We've always chosen deeper colours and painted the hall of our Victorian house grey (and yellow, with print room decoupage 😮) in the early 1990s! Back then it wasn't a thing - my dad described it as battleship grey, lol - so we had to have it mixed.
Our current house (400 years old) was a bland magnolia box with splashes of Barney purple when we purchased it four years ago. All original features ripped out.
Gradually we've been adding the period character back in and yes, that includes some panelling (constructed in timber by DH) 🙄
We liked the maximalist look long before it was on trend - loads of antiques and vintage stuff collected over the years here - pattern and colour everywhere! We do have bird wallpaper, but it's either William Morris (again we've been into the Arts and Crafts movement for twenty years, not just because it's fashionable.... again!) or Voysey. Our living room is olive green with an original art nouveau velvet sofa (and a modern cream linen one) with books everywhere.
We also have gallery walls - not photos but prints and some - cheap or done by me - original art. And a dark blue hall and millennial pink bathroom! The main bedroom has a mural that I painted myself. All this will probably look dates very soon, but it won't be going as we chose it because we love the look 😁
Our kitchen is probably the least on trend room in the house - we have a red range cooker, oval room blue cabinets and the worktops are a mix of iroko and anthracite microcement......oh and a second hand teal velvet sofa.
I definitely won't be painting anything peri because it's the latest thing, lol! I had a bedroom that colour in the nineties and hated it 😂