I feel you on this one. I'm a proud Ravenclaw but the house colours are not my thing at all. Also, I wish our animal was an actual Raven, not a freaking eagle.
I've seen that done with a matte background and shiny leopard spots. This is a stunning look that I keep wanting to experiment with some of my own artwork.
Yeah, I feel that. My gf and I are probably going to stick with the same, just replace gold with silver (I prefer cooler tones, but her favourite colour is red lol)
Black with gold and green as accent colors. The gold and green color combo always reminds me of poison, especially with snake themed decor. This would work really well for Victorian goths, because green was not only a popular color in the Victorian era, but the dye was made with arsenic and highly toxic.
You've got to be careful when choosing to do something like that, as it has about a 65% chance of looking more Haloweeny. I think hers worked because she managed to paint them to the *exact* color as the walls.
According to all known laws of colour theory, there is no way that colour scheme should be able to work. Those colours, of course, fit together anyway because colours don't care what humans think is impossible.
What about a black accent wall with a velvet yellow headboard as a jumping off point? White comforter and throws of different textures, black end tables with pops of yellow in accessories!
Fairy tale loving goths? GUILTY AS CHARGED!!!!! I ADORE your color scheme, by the way, dear & my favorite thing in your Lair is the pretty purple skull lamp. My personal color scheme is pink & black
'If you're comfortable with it.' Thank you, thank you, thank you! We see so much of "it has to be -this- way or it is =wrong=' that it makes me sick. I knew we could count on you to kick that theory to the curb.
Black and green (or grey) with gold as an accent color. So long as it's kept to a minimum, a little brightness can make everything else look a lot more subdued and elegant.
I don't really have a colour scheme in our house. My husband is obsessed with the 80's era, and isn't Goth, so the decor and colour battles in our house are interesting to say the least.
The good Lady of the Manners (that being Ms. Jillian Venters) lives a life of pink and black and makes that work quite nicely. I believe that so does Toxic Tears and I think that Queenie Black has done some similar things too. I change my colors depending on the space and my mood but one that might surprise people is autumnal colors. At first glance, some might think they can be too bright and cheerful but if you have an amber lamp to light up a living room full of dark items and leaves and moths to accent it, the space can feel like a witch's cottage or a crypt in the fall pretty easily. :)
It was interesting seeing all of your work throughout the years, I ordered your book " What is Goth" when I was 17/18 to a local Waterstones. It was the only way I could get my hands on it, in the UK at the time. I am now nearly 32 and it sits proudly in my book collection.
I grew up in a very green bedroom, and I don’t want to lose that cozy feel with my future home. This is seriously one of my favorite episodes thus far. Because now I don’t feel as crazy for wanting a monster-green accented room with a gothic black and white color scheme. I’ve been told it’s insane but it’s what makes me feel the most at home.
I used to think there was no way to get Black and Midnight Blue to work together, but I've seen it done well once. The guy who did it did so by painting the entire room Blue, then painting landscapes, trees, and a Victorian manor entirely in black on the bottom half, and finishing of with a whitish-yellow moon silhouetting the house. It'd be a lot of work, but when done well it looks Stunning!
We have black, warm grey, and a chestnut brown. Wanted to go for a Victorian funeral parlor/doctor's office theme. I know brown isn't very goth at first thought, but it really brings out things like plants, insect displays, and bones. Also that wall with the hands?! That's a fucking rad idea! I want to do that in my bathroom and have them hold towels!
i fuckin love this series, i dont even know why. not goth by any stretch of the imagination nor into home design. but it's just fun to see this goth daddy all passionate for gothic home design for some reason
Honestly even if you look at some of the footage from the old goth clubs you see a lot of colors...black and white of course, but also red, crimson, orange, dark green, gold, etc. My own apartment has Orange and Red walls, grey furniture, and a tan ottoman I use as a table for my media devices.
@@bug5176 Even with the people who tried to adopt and/or create some of the fashion were mostly in black, white, and darker colors...blue and red were pretty common. I notice a lot of the womens' stuff looks like it's clothing from the then-beginning disco-funk scene modified at home with things like shoulder-clasps and portions of thin leather belts on the ribs and waist, commonly a lot of draped fabrics reminiscent of Greek theatre and victorian romanticizations of rome and the ancient celts.
My home is white, black, grey and lilac. My walls are white and I have two small lilac accent walls, a dark grey couch, white coffee table, white lace curtains, but all my decor is black. Black wall decor, black skulls, black statues and coffins. It looks lovely to me
One fine, dark, and stormy night I will be able to decorate my home to my tastes. The color scheme I'm most drawn to at the moment is black, brown, and green.
My lair is all black and dark muted teal, with hints of rust and bronze. Like a strange mix of gothic, bohemian, and apocalyptic. Just how I like it, and my taxidermy piranha stands out beautifully on the teal.
