Which wall to paint as feature wall ?

[Diet2023]

I'd like to use the wall behind the sofa - the biggest wall in the room. But I thought your supposed to do the chimney breast and / or the wall opposite the sofa where the TV goes.

What are the general rules and would it be ok to do the back wall as the feature?

Well if you do the one behind the sofa where it won't be seen, is there any point?

But then I've never seen the point of them anyway although I have one in a bedroom #hypocrite 😁

We have done the big wall behind the sofa. I see it all the time as don't spend all day on the sofa 🤣
It looks great. We don't have a chimney breast though, and the other 'big' wall is broken up with two doors.

It can be worth thinking about the dimensions of your room as highlighting different walls will changed the perspective of a room: painting one wall will make it feel closer. So if you paint the longest wall in a long thin room you can make the room feel narrower. We painted the fireplace wall and an adjacent shorter wall to try and prevent the room feeling narrowed: you can read about it in articles like this. pin.it/4XOR77P

For me, if there is a fireplace then the room centres around it. I can't really imagine a feature wall that wasn't the fireplace wall, but maybe the wall opposite could work. Hard to say without knowing the room layout really