Contrasting wall

Factual Questions
1

I figured Googling this would be a cinch, but no dice…

Which wall would be the correct wall to put a contrasting color on when painting a simple square bedroom?

Wall 1 - door to outside hall and closet door
Wall 2 - door to master bath
Wall 3 - (across from wall one) window and bed headboard
Wall 4 - window

Colors, if it matters, are three walls cream white and one wall a vivid blue.

2

I didn’t think you did contrasting walls when the walls already have something in them (door, window, etc.) I thought it was only done on plain, unbroken walls.

3

I would put a vivid color on the wall that is the most broken up. If you have most of the light casting on that wall, all the better.

4

3, across from entrance.

5

Paint about a 1 foot square on each wall and then look at them as the time passes through the day. The ammount of sunlight hitting will change the quality of the vivid blue.

Are you doing the blue as the trim color and then reversing it for the contrasting wall?

6

As tacky as it may be, I am leaving the woodwork woody.

Thanks for the answers all. I haven’t a lick of artistic talent but I know what I like when I see it. At any rate it will look better than before and if anyone questions what I go with, I’ll just send them here so’s they can put their two cents in. On my own I would have gone with the wall opposite the door but the sunlight thing has me looking into that. I can also see the wall with no interruptions being the prime candidate but I lack one of those.

Thanks again.

7

Goodness, I can’t imagine there being a “correct wall” for decorative issues. Just pick the one that feels right.

Last time I did this, I picked the wall opposite the entrance, because it is the first thing you see when you walk by the room and it kind of piques your curiosity.