Small rooms can be a decorating challenge, and we often reach for light colors in hopes of making the room look larger. However, a light color palette isn’t the only way to decorate your small space, and it doesn’t always make a room look larger. Don’t be afraid to use dark colors in even the smallest rooms of your home; small spaces can handle a dark color palette.
We have a small house, a bungalow. Most rooms have seen various coloured walls but they have never seen wallpaper. They were plastered well when the house was built 27 years ago and it just never entered my mind to wallpaper. However, that doesn’t stop me admiring wall papers and accent walls and I adore https://divinesavages.com/collections/wallpaper and http://eu.farrow-ball.com/pws/Content.ice?page=dublin-showroom&pgForward=content& for paint. I mean just look at this image below. It’s called Crane Fonda Emerald from Divine Savages and it speaks to my soul. Look no further for inspiration then on these sites if you feel like that whole gorgeous process of putting the paste on the wallpaper and hanging. To be honest, I used to love the smell and the whole procedure, watching my mum slapping it on but I have a very crooked eye and would be fearful of it going horribly wrong, so will leave it to the experts if ever I change my mind to paper.
Of course, the colours themselves are so complementary to each other on the colour wheel. What I have found, ably abetted by a very good friend, Celina, is that it is so last year, never mind last ten years, to be matchy matchy and this has helped my little adventure in our home. We wouldn’t ever have a huge amount to spend, and I have painted wardrobes in Stiffkey Blue (they were pine – say no more) and our kitchen cupboards in some lovely Pigeon from Farrow and Ball and https://www.colourtrend.ie who do a very reasonable version of all Farrow and Ball.
Anyway, back to colour in small rooms. We recently did up our very small, and euphemistically called, study. I am inspired daily with Instagram and I will list below my favourite interior inspo. Our room was inspired by Lucinda Mitra @nest_twenty_eight
and this is how my little room turned out
I love this Hague Blue Farrow and Ball colour on the walls and we continued the paint right down to the skirting board and the bookshelves and although quite a tiny room, it was not swamped in any way. It changes shades, depending on the light available which I love. Cushions and lamp were https://www.meadowsandbyrne.com/.
I keep seeing darker colours wherever I look and although most rooms in our house are either painted white or grey, I am so tempted to go darker in some rooms, albeit I will drive my darling husband mad. I mean just look at these….
Brinjal in Farrow and Ball and
Deco Martini Arsinic (what a name) from Divine Savages again.
Even a small bathroom can look amazing with colour.
Speculo Forest Green tiles by Topps found in https://www.tiles.ie
So, if you are a scanner of Instagram like myself, look no further than these people for inspo. @roomswithdogs, @cynthia_harper, @nest_twenty_eight, @mad_about_the_house, to name a few. Let’s bring some moody colour to our lives…..
Slippers in the Rain 