What`s up with black walls?

[Accumulator]

At Mobile Tech this year Jason Rose mentioned the combination of black walls and gray floors was best for defect finding...

I`d like to hear the reasoning behind what that`d be. No, no...I`m not disputing it, just genuinely curious. Not like it`s hard to spot marring with white walls IME and I spend 99% of my detailing time doing other stuff anyhow. Maybe a Pro who wants a dedicated "swirl-spotting room" would have a different opinion...

Heh heh, not that I`m gonna redo my walls or would want to work in a room with black walls anyhow. The mostly-black bathroom (tile, with checkered-flag type accents on all four walls) isn`t bad, but eh, that`s different from a working shop room.

[mc2hill]

I`d like to hear the reasoning behind what that`d be. No, no...I`m not disputing it, just genuinely curious. Not like it`s hard to spot marring with white walls IME and I spend 99% of my detailing time doing other stuff anyhow. Maybe a Pro who wants a dedicated "swirl-spotting room" would have a different opinion...

Heh heh, not that I`m gonna redo my walls or would want to work in a room with black walls anyhow. The mostly-black bathroom (tile, with checkered-flag type accents on all four walls) isn`t bad, but eh, that`s different from a working shop room.

I am guessing, like the others said, it has to do with light reflection. A shot of the Rupes detailing studio:

[rlmccarty2000]

It certainly looks professional, but I really wonder if it matters that much. You could go with a dark green or dark blue matte Finish wall and would get the same lack of light reflectivity. I`m just playing Devil`s Advocate here. Rupes "look" is black, red, and white and this may be the reason they went with this color combo.

[Accumulator]

Yeah..heh heh, I just can`t help but think of stuff like black MFs and be a cynical so-and-so about it. But hey, whatever somebody wants *their* shop to be like...

[RaskyR1]

As I mentioned before it was a study/research that some high end car manufacture did (Bentley or Rolls Royce I think) and they found that color combination was best for paint correction and seeing defects. Jason Rose can explain further if you want the whole story, I just remember seeing it on Facebook.

Since I use my garage for more than just paint correction I`m going to leave my walls white and just turn the lights off and use my work lights if I`m chasing down every last defect.