It totally depends...if you are talking about just the walls being black I would go for black because you could fix it if by adding light colors or a lot of white so it wouldn't look so bad. But if you are talking everything black, walls, furniture, curtains, accessories then I would go with the obnoxious colors. I couldn't take an all black house. Made me think of Trading Spaces last night where they did an all black room and in the other house an all white room.

The black was okay but the white was horrible-everything in both rooms were balck and white even the floor!
If your birthday were on a holiday such as Christmas, would you rather celebrate it on Christmas day or pick another day so you have your own special day?