You may have thought about a dark wall color, but then you didn't dare. Many perceive dark colors for interior design as a risk and prefer to do without the experiment so as not to regret it afterwards. But you have certainly seen many attractive facilities that seem so special because of the walls.
But how was the perfect ambience reached there? In this article we would like to explain this to you with some tips. Find out how you can avoid a depressed feeling of living and instead create an elegant and stylish furnishings. It depends on the details. With a few tricks, you ensure that even small rooms seem comfortable and cozy.
These wall colors are trendy. And here it doesn't matter where in the house. They are not only used for living rooms, but also for bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and hallway. The shades of color range from dark gray, to purple and blue to black. Petrol and amethyst are also particularly popular.
The dark wall color and its disadvantages
This is how this type of wall design also dares, it can undoubtedly also be paid. Nevertheless, we do not want to withhold what disadvantages can be related. On the one hand, they often ensure that the room is smaller, narrower and, so to speak, cave -like, even though the dark wall color itself is rather warm and cozy.
In addition, walls that are made directly by the sun are heated up faster. This can be very uncomfortable, especially in hot summer and leads to the paint or wallpaper faster. Therefore, in many cases, a suitable sun protection must be considered.
A perfect execution is also not just desirable, but almost a must and this is another point that prevents many from this wall design. Every smallest bump, every flaw on the walls becomes visible in dark wall colors. And if one day you decide to delete the wall brightly, these bumps remain visible.
Tips for a successful redesign
Now you shouldn't put these things off again. Because there are also a lot of advantages that are connected to the design. In the end, it is only a wall color, which is largely associated with relatively little risks and can also be reversed at any time. However, if you adhere to the following tips, it will hardly be possible.
The size of the room does not matter
The size of a room should never be the reason why they shy away from strong wall colors. Because the dark wall paint let the corners and edges of a room blur, as there are no more shadows. This has the result that the room looks infinite and therefore even spacious.
But so that the feeling of living can also look comfortable in the small room, compensation must be created. It is best to achieve this with light furniture and textiles. Against the new background, the pieces of furniture also come into their own even better. Then you no longer need to worry about an uncomfortable atmosphere.
Accents create dimensions
Ensure an optical illusion with which you give the walls a supporting role. In addition to bright furniture, you also use other bright accents for this purpose. For example, put a colored stool in the room as an eye -catcher. A special pillow or blanket, a carpet or other decorations are also suitable for this tip.
Such accents then attract attention and turn into the center of the room, so to speak. The dark wall color is not only metaphorical, but literally into the background and is no longer an too much eye -catcher. Finally, the accents take over this role. So the wall and furnishings, or, decoration, complement each other perfectly!
What to do with a low ceiling?
If you want to delete a room that has a very low ceiling, it does not have to prevent it from the dark color. All you should consider here is that you should not paint the decorative bar as usual in the same color as the ceiling. Instead, use the same color as for the walls. So delete them, for example in a brown tone, then do the same with the decorative strips.
This trick for dark walls and low ceilings ensures that you visually extend the walls by more or less hiding the strips. The ceiling then no longer looks so low. You can increase this effect by laying a mirror opposite the wall. The reflection makes the room appear automatically more spacious.
Start with small rooms
Small rooms are not only perfect for the dark wall color. They should even start with them best, especially if they are still not sure. Design a small room with the selected color, be it the bathroom or another small room. Of course you can also delete the hallway. This room then becomes the jewelry of your home.
Wall colors can either represent an interesting color accent or a deep, neutral background. This depends primarily on the amount of light that is available in the room. Alternatively, you can simply design an accent wall in a different shade. If you find it like it, you still have the opportunity to expand them to the other walls.
More wall colors ideas and interior designs
A blue-gray wall was designed in this dining room. The maritime facility represents a combination of light and dark furniture and thus creates a harmonious ambience. The wall color is also a wonderful background for the wall decoration made of driftwood. The result is stylish, elegant and homely at the same time.
The dark green in this kitchen was used in an original way. It adorns the area above pointed protection, where the upper cupboards are usually located. Instead, the color serves as a background for pictures. The kitchen cupboards were also designed in the same color. The green tone was combined with a white marble for the worktop and the kitchen back wall.
If you want to set up a room in black and white, you can do this as in the example above. The living room is also a great example of how you can use darker colors for an accent wall. The furnishings, as well as accessories and decorations such as lamps, carpet or curtains are chosen in a white color.
No matter what wall colors you choose, you don't necessarily have to extend to the ceiling. Especially in rooms with a high ceiling, the wall can only be colored up to a certain height, while the rest simply remains white. This makes the room look lower and more comfortable. In this way, the bedroom was also taken up.
In this bedroom, a carrier in turn separates the ceiling from the wall and thus takes on the role of a decorative strip, so to speak. Black serves as a background for light furniture in beige and white. All colors complement each other wonderfully and create a cozy bedroom that no less impressed with elegance. You can combine darker walls with neutral colors.
The large windows in this room allow a completely dark interior, with black and dark blue chosen for wall and furniture. The noble golden color serves as an accents, which is represented in the door handles of the chest of drawers, the lamp stand and in the curtains. White is only the base under the window. The floor is made of light wood.
If you are wondering how a dark wall color in the bathroom could work, you may be able to orientate yourself on this example. These are walls made of wood that were painted in dark gray. They are supplemented by de tub and the washing cabinet in the same color. In contrast, the white marble and the decorations and towels are in white.
This living room was also designed in black and white. Use a shiny surface for the wall, also use our tip for the low wall or small rooms, in which the reflection of a mirror is used to create optically space, only that in this case you do not use a mirror for this purpose must, but the wall did this work.
A nice combination of blue and white was also designed in this living room. The blue walls are supplemented and decorated everywhere by white accents. In addition, there are white seating furniture, which are not only perfectly staged through the wall, but also through the black parquet floor, which even underlines the elegance.
The dark gray design in this living room serves as a background for a modern facility. It is complemented by a gray leather sofa, a stool made of leather and various metals that can be found in the chairs, lamps and some decorations. The wall is also used to emphasize a bright mural.
Combine cold shades with warm earth tones as you like. The living room above shows how this can be implemented. Light brown chairs made of leather and various wooden tones for the furniture make the room even more comfortable. The transition creates the white sofa with dark pillows that fit the floor and the wall and a brown sofa cushion, which in turn adapts to the other furniture.
This wall was only designed to be dark up to a certain height. The end is a pretty decorative strip in white color. Another is located below the ceiling. So you see that several strips can be combined wonderfully without poems. Wooden fireplaces or in white color are very well highlighted on a dark wall.
If you want a particularly extravagant furnishings, then use different colors for furnishing and designing the room and create an interesting patchwork compilation.For the living roomWas a turquoise wall designed and combined with a red armchair, a dark blue sofa, different yellow accents and a carpet in green and blue.
If you want it to be dark, but also warm, then choose a dark red color. This can be combined with different wooden colors, but also with metal in any color and is therefore suitable for a wide variety of furnishing styles. Even doors can be an interesting decoration in the middle of the wall.
You can see a stylish and elegant dining room here. The petrol green serves as a colored background for the chairs in white and gray. There are also mirror surfaces and glass, combined with metal. Based on the furniture colors, you can design an individual atmosphere at any time and choose any style for this purpose. Also wall and soil do not necessarily have to be similar to match.
