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.
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.
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.
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
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. :)
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.
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 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 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
'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.
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 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!
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
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”
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.
*"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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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!!!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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
Hey! You only said, "Paint it black" once! I have a whole horn of mead sitting here. I guess I'll have to watch this episode over and over until its gone. Very nice episode on many levels. I really enjoyed it.
I'm so glad to hear your point of view on using the color white in Gothic decor. I love the all white look. Something about it just gives off an eerie vibe, representing oblivion and nothingness. Plus it just makes your wardrobe look blacker in comparison :p
When you said that some people think black, grey, white and red clash I had to laugh. The color scheme for my house is black (of course), grey, red, and purple. And before anyone asks my husband has been goth for about 30 years and I came out of the coffin 15 years ago. Love you channel; keep up the good work.
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 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
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'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.
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.
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!
This is one of my favorite videos of yours and a fantastic retrospective of your career and work. The color scheme for my own gothic bedroom is burgundy with black, gold and cream accents.
I really like adding pops of color into mine. Here's some color schemes I've seen and played with myself: One - Black, indigo, white, Blues/Purples, & silver as an accent - These colors make a very nice Galaxy Goth theme, and you can make a galaxy print an accent wall; super fun to paint yourself! Two - Black, grey, HOT PINK, & white as an accent - This can work for any goth really, don't be scared of hot pink! Picture an inverted-color skull with hot pink blood coming from it's eyes! Radioactive blood! Three - "Army Green" tinted black & grey, deep cool-brown, and gold as an accent - I feel this one would make a very earthen Goth happy. Decorate with plants, sepia, and bones and MWAH! Four - All black walls and boarder, with pure white furniture and decor. It's the opposite of the all white walls and black decor. It can be very simplistic, with sharp lines and flat surfaces. OR you can Victorian it up with decorate lounging areas and fake white fur rugs. Both ways you could easily add a white stag head mounted to the wall.
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 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've always loved purple/black/silver/white myself and really wasn't drawn to red at all unless it was very dark almost black red. I love your examples :) Oddly enough I have a fb group for goths interested in white that I thought would be of help to those drawnn to white but who still consider themselves goth. Btw, I love your new black wall; it turned out so nice :) Thanks for continuing your wonderful videos
I'm a bit more punk thank true goth (unfortunately even less of that these days due to my physical health limitations, five mins getting dressed and I want to sleep) and my boyfriend is a geeky metal head and our house is a Mish mash of everything we love. We're moving next year and hoping to give each room a theme to sate our own appetites. I know a lot of goths have looked down at me (I know elitism unfortunately exists in the community) but the fact that you said about it doesn't matter what colour as long as you like it really made me smile for some reason and made me feel like my hovel is mine, so thank you
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.
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.
I like white with goth opulence (brocade, skulls, crows, dark academia etc) and i love sage soft green. Its zen and not anyone would outright realize my style is gothic unless they really lived in it and relaxed in it for a while. I also like my white comforter and black sheets!
I like black too, but its difficult to keep the room feeling large with the walls that color but it doesnt stop me using it as an accent where it counts!
As black as my life is, purple is still my favorite color. I, too, cannot paint my apartment, but I also cant live without color. Dark, deep, rich color that being to mind Victorian aesthetic and the Brothers Grimm. Elagance, I feel, can be found anywhere. Snd that's what I love about the Gothic aesthetic and culture. Each one of brings something unique to the community and it continues to change and grow into something more and more beautiful.
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.
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.
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).
red and white babey!! blood on snow!! maybe a little bit of black. also dark charcoal gray with bits of neon blue and pink is a surprisingly nice futuristic goth look! as a witch i am pretty much legally obligated to decorate my house in earth and jewel tones, with lots of leafy green plants and old grey wood and all shades of brown and beige.
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...>.>
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
I just loooove black and dark emerald green ^^ my favourite combo!
One of my favorites too.
Yees!
Very regal...
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. :)
“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🖤
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.
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 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 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
'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.
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 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!
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
Grayish blue, charcoal black, and silver! My personal lair scheme.
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”
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.
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.
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!
*"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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
You know what I would love to see?
A Gothic Homemaking episode over recording rooms 😃
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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!!!
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!
As a color obsessed person, I can’t tell you how happy this video made me!! Your use of color is simply splendid 😻😻😻😻
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!
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.
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 gasped when the finished new wall was revealed. It looks amazing!
Green, black, and a dark, wood-tone brown as the accent would make for a good "witchy" gothic color scheme for a room. :)
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!
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
Hey! You only said, "Paint it black" once! I have a whole horn of mead sitting here. I guess I'll have to watch this episode over and over until its gone. Very nice episode on many levels. I really enjoyed it.
