the best black paint color for a home? 

That's what the magical 'electric light' is for

@@porcupinepunch6893 nah, not the same thing. There's a reason black paint makes a room look expensive: because you can't get cheap with lights after you paint it black.

@@Lari-Limayur right which is also why remodelers like me only use the black paint for shutters or the outside part of the front door and is what people usually like in houses using all black in a whole room is a very you can say unique taste and really no one does it maybe if you have white stairs and wooden rails you can paint them black but even then just using wood stain to paint it would be better for most people since it also complements the white

Ideally you want this in the bedroom because you don't want light in the room when you sleep.

owner still gonna be running into walls when he goes to the toilet at night

its fucking gray

Almost thought you was serious with that Navy Blue comment.

It looks like navy blue

The blue pigment is nice.

That's because the darker the colour the lighter it seems when it's wet, it goes dark once it settles down on the wall, ( I know this because I own a paint shop) and face these things daily from customers.

You're allowed to paint the walls in your flat??? I was always told you aren't allowed to paint walls unless it's in a house that you own

@@-.Handle.-Depends on the landlord

*edit:* I've had my question answered in great detail (thanks yall ^^) PLENTY of times, so no need for people providing the same answers or repetitions! *Check the replies* in case there are tidbits of additional information or details that are missing that you'd like to share. Otherwise, thank you guys all for your input! *original comment:* Genuinely curious, how does painting the ceiling black (or a dark colour) make it cozy? Does it make you feel more relaxed or calm? I'm just considering the potential effects of this so that maybe I'd give it a try. Thanks in advance!

​@@travelsizedhispasianI assume the room is a lot warmer since black absorbs the heat better. Maybe that's what he means

@@TOBY-jy7bz Man, I wish that wasn't the case. I live in FL (Florida) so I have the disadvantage of constantly living under a scorchingly hot sun and extremely bright rays of light. Unfortunately for me, despite being born and raised for my whole life over here, I hate how blistering hot/humid it can get-especially how bright the sun is. I wouldn't mind it if it didn't make my room (which has blinds AND a curtain to cover the window) feel like a sauna or oven lol. I was hoping that the room would be less brighter and _miraculously_ less hot with a dark coloured ceiling, but life isn't in my favor in that regard, sadly. Anyway, apologies for the tangent, and thanks for the information! Hope you have a nice rest of your day or night.

would it though? genuine question since black absorbs, not deflects.

​​@@wingandwang5634 yes, if your house gets plenty of sunlight (though might not be a change as large as 10 degrees)

Good to know for those with poor health needing warmth but not much money to run heaters 24/7. Everything that helps to Not wear 90 pounds of clothing! You just helped a LOT of people and are the reason I stay on the Internet, thanks😊

Wrong. This would be no warmer than a fully white room. In a white room, where do you think the heat reflected off the walls goes? Still in the room.

​@@your_average_cultured_dudedarker colors will absorb more heat and radiate the same absorbed heat around the room. lighter colours will absorb lesser heat and will therefore not radiate more heat. The darker paint will make the room hotter than a lighter paint.

been a thing lil brah go to school before i find you cuh

cuz you can get hurt for that stuff

@@shyxfty315🤓

​@@shyxfty315shut it basketball person

okay to be fair would you walk into a room with a wall painted this color and think "oh cool a black wall" or "oh cool a dark grey wall" i mean black dosent even technically exist outside of pure shadows, its the absence of light. so the only way to see black is to see the absence of light, but our eyes use light to see. meaning anything that light hits and we can see is by definition not black (thinks like pure black shadows are due to light *not* reflecting into our eyes from a specific area) even venti black paint, the closest to true black we have ever gotten in a paint, still reflects 0.04% of light all this to say no duh its dark grey every black you have ever seen is either dark grey or pure shadow

Thanks

ONG like in Minecraft!

slate is grey… though so is this paint

This is darker than deep slate

That is what it is

Grate💀

Me who just call it darker grey

@@sovietunion7280 I think that was the joke

@@chronic4laif the grate death, so full goth

@@hayden6700 I believe they were also joking

no its not.

That’s grey 💀

@@The_mrbob I literally have some up on a wall rn, it's basically black. It's as dark as my black ps4 pad.

@@The_mrbob Tbf on your part, it will look much lighter on a screen than on a wall, especially if most the lighting is artificial.

⁠@@botarakutabi1199it’s the blackest black at the homedepot! It only has black tint in it.

