Help with kitchen/living room extension design

[TrojanHorses4]

I am new to house design and I think I may have ideas above my station.

This is my West-facing kitchen/diner/living area. It is a modern extension of a victorian terrace. It will remain my home office too and I plan to get a sofa for it soon.

My plan for thr rest of the house is to make the living room a deep velvet-red/pink and to have my bedroom a rich teal - love deep colours.

I know that a darkish, bold colour, such as forest green, would go really well with my prized desk that I somehow persuaded an old employer to let me take home. It's a long, dark room and it has a modern kitchen, spotlights and bifold doors, in contrast with the old desk and my preferred victorian style.

Does anyone have suggestions of how to break up colours here. I was thinking a bright turquoise as a compromise (example colour on exterior wall picture) but maybe I could use more than one colour or even a mural to break up the room from a bold colour (example attached). I'm banking on there being people out there that think this sounds like a fab way to spend an evening.

Any thoughts gratefully received.

I think that the forest green would look really elegant.

I also love deep colours. Forest Green will be great on that wall.

Morning. I see no reason you can't use any colour you like. If you are worried about it looking right you could start small and zone the desk area with colour on the wall there, leaving the rest as it is and picking up the colour in the sofa backsplash and soft furnishings. But I think it'd look great as a deep green all over.

What is the third picture? I love it. I also love Victorian/edwardian style. Maybe consider some room screens, I’ve got a couple of gorgeous Japanese style ones, imagine your desk area as Sherlock meets Oscar! I’m terrible at decor though.

I'm also a fan of deep, saturated colours and think the forest green would be amazing in that space @TrojanHorses4. I love the idea of a huge mural wall too!

In our last house (400 year old mill converted to a house in the victorian era) we had an Inchyra Blue hallway, Olive living room and Oval Room Blue kitchen cabinets (all F&B estate emulsion/eggshell), all of which made the spaces far more atmospheric than the generic magnolia which was the previous owners idea of a cottage-y colour.

In our current place (Georgian cottage, last 'renovated' in the mid 1960s, massive project) purchased last year, we're embracing colour again. So far we've done two of the bedrooms (F&B De Nimes and Yeabridge Green), colour drenched so everything is painted the same colour except the '60s floorboards which are Little Greene Lamp Black with rugs.

The kitchen - walls and cabinets - is Edward Bulmer Pompadour (deep red/pink), the living room is going to be Edward Bulmer Nicaragua (pink) and the snug will be wallpapered in a vintage turquoise/black Art Nouveau style paper I found on eBay years ago. Other rooms are still to be decided, although we want a Georgian yellow to feature somewhere!

I love the idea of the forest green! it's one of my favourite colours for kitchen design (I'm a professional kitchen designer).

Have you thought of maybe doing a door replacement on the kitchen? and using shaker/classic style doors + cornice. That way you'll tie in the space into a more Victorian style to belong with the rest of your decor without having to change the whole kitchen. We do a lot of door replacements for customers at my shop and they are very affordable. I did one myself in my flat when I bought it last October as I couldn't afford to change the whole kitchen yet. As long as cabinets are in good condition you should be fine.