I like that it's colorful, even if the colors are kind of hamhanded; it's good for your office to have an identity. I wish we could paint our offices (we could, but we need to be able to trade up to bigger offices on very little notice).

Instead of painting your office, you could print posters.

Assuming you can find a cheap printing place, there are tons of high resolution creative commons images on flickr and elsewhere.

My university has a super cheap copymat, it may be that a university near you has similarly cheap prices.

Posters = clutter, and I'm already pretty cluttered:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45585199@N07/4186099566/

It's a great idea, though.

That's a good point: if there's a poster there then it can't be a white board.

Me too. The last office I was in was all grey and white. I would prefer lots of colours even if they are all mismatched. It's better than looking like a prison.

Have you taken a look at how much it would cost to repaint your office beige when you needed to? It could be worth it in the productivity gain department to paint your offices interesting colors and then contract out when you need the bigger space. Though don't skimp on the chairs to paint the office.

Yeah pretty vivid. I'd have gone with much more muted colors to avoid the day-care center look.

I think also I should not have punched up the saturation in the photos!