Ew

this finna blow up

> Refuses to elaborate on what happens at night

Try finding a dumber comment than this challenge(impossible)

​@@ishansuranait gets dark? Like what do you think other colours will do? Turn into a light source? That's why you have a light bulb🤦

Tf? Irrational

​@@WutherRail it doesnt look horrible, what? White is way worse

​@@WutherRailwhen im in a exaggeration competition and my opponent is you

@@Zero2HeroX I have no idea what kind of comeback u tried there

@@real_rutmen White is literally clear and everything u see outside through the day is clear. Black walls in your home just scream emo phase to me and I can guarantee it WILL worsen your vision if you don't have good white lightning. Even then, like I said, black is literally my favourite colour so I'm not biased at all. It just doesn't go in walls to me and, as you read here, it's not even a good colour bc it fades away so idk. Just my opinion tho, think whatever u want and paint your walls whatever u want 💀

this reminds me of the sign painter in world of goo lol

People in the comments have no clue, either they live in colder climates all year long or they have their AC working 24/7. Black room in a hot environment with no ac is a death sentence

@@adrien8747 white folk will complain about tropical fashion and die in their suit and jacket seconds out of the plane

It is the same color of a pipe stove, so you are not far off.

​@@helgahaapaint it white

​@@helgahaathe whiter the better

Fr literally slate grey

Yea like a darker Grey

Technically all black is dark grey unless it’s completely devoid of light. Just like pink is light red

@@charliemayfilms1550 Huh. Well TIL.

@@idiotsandwich4912 tEcHnIcAlLy GrEeN iS bLuE

I don’t think it helps that you were doing a movie theatre

​@@qwart22 ahahahaha

always prime first. Almost all primers can be tinted, maybe not all the way to black, but even if they can only do the color you chose at 50% pigment, it will be the same color pallet, and will make the top coat look 1000x better, and you will have to do less coats.

I took one of those 18% gray cards used for photography to the paint store and had them match it. It was light enough in the light, but went completely black when the light was lowered.

Thank you 😂 how can it be black if it has white? Tsts

It's black. You're just uneducated. There are lots of variations on black such as charcoal, soft black, obsidian, etc. You also have transition colors like brown black. Things categorized as gray have to be significantly lighter. If it straddles the line of gray and black, then it's considered black.

This is like grey to 90% almost black, but is not black, you are the one uneducated...

@@stealthis who is categorizing colors as gray?

@@stealthisas an artist that’s absolutely grey

Man, I'd be in Heaven. I basically sleep in a cave. No light, whatsoever.

My grandmother painted all her interior doors black. Beautiful in the day, nose breaker at night. Ha!😊

i was thinking the exact same thing haha

*G* "When I was, a young boy"

​@@raptorman69MY FATHER TOOK ME INTO THE CITY

whats it a reference to?

@@crybabylove OHH OF COURSE! how could i not get that! thank you, regardless

I might argue but I'm moving into my first ever place that's not my parents dining room (I'm physically disabled and have been on the housing list for a loooong time) and my first ever wall choice is bright yellow woodland wallpaper for the living room. It's probably hideous to everyone else but I love it so much.

@@violetskies14 Two words for if you did argue - Farrow & Ball 😂

Debatable

Do we? 😂😂

@@Punkneverdies-1010 Ok. If you’re rich and have a “decorator” come in to do the place up then no all you’ll see is magnolia, grey or pure white because they have the personality and flare of a woodlice. But yes a lot of the UK do like bold colours, companies such as Farrow & Ball have enforced this new narrative of expression and colour in our homes. Furniture companies like Wayfair also promote this in their advertising. You look at the old manor houses from the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian times and you will see forest greens, crimson reds, arsenic turquoises and sky blues offset by a warm white trim. Its only the contemporary new builds where people do not have the imagination to slap their personality on the characterless “architecture”.

Its also because no only will balck mold be absolutely unnoticed, it actually thrives on black paint because it doesn't absorb light, so the mold won't die.

It’s also often because black is hard to cover with lighter paint, many dramatic people say that once you paint your wall black, it will stay black (you just need more layers, which means more paint and more money)

You obviously have zero idea about how paint colours are made

​@@mondop5270I know they mix it at the store, but if you're making black, why start with white as opposed to a darker base?

@@LaughingOrangeall paint is stored as white so it is easier for people to choose what color they want. He didn’t use a darker base because to get a darker base you mix in dark colors to white paint. Which is what he did

@@LaughingOrangeso that you can get the hue you want…. If you start with a darker color what would make you think they could achieve that color he did? I feel like you also don’t understand color theory…

@@williamcamacho3852nah dark colours use transparent bases not white

White is also a cheat code if you just want more lighting. Paint a room and some hallways white vs black and just see how much farther the bounce lighting goes... It isn't something small like a 10% increase or even something bigger like 50%... it can more than double the distance lights bounces.

yup black absorbes light

@@thing4826Lighting one is true. My room has white walls and the thing couldn’t be brighter if I tried. Middle of the day and it’s practically glowing lolol

​@iamafraidofwomenthat is in fact, gray. Fine artist here

​​@@rainlemonIt's gray. But it's the type of gray that matters.