I find that any deep jewel tones work really well, particularly as accent colors! A primarily black aesthetic with, say, some emerald green details can be truly gorgeous.
To be honest... my color scheme is much the same as yours! Cool grey walls with black furniture for a refined and modern look, no matter how many skulls accompany it, but in particular I’m looking for the perfect smoked plum accent pillows to give a bit of “pop” in the room gentler than royal purple can offer. Not to mention... “‘minimalist, modern gothic” is also a great code word for “cheap as dirt while still cool looking”
*"You are the aristocracy in your gothic lair."* You have no idea how much I smiled when you said that. This will be my motto when I finally have a lair on my own!
my future lair will be black, white, grey, silver, navy, light blue, purple and red. how does that work? make everything black and white and put each room with it's own pop of colour
For those who are into the herbal arts there are also a lot of plants that chance for night, such as Jasmine that bloom at night. Much to learn from Earth's night color schemes.
My gothic bedroom is grey walls with a hint of lavender, black trim on the walls, black frame of the bed and light fixtures among other accessories, with wooden and magenta pops of color in the bedding and shelves. It's dreamy!
Black and purple has always been a favorite of mine. Throw in some gold accents and it really makes you feel like dark royalty! Though I'm also a fan of black and a nice deep blue, for a more subtle feeling. Silver is also a great accent colour for any gothic colour scheme.
Not technically goth myself and this is a thought two years later lol, but my homemaking aesthetic is low key the opposite of everyone here, brighter rainbow colors (especially sky blue and light green) with nighttime colors like black and midnight blue as accents. Looks better than it sounds! And goes perfect with my moderny yet fairytale-ish witchy vibe
i like black and dark green with a silver or maybe even black color the 3rd color is a little hard to decide on. Thank you for making these videos volitare you have given me so many ideas over the years.
Not a true goth, but I am an artist who certainly appreciates the dark aesthetic!i love the lair’s new color scheme. If I were to design a lair of my own, I think it would be between a similar one or one involving a crimson or berry red with black.
Black & white has always been my scheme since I moved out 17 yrs ago. But this year I finally changed it lol it's Black black & black with dark floral accents mainly in the dusty dark maroon & teal range. It's decadent macabre & gorgeous, not to mention super calming I'm so in love. I pulled out my well worn copy of paint it black & made some lovely floral arrangements so thanks again Voltaire always an inspiration 💜
This was very helpful. By narrowing the base colours down to just two, you have a lot of accent colours to play with without them overpowering the room. Even using just the base concept of the colour wheel, opposite colours can work just as well as complimentary colours, if done right.
FUCK YES NEW GOTHIC HOMEMAKING VIDEO!!!!! AHHHHHHH! I'm so glad you managed to recover your edits and stuff. This is great work as always. Thanks for the fun times Voltaire.
I think it would be neat to see more gothic decor that makes use of gold! I think gold is a color that looks really striking against black, and could also pair well with white, grey, or purple.
I love black,white, light blue and silver. I never really thought of these colors as "goth colors" but several years ago someone gave me a dress that was black and light blue...it was beautiful! I loved it! And of course I wore silver jewelry with it.
I love black and green for a gothic lair. Makes me think of absinthe! The slytherin common room from harry potter is black, green, and sepia and it has a really nice and gothic feel. I still prefer purple and black for my room though
I'm a HUGE fan of the classic red-and-black combination--it's easy to find items and clothes in those colours, plus I love the whole "blood and roses" motif.
Have a flair for interior deco myself, being an artist, the colors are so important but it's also difficult to pick a scheme, so fortunately we are gutting and renovating our entire cabin. The main room is a beautiful selection of peacock blue tones, with the black trims, rod iron items, crystals, and lightly sprinkled with purple. My personal room, purples and lilac, black of course. The kitchen even, is gothic and since it's close to LR, the blues and cobalt glass with a homemade gothic apothocary is rockin, and my man's personal main lair is BLACK and RED cause my love, well, he's a vampire ya know . Just saying, I'm so glad I don't have to choose ONE, cause each room is special and they all flow together cohesively. IT'S FUN, IS IT NOT? Just love, love, love your show.
The black wall makes the lair look much better, the red was kinda jarring in transitional scenes, like you were shooting in a completely different place.
This episode was great. Love the little history lesson and my favorite Gothic color scheme is black with a cream, or bone accent as he called it. Has always been a favorite of mine
11:35 ok those pointy ears are so cool. 2nd: I never noticed how pretty your brown eyes are. 3rd: That eyebrow arch! Damn I’m jealous. 4th: how the fuck is your hair so perfect?? I’m also jealous again! Lol great video Voltaire. Can’t wait to watch new episodes! Keep up the good work!
