But imagine the vignette on this mantel surrounded by stark white walls. If you like STUFF, a dark, moody, possibly black room is for youĪbigail Ahern’s home is filled with urns and faux flowers and fabulous accessories. I don’t know about you, but it hurts my eyes.Ī light filled room needs pale colours so they can come out and play during the day. Ever sat facing a window in a super dark restaurant during the day? The light from the windows streaming in creates glare. It makes no sense to paint a light filled room black. Paint your dark, north facing room black. Rande Hackman Architects Paint your already dark room a dramatic colour (black, if you must) And of course that’s how I was used to seeing that shade of green in the 80s. I recently painted my kitchen island forest green (aka hunter green from the 80s) and when the painter installed my chrome hardware back onto the drawers, I immediately wished they were gold. Same goes for outfits.ĭon’t forget to add leopard, it picks up the black and it looks amazing against jewel tones like fuschia:ĬB2 Add white and gold to your all black roomĪnother reason why gold hardware, accents, frames, furniture, is here to stay is because it’s required to warm up black. Remember black and orange is halloween and black and yellow creates a bumblebee effect. If you don’t make use of the shadows, the look will be flat or too graphic.ĬB2 Add colour to your room with all black wallsĬolour brings all neutral rooms to life, but if you’re going to introduce it in a mostly black room, make sure to add plenty of white. It’s a moody look, and you want to create some softness and mystery. Why? Because anything you put against these bottom-of-the-lake greens, browns, grays, blacks, and blues actually looks and feels grander than it really is,” she says An all black room needs textureĪnd it works for Abigail because she adds loads of texture. When you go dark, you suddenly create this vibe that almost exaggerates coziness you just want to hunker down and never want to leave. I am obsessed with inky hues. “Paint is the cheapest and most transformative change you can make to any room,” the designer points out. The designer who has never stopped pitching dark, dramatic black and moody rooms is Abigail Ahern, But in the meantime, instead of warning you against the perils of an all black room, been there, done that here, here and here, I’m just going to show you how to do it so that you still love it when it’s done. I’m still percolating on why this obsession with all white or all black rooms is even a thing. “Maria, is it too much to do an ALL BROWN, or ALL GREY room?” I’m fascinated that during the brown or grey trend from the last 20 years, this statement: And you’re not only ‘inching’ towards an all black room, you’re ‘skyrocketing towards it’ □ If the room is all black, it’s not too much anymore, it’s at the very end of much. This weekend, I received this comment on the blog:Ĭurious if you’d be willing to share your advice/opinion on whether you think it would be too much to do an all black office (think moody) with a white office across the hallway with only a black ceiling to sort of tie in with the black in the office across the way? I am trying not to make every design choice be black, but I love black and white and so I’m finding myself gravitating towards it knowing that I may be inching towards too much! Makes sense that I started a blog because I wasn’t out celebrating the scariest day of the year. I always forget until the day is upon us, that not only is it Halloween, my LEAST favourite holiday, it’s also the day I started writing my blog. I had no idea where my little blog with this header would take me 13 years ago. Today is my 13th year of writing this blog. Lights make everything magical (Photo by Maria Killam)
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