Paint another dark wall? or keep to just one? Help me decide!!!

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At the moment, in our living room we have one side, or rather one wall painted a dark grey/navy (Crown's Aftershow). I love it. The remaining 4 walls are white. Bearing in mind at one end there are patio doors so they take up most of one wall at one end and a large window at the other, so most of that wall is taken up too.

The ceiling is white, as are the skirting boards and door. Sofa is a light beige colour). The room is flooded with light and is approx 19x13ft appox.

I am wondering if it would look better if i painted the opposite wall dark as well? leaving the window wall and patio wall white? I don't know if i'm brave enough to do the whole room. DH likes it the way it is, i think he thinks it may make the room like its closing in. But i've seen a couple of pictures (granted they're on pinterest and they always look great) where the whole room is dark and it looks great. Do you think it could work? Having the two longer walls dark? I realise painting over the white will take about 3 coats! Feel free to post your dark rooms if you wish!

We have one room with only one wall painted the darker colour, and unless you are looking at it you can’t tell and so it loses its impact and the room looks really bland.

We have another room as you describe with 2 white and 2 wallpapered. DH was concerned about the ‘closing in’ thing but it looks great and IMO much better than the one feature wall.

I’d go for it. Worst that could happen is that you choose to paint it back to white if you don’t like it. Not the end of the world!

It’s likely to have a corridor effect - making your room look narrower. Can you paint a short wall dark instead?

Thanks for the replies. I could do it, like you say Basin, then if I don’t change it back, only because the wall is white to start with and I’m going over with a dark colour, it will probably need 3 coats. Then if I don’t like it, it will need another 3 coats to go back to white, DH will despair, he hates it when I get ideas with decorating !

VeThings, yes, I know what you mean about corridor effect, but I just can’t see how painting either the window wall or patio door wall would work, it would maybe look like I was going to do the whole room but ran out of paint? Or maybe it could work.

Or maybe I should just leave it alone, but I’ve seen that picture you see where the whole room is done & it looks brilliant! The picture I’ve attached here is not my room but is kind of the same thing mine is now, one side/wall is painted a colour (mine is actually darker) and the other walls are left light. Do you think it looks odd?

I’d paint one long wall and two short walls dark, then leave the light long wall as the feature wall. I just think painting two long walls a dark colour is going to make the room feel enclosed in a corridor way, rather than cosy if they were all painted.

I'd paint them all dark

VeThings suggestion sounds like the best solution under the circumstances.

Do you have a chimneybreast and alcoves?

Gareth...it’s not your usual chimney breast set up, in fact looking at the picture I posted earlier, if you imagine the wall on the opposite side blue that’s how our room is except where the chair is is where our door is. And around the door we’ve left it white.
I hope this makes some sort of sense!