Whats a good color scheme for dark colors?

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I was thinking about purple, but all the pictures I;ve seen of people doing this just never looked very good at all. Not how I imagined it anyway. I think maybe gloss purple is a bad idea, but flat or eggshell would be better.
I was thinking slate gray with all my trim in black and my acoustic panels covered in black satin looking fabric. The desk is going to be modern looking with black top and silver/gray tubing on the bottom, probably get a dark hardwood floor and have the speakers on black stands behind the desk. I think it would be pretty sharp. A black 3-adjustable-light pole in each room, and tables with candles set up on them. Sound good?
Any suggestions? Any pictures you know of that look sharp?
 
I went with a dark purple in flat. Looks good to me. I was going for the gothic with a little royalty added. Purple velvet curtains over the vox booth. I also installed lighting gels in the mini halogen spots :) I have white trim and one wall is gray granite with real granite in it. Ive been thinking about hanging some chain bracelets in the vox booth on the wall with fingernail scratching and blood dripping like a toture chamber.

SoMm
 
Purple's nice...

A really good dark color combination is a dark blue with beige stripes or swirls. That way the room isn't pitch black, and when there's a lamp on, the room as a little more depth to it than just one solid color.
 
Purple's cool.
But I'd look into a technique known as "rag-rolling".

Its easy to do, looks really cool, but the draw back is you're basically painting the room twice.

Try a light shade of purple for the first coat. Then get a darker shade, mix it with a neutral glaze (this thins the paint and helps keep it from drying too fast as you work with it.).

Roll on the first color and let it dry for a few days.

For the second, darker color:
Wear gloves
Take a rag about 12"x12"
Twist it up like you would a towel your going to pop someone with.

Kind of roll it through the glaze/paint mixture.
Don't saturate the rag. You want little parts of wet and dry.

Move to the wall and "roll" the rag across it.
Work in small areas untill you get the level of coverage you want.
Work quickly. Two people doing it is best. That way a "seam" wont dry out on you.

Repeat untill finished.
It gives the walls an incredible depth and texture that a single color can't achieve.
 
Michael, that's exactly what I did in my kitchen. Purple rag rolled with grey and a different shade of purple. This technique can look VERY cool.
 
Yeah Track!
I did that in my current "Studio".

Two colors of light brown/biege. It looks like distressed leather.
Very cool!
 
THanks dudes...

I was looking at some of that gold paint (looks like gold foil) and I think I might paint the room in that gold, and then mix a gallon of dark blue or dark green with some of that cracking mix, and paint over it. Then as it dries the overcoat cracks and seperates and exposes gold veins all throughout the wall. Crackle finish.
Cool shit, and easy too.
 
TD - Get yourself a color wheel.
Do a search for color theory. Its no mistake when color schemes work.
I have a trial version of "Color Wheel Pro". Its a handy tool!
 
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