Ideas & Concepts: wall color for office?

hello all,

we will soon move into our very own office space and i was wondering if you could give me free advice on what wall colors to choose.

i really like color, but as you can see our present office (rented) is so blah. the owner of the building does not allow us to paint the walls.

i hear that color can help increase productivity. any ideas?

i'm thiking of making the office really colorful (like an ad agency's office). maybe i can paint each area/room different?

here's the planned layout of our new office:

there's are two big window right behind the two offices (one for me and one for my partner)

by the way, our chairs are orange (yayks). we plan to reuse the chairs.

any *free* ideas PLEASE? :)

I think bright green makes me feel energized.

Check out my website and our color green.

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To stay on the ad agency topic, I went through all of the agency profiles on Ihaveanidea and picked out a few pictures/agencies that had some creative offices (pretty paint).

Much like a portfolio, most agencies paint their walls white so all of the work and surrounding objects stand out. Also, seeing the same bright green or blue on the wall year round can affect your colour choices in your work. All of your websites may mysteriously use blue or green as their primary colour, lol.

Also, when you have to work long nights, you appreciate the extra few bucks you invested in buying the brightest white paint.

DDB Vancouver

Motivational sayings all over the wall.

Rethink

Turf as their carpet.

DDB Chicago

Subplot Design

Anomaly

Ogilvy Chicago

Maybe you could coat all of your walls in a glossy substance so you can write on them like whiteboards, ceiling to floor.

StrawberryFrog

Side Lee (a division of Diesel)

thanks so much travis!!

you could be right about using super white walls and just making other objects pop out. now i'm reconsidering.

we'll probably start painting by end-march (we're due to move in by april). i will try to post pictures here.

do any of you have nifty offices you care to show me (for ideas)?

thanks again :) by the way your site is very cool