Other: It needs a second coat or some sort of finish, perhaps ragging with a darker glaze.

your furniture looks frightened.

I like it.

( we have mutual friends, just passin' through )

We're planning burgundy and dark blue-grey and black for our bedroom...so I love this color!!!!!!

Qualifying my "OMFG IT'S REALLY REALLY RED!"...

If it's part of a whole house theme, it might work. But just seeing only that shot makes me think that it will be too strong. But, we have neighbors with a blood red dining room that looks fabulous from the street. *shrugs*

I think what I'm trying to say is that the reason people generally go with neutrals is that it's easy and safe. Doing something that bold has to be accompanied by careful execution and complementing the color with the furnishings.

Tell your mother it's very lucky to have the living room painted red. :D

Other: I just knew Alan would end up in a whore house some day.

What a Lovely Bordello you have

i read one comment as i scrolled through about ragging a darker (hopefully jeweltone like burgundy or ametheyst) fisnish over it and that will defintly help tone down the hooker waiting room feel of it. Oh also translucent is the way to go with the ragging as it will aloow the colours choses to be affected by the original red. it will tone down the red without creating eye scratching patterns that take away from the other decor

if you decide to keep it as such it can still be worked with but only Victorian Or Oriental or Post mod will work with that bright of a background. If you go eastern think of china and use a lot of black accents and other deep rich colours. anything faint or delicate will simply not survive that background. However Victoriana would survive nicely once a few tapestries hit the walls and some nice dark wood was intorduced. Lots of victorian things were meantot to go into and live in dark environs and would survive that even if delicatly coloured.

And fo course post mod ANYTHING goes it is all plastic and kitch and bright colours. Ikea would do you well in there. I would suggest some bright steels and a few fake yellow orchids as nice objects to help bring everything else together in any of those schemes.

WOW, first word comes to mind...

REDRUM

Other: It's like Reagan in The Exorcist only with tomato soup.

The first thing I noticed was the furniture covered in plastic ;-)

I love dark graphic colors for rooms. I hate the whole white/beige/pastels stuff.

Are you seriously painting the rainbow flag colours?

well... it won't look as STARK, OBVIOUS RED, when you get some other treatments up, like artwork and what not.