Eccentricity in Design: Multi-Colored Decorative Painting

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Not too long ago, we asked whether you had permission to paint your space. There was a pretty even split between those who were allowed to paint and those who had been explicitly forbidden to do so. Your landlord might not approve of this paint job, but we had to see what you thought. We found it on Shoot Factory, a U.K. locations brokerage. The more we look at these photos, the more the space grows on us. It reminds us a little of Grey Gardens (but without the cat poop).

The description of this space says that it is "5500 sq ft of working space set over three floors and two roof terraces. Packed with an eclectic range of furniture from the 1930’s through to the present day."

See many more photos of this space on Shoot Factory. If you like the multicolored look but can't (or don't want to) paint, there's always the paint chip wall.

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It's rooms like the first two photos that landlords don't want people painting their apartments...

posted by bepsf on April 29th 2009 at 11:07am
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I'm diggin' the grey color in the fourth picture...

posted by clampers on April 29th 2009 at 11:39am
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...step away from the paint can.

posted by LBhirise on April 29th 2009 at 11:58am
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Didn't we learn anything from the 70's?

posted by stt64 on April 29th 2009 at 12:05pm
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i think it is very interesting. adds some tension to the room.

posted by tenderleaf on April 29th 2009 at 12:33pm
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oh my god.. oh my.. god..

i don't even.. what!!! who did this?? ahhh!

no words.

posted by ellehudson on April 29th 2009 at 1:40pm
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I've always been a firm believer that anything ugly can be made to work. But that cocked-up paneling paintjob has shaken my belief.

posted by amed studio on April 29th 2009 at 4:59pm
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I like the transgressive sense of the multicoloured sitting room - the way that the blocks of colour echo the shape of the mouldings without following them. I could never do that. My inner neat freak would want to colour within the lines, as it were.

While I like it, I think it would get old very quickly. If it were my house I'd want to paint the whole lot white and let the architecture and the furniture do the talking.

That's the thing about England - they have so much glorious old architecture that they can afford to be flippant with it, in a way that seems wasteful and undignified to us out in the colonies.

posted by Blandwagon on April 29th 2009 at 10:06pm
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