True. Since so many suggested away from Black. I think I'm gonna go with gray tone...

This post has been edited by GameFr3ak: Nov 10 2010, 05:25 AM

Guys, what about the wall TV wall color? Since you gonna face that wall for hours during movie session. Would it be nice if it's in Gray too ? More subtle for the eyes..

Well, you have alot of choices actually.

Probably you could go to ICI or Nippon to get a colour wheel. You could opt for Off Whites. At least it's more soothing for the eyes.

In fact, choosing feature wall color, for me, most of the time, i need to see the whole concept of your house design, then only can give you an ideal of color matching. Example, red is nice, but who know your furniture and other wall is using yellow or brown base color, when meet red, that will be a bit funny i think. So all the color is nice just depent match or not.

My color choices of the house are : -

Black n white + minimal red furnitures
White walls
Some red decors

Feature wall = gray?


This is similar to what I have in mind but Black will be the prime color for my furniture. So the sofa will be in Black while the table might be white with some black.

This post has been edited by GameFr3ak: Nov 10 2010, 11:09 AM

Since your furnitures are black, the walls should be either off white (with beige or gray-beige tones). Coz if you have some more red on the walls - the 2 colours are really strong on the eyes. Will not feel relaxed.

How bout this gray ?

Not bad.

Maybe you could opt for maybe 2 or 3 shades lighter?

But i suggest you probably test paint it to see if it matches first or not.

Like, paint the whole wall to see if it matches? Orrr 1 small portion? I'm getting my renovator to paint for me not sure if he can do that..

You can probably buy a couple or few paint cans (smallest one) and paint a portion (like maybe about 2ftx2ft to have a look first. Not paint the whole room la. LOL. You can test paint it yourself. If the colour looks ok, then can go ahead and buy that particular colour.

Usually those off whites are the easiest to match. The off whites are always either slightly beige, slightly blue, slightly gray, slightly pink, slighly purple, slightly green etc. Just a hint of colour only.

Hope this helps.

Nice match... you see i match with Red and Gray.. >.< pretty sad.

Alright thanks for the suggestion. Will try and get my renovator to get it

Ya I'm kinda worried that it'll become too dark and gloomy. Hence I only planned on painting 1 feature wall with a slightly dark color.

I think darker gray will be nicer

I guess experimenting is the only way to decide But gray is for sure, tone is unsure.. thanks peeps..

You have to experiment yourself and then get the contractor to paint. Once satisfied, buy the paint yourself(so no mistakes can occur) and ask the contractor to quote you painting labour only.

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Added on November 11, 2010, 10:03 amFor modern minimalistic look , gray and white seems to be in thing now.


This post has been edited by Drian: Nov 11 2010, 10:03 AM

try to get hold of a nippon 'Fan Chart'...you will be amazed how many different tones of colours are available, lots of them are not seen even in the common Nippon catalogue.

my personal opinion,jus take the risk & do something bold & fun!! hehe

the fan chart colour seldom turn out the same on actual wall (based on personal experience!)

i painted my stdy room light blue & feature wall darker blue - nice n calmin effect
i painted my guest room magnolia (off white) & feature wall ruby red - wah, red vry vry red, so im gonna "tone down" with white furnitures & white photo frames
painted my bedroom w some offwhite colour n feature wall brown, didnt like the two combo vry much, but oh well, cant win 'em all...

black wall, posters must be in light color frame for highlighting. if not, black frames with some details will give some intriguing details

Thanks guys. I've decided all the colors for the house. Now I'll wait and see the outcome.

BTW anyone of you knows how to hang a big murals or framed pictures without nail through the wall ?

Or should I consider a really thin nail on the wall ? I'll have the whole house in a skin coat and I'll be heart broken to see holes

You could probably try out 3M Brand Adhesive Hooks. It's for heavier pictures. But do check out if it can hold up to the weight of your actual frame+picture.

If it's light, you could try out velcro strips. One side to be stuck on the wall and the other behind the picture.