Feature wall or all over colour?

[MotherForker]

Repainting my living room (post divorce!). Currently deal grey feature wall and white everywhere else. The stairs come down into room, so includes having to paint stairs and landing.

So either another darkish colour on one wall and a neutral on the rest or one colour everywhere. The room is quite light, and can tolerate darker colours.

Thoughts and suggestions? I want to paint him out of my house, but I'm not particularly decoratively blessed!

Don't think about 'decorating', think about colours and what YOU like!

Additional points if he'd have hated it!

🥂🍾 for your new life!

If you realky don't gravitate to a colour, why not get some large sheets of paper and some sample colours? Tape them to the walls...have a bit of fun?

Stick to white but use soft furnishings to add colour

I love colour so I’d go for colour and feature wall because why not - colour 1 on the wall the stairs are on and going up the stairs onto the landing, and colour 2 on the rest of the walls. (At least: I’d probably want to incorporate a wallpaper somewhere and a third colour on woodwork/ceiling ).

We’re currently doing our living room mostly a deep greeny-teal colour (Dulux turquoise copper) with a very dark blue (Dulux sapphire splendour) in the back alcove bit around a bright bonkers pattern wallpaper that has a dark blue background. There will be fuschia and yellow accents in the soft furnishings (I am currently making a case for fuschia dado rail on 2 walls at the moment - damn having to negotiate everything with DP!), I have left one large wall behind the sofa white above the dado which will have some art on.

Anyway basically, if you want colour just experiment. It’s only paint.

I painted my house recently too - I painted the ceilings, walls and woodwork all the same colour - it looks amazing. The rooms look bigger and because it's all the same colour, you don't have to be particularly skilled.

I'm currently contemplating a feature wall in my dining room, but think it's bit half hearted and possibly dated. Would feel like a cop out to me.

oh and i went dark - it looks really lovely.

We’ve done/doing the skirting and dado the same colour as the walls as well Helen (well unless I can persuade DP on the flash of fuschia dado!) but agree the uniform look is great. We’ve got anaglypta on the (very high) ceilings though so I’m not sure about them being the same colour as I don’t want to ‘lose’ the anaglypta, I love it so thinking maybe like a very very pale baby/sky blue.....

Helen did you do walls or woodwork first? We’re mid-project and can’t decide. We have learned that doing wall with the vinyl matt whilst the eggshell on the woodwork was drying didn’t work too well!!

I have stairs in the the living room, ours can get quite dark though so off colour white going up the stairs and the three walls in living room and one wall a different colour. I've got decorator coming Friday and I've still not decided what colour I want on that one wall.

@LemonViolet

We’ve done/doing the skirting and dado the same colour as the walls as well Helen (well unless I can persuade DP on the flash of fuschia dado!) but agree the uniform look is great. We’ve got anaglypta on the (very high) ceilings though so I’m not sure about them being the same colour as I don’t want to ‘lose’ the anaglypta, I love it so thinking maybe like a very very pale baby/sky blue.....

Helen did you do walls or woodwork first? We’re mid-project and can’t decide. We have learned that doing wall with the vinyl matt whilst the eggshell on the woodwork was drying didn’t work too well!!

I did the walls first. I think that's the way you're meant to do it. I painted walls, ceilings, woodwork and floors (big lockdown project!|. I do have a couple of rooms when I started where I wasn't brave enough to paint the ceiling the same colour, and I regret that now as the other rooms look so good.