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Off-white is easy to disguise with paintings, hangings, and lighting. And the thing with lighting is sometimes you can just use light itself to fill space and gaps on walls, rather than always having to have it shining on things. A nice uplighter in a corner can often mean you don't need to hang anything on the vertex walls near the corner; the light is enough of a decoration when dark, and when light, the other hangings (for example) in the room will draw the eye. So go careful on the lighting - too much directional light interfering with each other (spots, uplighters) could get difficult and too much diffuse stuff all over the place (ceiling lights) could be harder to control wrt what you want to hang on the walls. You can get some wonderfully cheap and stylish lamps and lights if you look around - I have a superb 6ft upligher, plain black with a "frosted" plastic bowl at the top, cost me a tenner and I'm never getting rid of it. Puts light where it doesn't naturally reach, brings out the shape of the room, casts nice shadows. And you can experiment, say, with coloured gels over lights to tint them if you really want (though if you do, use proper gels from a theatrical lighting supplier - though they look like cellophane, they withstand ludicrously hot temperatures, which sweet wrappers don't really).
That's what I'd say; I'm no interior design nor lighting expert but I have a rough idea of what might work. I can visualise it, certainly. So I hope the musings of this Straight Eye are of some help... |
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