Dear people who know anything about color:

[bironic]

Acquiring the couch tipped me over from "should really paint the walls" to "time to paint the walls." Everything in here is white, off-white, wood, or gray, which was fine when I didn't think I'd be living here long, but has been getting to me over the past months. So today I picked up a couple of samples: one pale green, one pink. I haven't

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[perspi]

HI! I would love to talk color, but I can't see your last two pictures? (EDITED TO SAY NEVERMIND!!)

Also, you may not want to talk color with ME, as you *have* seen the colors I've painted in my house, right? I went with some rather strong colors on the 'accent' walls. Although I tried to keep them the same 'feel,' as they're all a bit gray-toned, or muted, I think it's called.

And now that I've seen the pictures, I have to go with Leiascully on the pink for the bedroom and green for the living room. Except, what I would do? A BOLD green in the living room, for just the alcove wall where the couch sits--I'd go a similar shade to what we saw in House's old apartment--you know, that wonderful gray-green of the living room? And a deep dusty rose, just on that wall you've already painted.

But I like BOLD-COLORED accent walls. I have a BOLD accent wall in almost every room in our house, and the other walls are vanilla. (Seriously, the paint color that unifies the whole house is 'vanilla delight.' :)

[bironic]

I am not against bold colors! I just didn't know where to start, here. I really like the first photo in your house, of the brown (I'm not a yellow person). Hmmmmmmmm, one pink wall + one green wall could work.

[perspi]

Right, pink and green play well together! EDITED TO ADD: In my 'vision', you'd paint just the nook green, and the single wall by your bed pink, and then everything else would stay white, so--that would mean there's white walls between the pink and green, right? Am I 'seeing' your studio correctly? (Also, this is a very fun distraction. :)

I can't find any pictures of House's old apartment, but I'm reasonably sure that's the deep gray-green I'm talking about, and it would pair well with a dusty rose color--take the shade of pink you have now, darken it a couple shades, and add just a little gray, and that's what I'd call a deep dusty rose. :)

(Also, here's a sample of the blue color I've got at home. The only one I don't have a picture of is my own gray-green wall, which is the living room. Heh.

AND ONE MORE EDIT! Your bed looks a LOT like mine!

[bironic]

*g* The bed's the part in the "nook," so I'm assuming the couch would be the green and the bed would be the pink? Sounds better that way, since the green clashes with the green in my throw pillows. Or maybe just all pink. Or maybe something else, as comments come in!

Room layout is hard to describe, so I sketched it out for you on this piece of paper with a grease stain. A little skewed, but whatever.

[bironic]

My artist friend is recommending earth tones over the pinks and greens, too. (And also advocating not painting too-dark colors since I'll have to repaint them white when I leave...!)

[perspi]

Ah, your artist friend will steer you well! And it does make sense not painting too dark--we had a blood-red living room, and needed two coats of primer to cover it! :)