DO YOU blend your favourite colour into your home... how? (1097 views, 47 replies)

Do you blend your favourite colour into your home? What lengths do you go to, whether you recognize it outright or see it in retrospect?


I LOVE royal purple.

I have to be really careful because I can fall for absolutely ugly and sh*te things just because they are the colour that makes me excited!

My hair has purple (I'm very pleased to say) and my home is done in natural colours which includes greens, purples and oranges.

I got a friend, dentist, that she likes purple a lot and thus her office is decorated. This colour somehow reminds me of hippies and rockers from the woodstock era. In the orthodox christian church is also used, as they say it has something to do with the "soul looking towards the sky above". I personally have royal purple curtains in my bedroom (mom's present) and I bought bed sheets and covers in the same colour. I haven't noticed some effect on me that I can describe. I think I accept it as something that doesn't irritate me and is pleasant to live with.

Purple is my favourite colour too (also have purple hair... and lots of clothes).
My house was a riot of colour once upon a time, when I first lived here I did a paint effect on the living room walls that was dark orange, red & purple, the hallway was turquoise & pale purple and the kitchen was bright orange and dark blue. I liked things to CLASH.
My bedroom - wherever I have lived - has always been purple.
I also like to have colour on the ceilings and woodwork.

I suspect that some of this came from growing up in a house where ceilings were always white and walls were wood-chip paper (urghh) that if they had colour on them was always very pale.

Nowadays I prefer things a bit calmer, although I still have to have colour - living room has grey walls and woodwork to match, but the settee - that I covered myself - is teal velvet. Bedroom is a darker grey, but I papered one wall with some amazing purple and silver wallpaper, and the hallway is plain purple, but a dark shade that tones with the grey.
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I don't have any room for purple ornaments.. because they are all cats.
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Purple was always a royal colour, mostly due to the expenses of the dye. Queen Liz I actually banned anyone but other close royals from ever wearing it.

I'm a bit of a decoratholic. My husband weeps if I say something could do with a lick of paint, lol. He calls it 'mission creep', 'cause it usually involves me wanting to change accessories, curtains, blinds, lights, cushions, furniture floor, house...

We don't really have the space for ornaments or knick-knacks. Almost everywhere, walls 'n all, is taken up by instruments. And I don't like my work space cluttered.

I have a lot of cream, some chocolate brown swede effect walls, blood red sofa and red tartan curtains/cushions/rug combo at the moment. Bedroom is sage green and white. I've not long painted eldest spawns room grey after she got bored with teal.
I'm currently on the look out for an old bathroom suite - those disgusting avocado coloured ones.

I remember when Changing Rooms first started on UK TV and brought an end to woodchip and artex - replacing it with people doing weird paint effects with a wet sponge in vivid colours. ... Painting their kitchen cupboards in a 'wood grain effect' LOL. They even made a kit you could buy! ESP was also a mans best friend.
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My favorite color is a deep royal blue and although I did get some paint to do the front door in, well, it never quite made it there yet. I always have more ideas for things than those things actually gettin done. Minions, I need minions! lol

As for decorations my place is always well adorned with car parts. The fireplace mantle is end to end covered with a collection of parts for upcoming projects, personal works of metallic art or old parts I collect for various reasons with a few treasures of suitable oddity, usually gifts from friends or lil bits of strangeness I swooped up at a garage sale.

Other accoutrements consist of my computer systems (all personally built) w/deep blue accent lighting, the 50" monitor which hangs up near the ceiling over the stereo equipment which has a blue LED clock sitting on top and then speakers strung in every corner. The coffee table is where my collection of strange lighters reside, nestled between car mags and whatever else winds up there.
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It's a strange menagerie of stuff but it suits me and always leaves room for conversation when a new visitor shows up.
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I prefer to call it Auto-Audio-Techno styling

And to borrow a line from William Hurt "I'm not into that completion thing." lol

No, I don't.

I've live in an early Victorian house and they loved strong colours on the walls. So I'm happy to follow suit!

I really like dusty rose but I only really have accent pieces. The sofa has dusty rose cushions and the same with the bedroom. The pictures on all the walls have a hint of that colour and that's enough for me.

I agree about the pink, although i love ALL BRIGHT COLORS,and I suspect i am a female who has that "sex-linked-eye-sensitivity" which is hard to test for.blue,green,browns are a great wardrobe combo for me.I LOVE DENIM--newish denim, not "scraped and ground."dark blues--i got skirts they go with everything---all my walls in liv room, where most living goes on is total white walls cause there is often fabric paint, fabric,sewing, knit(my knit teacher just died,boo hoo!!now gotta find new group!!)or drawing on the 'puter too--so I need all the light from white.--and that is the way it goes.WHITE IS LIGHT.

(You all probably know that "colors can affect things."Bright red or bright orange" turn the human male on, or cause him attraction.)

One of the most amazing homes I've ever had the fortune to visit was one owned by a pair of lesbian interior decorators.

In every room they'd covered the walls w/different printed cloth making it both quite interesting as well as softening all sound within the house at the same time. It gave their home a very artistic flair and seemingly added a very casual comfort to it as well.

In Ft. Worth there used to be a smallish concert venue called Caravan of Dreams that seated maybe 250 and used suspended and draped quilts as the ceiling cover. It gave the place a very homey feel and dampened any harsh soundfields too which seemed perfect for a music venue.