In the old farm house I live in, the prior owners did not paint the back of the closet doors. Everytime, I see the unpainted door, I think to myself, what a half ass job ! Of course the person who decided not to paint the back of door, is long dead by now, so what difference does it make? I would paint it, in this type of real estate market, you do not want to take any chances on selling a house. If a potential buyer saw the unpainted door, it may ruin the sale.

The color reflectance, its influence and issues with acuity is actually mathematical -- not subjective. Most closets have one fixture and depend on the lumens from one bulb - most often an incandescent. Can be physical considerations as well because it's not reasonable to assume everyone has the same level of color acuity. i.e One person might have no trouble picking out the navy blue trousers from among a dozen pairs of black trousers. While another may literally have to take several pairs over to a window to make the same color determination. The case for white closets and visual ergonomics reaches beyond aesthetics. Has some interesting points to explore. As another example, we've noticed here just in this thread is that closets are not repainted as often as rooms. So it's feasible that the chosen color for a closet will span a decade or more. In ten years time, the average human adult's visual acuity will decrease as the eye ages. Ten years on an eyeball after age 30 is a LONG, hard ten years. A novel color coordinated turquoise closet would be a fun pop one day and then before you know it, it annoyingly interferes with your deciphering a dark chocolate stripe from a dark forest green stripe. As with all things color, it depends on WHAT color we're talking about. Midtones aren't going to have the same visual acuity interference issues as a dark saturated color. And if there is adequate illumination for the square footage and function of the closet, then that will obviously help support the use of color in a closet as well.

Yeah, in our old house we dressed in the bedroom, but when we designed this house we on purpose moved that activity from the part of the suite where the bed is. My DH travels a ton for work and often has late or early flights, so we designed our master to keep noise low in the bedroom section. When you open the door to the master suite, you are in a short hall. The dressing room/closet is on your left, then the bath. There is a cased opening directly in front of you that leads into the bed area. Basically, there are no doors in the bedroom part of the suite. People who want to be super close to their toilet or closet might not like it, and it wouldn't work at all if our closet were small, but it is so perfect for us! He can lug his suitcase in, brush his teeth, whatever...and I am not disturbed. Plus, I like not having dressers in the bedroom.

Okay thank you for responding. We do have LEDs in the ceiling and lamps but not sure if they are 4000k. I will try to take some pictures and put them on. But in general do/should all of the walls be the same color between the bedroom, walk through and walk in closet?