h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Feel free to suggest ideas for paint and colours schemes for my flat. As long as it's not a completely offensive shade of beige I'll consider it.
I've not really had that many ideas of my own for the painting, and I wanna start painting next week.

There are four rooms. A bathroom and a kitchen that I want to paint in a way that will make them feel warm but also light, I did briefly think a light burnt-orange might work. The corridor also needs to be light, so I'm thinking maybe an eggshell or bone white. The bedroom [currently the living room] and living room [currently the bedroom] get a bit more light, I want a colour that will add a cosy feel to what will be the livingroom if possible.

Black.

Black....

*Black*....

*Black!*

BLACK!

BLACK!!!

*Snailrind goes on a rampage*

Alternatively, burnt orange does sound nice.

Our last house, which was very dark inside, had an unusual colour scheme which worked very well. The kitchen, along with the stairwell and landing leading from it, was a sort of ceramic burnt yellow colour, which looked warm and friendly and slightly Mediterranian. The living room was a vivid sky blue with a white ceiling, which sounds awful, but it was like sitting in a roomful of summer sky and it did wonders for a bad mood. Blue is supposed to be a cold colour, but this blue gave a feeling of warmth and tranquillity. Gothly's study, on the other hand, was mushy-pea green: I don't recommend that at all!

OOH, how lovely, great to think up colour schemes that are "yours"!!

There's a BBC site which i visited once, you can key in details and they come up with ideas, tell you where to get the paint etc, i'll see if i can find a link.

zdt*unfortunately limited by landlady who decrees all walls must be white*

I've painted my bathroom from walls to ceiling purple, the colour of lavender.
In the livingroom I painted the ceiling yellow and the walls light blue, like a painting of the sea I once saw by a Danish painter. Mind you, I had big windows in the livingroom but they were always covered up 'cause I lived on the ground floor in a house in a busy street.
If you can afford it, then burned terracotta colours like yellow and orangy-red or -brown, really would be my favorites.

Be careful with oranges and yellows- if you catch the wrong colour in the wrong light, it looks like you spent 30 years smoking

I've always been partial to cool blues, but that's just me!

I'm not much use on advising colours this place is a mixture of boring white and 'off wight' So you'v emoved in already?

Reds... as in paint 3 walls in a lighter colour and then have one wall in dark red then you don't lose the light but there's something drastic and stricking and generally gorjus there. And get a 4 poster bed... that's what I'd do anyway.

I painted my bedroom purple but got bored of it...now i'm gonna paint it yellow. Most of my house is kind of shades of yellow, it's nice and very calm.

Well thank you muchly for your thoughts... I have taken them into account. I didn't really have any strong ideas of my own, so I was in desperate need of inspiration.

My plans at present are:
Kitchen - Eastern Glow. A kind of ornage colour.
Bedroom - Ravern Grey. More grey than Ravern, I'm affraid, as anything darker I think would be oppressive.
Bathroom - Ionian Sea. A 'lilac-blue'.
Living Room - Manuscript for the wall opposite the windows and Bone for the others. Which I guess you could call blood red and a kinda micca colour.
Corridor - Spearmint. Which is more of a white than a pale green.

And no I haven't moved in yet. I signed the tenacy agreement on Thursday and got the keys, I will do as much to the flat as I can starting Monday and finish any moving out of NERd on the following Monday at the latest.

Sounds good.

Have you given a thought to doors and doorposts, window panes and such?

For example. I painted one of the doors of the livingroom (light blue walls) a stark dark but luminous blue, surrounded by orangy-jellow doorpost.
On top of the door I hung one of these straw curtains but with less width than the door so it looked like a straw curtain hanging in front of a window. Quite cute.

(the other door, the entrance to the hallway next to the windows I painted very luminous dark red, now with doorposts dark blue, to make it seem like sunset.)

Anyway, have fun. It's a lot of work, painting.

Doors, skirtingboards and frames will be one of the housing association approved gloss colours which include but, I'm hoping will not be limited to White and Magnolia.

Looking forward to the challenge.

Good.

For those strange creatures that may be following such events, I thought I'd mention that the colour for the bedroom has changed.
I am no-longer thinking of painting it Ravern Grey. I've settled for a lighter grey on 3 walls and a nice rich purple on the one wall.

Doors and the like will most prob'li end up being white as things stand.

better than my parents light brown and floral wallpaper

Mmm, grey & purple should work nicely together; if you have to have white gloss bits, they will look good also with that combination.

zdt

Yes, it sounds like a great colour scheme.

We've got "light brown and floral wallpaper" in our house.

I'm sure your parents light brown and floral paper is very nice not at all like my parents wallpaper....

Mmmm, I like grey + purple!

Milla