Thanks for sharing your thoughts @MapleMay11 💐
I get that dark colours are/have been having a bit of a moment, so appear to be everywhere right now. However, OH and I have always used fairly deep, saturated tones when decorating our homes over many years, so don't feel as if we're following a current trend, but are doing what we love.
We've lived in several different architectural styles/periods (Tudor, thatched Georgian, Arts & Crafts Movement, Victorian) in various parts of the UK, all of which we've tried to decorate sympathetically, whilst incorporating our own eclectic personal style.
Most recently we restored a 400 year old rural Welsh mill which was fairly dark with thick stone walls and lots of small windows. Rather than go with the previous owner's choices of magnolia-meets-Barney-the-dinosaur-purple (!), we chose period appropriate colours that embraced the moodiness of the architecture.
Having sold that property last year, we're now tackling a smaller Georgian English seaside cottage, using a pallette of our favourite colours which are helping to inject some character back into the building which was badly butchered/stripped of features by the previous owners in the 1960s/70s. It's the polar opposite of our last home, being light-filled yet cosy, but the saturated colours we love look every bit as fabulous here - imo, of course!