)

Wallpaper: Boutique Marquise Emerald Geometric
Paint: Dulux Natural Wicker

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junbean · 11/10/2023 13:55

Mirabai · 11/10/2023 10:32

You cannot be serious. 🤣

Don’t do this OP.

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I suggested white with blue undertones to better match, and an accent wall. Are you okay?

Flossflower · 11/10/2023 18:02

junbean · 11/10/2023 02:56

I'm a designer :) The wallpaper is nice, but the paint does not go. It looks dated, like once white but now nicotine stained. I can see how you matched it to the wallpaper but it needs contrast with a complementary color. If you look at emerald on a color wheel and then look directly opposite, you're in the red zone- so a mulberry or similar red. I would do only one wall in the red, and repaint the lighter color with a lighter shade of the emerald, or use a white with blue undertones, as blue would be complementary as well. It would still be a light color, but would play up the wallpaper instead of dragging it down. Hope this helps!

As I remember from my days at Art college, colours from the opposite side of the colour wheel ( complementary colours) were meant to be used sparsely.

junbean · 11/10/2023 19:35

Flossflower · 11/10/2023 18:02

As I remember from my days at Art college, colours from the opposite side of the colour wheel ( complementary colours) were meant to be used sparsely.

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It's a lot of wall space. That's why I said accent wall and undertone 🙄

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