Accent wall time! I know I want a dull purple but the question is do I have the guts to take the darkest?
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As long as you allow enough light into the space, the dark would look amazing.
aug 27, 2025, 1:21 am • 1 0 • view
Should work nicely with many possible shades of pink in the couch, but if too unsure: paint-swatch some options directly on the wall and sit with it for a little
aug 26, 2025, 9:31 pm • 4 0 • view
You have to put large swatches of the colors up and look at them at different times of the day and night to get a real feel for how the color will look in your space. If it's one wall, you can go darker b/c its not going to be bouncing off of itself. Personally, I'm in a darker color phase now.
aug 26, 2025, 11:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I had the dark one on my bedroom ceiling
aug 26, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes. But...if the room gets little sunlight, you might like the one to the right. I did a dark purple accent color close to the top right in my daughter's room. On cloudy days, it would appear much darker.
aug 26, 2025, 11:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I would go straight to the dark first… I would have to talk myself into the lighter color.
aug 26, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I love all of them, you have a tough choice.
aug 26, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
A dark wall can make artwork glow like little jewels
aug 26, 2025, 9:16 pm • 5 0 • view
You watch black and white movies. I bet you'd like the dark. If not, repaint! (I was once going for a faint rose color and ended up with pepto-bismol pink which was VERY hard to cover up)
aug 26, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 0 • view
My lone superpower is the ability to visualize a wall from a paint chip, so I am insufferably arrogant (but I would rather have a sense of direction)
aug 26, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
I envy that superpower! I am wearing a T-shirt right now that is very dark purple, which could be influencing me somehow. Just fyi.
aug 26, 2025, 9:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Someone wrote once that accent walls are “cowardly” Klingon interior decorators, man.
aug 26, 2025, 9:12 pm • 27 0 • view
This wall will be paired with a pink couch and yellow Labrador
aug 26, 2025, 9:14 pm • 19 0 • view
😍
aug 26, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m kinda feeling the second darkest but I need a physical chip
aug 26, 2025, 9:15 pm • 15 0 • view
The bottom two are definitely too rosy for a pink couch.
aug 26, 2025, 9:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Just remember, it always comes out darker when you do the whole wall. Go with a medium shade.
aug 26, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I am a freak who can visualize a paint chip to wall flawlessly. It’s useful once every few years but I am doing it!
aug 26, 2025, 9:32 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 9:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I want to say go with the darkest, but the second darkest would probably be good.
aug 26, 2025, 10:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Nice! That's a great color and accent artwork! 😊
aug 26, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1 0 • view
I like it, but feel like the clock shouldn't be centered. But them I do love to jam lots of art on my walls...
aug 26, 2025, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Burgundy wall, mint green couch, mint green Kit-Cat Klock
aug 26, 2025, 9:42 pm • 13 0 • view
Anyway, I will bring my fancy handmade purple ochre watercolor with me because that’s really the color I want to match
aug 26, 2025, 10:51 pm • 20 0 • view
Most purple ochres lean red or caput mortuum but this one is over into true purple and I love it
aug 26, 2025, 10:54 pm • 7 0 • view
I absolutely am! The paint people all know me
aug 26, 2025, 11:37 pm • 2 0 • view
I've never heard of caput mortuum as a color (I'm not artsy) but it's such a beautiful shade! Thanks for the introduction. :)
aug 26, 2025, 11:05 pm • 5 0 • view
I love it, especially when it leans Violet
aug 26, 2025, 11:36 pm • 3 0 • view
yeah that top left color would be cunt. my parents used to have a room that color in our house and it was beautiful.
aug 26, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Gotta be you. Do the one you want in your heart of hearts.
aug 26, 2025, 10:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Love the cat clock. Corny but cute.
aug 26, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Omg that's gorgeous
aug 26, 2025, 9:57 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean if you could handle this yeah dark purple should be fine.
aug 26, 2025, 9:47 pm • 4 0 • view
Same color as our accent wall. Love it.
aug 26, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Love this
aug 26, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Second darkest, I say.
aug 26, 2025, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view
The second darkest was my favorite. Not that you asked if course.
aug 26, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
They all look great, FWIW
aug 26, 2025, 9:43 pm • 1 0 • view
The second darkest seems like it will strike a good balance between giving you a nice strong purple vibe without making your room a dungeon. All great choices.
aug 27, 2025, 12:59 am • 2 0 • view
Go ALL THE WAY!
aug 26, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Anyone else wait just a little too long for the pictures to load before your brain figured it out? Good, me neither.
