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You have no idea how strongly you're giving me the urge to acquire a guest room solely for the purpose of painting it mint green.

Wait what!? Gray relays depression and fear? That may explain why I can't sleep at night since one of my bedroom walls is DARK gray. Sheesh. Maybe I'll switch to orange then. Hmmm.

I personally don't worry about what a color means...if I like it, I use it.

I never really agreed with the moods generally associated with colors. I do not find red agressive, I find it warm and vibrant. My bedroom was stop sign red for the longest time, I never went on an angry tirade because of it....

It all depends on how the color's used and paired with accents.

If we're being serious... is your guest room visible from the rest of the home?

If it's not, I'd do it in some color that you fantasize about using but that doesn't "go" with everything else. That way, you have a little retreat from reality when you're not using it for guests.

there's little more to the "meaning" of colour than there is to dream interpretation. this is all culturally and highly individually subjective. use the colours you like and that complement your decor.

i don't know about blue being an appetite suppressant, my kitchen is blue and it doesn't keep me from snacking.

I'm with vinegar.

I think the combination of colors, and the proportion of each color used in a room or home, is much more important than the colors and their supposed "meanings" taken individually. Where I work, we have many charcoal gray walls combined with orange accents; too much orange is obnoxious/weirdly stimulating and too much gray is supposedly depressing, but the earthy gray looks great with the orange and enhances it while reining it in.

I do love green in the bedroom, though. Green is physically the easiest on the eyes, so it's literally very soothing. Unless it's acid green or something. Every color has a split personality, and that's what this color psychology stuff cannot account for.

I put dark green shades on guest room windows and my guests woke looking dead. Or, at least, so they said...

what does it mean then that I want a room that is purply-gray? I must be very ill ;)

I don't have kids but isn't it the Wiggles? You say Woggle, I say Wiggle we all fall down.

The only test I have for my paint colors is to make sure they are flattering with my skin tone. Like I know that I can't wear green cause it makes my olive skin look ill, so I definitely wouldn't want to be surrounded in a room with that background.

East village Amy--that's what I do too. I just look at what colors most of my clothes are and then pick out paint chips.

And I realize that my entire apartment is either light green or blue. Looks like someone needs to relax.

EastVillageAmy -
The ONLY test? Really?

I think pale pink is a good paint color because it is so universally flattering. Yellow can be iffy because it makes some people look sallow. And there's nothing like an extremely orange room to make nearly anyone look ill.

I'd like to see people included in Color Contest entries, to see if the room makes them look great or disgusting.

When I was painting my living room, I was trying to create a tranquil space, so decided to go with light green. I felt like I was living inside a mint ice cream vat or, yes, a mental faciltity, rather than the zen palace I'd imagined. I had to repaint the whole room with a doctored version of the paint. (It's a good idea when painting to have some basic pigments on hand)

if i painted my rooms after what color most of my clothes are, they'd all be black and white. with some blue (denim).

Rizki-RI

Is this also work on the exterior colors?...We plan to have our house paint light grey.

Hmmm. What do you guys think a chocolaty color means?