Purple and Orange? Good colour scheme?

Question

i was browsing through the ikea catalogue and i spotted a lovely themed room, with deep purples and oranges. I fell in love with it, but as we all know- in a catalogue EVERYTHING looks great, but with my mess and all my stuff it might not be so clean cut. What d'you guys think? A good choice for a bedroom? The bedroom is big with a massive window, so theres lots of colour. Maybe i should use the light and go for very light colours?

sorry- i ment its big with massive windows so theres lots of LIGHT. lol

Answer 1

It sounds great, very morroccan. Perhaps just choose one colour as your predominant paint colour and add touches of the other colour, as well as other jewel colours, hot pinks, turquoises, emerald greens, in the accessories, like cushions, candles, throws, boxes etc.

It'll be a fablously decadent room, plus it will work better with clutter than pale colours. I say go for it, it's your room!

Answer 2

My suggestion is look around the room and look to see what things in the room you definitely want to keep and not get rid of. Base the color you choose on what colors go well with those objects and the color of your current carpet, unless you also plan to change out the carpet.

Yes, they can definitely make the room look great in a magazine. But we as individuals don't normally have a totally blank slate of a room with no furniture and other knick-knacks that we have to coordinate around.

Also I recommend going with colors/decorating styles that you think you will like not only now, but possibly years down the road. I call it timeless decorating.

If you really want to get a good idea if those colors would work in your room. Go and get a sample size container of each of those paint colors or as small of a paint container as you can buy. There's no need wasting money and paint if the color may not work. Then take a cardboard sheet or two and cut it into about 12"x12" pads. Paint those pads with the colors you are considering. If you want to match the magazine exactly, take it into the paint store and they can put it under an electric eye that can detect the color and replicate it. After you've painted the two cardboard pads with about two coats of paint. Take some blue 2" painter's tape and roll it into a ring with the sticky side out. Then place it on the back of each pad. Now you can place the pads on the wall and have a large sample to look at. Stand back about how far you normally would look from in the room. Move them around the room and examine them beside major furniture in the room or anything you want to compare it to. Also examine it in ALL the lighting situations that you'd be seeing that room in (just lights on, daylight, shadow, etc).

Doing this should give you a really good idea whether the colors will work or not and you haven't spent a fortune on paint or supplies either.

And if you have to, leave the samples up for a day or two. I guarantee within 2-3 days you will definitely know whether or not it will work.

I developed this method when painting my downstairs. It simplified things a lot as far as picking out the color. It's really hard to tell if the color will work when you are looking at a color sample that is 1.5"x1.5" and you are holding it about 1-2 feet away from your eyes. We as people don't look at our walls from 1-2 feet away normally. We stand back and look at them. And if you stand back and look at a 1.5"x1.5" sample it's often hard to even determine what the color is doing that. This gives you a big movable sample. AND don't be afraid to take the samples to the furniture store when furniture shopping. They also work when seeing about picking out furniture.

So basically I'm not really saying yeah or nay on purple and orange. Determine that based on some of the things I said to consider. If it is done right, I'm sure it could look very beautiful. But as you've probably already figured out. A number of people don't like that color combination together. So if you are going to sell the house anytime soon, I'd recommend sticking to more neutral colors. Otherwise, it's your house and paint it whatever color combo makes you most happy.

Answer 3

Purple and orange are very complimentary colors. They don't go with everything though, so just make sure the rest of your stuff works. I had a problem with orange until some friends of mine did orange and dark brown with very 70's decorating. Got me over my orange hating. It looked wonderful. They had things like chrome lamps, a white shag, almost room-sized rug, everything very modern (well, 60's 70's modern). It did look like a magazine. If you've got an eye, it can be great.
Good luck!

Answer 4

In my experience, (I know the rule is, small room, light colors to make the room bigger) even if the room is small and the lights are very bright, light colors will just cause all the light to explode and be very bright instead of making the room look larger.

If you are a colorful person then go for it. You could always just paint a wall or two and leave the other two a lighter color to balance it out.

Answer 5

Its not my taste at all, but I think the dark colours would make your room feel small. I think bedrooms should be light airy and peacefull, a place of santury from the world and those loud colours will not do that for you.

Answer 6

on the colour wheel purple and orange are a big hit .the colour wheel is available and it is full of colours that go together. the opposite colours the more striking. It shows primary colours,secondary ,warm colours e.t.c If you go to this website you will see what colours you can mix succsessfully. good luck www.zest-it.com/colourwheel oh !and for all your junk you could get some great storage ideas that dont cost a fortune and hide it all away thats wat i do !!!

Answer 7

I've got my living room in purple, orange and green, and I think it looks lovely! I have the sort of seventies colours, mostly purple and green with orange accents. Nice.

Answer 8

ummm, I wouldn't I moved into a house about ay ear ago (rented) and it had a dark purple and tangerine theme and it was hideous, and too me about 6 coats of paint to get rid of, I got the room cheap due to the colours adn that had a huge window too

If you must, then go for palest of each colour, at least then if you don't like it then you can easily paint over it

Answer 9

This sounds like a clash of colours. I would use the light colours and use vases and pictures etc in bright colours.

Answer 10

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