You inspired me to renovate my kitchen. I'm going to go for the color scheme of black, dark green, dark reddish wood, and copper accents. I found a deep green peel n' stick subway tiles on Lowe's website. They are also heat resistant so I'm more confident about installing them near my stove.
I personally love green and black. Light mint green up to deep greens. But I'm also obsessed with fall colours. I havent been able to make myself my own lair yet but when I do I think it will be a lot like yours with green as the accent colour. And a bit of those Autumn colours sprinkled about.
After having my bedroom walls white with pastel mint and pink splotches on it and pink carpeting my whole life, we finally redid it. We ripped up the carpeting and added dark grey faux hardwood. Then we painted the walls olive green with a black ceiling. Even replaced the ceiling fan with a white one. Took out my closet wall and opted for a grey curtain instead (but that was mainly because poor building design). Currently my furniture is brown, but I wanna stain the wood black to match my bedding. All in all it's a very earthy vibe, but hopefully I can give it a more gothic feel in the future. This video specifically has given me more motivation to do so too. Thank you!!!
I see a new feature coming on- visiting other gothic lairs! I love monochromatic schemes alternating between flats and glosses. It's very subdued drama.
I always wanted midnight blue walls and a bed with black sheets and a red comforter. But I've never been able to do anything like that because my apartment wouldn't let me paint the walls, so I just covered it in posters. Now i live with my husband so we had to sort of mix our styles together but one day, if i can have my own house to paint, ill have a room dedicated to my favorite style. I've always wanted to decorate a room (or a house).
I love gothic imagery, but I couldn't handle dark walls anymore on account of it aggravating my SAD in winter. That said, these ideas of white walls with black furniture make for a lovely contrast.
Trying a couple of different shades of blue with grey & black + the red and black colour schemes are my favourite. I'm currently studying interior design and your video had given me great ideas that I sure had seen them before but never really concederd trying them out. Thanks for sharing it with us. I love you ♡
I feel like anything that's a deep jewel tone, combined with black, is a great scheme in and of itself- emerald greens and deep blues, especially. I can sort of see the appeal of the Quintessential Goth Colours all combined for others, but I gotta tell you, I cannot abide red and purple in anything I do, personally; the couple of times my hair was purple over the years, I found myself avoiding any clothing or makeup with the remotest touch of red, because I just viscerally hated the way they looked alongside one another, regardless of the shade/hue
My goth bedroom as a teen was a rich emerald green and black with dark mahogany wooden furniture. I absolutely loved it and it was my little gothling artist cell of my dreams. Now I just need to buy a place of my own and start my grown up gothic Palace.
the gothiest home i've ever seen was actually a old "witch"'s home. nothing matched. it was all thrifted and bolted together over the years... but the amount of bones and taxidermy she had in that house was insane. not to mention her obsession with tim burton merch and her daughters (shes a doctor) artworks(which is all spooky anatomy stuff done in exaggerated style). when she went on her matte black spree she spraypainted her furniture black and sanded it lightly to let all the tacky colors and mishmash wood come out all over again in such an amazing way!. last time i was there it was black mostly, but every color under the sun was still present. her crystals, bones, feathers, plants, and old exposed paint made her house look so beautiful and old. its truly a masterpiece.
OK, some kind of synchronicity going on here. I just happen to be renovating our cabin in the woods, (VA, up on a mountain = great view of appallachian mountains, lots of woods all around) gothic lair and its really coming along nice, but then OMG, YOUR SHOW, SO PERFECT, So much help and informative and going to all those great places to shop....just love this show. Hope you PROSPER BIG TIME Mona mi!
Me and my husband's apartment is a bit different. Our styles clash, him being more Norse inspired and me loving victorian gothic. So we compromised with a "Queen Ann's Apothecary" theme. Our color scheme is silver and (dark) brown, with midnight blue accents. It sounds crazy, but combining subtle Norse designs, dried flora, spell bottles, and elegant queen Ann furniture makes for a great combo. The blue helps tie in a wintery vibe along with the silver, and the dark brown brings everything together with earthy elegant touches.
White in gothic clothes, lairs, etc seem to be on the rise lately and some of the stuff I've seen are pretty awesome! I've always had a bit of a thing for the black and white mix for me and my husband's room. Nowhere near done yet. Still gotta either repaint or replace my husband's desk, our dresser, and reupholster our ottoman. Not to mention build a nick-knack shelf for our game memorabilia and books so they're not scattered. also, I've noticed a certain roomie decided to hide until after all that hard work you did was done...>.>
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I thought keeping that wall red added warmth (the purple adds serenity to me)...okay, whew, you kept some touches of red in the rose and goat head. Very nice!
