How to understand the sentence: "How will you ever sleep in on gloomy days with a room like this?"
I was ainting my bedroom a bright,saturated yellow. …”Too much sunniness for a bedroom,”she pronounced,”How will you ever sleep in on gloomy days with a room like this?”

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This is likely a bit of sarcasm.

First- to sleep in on gloomy days means to stay in bed on days when the weather is bad (cloudy, rainy) and depressing.

Second- a bright color tends to create an atmosphere of liveliness, happiness, energy etc.

Lastly- Hence the possible sarcasm that if your room is so bright, happy and full of energy how will you be able to sleep in and be depressed when it is gloomy (bad weather) outside?

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