Is having one different coloured wall is old fashioned?

[Theendog]

My living room is white .. when I moved in I just got every room painted white with the intention of changing it as I decided over time what to go for.

I was thinking of changing the fireplace wall to a much darker colour and leaving the rest of the room white? But is that really dated now?

Exactly … I was happy with white and brights colours for the art and I have good lighting but it’s just missing something…

I honestly don't understand following trends in decorating. That's somebody else telling you what is nice. Personally I find a lot of the trends to be hideous. Never could get my head round grey either when that was a thing.

If you like a trend , then do it because you like it. Don't just do it because its "in"

Could you do the doors and skirting in the earthy red/brown, and do all four walls in a much much paler version of the same tone?

Look at swish hotels online. That'll show you what's currently considered to be fashionable

No, but who cares anyway? Decorate for YOU

Repainting a living room wall every 2-5 years will not cost a fortune!

Yes, it's dated.

Colourwashing is quite popular now, and it would probably be considered a brave and wise choice by interior design people to just paint everything floor to ceiling with the rusty red colour.

Here's a fully colourwashed example and one that's a bit less intense

Photos attached now - though I have just realised that you want to go with a darker colour than these examples.

Who cares, our bedroom was all white,walls, furniture, floor white/very pale grey. Fancied a change, got William Morris seaweed, bed linen, cushions,wall behind the bed the blue from the pattern,back in the summer.. the bed has a very traditional brass/china head board. Living room has an alcove with a sofa dark grey, other walls light grey. I wanted white throughout, this was the compromise.. our walls are uneven, can't afford replastering,so has to be a paper first, then painted over..

Feature walls are utterly ghastly. Don’t do it.

Does it matter? If you like it, it's fine, fashion is fickle if it's out now it may be in again next year. Following fashion in interior design will get really expensive, just do what you like, call it retro if you want.

I find the Little Greene website is really helpful for suggestions colour combinations... e.g. this is Arras, which is a red-brown colour. Combos suggested include warm whites, plaster pinks, deeper browns, light blue etc:

https://www.littlegreene.com/arras

There’s lots of things that I hate that other people love. Do what you like, that’s what I say 🤷‍♀️

I’ve just looked at The Ritz in London and The Royal Garden in Hong Kong. As these are both top hotels

The Ritz looks like something out of Downton and The Royal Garden has feature walls. Designed by some top swanky US interior designer

I think that the problem is that people got hold of an idea but misunderstood it. The idea of feature walls is that

1. the wall has a feature (alcove, chimney breast, etc)
2. you paint / wallpaper it differently, to accentuate the difference.

You don't try to create a feature by choosing one of the four identical walls and treating it differently.

So what is in fashion for walls at the moment?

I really wouldn’t take any notice of what is ‘on trend’ when it comes to interior design. Whatever designers are telling you to buy now, they’ll tell you is ugly and dated by the time you’ve got it all done. Their only goal is to keep you spending £££. Don’t be a fool. Just choose what is appealing to you.

This. 'Design' and 'Trends' are just someone else's opinion. In your own house the only opinion that matters is yours. My lounge feature wall is wallpaper, and it's beige. But I like it so I don't care what anyone else thinks.

And The Berkeley and London. Complete with massive feature walls

One wall in the living room, not necessarily but one on trend wall isn’t going to stop the rest of your house looking dated. I said painting and redecorating to keep up with trends. Changing worktops, cupboard doors, flooring, lighting, decor and repainting will cost a fortune. Trends move quickly and OP has since asked about panelling, which is also dated. The point is not to do something because it’s trendy because your house at some point will always look dated unless you spend a lot of time and money keeping it looking on trend.

I re decorated last week.

Living room.

I have a jelly bean orange wall,
a yam wall, and 2 yellow walls, with a jelly bean orange strip all the way around the yellow walls, and a yellow strip through the jelly bean wall, no strip though the yam wall.
Sounds awful looks amazing.

Bathroom.
Dark peach with a jellybean orange wall.

Kitchen.
Light peach.

My bedroom.
Jellybean orange wall, and thereast is peach with a jellybean strip around it.

All way is yam.

All above Sounds awful odd and maybe old and dated.
But I love it, it's different, it has life and colours.
I lived with the grey and whites for 2 year and tbh it's just not in now.
Bring back the funk and the colour.

It’s not quite the same but I have rooms that flow into each other due to opening up the layout so there wasn’t an obviously place to change paint colours and I wanted to use paint to delineate rooms so I’ve ended up with one wall painted matching the room it leads into. Very long story short it looks really nice and I don’t think it looks dated. My pretty bang on trend friends, far better than me at this stuff, all love it.

Those colours look great but I think one wall painted those colours in an otherwise white room will look odd. The pictures you have posted are rooms with a while vibe. Painting one wall that colour won’t give the vibe.

Exactly this.

Yes but this is a textural wall in tonal colours. Furniture and curtains alongside create a whole vibe. Not a painted wall in a different colour to the rest of the white walls. Totally different.