Your really worried about the color of the paint effecting your experience when you have all of those blue and white LED's in your PC case. Unless you plan on keeping your PC covered with thick canvas or in the next room the paint wont have near the effect as those LEDs will.
And I would suggest a grey or black. Most grey's end up looking blue though. And if you want the 'cave' feeling then don't accent the ceiling. The reason people accent the ceiling with flat white is so it will be brighter and absorb light(rather than reflect), which makes the room feel taller.
It's not so much worried, it's that I just bought a very large house, and I'm basically remodeling the entire house. Everything. This house is in absolute garbage condition (foreclosed, former junky group home). I need to spackle, trim, sand, prime, clean, scrub
every inch of this house.
So I have this tiny room, it's the only room that doesn't have a chimney, it's perfect for a PC room. If it's going to be a dedicated PC room, since I'm going to be painting the room anyways from scratch (i'm literally replacing most of the walls), why would I not paint it the right color.
So is that okay with you? Is this response good enough for you? Is it okay I paint this small, tiny room, that will take 1/2 a gallon to cover the walls? That I spent $15 on paint that I will need to buy anyways, and there is zero basis to pick any color, so I might as well pick a color that is perfectly suited for color accuracy, my monitor, etc? I'm not asking about aesthetics here, I'm asking purely about function. You know, I can always just end up painting it whatever is hip in 2013, I'm just asking here...
I can easily turn off the LEDs on my computer. White light from my case should't affect anything, and all of the blue lights are very low anyways. I don't need to cover my PC with a canvas, I have controllers so I can just turn off the lights very easily. It's not hard to make a fan controller or LED controller...
Why would I want a 'cave' feeling? Whenever I've seen a room with a painted ceiling, it's always looked awful. I'm assuming flat white ceiling, eggshell/semi white trim, but I'm up for any suggestions, of course.
White reflects light, retard.
Wow, uncalled for. I don't understand how you can be so rude to a fellow forum member (outside of passionate debate, of course), if you met him in real life you'd probably geek out and spend hours talking to him about the same passions you have.
White may reflect light, but flat white isn't very reflective. A gloss black would likely be more reflective than a flat white.
Hence, a large part of my question. The choice in color is a very small part of what I'm asking here, I'm also asking about sheen, texture, detail, etc.
Belial88, on your walls I would go with a satin finish(though it does depend on the drywall texture you've got). It appears you have smooth wall, which most people like to do a semi-gloss. And remember, the more glossy you go, the easier it is to clean it.
I'm not sure I'd call it a smooth wall. This house is a ghetto house that is in need of serious work. I'm literally replacing most of the walls in this house, and in this room. And the ceiling. The doors, the trim, the floor... So the walls aren't really smooth, and they definitely aren't level after all the many layers of joint compound laid over it, there's slight bulges from having to JC a lot of large parts of the wall (such as when removing, adding doors).
That said, I am sanding everything. Specifically, my painting process has been JC, sand walls and trim (sponge on JC and trim, orbital on wall with 150grit), clean (scrubbing bubbles with a sponge-mop), rinse w/mop, prime, 2 layers of paint. If you think it'd be a good idea to make the walls super smooth in this room, like sand between each layer of paint, I'd be down with that.
I've been painting all my walls so far with flat, but I think I'm going to start using matte. There's so many dings and dents, even with a half gallon of JC every 6 square feet... I mean I guess the walls end up pretty smooth because of the sanding I'm doing, but I wouldn't dare put a gloss on anything (except br/closets), know what I mean? The walls are just awful in this house, they are just rough and dinged up and so yea, lots of prep going on here.
Specifically, this is a house in the projects, a very large house. It was foreclosed, used to be a group home for junkies, laid around for the last 2 years with no care at all. I got it for a great deal (appraised at $150, bought it for $60 + 30repairs) and it's a huge house. I plan on renting out the rooms, it's going to be a moneymaker. My GF and I will be taking up 2 of the smallest rooms, and well, I'm sure you all know how building and modding computers can get to be quite a mess:
That's clean, and not even half of the stuff I have like tools and wires and accessories... right now it's a huge mess because my computer still isn't finished (I've been working on it for almost 2 months now, currently soldering tons of 3528 LEDs). My GF didn't exactly want to share a room with all of that. btw that's not the room.
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