I think having black + dark/emerald green as your main colors is a great combination, especially if you're going for a "haunted forest" or "evil witch in the woods" kind of aesthetic.
For my ninth grade high school art project we had to pick a musical artist and draw an image related to them with their lyrics in it. I chose Voltaire of course and used the song Almost Human using the album cover but with the lyrics rotating around him. It may have been lazy though the album cover and the song did mean a lot to me back then. Forever and always, my favourite artist.
My room is going to be green, grey, with black and orchid accents. I saw the orchid on a color swatch and it really worked with the green and grey. You never know what goes together until you try.
My room has a blue, black, red, purple, and silver color scheme. I used all black walls as a base coat. From there I sponged on a metallic dark silver and then a metallic purple. The ceiling fan that came with the house has a painting of the earth on the light cover. With the jewel toned red, blue, and purple curtains, at night, it feels like the whole room is floating in the void of space.
Black, grey, green and just a little bit of red is the color scheme of my living room. The rest of my apartment shows grey, black and a lot of natural wood colors because I'm more comfortable with a rustic style rather than royalty, and also that's easier to achieve when money is really really tight.
Black & purple were always my colours of choice. I'd have certain shades of red or a bubblegum pink as subtle highlighting at times, other times using greens. If I look back at my early Gothic/horror influences, the colours were prominent in the Beetlejuice Cartoon, Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, etc. Even the covers of other books, like "Even More Short And Shivery" would use them. I figured that it would have just come from those, but I recently discovered baby/toddler pictures of myself also dressed in the same blacks, purples, & pink hues. As for homemaking, my dream has always been a large coffin bed. (With a lid that could be closed in at least 2 segments.) After finding your channel, I feel inspired to not give up on that dream just yet. Thank you!
Green black and silver. I have ravenclaw sensibilities but slytherin aesthetics.
I feel you on this one. I'm a proud Ravenclaw but the house colours are not my thing at all. Also, I wish our animal was an actual Raven, not a freaking eagle.
Rebecca Stockwell black silver and a dark blue can totally be goth also isn’t it a raven in the books anyway
@@milktealatte9891 no it's an eagle both movies and books.
Proud Slytherin here but I look best in Hufflepuff colors
@@grimmkat06 my condolences lol
A black on black stripped wall but with matte and shinny paint would be pretty cool.
Oooh, that's a great idea!
Did the charcoal chrome and black in my hallway in mat with the gloss accents painted on top with templates. The effects are great.
i thought u were rapping lol
I've seen that done with a matte background and shiny leopard spots. This is a stunning look that I keep wanting to experiment with some of my own artwork.
I have kept most of the main areas of my home to black, gold and hints of red :) Something about those colours make me feel so relaxed!
Yeah, I feel that. My gf and I are probably going to stick with the same, just replace gold with silver (I prefer cooler tones, but her favourite colour is red lol)
@@lukechrist Yess! Definitely silver over gold. I prefer cool tones too. Great taste!
I’m in love with your chairs omg 🖤🕷🖤
Black with gold and green as accent colors. The gold and green color combo always reminds me of poison, especially with snake themed decor. This would work really well for Victorian goths, because green was not only a popular color in the Victorian era, but the dye was made with arsenic and highly toxic.
The arsenic green is so lovely!
@@Violet-qf8dr Yep.
The hands coming out of the wall! I am SO stealing that.
My mom will never coming over to visit again.
Looks awesome but must be horrible when trying to stumble to bed in a drunk stupor
@@LordZeebee Not a problem, I live in a condo and the stairs are the only way in or out...
Love that Idea
I saw that on the film Repulsion and I did that to my coat room. Good movie btw:)
You've got to be careful when choosing to do something like that, as it has about a 65% chance of looking more Haloweeny. I think hers worked because she managed to paint them to the *exact* color as the walls.
That black wall really completes the lair! I think a combination of black, green, and neutrals would work for a gothic witchy kitchen.
The gothic druid is def. what im going for living room wise. but the vampire in me argues for the red and black with some gold. the struggle is real
@@feralmagick7177 god same, i've thought of combining both but red and green would make my room look like a christmas elf's room
My gothling wants to decorate her room black and yellow.... should beee very interesting, don't you think?
reminds me of hufflepuff from harry potter
According to all known laws of colour theory, there is no way that colour scheme should be able to work. Those colours, of course, fit together anyway because colours don't care
what humans think is impossible.
What about a black accent wall with a velvet yellow headboard as a jumping off point? White comforter and throws of different textures, black end tables with pops of yellow in accessories!
Black and yellow always makes me think of the Spellbound music video.
I personally adore black and pastel yellow. It reminds me of early Barbie outfits.
Orange and black for my son's room, mine is red and black, daughter's is white with red blood splatter. We love it☺
Aww. A little goth home decore family.
Is your family the Addams family?
