Painting a room with dark colors is the ongoing interior design trend right now. All the people who are a little educated in home building or interior design, are not shying away from painting walls with the darkest of the dark shades. Popular beliefs suggest that dark walls tend to make a space look cramped. However, that is definitely not the case, as dark walls can help trick our eyes into believing that a room is much bigger than it actually looks. Dark walls are also an excellent choice when we want to add a splash of color to an otherwise neutral room.
Before you go about experimenting and painting your walls with dark colors, let us look at some of the tips and tricks to help out with our selection.
Matte or Glossy?
When we think of painting our homes with a dark tone, it is important to choose the shade of color, but it is also very important to choose whether that color will be matte or glossy. The gloss has the highest shine and the matte has no shine. By this, we know that gloss will reflect the most light, so if natural light is your concern, you must go with glossy paints. However, due to the high reflective properties of glossy paints, if the walls are smooth and flat, all the imperfections will be very clearly visible. Matte paints, in contrast, absorb natural light so might make a room appear duller but it definitely helps to hide imperfections in the walls.
Will the room become smaller?
When a person has had a lighter-colored home for the longest time, it will be a shock initially when he/she transitions to a darker room. The wall that gets painted with the dark tone, will come in, especially in large rooms. Smaller rooms are less of an issue, but painting a large room black will at first be a bit shocking, but you will get the hang of it eventually. However, the main trick is to paint the longest wall with a dark tone first, or maybe even a part that is recessed to ease you into the change.
Painting a room black tips
Some people frequently as painting a room black tips, whenever the conversation of painting a room with a dark color comes up. Black looks really good with certain neutral colors or as a single color as well. It gives the room an elegant touch. However, the question is how much black is too much black? Black rooms especially black living rooms are for all the bold people out there who are all in for experimentation, and really love the proper gothic vibe that the color black gives off. Going with different hues of black all around the living room might sound dark and gloomy. But if done in the correct way, it could lead to the creation of an interior design masterpiece. Also, people who do not want to paint your entire room black, pay attention to this. Why paint all the walls, when you can have a statement black wall? The color black goes really well with most neutral and light colors. Therefore, one could easily put light-colored furniture and decor in front of the black wall, so that it acts as a backdrop. These are some painting-a-room black tips that could come in handy.
Size isn’t important
People have asked me time and again if coloring their rooms with a darker tone makes the space look smaller and I have told them that many times that it is not true. Any room, of any size, can go dark, but it obviously has to be done properly with a lot of thought given to it. The shape, size, or function doesn’t matter, dark colors work everywhere. For example, we have all seen the numerous black or dark-themed bathrooms on Pinterest, which acts as proof of the fact that size honestly doesn’t matter when painting interior spaces.
Let’s break it up
When you paint the longest wall in the room with a dark color, sometimes it might look boring or monotonous. So the easiest way to fix this is to adorn the walls with decor, paintings, photographs, posters, etc. This will break up the space, reduce the dark color of the wall, and make it feel simple and less dark.
Mirrors are an asset
Mirrors are the best tools for an interior designer who is dealing with a dark-colored space. The first advantage of a mirror is it can help make a smaller room appear larger. It must be placed strategically off course, and if done properly, it can work wonders in an interior space. Mirrors also reflect a huge amount of light, therefore people dealing with low natural light can utilize this to their benefit. Any natural daylight that a room receives can be doubled if the mirrors are placed in the correct way. Now, this doesn’t mean, we are suggesting you buy 10 huge mirrors for your room, but you definitely get the idea.
Dark accessories
Finally, in the end, it all comes to the small details and final touches. After painting the room with a bold choice of color, accessories are the final things to add to make your space look beautiful, and using dark accessories will help bring style and elegance in a really sophisticated way. Dark tableware in your kitchen, a dark-colored ramp in a hallway, and dark rugs on light-colored floors will give dark-toned rooms the final touches they require.