I'm sorry but it's so ironic how you wrote that word in the darkest black out there lol

Bless

I dislike black even more now

Batman

You’re so edgy OP.

@@bigwheel9132okay redditor

@@cooperswan534 Oooh good one bro. Please stop calling me mean things or I may cry.

@@cooperswan534 Please take it back

😒😒😒😒 chillax bro😒😒😒😒

A nice black in flat sheen so you don’t get any reflections

There’s a reason why it’s not truly accepted in the industry, you’re gonna turn to it house into a furnace during the summer

@@DawnTheFox_ eh, I don't mind, I've got a good AC, plus it'll probably just be a closet or something so when I'm feeling sad I can go in there and sit in a corner and listen to music!

@@Ellie_09 you know AC rises the cost of the electricity bill?

@@DawnTheFox_ but it's still an option, plus if I just didn't use an AC the whole house would become an oven no matter the color of the walls or whatever, so if I'm going to have it on either way I might as well have a closet like that.

Yea it absorbs heat while white reflect back the light

Yeah. There's a reason this isn't more common, and it isn't some weird paint industry thing.

They don’t. That was a wrongful and ridiculous overreaction. Babies are also born colorblind and slowly start seeing color, but they start off desaturated

Its just dark gray

If you need lightly colored walls to feel happy then you need some serious professional help

@@PJM257 it's slow but it takes a toll, especially for a creative person.

@@markemad1986 I have an extremely hard time believing that. If dark colors are what gives you the most stress in life, I envy how free of stress your life must be. If dark colors cause you any stress at all, basically anything else probably causes more stress. If anything, I think dark colors would be more relaxing than light colors as they don't put as much strain on your eyes.

@@PJM257 it's a physiological reaction the less physical light enters your eyes the more down you feel. You underestimate how much less light you get from dark walls, since reflected light is the majority of physical light in a room a dark room could have drastically less light, of course you would feel it alot more if you are in the room the whole day for some reason, since sometimes you can't get direct sunlight, what you have in the room is what you get so you should at least maximize it.

@@PJM257are you just finding out now that colors can affect your mood lol?

that sounds like a gorgeous colour scheme!

lmao welcome to the nameless parade

Didn't know coloring anything black makes you emo 💀

While looking super creepy at night😐

@@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko I've got a dark green room in my house thats full of plants and dark wood furniture and I use warm white lighting in there, gives off a really moody chilled kind of vibe rather than creepy 😊

@@Kira-kg4kl The only way to settle this debate is for you to invite me over to your house for a cup of coffee while we discuss this matter in greater details.😏

@@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko Pahahaha my house plants would consume you as soon as you walked in the room 🪴 🌱 💚🖤

There was an attempt.

I would say generally warm colors. Like gold accents. It really depends on the vibe of the room as a whole tho

I Think like the color that red wine has, but a bit more purple

@@MercedesM3332 that’d be nice

….gray.

do they have paint samples? because if they do im sure you can just find a dark gray paint sample to show them

@@picassoflex1832this isn’t grey lol

The 40th shade of grey

It's a very very dark blue. So I would ask for their darkest shades of blue and blueish - dark. Or you could even show them the short directly tbh.

Picasso.

Ah yes... Picasso... My favourite influencer

A your gonna be boiled alive during hot seasons B it takes more light sources to make the room bright C it's harder to clean because you can't see dark impurities on a dark surface (although it's not really that important)

why

You need a lot of coats when you want to paint over it

Because dark colour give negative energy

@@Agus450_xXproXx not only is it hard to paint because it takes a bunch of coats, it’s insanely hard to paint over if you ever want to change the color. To each their own, though! It’s a nice step away from the usual beige or light grey people are doing now.

As a metalhead who used to have pink and ugly teal walls, best decision of my life was painting my walls dark grey.

@@tebalnk nice

Personally as a Metalhead, I wouldn’t want to live in a depressing sauna, but you do you.

@@adoramay9410 that’s not what it is. It’s just black painted walls, you can still add decoration, posters, paintings, framed stuff, whatever. You can also add more colorful furniture. I really don’t think it’s depressing.

@@Enfield15 I mean, it’s pretty well documented that colors can have a psychological impact on you. And in the case of black, dark grey, dark blue, etc. it usually isn’t positive. I just don’t know how much other colors in furniture are going to change that. Dark painted walls also have a kinda claustrophobic effect also, which also wouldn’t help. There is also the whole problem that dark colors absorb heat, which would make summers more unbearable than they already are. I mean, if it works for you, that’s great. But not for me fam.

I was thinking the same thing lol

Same shit.

Do not do that if you live in a hot area

@@GYPHIST I don't, plus my room is in the basement

@@ScarMoonYT well good luck with it

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