Toying with colour.

I'm putting together a brief for the painter.

We're going to maintain the vintage (1970s) character of the lounge area leaving untouched the brick and the timber and the glass (removing vertical blinds) and painting the walls and the ginormous bookcase next to the fireplace in Dulux "White on White".


The rest of the house doesn't demand making the same statement and could really benefit from some funking up.  We're going to paint out some of the timber, and a bit of the exposed brick but I'm wondering if it would be crazy to also inject a little bit of block colour.  


Feature walls just aren't my style, so I'm thinking of keeping the walls a blank canvas, but injecting some pops of colour into the doors at the back of the house.


I am an enormous fan of the work of Matte Stephens and am thinking of using his colour palette for the task:

Milo told me he would like his bedroom door to be red.  
The corridor door could be orange.

I think I would like my door to be green 

And the toilet door could be blue.

Is this idea playful.  Or just stupid?


Update 22/01/2011

Just found this magazine.  I like these colours even more.