Go with a sky blue color. It will add a lot of light into the space.

Rho Dodendrin and Elise Shearer sounds like you both agree. I think the blue might be very nice! Thanks!

Great space!! Do you have radiant floor heating? How do you stand not having a carpet under your feet, in a basement?

arcy_gw thank you. We have baseboard heat (gas hot water heat) and it keeps the basement a nice temperature. Also have a small space heater if we need it. We’ve had the basement flood and thanked our lucky stars we didn’t have carpet. The LVP took it like a champ! (of course had to get a restoration company) @flo mangan, Flo if you’re around do you have an opinion as far as color?

Using color in a basement depends on lighting. Ours is used primarily as an entertainment space. We’ve used color to define different spaces within a greatroom concept.

This link may offer some ideas provided you have or can provide sufficient illumination.

https://youtu.be/rJKWOOzwMnQ

fnmroberts, is this your basement? It’s wonderful! Love all the different colors you’ve used and they all work together really well. Fun to see someone else with a glass block bar. We only have can lighting down there but there are lots of cans. We use the room for entertaining too, or we did pre covid.

@Cindy Warren Fialka - Thank you, yes, it is ours - entirely DIY completed >10 years ago. The colors were ”pulled” from the rug in front of the fireplace. There are over 20 cans plus pendants, sconces and pucks all on dimmers to create a mood in about 650 sq ft. I know glass block is no longer popular but we didn’t want a heavy wood look.

Below is a short video of our basement office which is adjacent to the greatroom

https://youtube.com/shorts/GTAoRm1HzYQ?feature=share

fnmroberts that is a lot of light. I don’t know how many cans we have but we do have quite a bit of light for about 900 sq. feet. Pretty neat office you have. I know exactly what you meant about not wanting a heavy wood look with a bar.

Does anyone else have any photos of their basement and a paint color they like?

Bumping one more time to see if anyone has any other ideas.

fnmroberts, that is the best basement EVER! I love the use of vibrant colors with lots of lighter, more neutral walls in other places, as well as the black touches. So nice to see blue tile counters...I'm so tired of heavy granite, fake looking quartz, etc.; it's really refreshing. The art/posters are so fun, too! I also like the built-in shelves to hold the 'kitch' without it taking over the space (no insult intended with 'kitch'). I want to party there!

Cindy, I don't have a basement, so cannot really help, but WOW, take a page from fnmroberts' book!

@Olychick - Aren’t you generous, thank you.

Those shelves are actually a bookcase on casters - pulls out to access the furnace, etc. Our solution to prevent having a wall of doors. And provides a great location for novelties collected, ie kitch, that otherwise exists out-of-sight.

Olychick, fnmroberts basement is wonderful. Problem I think is that I don’t have the same logical breaks about where to start and stop different paint colors. I don’t know why this is so hard for me. It’s a basement! Lol

@Cindy Warren Fialka - IF you wish colors, think of your walls as ”Accent Walls” where colors change at a natural break such as a corner, doorway or follow a shadow.

On the grand scale, paint is relatively inexpensive so if you’re DIY’ing purchase small amounts of a few colors and give them a try. Here is one of our transitions. The natural shadow doesn’t appear in the pix but I assure you one has been followed. Good luck.

In looking for natural breaks to try accent painting, I see plenty! The wall with the portraits by the stairs, the 3 walls around the bathroom door (one color, not 3), the short little wall that goes up to the soffit and the soffit would be great painted an accent color kind of framing the bar; the wall behind the bar and the wall with the neon clock are all small walls that could be accents without committing to huge swaths of color.

Fnmroberts, I see what you’re talking about. Nice you had the rug to pull colors from. I’ll have to pick something else. And Olychick, I understand what you’re saying. I’ll have to really think about this. I don’t want my husband to redo walls if he doesn’t have to. Could be cool.