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My bedroom is painted a deep turquoise - it's not bright, but it's not dark either. Colour on the walls is fine, but I want my bedroom to be a room I can relax in, and hectic colours really don't work for that.

I don't paint my rooms bright, as I tend to keep them calm and neutral... but I do like little punches of color in accessories and do have a horror story for that.

I bought an interesting chair to use as my guest chair for my office. I found this really cute Tina Givens fabric that was a bright blue with bright pink bumblebees on it. Very whimsical, and I thought it seemed like it fit my "creative space." I wanted a bright, popping pink to match the fabric I would use on the back and seat. I picked out a bright Ralph Lauren paint and painted up the chair... and it was like Pepto Bismol had exploded on my chair. I added some white and painted a patch... still too bright. So I ended up finding a better ratio, after some tinkering, and toned the pink way down.

That is the first, and only time, I ever dared to go that bold.

If you'd like to see the chair (not in pepto pink), click here and scroll all the way to the bottom of the post:

http://cottageofstone.blogspot.com/2009/01/entry-way.html

Where's the choice for "Colorful, but in soothing and restful tones"?

p.s. loving option 5....

to the extreme
i rock a mic like a vandal
light up the stage
and wax a chump
like a candle!

agree with Sputnik and bepsf--our bdrm is a deep, dark blue. gorgeous, and totally tranquil.

My bedroom is a sort of robin's egg blue, with white trim, dark furniture and punches of various bright blue-green colors. None of the options in the survey fits.

It's not exactly a horror story, but when we finished the basement of our previous house, it only had one little tiny basement window facing West. Got a fair amount of light, but not a bright room overall. So I talked my "domestic partner" into lemon yellow -- it was BRIGHT. We also painted the stairwell that color -- and learned that it reflected onto the white ceiling making the whole space a bit overwhelming. So we repainted one of the stairwell walls white to soften the effect. When we moved out, at the expected advice of our realtor, we repainted a neutral sand beige color (Aura paint, one coat, yea!)

But I created a monster! Kerry watched some HGTV shows with me over time, and although before the yellow room which he hated at first then grew to like, he was a white walls guy, when we built our new house, the media room became dark red, the rest of the basement level is pumpkin orange, the office is vivid pear green, the bathrooms are medium blue, the livingroom/diningroom/kitchen are a nice coca brown, and the only reason any other walls are white is that the painters charged $250 per color change! We could only handle so much!

I went with a bright beautiful green but the Chicago winter turned it into a cave. I'll use that color again, but probably in a kitchen-like area, and definitely a room with more direct sunlight. I painted it back to a bright(er) white and I love it the way it is.

I like my bedrooms black, like my metal. \m/

I have very strong, bold colors in living room... but I want to keep my bedroom calm, so I am opting for blue-plum, soft purple, gray etc.

I always seem to gravitate towards a vintagey/aged aqua of some sort. Super calming, but still bright and bouncy.

I bought some oops paint for my college apt. bedroom a coupla years ago, I wanted a soft bubblegum pink (the teensy drip on the lid was slightly dishonest!)... it turned out to be "Grandma's Womb Mauve". I lived with it for year anyway.

I'm open to color, but that room above is too bright. I'm not sure I could sleep in it even if the lights were off.

I had to vote for Vanilla Ice, but really I used to have a bright orange bedroom (all 4 walls) so I don't mind bright. The room didn't get much light so it was really dark.

Whytephoenix, funnily enough, when the lights are off, you don't actually notice bright walls...

My last bedroom was BRIGHT yellow. This one is a soft purple with a light yellow feature wall and mostly yellow accents, and I know it SOUNDS more tasteful, but I miss the brightness! I'm thinking of repainting the feature wall just to get my warm mango wall back!

Anyway. I LOVE bright colours. As soon as I get my own home, I'm going nuts with the paint. Let me put it this way - Christine's Colorful Budget Cottage is one of my favourite interiors EVER.

I love bright colors everywhere! They make me happy and feel alive. So why not in the bedroom? The room above is not at all too bright for me, totally digging the orange. Yay for color.

I love the sunglasses storage in this bedroom. Very clever - I shall have to steal this idea.