Fairy tale loving goths? GUILTY AS CHARGED!!!!! I ADORE your color scheme, by the way, dear & my favorite thing in your Lair is the pretty purple skull lamp. My personal color scheme is pink & black
Me!! I wish I couldhave stuck with darker greens, browns, gold and teal colors. A very forest like room.
I did my bathroom in white silver and ice blue and it looks more gothic then my black and purple room. So white can definitely be gothic.
“What other people think of as gay, is what I think of as awesome.”
See, this right here is a fine example of good humanity. Keep it up!
I love black with deep blues and greens. Does that make me a dark mermaid? Lol
Definitely a possibility, speaking as an old goth who swims as a mermaid frequently all mermaids need to be dark is proper song choices.
OK we invented a thing! Thank you Gothic Homemaking!
Abyssal Mermaid
😍😍 i loveding my makeup with those colors
Those are my favorite colors🖤
'If you're comfortable with it.' Thank you, thank you, thank you! We see so much of "it has to be -this- way or it is =wrong=' that it makes me sick. I knew we could count on you to kick that theory to the curb.
I just loooove black and dark emerald green ^^ my favourite combo!
One of my favorites too.
Yees!
Very regal...
Black and green (or grey) with gold as an accent color. So long as it's kept to a minimum, a little brightness can make everything else look a lot more subdued and elegant.
I don't really have a colour scheme in our house. My husband is obsessed with the 80's era, and isn't Goth, so the decor and colour battles in our house are interesting to say the least.
Mine. Black, sepia, rose gold, and teal. It's extremely calming.
Oh wow this sounds beautiful
@@nyssa_22 thanks. I'm still just starting on it because I'm kinda broke but I'm thinking about filming the project step by step.
Please film or post photos, it sounds so lovely!
Grayish blue, charcoal black, and silver! My personal lair scheme.
The good Lady of the Manners (that being Ms. Jillian Venters) lives a life of pink and black and makes that work quite nicely. I believe that so does Toxic Tears and I think that Queenie Black has done some similar things too. I change my colors depending on the space and my mood but one that might surprise people is autumnal colors. At first glance, some might think they can be too bright and cheerful but if you have an amber lamp to light up a living room full of dark items and leaves and moths to accent it, the space can feel like a witch's cottage or a crypt in the fall pretty easily. :)
It was interesting seeing all of your work throughout the years, I ordered your book " What is Goth" when I was 17/18 to a local Waterstones. It was the only way I could get my hands on it, in the UK at the time. I am now nearly 32 and it sits proudly in my book collection.
I grew up in a very green bedroom, and I don’t want to lose that cozy feel with my future home. This is seriously one of my favorite episodes thus far. Because now I don’t feel as crazy for wanting a monster-green accented room with a gothic black and white color scheme. I’ve been told it’s insane but it’s what makes me feel the most at home.
I used to think there was no way to get Black and Midnight Blue to work together, but I've seen it done well once. The guy who did it did so by painting the entire room Blue, then painting landscapes, trees, and a Victorian manor entirely in black on the bottom half, and finishing of with a whitish-yellow moon silhouetting the house. It'd be a lot of work, but when done well it looks Stunning!
We have black, warm grey, and a chestnut brown. Wanted to go for a Victorian funeral parlor/doctor's office theme. I know brown isn't very goth at first thought, but it really brings out things like plants, insect displays, and bones. Also that wall with the hands?! That's a fucking rad idea! I want to do that in my bathroom and have them hold towels!
i fuckin love this series, i dont even know why. not goth by any stretch of the imagination nor into home design. but it's just fun to see this goth daddy all passionate for gothic home design for some reason
Honestly even if you look at some of the footage from the old goth clubs you see a lot of colors...black and white of course, but also red, crimson, orange, dark green, gold, etc. My own apartment has Orange and Red walls, grey furniture, and a tan ottoman I use as a table for my media devices.
@@bug5176 Even with the people who tried to adopt and/or create some of the fashion were mostly in black, white, and darker colors...blue and red were pretty common. I notice a lot of the womens' stuff looks like it's clothing from the then-beginning disco-funk scene modified at home with things like shoulder-clasps and portions of thin leather belts on the ribs and waist, commonly a lot of draped fabrics reminiscent of Greek theatre and victorian romanticizations of rome and the ancient celts.
My home is white, black, grey and lilac. My walls are white and I have two small lilac accent walls, a dark grey couch, white coffee table, white lace curtains, but all my decor is black. Black wall decor, black skulls, black statues and coffins. It looks lovely to me
One fine, dark, and stormy night I will be able to decorate my home to my tastes.
The color scheme I'm most drawn to at the moment is black, brown, and green.
