How can I choose a color to paint my room?

I'm a teenager but I have a sophisticated taste. I don't want any neon colors and I don't want black. My furniture has dark wood and my room is kind of small. I have a lot of natural light (1 large wide window %26amp; 1 small window).


I was thinking of painting it an antique pink color but have a a feeling that's going to get to girly for me in about week.





My room is lavender right now and I've gotten VERY tired of it. I like the color indigo but do you think that will be too dark?





Also, if you could think of colors I could use as accents (curtains, bedspread, etc.) for my room that would be great too. :]How can I choose a color to paint my room?
Choosing a paint color is difficult. Sometimes I think there are too many choices and the process of taping samples to the wall and looking at during different times of day and light can take a long time and leave one with more uncertainty than answers.





If you like indigo and antique pink, I say use them. Indigo is a beautiful color, but probably too dark for the whole room to be painted solid. You don't have to paint the whole wall though, or all walls the same color. You could paint an accent wall or only paint part way up the wall and paint the top 2/3 (This is known as chair-rail height) a lighter color. Then install some molding or a wallpaper border horizontally over the place where the two colors meet.





I recommend looking to some faux painting techniques and don't forget the various sheens of paint and utilize texture as well. For example I have seen a very pretty treatment using color blocks (like a checkerboard using ';flat'; for one square and ';gloss'; for the adjacent) Stripes can also be taped out, and they need not be equal widths. Maybe you could paint wide verticle pink stripes with a narrow indigo stripe seperating them.





Some other techniques are sponge painting, stenciling, rag-on, rag-off, combing, and marbeling.How can I choose a color to paint my room?
The color should be a neutral, such as a tan or oatmeal color so that you can bring in any color you like for accessories and it will work well!
maybe a dark crem color like a coffe color.
If you have sophisticated taste, you might consider a neutral like buff, mocha, dove grey, etc, and then punching it up with colorful accents that are fairly easy to change like covers for accent pillows and throws. Then you could be girly one week with pink, and then ultra chic with pale butter yellow, and then rich and delicious with cinnamons, rusts, clarets and burgundy reds, and then another week go cool and chic with dusty or clear aqua and lime green and chocolate.





If you love the feeling of rolling a new color on the wall, then keep most of your accessories neutral and have fun changing the paint color periodically.





Indigo does sound like it would be too dark for the whole room, (unless you want the cave-feel), but it might be fabulous as an accent wall and in accent pieces. Adding orange accents will create excitement, adding lime will cool it down, etc. Add things with different colors and see how it makes you feel.
Hi, try this. Go into Google or Yahoo image search. Key in bedrooms or bedroom designs or whatever you think best describes the item you're looking for. Voila, you now have thousands of photographs to choose from. Most images link to a website for more information. If you can鈥檛 find anything this way go to glidden.com. You can select from any color on their color chart and actually see a room painted in that color. It's good for color coordination. I use it quite often!
If your sleeping in the room make it a peacful colour nothing too strong. Consult a Feng Shui book for tips.