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Old 05-05-2003, 12:02 PM
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Question interior decorating question....

my family is going to be moving into a house next month, which by the way is absolutely gourgeous. anyway, my new bedroom is going to be a challenge. first it is the only bedroom upstairs complete with a bathroom. so the second floor will be my personal suite
so i have some ideas on how i want to decorate the stairway. but the real challenge is the room itself. we are renting it from a family who will be leaving the state for two years (military) and they decorated that room for their younger kids. there are five walls in the room. one is painted dark red, one is purple, one is yellow, one is blue, i forget the other color. and the bathroom is yellow. extremely colorful. the family is reluctant to repaint the room so i may have to stick with the colors. if i do, what can i do to tone down the color of the room? should i pick one color that is on the wall and use that for my bed or something? help!
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Old 05-05-2003, 12:21 PM
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Just a few ideas:

Try neutrals (white, grey, cream) that won't clash with the walls (more colors in such a loud room = bad) and put as much of that in as possible.

The bathroom shouldn't be a problem, many people have wild colored bathrooms, all you have to do is keep the door closed.

Personally, I'd pick the colors that went best together and that I disliked the least (i.e. the blue and purple for me) and then try to do something sneaky like cover the remaining walls in a soft neutral fabric (can be pretty gross if you do it wrong, but can also look really snazzy).

With a room that busy, your best bet is just to keep things as simple as possible and draw attention only to the features you do like.

Is there any chance you could convince the family to let you paint the room if you promised to paint it back when you moved out? If it's for their kids, the children's tastes may have changed after two years and you could save them some work in the long run and keep yourself from having to live in a kaleidascope room.

Enough Changing Rooms-inspired rambling from me, hope some of this helps.

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Old 05-05-2003, 12:36 PM
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as far as the color of my bedspread, sheets, etc., i should go with white or cream colors?
i am going to have wood furnishings in the room...bookshelf, nightstand, two tables, armoire, and a desk. i can fit an easy chair or two in there as well. i am not too crazy about putting too many lamps in there. the combination of lights and the colors could blind someone
there is a big window in the room that the sun shines through, so i dont think i need more than one lamp.
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Old 05-05-2003, 12:39 PM
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can you not repaint it yourself?
the coolest color that i've seen is fuchia red
they painted all the walls except the moldings they left white
and on the ceiling, it was tiny white stripes across the color
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Old 05-05-2003, 01:04 PM
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I think the room sounds awesome! Colorful is fun, in my opinion. If I had room like that (I wish!) I would probably go for something funky -- maybe pick one color from the walls, say purple -- and get bed stuff that includes it -- something simple like white with purple stripes or polka dots would be cool. You could maybe play around with textures -- like find a fuzzy blanket or satiny pillows or something, but keep it all the same shade if you can.

Otherwise, you could do just plain white sheets, which would look kind of cool with all the color. I think that with the colors you've mentioned, white would look a lot better than cream.
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Old 05-05-2003, 01:18 PM
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I think the room sounds awesome! Colorful is fun, in my opinion. If I had room like that (I wish!) I would probably go for something funky -- maybe pick one color from the walls, say purple -- and get bed stuff that includes it -- something simple like white with purple stripes or polka dots would be cool. You could maybe play around with textures -- like find a fuzzy blanket or satiny pillows or something, but keep it all the same shade if you can.

Otherwise, you could do just plain white sheets, which would look kind of cool with all the color. I think that with the colors you've mentioned, white would look a lot better than cream.

i might be able to repaint the room. the family wants to think about it. i just have to consider the fact that they might say no. i already thought about bringing the color purple or dark red out in the bedsheets and comforter. i just dont want it to get too wild. i cant imagine having trouble waking up in the mornings. the yellow bathroom will wake me real fast.
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Old 05-05-2003, 03:57 PM
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I don't know HOW colorful those rooms are, but I would go with a mod- minmal furniture look in the room. So, try white fabric, cherry/ natural wood, some glass pieces, add some chrome... really simple clean lines. Maybe a bamboo plant. It will look less childish with furniture like that.
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Old 05-06-2003, 04:01 PM
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If the walls and colors are just too much to handle, think about maybe some curtains that hang from ceiling to floor, in maybe a darker color, like burgundy or something of that nature. The room will darken up, but you can add alot of mood lighting that way..make it into almost a goddess palace. The benefit to this is that the curtains are not permanant and no one needs to know what outrageous colors are underneath.

OR,
Try starching cool fabric onto the walls, the outcome will look somewhat like wallpaper, but not permanant, you can look online for places to do this..

the bathroom in yellow sounds cheery, i would add maybe some pretty gerber daisys in either white or a contrasting yellow, simple but cute designs...maybe get some cute postcards frame them and put them in the bathroom, simple solid color towels and shower curtains in a contrasting color to that of the yellow bathroom, pick something that will compliment it...like a cream, or hunter green, whatever your feeling when you go into it.

OK there are my two pennies
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Old 05-06-2003, 06:46 PM
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That room just sounds really bright and garish to me...

What I would do, is pick out one or two of the colors that you really like, and let them be... then drape the other 3 walls with curtains or fabric in a more neutral, but light, color (maybe white or light grey). Would the family mind if you hung some curtain rods or knobs?

If they do decide to let you repaint the room as long as you paint it back, I'd still do the same thing - pick out one or two colors that you like and repaint the rest. It'll add color without being overwhelming, and it'll be less work when you have to restore it
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Old 05-06-2003, 07:00 PM
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i like the idea of hanging curtains from the ceiling. just how would i go about doing that though? would i not have to find very large curtains??
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Old 05-07-2003, 01:06 PM
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Re: interior decorating question....

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my family is going to be moving into a house next month, which by the way is absolutely gourgeous. anyway, my new bedroom is going to be a challenge. first it is the only bedroom upstairs complete with a bathroom. so the second floor will be my personal suite
so i have some ideas on how i want to decorate the stairway. but the real challenge is the room itself. we are renting it from a family who will be leaving the state for two years (military) and they decorated that room for their younger kids. there are five walls in the room. one is painted dark red, one is purple, one is yellow, one is blue, i forget the other color. and the bathroom is yellow. extremely colorful. the family is reluctant to repaint the room so i may have to stick with the colors. if i do, what can i do to tone down the color of the room? should i pick one color that is on the wall and use that for my bed or something? help!

Any chance you could just paint the room and then paint it back before you leave? Red, purple, blue, yellow and probably green. That is way too much.
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Old 05-07-2003, 01:16 PM
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Re: Re: interior decorating question....

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Any chance you could just paint the room and then paint it back before you leave? Red, purple, blue, yellow and probably green. That is way too much.
i dont want to go through all of that trouble. i like the idea that was stated about hanging curtains to darken the room. i might want to do that.
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Old 06-20-2003, 04:55 PM
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just wanted to say that we moved into our house this week. it is so beautiful!! my room isnt that bad. one wall is purple, another is yellow, then green, then a deep pink. my bathroom is all yellow. it sounds ridiculous but it looks amazing, esp. with all my stuff in it. it came along so well. i am definitely not repainting. everything is fabulous!
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Old 06-20-2003, 05:40 PM
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I hope that you enjoy your new bedroom.
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