Are you brave enough to try this design idea?

Black walls?

Even though I think the results in the home pictured here are stunning, I'm still hesitant to put something this dark on my walls. What about you?

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This living room has a black accent wall and it looks gorgeous! The pop of white in the fireplace is perfect to balance, along with the mirror and throw pillow!



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   The host of HGTV’s Candice Tells All, Candice Olson says, "A room with windows that face north or east will get cooler light, for which light caramel or buttery hues are a good match.

In contrast, south- or west-facing windows bring in warm light; “soft shades of warm colors,” she says, are good at playing it up. Rooms with low or moderate natural light are excellent places for walls with cool colors, like blue or moss green. These hues might be significantly altered in a sunnier room, where the light’s yellow tinge could turn blue into green, and green into lime.

Olson mentions a way of testing colors that we’d heard of before, though it sounds even better coming from a TV star. Basically, if you want to test a potential wall color, paint some of it on a big card and hold it up to the wall (or even attach it). You’ll see how the color interacts with the room’s natural and artificial light, and you can examine the card at various times of day. Just bear in mind, as Olson does, that incandescent light, like sunlight, has a yellowing effect. Halogen lights, on the other hand, tend to show colors accurately.

Accent walls are a fine way to introduce “riskier” colors; one black wall is a far cry from four. Olson gives standard advice: Accent the longest wall, or the one that frames the room’s main piece(s) of furniture. She also mentions that tinting a room’s ceiling with a bit of what’s on the walls softens the transition between them. Unless she’s dealing with an unusually small room, she generally paints trim in a color that contrasts with the walls.

One of Olson’s color schemes sounds particularly elegant. She recommends painting dining-room walls in a dark navy blue, which can beautifully complement both crystal and silver. For those with an even greater taste for drama, black is the answer. “Everything goes with it,” Olson observes, and it can generate a feeling of mystery without descending directly into Gothic gloom. Living rooms and bedrooms are, in Olson’s opinion, the best places for black walls. A glossy finish and robust lighting help keep things stylish. In the kitchen, one wall at most should be black, she says. Use the color even more sparingly in the bath.