I'm so glad to hear your point of view on using the color white in Gothic decor. I love the all white look. Something about it just gives off an eerie vibe, representing oblivion and nothingness. Plus it just makes your wardrobe look blacker in comparison :p
When you said that some people think black, grey, white and red clash I had to laugh. The color scheme for my house is black (of course), grey, red, and purple. And before anyone asks my husband has been goth for about 30 years and I came out of the coffin 15 years ago. Love you channel; keep up the good work.
I think this is great! ^.^ Sometimes the fundamentals are the easiest things to disregard as being interesting!
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.
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.
Our Gorgeous Goth Guru is back at it! So educational, entertaining, and I just love to look at him 💜💀
That really does tie it all together. Looks so spooktscular. I love how your lair looks. Great job and thanks for all the suggestions.👍🌙💀👻
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
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
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 ♡
Gold and black has always been a glamorous and eye catching combination.
I agree.
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 😆
Black, grey, and teal. Makes me think of ivy in a foggy forest
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.
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.
LOOOOVE black, white, red, and purple!!!
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!
This is one of my favorite videos of yours and a fantastic retrospective of your career and work. The color scheme for my own gothic bedroom is burgundy with black, gold and cream accents.
I really like adding pops of color into mine. Here's some color schemes I've seen and played with myself:
One - Black, indigo, white, Blues/Purples, & silver as an accent - These colors make a very nice Galaxy Goth theme, and you can make a galaxy print an accent wall; super fun to paint yourself!
Two - Black, grey, HOT PINK, & white as an accent - This can work for any goth really, don't be scared of hot pink! Picture an inverted-color skull with hot pink blood coming from it's eyes! Radioactive blood!
Three - "Army Green" tinted black & grey, deep cool-brown, and gold as an accent - I feel this one would make a very earthen Goth happy. Decorate with plants, sepia, and bones and MWAH!
Four - All black walls and boarder, with pure white furniture and decor. It's the opposite of the all white walls and black decor. It can be very simplistic, with sharp lines and flat surfaces. OR you can Victorian it up with decorate lounging areas and fake white fur rugs. Both ways you could easily add a white stag head mounted to the wall.
I'm all for black and blue 💙 with metallic accents. Or murals.
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.
Yes! Black-white-red-purple! The best combination!
(said person who has black curtain over yellow wall and multicolor scarf on table...)
Best thing about voltaire is that he isn’t just a singer.
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've always loved purple/black/silver/white myself and really wasn't drawn to red at all unless it was very dark almost black red. I love your examples :) Oddly enough I have a fb group for goths interested in white that I thought would be of help to those drawnn to white but who still consider themselves goth. Btw, I love your new black wall; it turned out so nice :) Thanks for continuing your wonderful videos
I'm a bit more punk thank true goth (unfortunately even less of that these days due to my physical health limitations, five mins getting dressed and I want to sleep) and my boyfriend is a geeky metal head and our house is a Mish mash of everything we love. We're moving next year and hoping to give each room a theme to sate our own appetites. I know a lot of goths have looked down at me (I know elitism unfortunately exists in the community) but the fact that you said about it doesn't matter what colour as long as you like it really made me smile for some reason and made me feel like my hovel is mine, so thank you
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.
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.
Orville is back!!! Am I the only one excited about his return. Ahahahaha
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.
I like white with goth opulence (brocade, skulls, crows, dark academia etc) and i love sage soft green. Its zen and not anyone would outright realize my style is gothic unless they really lived in it and relaxed in it for a while. I also like my white comforter and black sheets!
I like black too, but its difficult to keep the room feeling large with the walls that color but it doesnt stop me using it as an accent where it counts!
As black as my life is, purple is still my favorite color. I, too, cannot paint my apartment, but I also cant live without color. Dark, deep, rich color that being to mind Victorian aesthetic and the Brothers Grimm. Elagance, I feel, can be found anywhere. Snd that's what I love about the Gothic aesthetic and culture. Each one of brings something unique to the community and it continues to change and grow into something more and more beautiful.
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.
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 & neon green is a favorite of mine!
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).
Oh my, this video came at a very good time! Baby bat blooming!🖤🖤
Love your show Voltaire! Love the black and purple schemes these days
red and white babey!! blood on snow!! maybe a little bit of black. also dark charcoal gray with bits of neon blue and pink is a surprisingly nice futuristic goth look!
as a witch i am pretty much legally obligated to decorate my house in earth and jewel tones, with lots of leafy green plants and old grey wood and all shades of brown and beige.
Ohhh how I’ve missed this series
My colors in my room is gray and accent color purple like joker suit purple. Plus it is awesome to feel like a home
“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
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...>.>
DAMN YOUR BLACK HEART, VOLTAIRE- I didn't hear about Blackcraft until today and I'm about to drop several hundred there after checking them out!