I love colour - my kitchen walls are painted with natural pigments in limewash, deep red on one side and palish terracotta on the other (it is two rooms knocked into one).
Here’s a thing I’m making for a daughter.
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I am all about strong colours, and that includes dark colours if appropriate, in the right places so the ‘before’ speaks to me a lot, but as you say, it’s rarely about a better or worse ( although sometimes it truly is 
) but more about what makes the occupants happy. My granny loved Emilio Pucci’s patterns and not only wore a lot of Pucci, but filled her house with wall coverings and upholstery featuring the most… bold… patterns and colours that would have been hideous for most people on principle. But understand what they were, and appreciate how they were used, and even if they’re not to your personal taste people appreciated them more. They ‘got it’ it because they got the context, it wasn’t just an ugly pattern lol. I find things like that very interesting, and it’s something I have always held dear, to never dismiss anything out of hand in any aspect of life just because it’s not the norm.
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Kitchen walls
The octopus platter lives up on the wall because it is too big not to, it gets hauled down for fruits de mer feasts (it is 70cm in diameter). It came from a wonderful ceramic artist near Riberac. That red is redder, if you see what I mean!
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I think they are there to attempt to stop heat loss as that wall is underground.
Unless the bricks are well insulated behind they won’t stop heatloss.
None at all other than a tiny bit from doorway and little window 
! Couldn’t do from centre but did my best.
They obviously liked the look then 
I’m totally not surprised. Wait unit next installment and you see the avacado sink in the bathroom, with matching tile grout
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Batchelor pad?
No just a weird couple!!!
My SIL bought their last place from a lady who made ceramic tiles as a hobby. Then installed them on every possible surface.
Something I forgot to say @toryroo - Painting the wood column in the centre of the room, same colour as the walls.
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When you get around to the bathroom, if it’s bold colour you want:
Hotel Les Deux Gares, Paris
Or this, that I think I posted once before
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Unfortunately without even bringing it up I can tell you I will get nowhere on that with the man shape I’m pretty sure I can get away with the ceiling itself but not the beams!!!
Need to get on laptop to reply to your big post!!
Are the bricks behind the stove actual full-depth bricks or are they just slips?
A flat I sold around 2000 had a kind of bluey grey bathroom suite when I bought it. I rather liked it and kept it and worked the colour scheme around it. People who came to view when I sold all quite liked it as well.
Avocado, on the other hand…
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Not sure, Iḿ guessing full as they have done a L shaped base from the end of the work top to where the cupboard is and they are certainly full. Who knows with the lot before us!!!
Ours had the avacado suite, with emerald green tiles and the brown and green walls you can see a sample of in the picture below.
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Our home didn’t have a bathroom in the entire place… even though it had housed umpteen folk and their families over many years ('twas a lodging house a bit like “Rising Damp”…)
An separate small old building had been used as the “toilet” by everyone for many years… with a nightsoil man doing the necessary collection as and when… (no idea where he dumped whatever he collected…) 
the last occupant had had a (shredder) toilet installed in her downstairs bed-sitting room… very odd.
We now have an indoor toilet grace of our ensuite toilet and basin (not finished decoration wise after ages ) but still need to go outside a few steps and around the corner to get to the bathroom (well shower room!). Plans getting there to get the new family bathrom installed upstairs!