If you’re a chocolate lover, you’d approve of this message! Okay, so I’m not talking about edible chocolate - rather - I’m referring about using that gorgeous, rich colour on your walls at home. There is a certain sophistication to painting your walls dark brown, and that is because one must have a confidence in their decorating abilities in order to use dark colours on their walls. Why? Using dark colours on walls can create drama, intimacy, and coziness. But it can also plunge a room into dark despair! There are a certain number of rules to use when decorating with dark wall colours (in this instance chocolate brown). Follow these rules, and you’ll have a gorgeous room!
1. Is your room bright or dark? I always tell people that you can get away with painting every room chocolate brown if you have tons of natural light. Otherwise, the room will be plunged into gloominess. If you don’t have lots of natural light, but still want to use chocolate brown, maybe try just colour-blocking out one wall with the rich tone, allowing the space to breathe without being overwhelmed by colour.
2. How high is your ceiling? If you have a high ceiling, by painting it a lighter colour than the chocolate brown (one trick is to add a couple of drops of chocolate paint into your ceiling white to create a consistency in your colour tones), you will still make the room feel airy and open.
So why chocolate brown? In the same way that we like the look and smell of chocolate, the richness of chocolate brown walls is known to have a calming effect. It’s like being enveloped in a mug of hot chocolate! Just like this room in Hampton Island, Georgia, keep your accessories neutral and allow the wall colour to take centre stage. 
Some of my favourite chocolate brown paint colours are:
Pratt & Lambert’s Stonehenge 2260 - a nice, chalky chocolate brown with a bit of grey in it
Benjamin Moore’s Brown Sugar 2112-20 - a rich warm dark brown
Para Paint’s Truffle Oil P5242-85 - a yummy chocolate brown with a hint of earthy green