aug 26, 2025, 9:54 pm • 4 0 • view
do it
aug 26, 2025, 11:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, darkest
aug 26, 2025, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
But what room? Dark like this is fine for a bedroom. But I wouldn’t use it for an office…
aug 26, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
It's not about courage but about how depressing you want the room to look. I vote for lower left swatch.
aug 27, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I have gone with dark purple for my home office in each house I lived in and it never felt gloomy.
aug 27, 2025, 2:31 am • 1 0 • view
best image post i have seen on bluesky thank you heck yeah purple
aug 26, 2025, 9:23 pm • 2 0 • view
both the medium tones are nice but second darkest on the upper right gets my vote
aug 26, 2025, 9:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh, dang, that dark purple is *gorgeous*. We have two purple accent walls in our bedroom, though it's a brighter, redder purple than any of these. I might like something like the bottom left for my office, though.
aug 26, 2025, 11:03 pm • 1 0 • view
(If you're wondering why two: At some point a previous owner cut out part of a load-bearing wall, so we have an "arch" that creates a separation into two segments. We painted the interior-facing part of the arch & the wall that the balcony doors are in.)
aug 26, 2025, 11:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Top right. (You may take my suggestion or leave it as you wish.)
aug 26, 2025, 9:15 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m leaning that way myself
aug 26, 2025, 9:16 pm • 3 0 • view
With my Realtor cap on, accent walls are most effective when there's a significant value difference between the accent wall and the other walls. So if the other walls are light, have the guts. Definitely have the guts.
aug 26, 2025, 9:49 pm • 4 0 • view
i painted a bathroom that darkest color in 1986. it probably says something that i still remember it.
aug 26, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I want a pastel goth vibe. I cute but I also eat organ meats, ya know?
aug 26, 2025, 9:13 pm • 4 0 • view
wide-angle photo of the room & color in your accent wall. the darkest color might look great!
aug 26, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
i believe the darkest of these purples will produce the most serene result
aug 26, 2025, 9:29 pm • 2 0 • view
My pick is bottom left but I am incredibly biased-- I had this exact shade in my childhood bedroom!
aug 26, 2025, 10:55 pm • 1 0 • view
fwiw I let my mom scold me out of a darker purple accent wall years ago and I'm still low key regretting it.
aug 26, 2025, 11:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I believe in your ability to take it as far as purple can go.
aug 26, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Would it seem a little dreary? I like bottom left, but I've also never had an accent wall. It's very possible you are playing it properly!
aug 26, 2025, 9:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Bedroom-office
aug 26, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Honestly if there was a level between the top two that feels like it would be perfect
aug 26, 2025, 9:44 pm • 2 0 • view
We have a black accent wall, I say go for it
aug 26, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view
What kind of room is it? Does it get natural sunlight?
aug 26, 2025, 9:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Bedroom-office and yes
aug 26, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Then assuming the other walls are light coloured the darkest should be ok. Trust me, I'm no expert.
aug 26, 2025, 9:18 pm • 4 0 • view
Depends on how light the room is--definitely get a sample to paint on the wall and see how it looks
aug 26, 2025, 10:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Paint it 2nd lightest color as a first coat, you can always go darker.
aug 26, 2025, 9:17 pm • 7 0 • view
Actually, to me- the darkest purple is the most neutral color. Does the word neutral help at all?
aug 27, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Do it!
aug 26, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Hard to imagine you’d be sorry.
aug 26, 2025, 11:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Hold on, the pictures aren't loading for me
aug 27, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
They are all worthy of a wall!
aug 26, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
A little chip will look darker on an entire wall. I learned that the hard way.
aug 26, 2025, 10:17 pm • 1 0 • view
The darkest or the lightest look best. It always looks darker when the wall is painted. The teo middle colors will be very different. I messed up painting my room a much too dark yellow
aug 26, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 0 • view
The darkest sort of tiptoes into the gray-black spectrum to me, so seems like a more neutral purple than the second darkest, which seems more firmly in Purpletown.
aug 26, 2025, 10:08 pm • 2 0 • view
I kept waiting for the images to load...
aug 26, 2025, 9:15 pm • 3 0 • view
bottom right !
aug 27, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 0 • view
We did a light purple for our music lounge/record room chill out area and I like it more than I expected.
aug 26, 2025, 9:47 pm • 14 0 • view
The 'Now Playing' shelf above the turntable is aces! Makes a place for the empty sleeve, doesn't take up precious real estate on a flat surface.
aug 26, 2025, 10:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks! Procured it on Etsy for a reasonable sum.
aug 27, 2025, 3:56 am • 1 0 • view
Lovely!
aug 26, 2025, 9:52 pm • 4 0 • view
Please keep us posted 💜
aug 27, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view