Decorating Ideas

[ck1]

I have a 6m x 7m lounge which has white walls and cream carpet. I'm planning to paint 2 of the walls a charcoal / almost black colour but not sure what to do with the rest of the room and what colour furniture would work. I'll also replace the carpet with some kind of wood flooring but there's a huge selection of colours available so any guidance on this would be great!

[smurfchops]

I think a dark/black colour could look very cold.

[bookbinder]

Paint two walls charcoal/almost black, but choose walls that face each other, not at right angles to each other. Paint the other two walls a very pale grey. As for furniture, choose light colours, e.g. cream, light grey, silver. As for the wood flooring, choose a silvery grey (or something like that) wood finish.

[TheWinner]

google charcoal living room ideas and see what others have done using that colour.
https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/decorate/living-room/g29292200/grey-living-room-ideas/?slide=3

[Ken4155]

As a decorator, i have never advised on colour schemes - one man's meat, etc. You are the one who will have to live with the end result.
One piece of advice i will give you: whatever colour you choose to compliment the charcoal, do NOT test it on a bare wall - most folk who do, use a brush and put much more paint on the surface than would be the norm with a roller. And, when it comes time to be painted over, you will usually find it bleeds through.
Buy a cheap roll of lining paper and cut a sizeable piece which should then be painted and attached (blue-tack, cellotape, whatevs) to the wall adjacent to the charcoal to judge whether it is suitable.

[pastafreak]

Your room is quite a decent size and should handle the deep charcoal well. I'd not use full-black.
You need to take into consideration the kind of light you get. This article makes suggestions for light/medium/dark paint colours...

https://raspberryflavouredwindows.com/what-shade-of-grey-paint-should-i-use/

Ideas here for overall design using grey...including floors...you can go completely moody, or use jewel tones, or contrast with whites and creams

https://edarhome.com/110-super-dark-grey-living-room-ideas/6/

[ck1]

Thanks for the input, some really useful information there!

[Geoffrey13]

I've painted one wall of my dining room black, the other three with yellow patterned wallpaper (a very sunny effect), yellow ceiling, pale green carpeted floor (for which, like you, I am considering wood flooring - possibly grey). 2 walls have large windows - one opposite the black wall which also has a shelf unit (black) holding all my modest porcelain collection. It all looks very nice IMHO, not at all cold.

[Khandro]

Black (or charcoal) is not a color; black absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum and reflects none of them to the eyes.
There's no complimentary or triadic colours that 'go' with it, so you can choose any shade of any colour you like.

That isn't helpful perhaps, but it's a fact. If it was me, I would choose a yellow of a light value, that is to say for example, cadmium yellow to which white has been added. But in the end, it's you that has to live with it.