You could start with an accent wall for the dark green. I think the LR all in a very dark green would be dark and dreary, but I'm not you. Given that the room is all neutrals and your blue console will go with blackish green, I'd do one wall and see what you and your family thinks.

you have plenty of light to go dark/drenched in your living room.

I have a dark room that blends with a white room, here is the transition corner Dark Taupe to Alabaster.

I would not do black doors, but the same green you use on the walls, different sheen.

If you are going green in the living room, then do everything green, trims, walls same color different sheen... and a softer ceiling.

All those random photos need to be spaced so they read a one element.

@Sarah M that room is amazing, thanks for sharing. @BeverlyFLADeziner I agree. I'm actually thinking of taking those down and doing something like this instead - bigger photos and some trim to frame them out...

Leave the walls as is. Paint your trim the black of your sectional.

Totally personal preference but for me the dark walls make the carpet stand out, I would want it to blend/disappear

Iron Ore is quite a dark grey. I wouldn’t add more grey if you are trying to reduce the grey. Maybe start with an event wall instead. We have grey owl walls and went with a very dark blue for our accent wall instead rec room but kept trim white

now that I have looked at the Black Evergreen color, I see that the gray of the fireplace and no doubt carpeted flooring does compliment with the blue/gray undertones.

Your AI image makes it look very emerald, which it isn't.

Sounds like a winner to me, please share finished photos.

First you say you want to get rid of the gray so the carpet needs to go. I think any dark wall color can be awesome but not with that carpet. You are worried about flow those flors are beautiful wood in the rest of the house so do the floors to nmatch then see if color drenching is what is needed . I rarely like a space that is open to other spaces be a completely differnet decor it always feels disjointed to me . No black doors unless you want all black doors . I think you saw color drenched room and liked it but IMO not the right choice for this space . Maybe get it out of your mind by doing a bedroom first,

I am going to ask you why you want a dark color drenched living room in your home?

I love a color drenched den in an old Victorian home with a velvet sofa and curtains or dark walls in a small bedroom in a Tudor home with rich American Chestnut trim and furnishings or even in a very modern industrial loft with contrasting furnishings.

Your home is contemporary. The room is connected through the architecture to the other rooms - the one wall flows through to the hallway. These rooms are meant to flow together and relate to one another. It doesn't mean everything has to be the same, but the colors should speak to each other.

Looking at your furnishings, art and decor I am not seeing the home as dramatic. I am not getting that feeling that you are super dramatic. In fact, the feeling that I am getting is that you are family focused and possibly intimidated by interior design, so have followed trends. Gray was a pretty strong trend for many years - then white on white on white - now color drenching is a trend. But not every home should have gray walls, not every home should have white kitchens and not every home should have a color drenched room.

I wonder if you are bored with the gray because you have all gray and black with the exception of one blue piece of furniture that got plopped into a room with no relationship to anything else.

I think there are much better ways to bring life into your space than by color drenching a large room with a very dark color and keeping all the black furniture. I think it will look much like a black hole. and won't relate to the other rooms well at all.

I would suggest adding color to your home. Pick three colors that you love together and use different amounts of those three colors in different rooms to bring them to life. Use area rugs, window treatments, art, decor and possibly wall color where appropriate.

Your current decor is the colorless spaces on the left - on the right are examples of what happens when we add even a small amount of color.

This is one of my all time favorite examples of using color to tie rooms together without monotony. They transition from the blues and greens to the same green with purple (note the wood trim on two of the chairs matches the wood in the dining area), Then from there we enter the bedroom with again repeats the purple. The colors flow as you move through the home.

This is another example where they used color on the walls as well color in accessories. but everything is tied to the main living area through color.

Miller paint has a blog where they show whole homes and how the color schemes flow through the homes. https://www.millerpaint.com/blog/ They call these features Color Tours. I would suggest looking through them and seeing if anything else appeals to you.

I would love to see more natural elements in your home to complement the great wooded views. More wood in furnishings and decor. I can see this on a wall in the living room:

I also see that you picked a lot of MCM style furnishings and fixtures, but then throw in a more farmhouse dining set. Both have been strong recent trends, but pick one or the other for a more cohesive space. You can add a signature piece in another style or mix two styles if they relate well (Industrial with Victorian (steampunk). Farmhouse and MCM are just not related well enough to work in the same space. You could add some more modern or industrial pieces with the MCM pieces. Think how a live edge walnut table with MCM Chairs and industrial pipe shelving with walnut shelves would look in your dining area.

I wouldn’t colour drench a large room that is open to the other rooms. I would want to replace the grey carpet with matching hardwood and paint the walls a colour you want to run into the adjoining areas. Yes, I realize that’s an expensive project and likely requires refinishing the other hardwood to match.

No.

There are no logical end points for the color. Get rid of the carpet.

Two alternative ideas since It is far cheaper to experiment with paper than with paint that will require at least three coats of primer to cover the black paint.

1- Buy some rolls of black construction (kraft) paper. Tape it to a couple walls and see how you like it.

2- Use black peel and stick wallpaper. It's a piece of cake to remove.

In such a large room, I'm a hard no on black or dark green (hard to transition to rest of space; already have dark floors; huge dark sofa; dark carpeting on stairs; dark green would compete with view of the outdoors). Before you get to paint decor, consider ways to first get layout right and make some other changes that will make the room more to your liking. Then revisit paint decisions.

--Move TV to wall where you have too-small console. This will give your large living room two focal points, always a good thing. Fireplace wall can be cozy conversational without TV screen looming overhead, and new TV can be more entertainment focused. Wh.ile I'm not crazy about accent walls with windows or openings, in your case, you could test out the black paint you had in mind while camouflaging to TV screen. Below the TV, add a long low wood piece. Could be a wide wood console, wooden shelving.

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--As budget allows, replace two things: the huge loungy piece by the window. Replace that with a comfortable armchair or chaise that is complementary to the armchair you have by the fireplace. Make that corner a reading space with side table and floor lamp. Tilt them both towards the sofa so they're part of new conversational grouping. Since it's in the corner,

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--Pull up your carpeting and add a large patterned rug in this palette.

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--Remove all your art works from the walls, especially "message" art. Art can do so much to add visual interest and mood to a room. Art work should echo rug but preferably rug echoes art. This is a sliver of brown, which harmonizes with wood floors and brown sofa.

--Relocate all small family photos from this space. You have beautiful huge windows, a stone fireplace, and hopefully will add new rug, big art. This will hugely improve the room.

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