Dark walls without regret: how to make bold color feel livable
Dark walls keep popping up on feeds and mood boards. Scroll past a few apartments filmed on a phone at dusk and there they are again—inky greens, soot-black blues, a charcoal that looks like rainclouds pressed flat. It’s tempting. It’s also unsettling. I learned this the hard way when I painted my spare room a deep graphite one rainy weekend, convinced it would calm my brain. Monday morning arrived and the room felt smaller, louder somehow. I loved it and wanted to repaint it within the same hour.
That tension sits at the center of the dark-wall trend. These colors …
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