Thread: All Year Round Halloween/Fall Decor

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Im obsessed with the color orange. I am thinking of painting my walls of my living room in 2 shades of soft orange to accent each other. With the rest of our furniture being black (or will be) would this look good? What other decor can I use to decorate my house? I love pumpkins as well, so I'm thinking of somehow incorporating those as well. My apartment is small, so should I paint the whole house those colors as well? Someone have input? thanks!!!

~Beth

Orange is the way to go...maybe some black trim?

Wifey is really into fall foliage type colors, bright red, orange and the like. So if you throw some fall leave things (on sale now?) and fall harvest things (pumpkins, wheat sheaths, etc) in I am sure you can pull it off.

You could also thrown in a sage green like color to soften the super brights as well. It is still fall but won't make you feel like you are on fire. Love the color choices. I am about to paint my living room a deep red. Ooohh yay!

My kitchen is RED and I love it. I am looking at painting my living room a light choc brown, with a border that has some orange and browns in it. My advice go for it. Add in some Orange throw pillows and accessories and it should look great.

Gizmomom86. This is right up my alley. Orange can be a great accent wall given you choose the right shade and hue. That is the key in any color choice. We've all driven down the street and seen a house freshly painted and thought to ourselves "What on earth were they thinking?" Well the problem in painting comes in when you choose the wrong hue or brightness. If you are going with orange then I would suggest you do 1 or two accent walls especially if your apartment is small. The black furniture can be a great compliment, I have a lot of black furniture pieces. You just have to be careful. Its o.k. to mix it up. Try not to get too matchy matchy. Go for pieces that compliment each other, but not necessarily from the same line. Also Dark Mahagony is a great choice to go with the orange and compliment the black. I would do the other walls some form of creme or very very off white. You can also use Very pale tans depending on the brightness of the orange you choose. You and also paint the wall one shade of orange and make a big stripe about 10 or 12 inches thick right through the middle in a softer orange from the same range.
Be careful when mixing in other colors some teals and greens can come across too carribean like and it may not be the look you are looking for.
Pumpkins can be a great accent as well if done tastefully. Make sure the colors are not too bright and don't be afraid to bring in some of the more popular white or creme pumpkins they make for a nice accent as well.
In all remember hue is the key. It can make all of the difference. I suggest you go to a paint store that has those small bottles of paint that are for sampling, take them home and try some different oranges out before committing to painted the whole wall. Good luck and keep us posted on how everything came out.
Oh yeah. didn't mean to ramble, just trying to help out a fellow haunter

I love the colors of fall too! Always been my favorite. I am trying to think of how I want my kitchen done and I've been tossing around the idea of orange. Not bright orange or anything but soft pumpkin orange. with maybe some burnt reds and as someone else mentioned maybe a green, possibly olive. I think it would look really purty! I love your idea Gizmomo!!!!

I have to agree, brightness and hue is key with any choice of room color. My wife and I repainted our bedroom three times before we got the right hue. The first was too bright of a red... it felt like we were "in hell" as my mom said. The second color was too burnt orange. We picked the wrong hue of the color we wanted. We went to the orange side of the red spectrum. It was hard to tell by using just that little paint chip. The last time we bought two small cans, each of a different shade and painted two large portions of the same wall. We had finally found the right shade which was a purplish shade of red. It's like a nice red wine color.

That's my suggestion to you. Buy samples in smaller cans before you spend the money on a whole gallon or more. That tiny paint chip won't really help in your decision. And when your testing the different shades, make sure you apply the different colors side-by-side on the same wall. Differently angled walls reflect colors differently making it hard to judge one color versus another.

yes we will be buying sample cans first - i have a few shades picked out that I need to see side by side LOL - thank you all for your suggestions!!! someone told me today though that I need to get out of the 70's and go for a tannish color...Id made me sad ...they just dont understand...

~Beth

Those small sample paints are definitely the way to go. My yoga/meditation/office room is orange, and it took me 4 sample patches on the wall to find the right one. Look at them at different times of the day, too, the light is a big factor. And as my handy DYI painting book told me, green is opposite orange on the color wheel, so I have sage green curtains, accents and the 'office' nook is painted a sagey green...looks great.

I love orange, too. I actually have an orange car...such a happy color, don't you think?