It sounds heavenly to me. If it's muted it will work just fine. Enjoy !!!

"Is it weird to paint my home office a dusty plum color?"

I see no reason why that should be weird!

You're right! I guess I think of purple/lavender as a kid color (I have two young daughters). More importantly, I'm concerned that a jump to a totally different color from my current theme may seem too jarring, or "weird" so the rooms won't flow.

Not at all. I kind of think of the home office as the place you can do something different and kind of fun.

Laurie

I just checked it out online and think it's beautiful. Others can see it at the link below. They have some wonderful colors.

Here is a link that might be useful: 4th from left in first row

Beache, the color sounds as if it'd be lovely. Contrast and harmony don't only work out through colors. How about a hue's degree of lightness or darkness--it's "value"? If your green and plum are relatively similar in their values, that harmony should help the color change work nicely. Regardless, it sounds very pretty from this side of the screen and not at all weird.

Some of us are "purple people." Try a sample to see if it will read they way you want it to in your room with your lighting. Those swatches are simply a jumping off point.

To me, any room that has a door on it is fair game to do anything you want, regardless of what the rest of your house looks like :-) I am planning on painting my home office eggplant, and since it has a chair rail, something like this might be a good color for below the chair rail.

Remember. when you paint a dark color below the chair rail it will pull the ceiling down and ground everything. Personally I prefer white on the bottom of chair rail so things in the room don't get "weighted down."

I think your color choice is beautiful.

It is a pretty color, and no reason you shouldn't do your room in whatever color appeals to you. I don't really know why anyone would want the same colors everywhere. Where's the fun in that? Purples and greens work well together, so there should not be an issue with the hall wall color.

I just want to remind you that the color you picked is on the grey color palette - which means in isolation it will likely read more grey, and perhaps too cold for your room. If the purple tones appeal to you (and I can see that with the light furniture and the silver hardware), at least bring home a couple of samples in a richer purple, and tape them up on the wall for a few days to see them in different light, etc.

Sounds really nice to me too. I just finished painting my dd2's room with BM's Affinity Slip. This color looks almost white on the card or even slightly pink. But when it is on the wall it is the most fantastic lavender gray color, so pretty. I'm not suggesting this for you, no worries. But, I would suggest you look at those Affinity colors. This is my 2nd one. I used Wasabi in the Living Room. Both made me nervous, until they were up. So, maybe look at Kalamata, Chambourd, Caponata, Bonne Nuit, and some others in the purples. I don't know what it is about that collection, but wow, they really work well with other colors. I'm considering checking these out for my own bedroom.

And surprising as it may seem, this Slip that I mentioned...I watched it being tinted--tons of black went in. So surprising considering when you look at it on the roller going on the wall, it really looked white!

Bee - did you post pics of your DD's room?

I just remembered Frank and Sue's surprising bathroom. He decided if he mixed 2 part cans of old paint he'd have enough to do the kid's badly worn bathroom. She was too happy to have it painted at all to worry about the color (a very different species from the one that hangs out here). I've forgotten what was in those cans, but they had to have included a brown, being in their house, and something else that surprised everyone when it combined to produce the lovely silvery-lavendery mauve their bath ended up with. VERY pretty, even if it did clash horribly with the not-so-pretty browns and burnt oranges elsewhere. Their bath actually looked 30 years younger than the rest of the house. :)

prill-no, I was literally leaning the headboard up behind the bed moments before she arrived last night. (I felt like I was running an episode of "While You Were Out" and the client was driving up the street as I'm installing the new doorknob to the room) After she returns to Happy Valley, I will get back in there for photos. Although this color, Slip, really doesn't want to be photographed, always looks white! Very mysterious color. PS-she loves loves loves the color.

Sounds fabulous! And you may be very pleasantly surprised by how wonderful a deep rich color can look in a low-light room. Your light-wood furniture will really be set off by the deep background like artwork against a matte. And as others have pointed out, greens and purples work beautifully together... Maybe try something a bit more 'plum wine' if you dare ;-)

Have you seen arlosmom's bedroom? She used a similar color and it's gorgeous.

Here is a link that might be useful: arlosmom's bedroom

I am using several purples in our house. I am in the midst of painting most of our rooms so don't have completed pix yet, but we have a very deep dark purple for den and dining room walls (open plan, 2 walls total). It is Purple rain by BM and is a deep velvet purple. It looks amazing paired with bright white trim and I can't wait to see the white Roman shade installed there with it (and eventually see it when the floors get refinished darker and the furniture moves back in).

I did a color like patty_cake's plum dandy for our bedroom ceiling (am not at home with the color names handy) and will stencil on the east and west walls of our bedroom in it over a pale gray and also use it inside our bedroom closet. The only one I am not so certain about it our bedroom ceiling. I was trying to break out of the box and do a colored ceiling (inspired by GWers), but I will have to see how I feel about it after the stencil is up and the room is put together. I may have gone too far with that one and may either go lighter, much darker, go white or add a silver metallic glaze to tone it down. It is pretty bold on our vaulted ceiling as it is.
We have a light-medium lavender in our kitchen and a very pale lavender in our master bath (mirage white with a hint of the ceiling color added in to make sure the color tone worked). I used more of the bedroom ceiling color mixed with white ceiling paint for inside our coat closet as well.

That makes 4 different shades (although our sons' room also has 2 dark bright purple walls with 2 less dark bright green ones, so we really have 5 purples, lol).

Our living room, laundry room and hallway will have a perky green color (wales green at 75%).

I didn't start out with a plan to paint so much purple, but they came out so nice I just kept going. I live with 2 boys and my dh and it is not terribly girly because none of our furniture or accessories will be purple. We are using a lot of white, gray, black and green with it. We have a very open plan so whatever color we chose would have to flow through several rooms. Reading over this post, it sounds funny, but IRL, it works nicely. I'll be posting as soon as we are further along and can get rid of all the drop cloths, cans of paint and construction debris all over and when we can move our stuff back up out of the bsmt and make it look less empty. I also have to get the stickers off the windows, install WTs and basically decorate from scratch.

I just got a new Ballards catalog - there were pops of plum colors throughout. Must be the the look.

Love those paint colors my3dogs posted - did you notice all those elusive blue grays or gray blues? Some very pretty colors.

Tuesday

We have a dusty plum color in our guest BR that does not get a lot of light. I really hate this color, but the paint job is also very bad from PO's, so perhaps that's a contributing factor. I am hoping to repaint it this summer when I am off school.

Good luck! Hope you can make it work.