Painting two walls bright red and two walls white in a square bedroom...?

Question

should the red walls be adjacent or opposite to each other?

Answer 1

Try painting the opposite walls.

Answer 2

opposite so there would be a balance between two colors. if two walls adjacent to each other are panted red then the room would look unbalanced and really weird.

Answer 3

Well I have a room in my place that had a red wall and 3 white walls. There's a red rug in there too. Personally, I think the one wall is pretty nice, but I think 2 would be really intense. Especially if you have black furniture in the room. It would look cool though.

Anyway, paint them so they're next to eachother, it will probably look better, and it will be a ton easier.

Answer 4

I would do adjacent walls. Also consider furniture placement when choosing the walls.If head of bed or along bed consider red will absorb your light if a night reader, you may want to up your reading light by adding a second light.  

I happen to love my all red living room walls and ceiling.

Enjoy!

Answer 5

I'm going to go in a different direction than the other answers so far... I'd do the red walls adjacent. Doing them opposite seems disjointed, and almost like a checkerboard. I'm sure the ceiling is white, so it would keep everything streamlined.

Answer 6

I would just paint one wall red and I would probably choose the wall that the head of my bed is against. A little red goes a lo-o-o-ong way!!

Answer 7

You want to think about the shape of your room. If your room is long and narrow, painting the shorter walls red and the longer walls white will make it look squarer.

Also, if you haven't painted with red paint before, you might want to read up on it. Red dye molecules are very large and for some reason that makes the paint more translucent, so you need to prime first (either with a dark red or dark grey primer) and you may need three or four coats of the topcoat.

That advice does not stand if you're using Benjamin Moore Aura. I just painted a white room dark red with Aura without priming first and I only needed two coats plus touch-ups - I was surprised and shocked! The colour is much richer than regular paint, too, and you don't get a dusty streak every time you brush it with a hand (a big problem with the Behr red paint I used a few years back). Aura is more expensive per gallon than regular paint but given that you only need two coats and don't need primer, I suspect it's not more expensive per square foot.