Hey guys, I'm trying to figure out a color for my master bedroom's feature wall. Firstly let me list out the color choices of the house.

Wall primary color : White
Furnitures : Black
Decor : black with some red

With the above info, I hope you guys understood the theme of the house. I thought of using Black for the feature wall.

Something like this. What do you guys think?


Oh and BTW, anyone knows where in the forum to get that light that illuminates from the bed headboard? Can this be done by those simple LED strips/tubes?

Wallpaper is one of a good choice....

U can use T5 tube for the headboard

I'm gonna paint the wall and hang up some large poster..

Any idea where to get that T5 tube?

T5 tubes, u can find them in every light shop..a 4ft bar price starts from RM19 to RM25..

but i like the LED strips if it is not too expensive!

It'll make your room look small. Gray will be better.

hmmm but I'm thinking about something that is flexible and thin. So I can slide them through tight spaces yet still illuminate certain area...

Did some further researches and much agreeable that black absorbs light hence tighten up the illusion of wide space. How about if I hang up a large black n white canvas wall poster on the black wall? With some lights behind the canvas, lighting up the whole poster.


When you say gray, is it dark gray or gray of other tones? Do you have any pics ?

And guys, any idea how to hang a large canvas poster without any nails?

Thanks for the inputs...

This post has been edited by GameFr3ak: Nov 9 2010, 11:28 AM

@GameFr3ak,
Just a thought - would Black be uhm...too-mosquito-friendly?

Was about to say that. Alot of insects might decide to 'stay' near the black walls. If our weather is really dry & cool, it would probably be ok.

http://www.decorpad.com/photos/2009/06/09/1ce3da8b7ec8.jpg

Something like this kind of gray.

Hmm nvr thought of this problem. Will this still happen if I live on the tallest floor (23rd) ? With medium sunlight access. And mostly air conditioned?

Nice color. And the wall poster is the kind that I have in mind...

I'm not sure about that though. I have never tried any dark coloured wall before. As long as your room is well-aired and at times air it with outside air will be fine.

Or maybe you could try it out and let us know? I think also need about a year or 2 to find out if the spiders etc will be crowded into that area or not. But if you clean it all the time (behind your bedhead etc), should be no problem.

I'm currently living in another Condo and the whole house is painted in white. guess what, it doesn't stop the spiders from coming. Though I don't see any mosquito, probably coz I'm living on the 19th floor. Even if there is mosquitoes, it gotta be from my own toilet....

The Spiders came because you seldom 'dust' your place lor. If you practice dusting and cleaning the walls at least once a mth with Magic Mop (from Kao), your walls/ceilings will be clean from other stuff.

I just meant that black will attract as insects like cool & dark places.

for my house..
living room..feat colour=red..the rest white..
my master bedroom..feat colour=dark purple..the rest light purple..

Guys .. asking your opinion.. this below color nice?


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ahh ok.. that means if i pick dark color then I need to be more hardworking...

Got pics ?

Hmm looks ok in the pic but I guess you need a lot of lights to make it look even better?

Ya.. dissapointed with that gray.. hahaha, have to repaint brighter color.

i said chili red or deep purple as it will match well with ur dark walnut furniture

I think it lacks brightness. Should be ok if there's enough natural light during the day and enough lighting during the night will be good enough. Though I do think that gray and maroon is a little too dark. But should be ok as a feature wall color I guess..

Nah furniture will not be dark walnut. It should be black, pure black. But Chili red paint seems to be a feasible idea.

Do you know? dust actually not black colour, but is some kind of gray, so unless your "black" wall is using gross finish paint, if not when the dust stop on the wall, it will look very bad

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.

Thanks for the info. So Velcro strips are actually similar to double sided tape right? Do you know any particular place to frame up printed posters or murals? In KL la -.-

Velcro Strips are not similar to double sided tape la.

You know those school shoes that you can stick the top part? That one is velcro strips la.

Hrm, i don't live in KL so i'm not sure where can frame posters. FYI, murals are actually pictures painted on walls.

In Shah Alam - where I always get some stuff framed for my office - the place is not bad, and pricing wise also ok. Maybe you could get it done around Cheras area or something but not sure about it, as it might be cheaper there than main area frame shops.

Ah.. Interesting method there. Velco Strips, pretty tough if applied on 4 sides of the frames I reckon. But strong adhesive will still peel off the paint coat in the end no matter what right ?

Well, that's why i recommend light painting (like 1 pc of paper without frame) to be stuck on the wall using velcro. At least when you get bored of it, you can velcro it off and the other side of velcro still on the wall ready to stick on another picture lor. I hope you get what i mean. Unless you really want the wall to be empty again- then no choice have to scrap off the velcro.

Good point too, in most cases I'll only change the picture or poster and it is less likely that I'll be leaving the wall totally empty. So that should give me enough motivation to poke a hole, velco or use strong adhesive hooks.

Don't forget to post up pics of before & after lor!

Hmm finally my house had its feature walls painted. And the color ran turned out to be more bluish as expected. Actually the gray looked kinda like yours and I have all other walls painted in white. So currently I have tv wall, dining wall and master room head board wall painted in this bluish gray tone.

Further more I've asked the renovate to paint my door frames in black while the doors in white. My present concern is mainly with the tv wall. I have a tv cabinet that is main in black while the compartment door are in silver white. It's gonna be mounted on the tv wall. So I'm a bit concerned of the overall look. LOL any thoughts?

This post has been edited by GameFr3ak: Dec 31 2010, 02:29 AM