My lair is all black and dark muted teal, with hints of rust and bronze. Like a strange mix of gothic, bohemian, and apocalyptic. Just how I like it, and my taxidermy piranha stands out beautifully on the teal.
Green, black, and a dark, wood-tone brown as the accent would make for a good "witchy" gothic color scheme for a room. :)
I find that any deep jewel tones work really well, particularly as accent colors! A primarily black aesthetic with, say, some emerald green details can be truly gorgeous.
To be honest... my color scheme is much the same as yours! Cool grey walls with black furniture for a refined and modern look, no matter how many skulls accompany it, but in particular I’m looking for the perfect smoked plum accent pillows to give a bit of “pop” in the room gentler than royal purple can offer. Not to mention... “‘minimalist, modern gothic” is also a great code word for “cheap as dirt while still cool looking”
You know what I would love to see?
A Gothic Homemaking episode over recording rooms 😃
I'm all for black and blue 💙 with metallic accents. Or murals.
*"You are the aristocracy in your gothic lair."* You have no idea how much I smiled when you said that. This will be my motto when I finally have a lair on my own!
That white and silver room is wonderful. So ghostly and spooky in a elegant way. I reminds me of the New Orleans American Horror Story season.
my future lair will be black, white, grey, silver, navy, light blue, purple and red. how does that work? make everything black and white and put each room with it's own pop of colour
Oh this was very clever & slightly educational for artists like me! & good old orville still a weird old creep
This video has really inspired me to decorate
For those who are into the herbal arts there are also a lot of plants that chance for night, such as Jasmine that bloom at night. Much to learn from Earth's night color schemes.
My gothic bedroom is grey walls with a hint of lavender, black trim on the walls, black frame of the bed and light fixtures among other accessories, with wooden and magenta pops of color in the bedding and shelves. It's dreamy!
Black and purple has always been a favorite of mine. Throw in some gold accents and it really makes you feel like dark royalty! Though I'm also a fan of black and a nice deep blue, for a more subtle feeling. Silver is also a great accent colour for any gothic colour scheme.
Not technically goth myself and this is a thought two years later lol, but my homemaking aesthetic is low key the opposite of everyone here, brighter rainbow colors (especially sky blue and light green) with nighttime colors like black and midnight blue as accents. Looks better than it sounds! And goes perfect with my moderny yet fairytale-ish witchy vibe
i like black and dark green with a silver or maybe even black color the 3rd color is a little hard to decide on. Thank you for making these videos volitare you have given me so many ideas over the years.
Not a true goth, but I am an artist who certainly appreciates the dark aesthetic!i love the lair’s new color scheme. If I were to design a lair of my own, I think it would be between a similar one or one involving a crimson or berry red with black.
Black & white has always been my scheme since I moved out 17 yrs ago. But this year I finally changed it lol it's Black black & black with dark floral accents mainly in the dusty dark maroon & teal range. It's decadent macabre & gorgeous, not to mention super calming I'm so in love. I pulled out my well worn copy of paint it black & made some lovely floral arrangements so thanks again Voltaire always an inspiration 💜
Black, grey, and teal. Makes me think of ivy in a foggy forest
This was very helpful. By narrowing the base colours down to just two, you have a lot of accent colours to play with without them overpowering the room. Even using just the base concept of the colour wheel, opposite colours can work just as well as complimentary colours, if done right.
FUCK YES NEW GOTHIC HOMEMAKING VIDEO!!!!! AHHHHHHH! I'm so glad you managed to recover your edits and stuff. This is great work as always. Thanks for the fun times Voltaire.
Dark gods, I love the new look of the lair, so glad that red wall was painted black. I'm so glad that Gothic Homemaking is back.
I think it would be neat to see more gothic decor that makes use of gold! I think gold is a color that looks really striking against black, and could also pair well with white, grey, or purple.
I love black,white, light blue and silver. I never really thought of these colors as "goth colors" but several years ago someone gave me a dress that was black and light blue...it was beautiful! I loved it! And of course I wore silver jewelry with it.
I love black and green for a gothic lair. Makes me think of absinthe! The slytherin common room from harry potter is black, green, and sepia and it has a really nice and gothic feel. I still prefer purple and black for my room though
Best thing about voltaire is that he isn’t just a singer.
I'm a HUGE fan of the classic red-and-black combination--it's easy to find items and clothes in those colours, plus I love the whole "blood and roses" motif.
Yes! Black-white-red-purple! The best combination!
(said person who has black curtain over yellow wall and multicolor scarf on table...)
I gasped when the finished new wall was revealed. It looks amazing!
Gold and black has always been a glamorous and eye catching combination.
I agree.
