For fun, share your thoughts! The room is in the basement, but it's not a deep basement, so it's only about 6 steps down from ground level. There's an outside door at the top of the stairs and 2 windows so it's got some daylight. It's cement block walls and cement floor and the ceiling is open, not finished. It's clean and dry, I want to put maps and such on the walls, all their art stuff down there, some school stuff (they'll do some stuff upstairs at the kitchen table when I'm up here). I was thinking of something orange, but not sure which shade... Thinking of doing one wall sort of like a mural- green hills, a tree, clouds, etc. I'm no artist so I might just end up painting over it! 
I was inspired by the thread that people were showing their schoolrooms, I want a room just for the kids stuff, it has lots of shelf space and will be getting a large cabinet for all their coloring and artsy stuff. Thinking of doing that awesome gutter idea for books too! 
Is orange a stimulating color? BTW, I don't want red, we already have 2 red rooms.
I was inspired by the thread that people were showing their schoolrooms, I want a room just for the kids stuff, it has lots of shelf space and will be getting a large cabinet for all their coloring and artsy stuff. Thinking of doing that awesome gutter idea for books too! Is orange a stimulating color? BTW, I don't want red, we already have 2 red rooms.
, ill see if I can dig it up for you! It was absolutely a facinating subject, they have found that boys ae more comfortable in rooms with cooler hues like light blues, and that they like them room temp around 60, girls prefer brighter colors and warmer temps. this is one of the man differences and they have applied such differences in gender ... See Moresegregated classrooms and had a lot of success, women in gender segregated classrooms were actually more likely to pursure subjects that were concidered more masculine study (like certain sciences) It was really great because so often boys are made to feel wrong because they are more active, so many mainstream classrooms seek to feminise boys so that they "behave" when really they are acting in accourdance with their natural make up. Do you know that they have performed scans on brains of babys inutero and can see huge differences in brain activity from boys to girls?
Maybe a light orangey yellow?
I am so mad!! It's not spicy, but the lady assured me it was indeed the paint I chose (and paid $43 for!!!). It does not resemble the swatch imo. So I let it dry overnight and this morning it was as bad as I thought. I now have to drag all the kids back to the store and it is raining EVEN HARDER, to try to get them to retint it to a darker color because there is no way in heck I am using the current color that is in that can. I will update when I get back, hopefully with a can of usable paint. 
's! Hope you get the spice orange color you want!
Ah well, live and learn. 