Have a flair for interior deco myself, being an artist, the colors are so important but it's also difficult to pick a scheme, so fortunately we are gutting and renovating our entire cabin. The main room is a beautiful selection of peacock blue tones, with the black trims, rod iron items, crystals, and lightly sprinkled with purple. My personal room, purples and lilac, black of course. The kitchen even, is gothic and since it's close to LR, the blues and cobalt glass with a homemade gothic apothocary is rockin, and my man's personal main lair is BLACK and RED cause my love, well, he's a vampire ya know . Just saying, I'm so glad I don't have to choose ONE, cause each room is special and they all flow together cohesively. IT'S FUN, IS IT NOT? Just love, love, love your show.
The black wall makes the lair look much better, the red was kinda jarring in transitional scenes, like you were shooting in a completely different place.
“I think many goths love fairy tales” welp, hit that nail on the head for me. I’m planning on decorating my apartment to emanate Grimm’s fairy tales
This episode was great. Love the little history lesson and my favorite Gothic color scheme is black with a cream, or bone accent as he called it. Has always been a favorite of mine
My favorite color is Payne's Grey, which is a desaturated navy + black mixture. Like a dark, night sky.
Blue, silver, black and i'll somtime allowed Brass/bronze colours if it fits.
11:35 ok those pointy ears are so cool. 2nd: I never noticed how pretty your brown eyes are. 3rd: That eyebrow arch! Damn I’m jealous. 4th: how the fuck is your hair so perfect?? I’m also jealous again! Lol great video Voltaire. Can’t wait to watch new episodes! Keep up the good work!
You inspired me to renovate my kitchen. I'm going to go for the color scheme of black, dark green, dark reddish wood, and copper accents. I found a deep green peel n' stick subway tiles on Lowe's website. They are also heat resistant so I'm more confident about installing them near my stove.
My colors in my room is gray and accent color purple like joker suit purple. Plus it is awesome to feel like a home
My daughter adores pastel goth. She is finding it difficult to acquire pastel skulls, etc. but she perseveres!
I personally love green and black. Light mint green up to deep greens. But I'm also obsessed with fall colours. I havent been able to make myself my own lair yet but when I do I think it will be a lot like yours with green as the accent colour. And a bit of those Autumn colours sprinkled about.
After having my bedroom walls white with pastel mint and pink splotches on it and pink carpeting my whole life, we finally redid it. We ripped up the carpeting and added dark grey faux hardwood. Then we painted the walls olive green with a black ceiling. Even replaced the ceiling fan with a white one. Took out my closet wall and opted for a grey curtain instead (but that was mainly because poor building design). Currently my furniture is brown, but I wanna stain the wood black to match my bedding. All in all it's a very earthy vibe, but hopefully I can give it a more gothic feel in the future. This video specifically has given me more motivation to do so too. Thank you!!!
I see a new feature coming on- visiting other gothic lairs! I love monochromatic schemes alternating between flats and glosses. It's very subdued drama.
I always wanted midnight blue walls and a bed with black sheets and a red comforter. But I've never been able to do anything like that because my apartment wouldn't let me paint the walls, so I just covered it in posters. Now i live with my husband so we had to sort of mix our styles together but one day, if i can have my own house to paint, ill have a room dedicated to my favorite style. I've always wanted to decorate a room (or a house).
LOOOOVE black, white, red, and purple!!!
I love gothic imagery, but I couldn't handle dark walls anymore on account of it aggravating my SAD in winter. That said, these ideas of white walls with black furniture make for a lovely contrast.
I love the idea of a burgundy and cream living room with gold accents. Like an old opera house with a phantom living in the rafters.....
Trying a couple of different shades of blue with grey & black + the red and black colour schemes are my favourite. I'm currently studying interior design and your video had given me great ideas that I sure had seen them before but never really concederd trying them out. Thanks for sharing it with us. I love you ♡
I feel like anything that's a deep jewel tone, combined with black, is a great scheme in and of itself- emerald greens and deep blues, especially. I can sort of see the appeal of the Quintessential Goth Colours all combined for others, but I gotta tell you, I cannot abide red and purple in anything I do, personally; the couple of times my hair was purple over the years, I found myself avoiding any clothing or makeup with the remotest touch of red, because I just viscerally hated the way they looked alongside one another, regardless of the shade/hue
My goth bedroom as a teen was a rich emerald green and black with dark mahogany wooden furniture. I absolutely loved it and it was my little gothling artist cell of my dreams. Now I just need to buy a place of my own and start my grown up gothic Palace.
the gothiest home i've ever seen was actually a old "witch"'s home. nothing matched. it was all thrifted and bolted together over the years... but the amount of bones and taxidermy she had in that house was insane. not to mention her obsession with tim burton merch and her daughters (shes a doctor) artworks(which is all spooky anatomy stuff done in exaggerated style). when she went on her matte black spree she spraypainted her furniture black and sanded it lightly to let all the tacky colors and mishmash wood come out all over again in such an amazing way!. last time i was there it was black mostly, but every color under the sun was still present. her crystals, bones, feathers, plants, and old exposed paint made her house look so beautiful and old. its truly a masterpiece.
OK, some kind of synchronicity going on here. I just happen to be renovating our cabin in the woods, (VA, up on a mountain = great view of appallachian mountains, lots of woods all around) gothic lair and its really coming along nice, but then OMG, YOUR SHOW, SO PERFECT, So much help and informative and going to all those great places to shop....just love this show. Hope you PROSPER BIG TIME Mona mi!
I really wanted my bedroom to be a dark green with black trim. When I found a dark green paint called "Hemlock Green", I was sold!
love the Jean Cocteau arms! i should spice up my bathroom corridor with those... time to get a cast mold!
Me and my husband's apartment is a bit different. Our styles clash, him being more Norse inspired and me loving victorian gothic. So we compromised with a "Queen Ann's Apothecary" theme. Our color scheme is silver and (dark) brown, with midnight blue accents. It sounds crazy, but combining subtle Norse designs, dried flora, spell bottles, and elegant queen Ann furniture makes for a great combo. The blue helps tie in a wintery vibe along with the silver, and the dark brown brings everything together with earthy elegant touches.
As a color obsessed person, I can’t tell you how happy this video made me!! Your use of color is simply splendid 😻😻😻😻
That really does tie it all together. Looks so spooktscular. I love how your lair looks. Great job and thanks for all the suggestions.👍🌙💀👻
One of the most pleasurable video to look and listen to.
Thank you Aurelio 💜
Aurelio is an incredible artist in many of ways!!
@@Discoveringbandsbymichaelnagy Yes, that is so true 😆
White in gothic clothes, lairs, etc seem to be on the rise lately and some of the stuff I've seen are pretty awesome! I've always had a bit of a thing for the black and white mix for me and my husband's room. Nowhere near done yet. Still gotta either repaint or replace my husband's desk, our dresser, and reupholster our ottoman. Not to mention build a nick-knack shelf for our game memorabilia and books so they're not scattered.
also, I've noticed a certain roomie decided to hide until after all that hard work you did was done...>.>
VERY excited about the white apartment. I can't paint in mine and I have a lot of 80s hand-me-downs, so it's looking full Miami Vice around here.
I’d love to add blue to my black, white and grey color scheme in my room.
I like rusty things. I find ways of incorporating those into my decor. Check out the book Dusty Diablos.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I thought keeping that wall red added warmth (the purple adds serenity to me)...okay, whew, you kept some touches of red in the rose and goat head. Very nice!
I think having black + dark/emerald green as your main colors is a great combination, especially if you're going for a "haunted forest" or "evil witch in the woods" kind of aesthetic.
I think this is great! ^.^ Sometimes the fundamentals are the easiest things to disregard as being interesting!
For my ninth grade high school art project we had to pick a musical artist and draw an image related to them with their lyrics in it. I chose Voltaire of course and used the song Almost Human using the album cover but with the lyrics rotating around him. It may have been lazy though the album cover and the song did mean a lot to me back then. Forever and always, my favourite artist.
Love this. I thought the white walls with the black furniture was amazing.
I'm moving into a new place and I am so excited to see what I create
My room is going to be green, grey, with black and orchid accents. I saw the orchid on a color swatch and it really worked with the green and grey. You never know what goes together until you try.
My room has a blue, black, red, purple, and silver color scheme. I used all black walls as a base coat. From there I sponged on a metallic dark silver and then a metallic purple. The ceiling fan that came with the house has a painting of the earth on the light cover. With the jewel toned red, blue, and purple curtains, at night, it feels like the whole room is floating in the void of space.
In my younger days, the only color I would pair with all the black was hot pink. Now I'm all about the grey and purple as well!
Black, grey, green and just a little bit of red is the color scheme of my living room. The rest of my apartment shows grey, black and a lot of natural wood colors because I'm more comfortable with a rustic style rather than royalty, and also that's easier to achieve when money is really really tight.
Our living room is a mix of stark white, dark gray, with a lighter gray stained-brick fireplace.
Black & purple were always my colours of choice. I'd have certain shades of red or a bubblegum pink as subtle highlighting at times, other times using greens. If I look back at my early Gothic/horror influences, the colours were prominent in the Beetlejuice Cartoon, Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, etc. Even the covers of other books, like "Even More Short And Shivery" would use them. I figured that it would have just come from those, but I recently discovered baby/toddler pictures of myself also dressed in the same blacks, purples, & pink hues. As for homemaking, my dream has always been a large coffin bed. (With a lid that could be closed in at least 2 segments.) After finding your channel, I feel inspired to not give up on that dream just yet. Thank you!