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I am a young adult and am moving into my first apartment in a couple weeks. The color scheme will be strictly black, white, and red. I am a fan of modern looks, while mixing timeless items in as well. I will be living in a studio, so too much furniture will not be necessary.
Does anyone know where I can find inspiration or rooms that look like what I just described? Thanks in advance.
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http://www.city-data.com/forum/attachments/home-interior-design-decorating/20258d1211605814-retro-furniture-table.jpg
http://banjarinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/modern-black-and-white-bedroom-interior-design1.jpg instead of the purple colours use red.
http://i39.tinypic.com/23jqqdx.jpg that would be kool if you could throw in splashes of colour.
may i suggest you go buy some renovator, designer magazines for inspiration.
http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/red-white-apartment-decor-1-554x408.jpg
http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/red-white-apartment-decor-3-554x408.jpg
http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/minimalist-black-white-living-space-4-554x371.jpg throw in some red stuff.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/attachments/home-interior-design-decorating/20258d1211605814-retro-furniture-table.jpg
http://banjarinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/modern-black-and-white-bedroom-interior-design1.jpg instead of the purple colours use red.
http://i39.tinypic.com/23jqqdx.jpg that would be kool if you could throw in splashes of colour.
may i suggest you go buy some renovator, designer magazines for inspiration.
http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/red-white-apartment-decor-1-554x408.jpg
http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/red-white-apartment-decor-3-554x408.jpg
http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/minimalist-black-white-living-space-4-554x371.jpg throw in some red stuff.
bedroom painting and decorating ideas?!?!?
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hi, im a 14 year old girl and sometime (relatively) soon im going to completely re-do my bedroom. the last time i was allowed to paint my room i was little and i decided to paint it multicolored. BIG mistake. now im stuck with walls that are painted green-yellow-purple-yellow, and i hate it.
also, my room is small and has a small window which, because the way our house faces, gets hardly any sunlight.
i know i should pick to paint my room a light/bright color because it will reflect light better but i have no idea what color(s) to pick,
and another thing that is making it hard for me to pick a color scheme is that when i was younger my family always gave me photos and canvas art for my room, because im an "art-sy" person. now i have a rainbow of photos and such that i love and want to keep but that i cant quite loop into one color scheme.
i want to keep my room simple so it will appear bigger and less cluttered (all the knickknacks on my dressers don't help with that either) but i cant decide on how to paint it or how to loop all the colors in my room together.
another unhelpful factor, i have a rainbow bedspread. a rainbow, it was given to me a few years ago, i think its from target..... here's a link to a similar one (except the stripes go the other direction)
http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&tbo=d&biw=1600&bih=748&tbm=isch&tbnid=YmKTnQbUlHdiXM:&imgrefurl=http://kidsthemebedrooms.com/stripes/squares-bedrooms-stripes-decor.html&docid=7Dt-_a-7z-bzmM&imgurl=http://kidsthemebedrooms.com/stripes/rainbow-stripes-decorating-ideas-bgrnd1.jpg&w=173&h=164&ei=R9_cUJSrLOaw2QWGm4GQBw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=496&sig=107090310410942366608&page=1&tbnh=131&tbnw=138&start=0&ndsp=36&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:0,i:118&tx=66&ty=69
so how do you think i should paint my walls?
how should i find a color theme within what i already have?
how do i de-clutter my room?
thanks so much for any ideas/methods, any help is much needed and appreciated! also, happy holidays!
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I suggest that you choose a warm color, which will make the room look smaller than a cool color would, but with a tiny window and little light, a cool color will probably be quite depressing. Horizontal lines will make the room seem more spacious. You could paint a stripe, or put up a border, or find a more creative way to introduce horizontal elements. Such as a shorter stripe upon which the pictures are hung, who knows? Horizontal wavy lines? If it doesn't work out, you will have leftover base color that you can use to paint over it later. If you want a very colorful room, yellow would be nice and go with that rainbow bedspread.
But if that's too loud for you, maybe off white and don't be so worried about "matching' everything. I do oil painting as a hobby, and if someone wanted to buy a painting from me and see if it "goes with" their color scheme, I'd tell them don't buy it and go get something at Walmart. Decorate with what you love. You don't have to coordinate everything. It might look funny to have modern art in a room decorated in 18th century style, for sure, but you can mix up color schemes and just do what you want. just group pix in a pleasing manner and enjoy them for what they are - art. Art museums make the walls white so the art is the star, but that's kinda harsh at home.
My husband and I turned his old house into a lake cabin, and the ceilings are only 7 feet high, so what I did there to make the room taller and larger was to have the ceiling white come down onto the walls, paint the walls just a shade lighter than the bulky living room furniture we couldn't afford to replace, so the furniture visually receded into the walls, and rather than create a horizontal line and lower the ceiling, I make the border a bold wavy line, like ocean waves. I just eyeballed it. It is really different, and it WORKED, even though it's sure different. I'd always been "taught" to paint the walls light, but if you have dark furniture, it makes the room seem cluttered and small, so imo, it was better to match the color of the furniture, only lighter so the room wasn't too dark. The house had such limitations!
So for you, it's horizontal lines that you want, the opposite of the big problem that I had. So do some horizontal stripes, or arrange all your pictures in a horizontal stripe, or make sure you don't break up the horizontal lines of your bed or dresser with a tall bookshelf in between, etc. I've seen in picture books that horizontal lines on a throw rug work well, but that'll put you back a couple hundred bucks that you probably don't have.
I suggest that you choose a warm color, which will make the room look smaller than a cool color would, but with a tiny window and little light, a cool color will probably be quite depressing. Horizontal lines will make the room seem more spacious. You could paint a stripe, or put up a border, or find a more creative way to introduce horizontal elements. Such as a shorter stripe upon which the pictures are hung, who knows? Horizontal wavy lines? If it doesn't work out, you will have leftover base color that you can use to paint over it later. If you want a very colorful room, yellow would be nice and go with that rainbow bedspread.
But if that's too loud for you, maybe off white and don't be so worried about "matching' everything. I do oil painting as a hobby, and if someone wanted to buy a painting from me and see if it "goes with" their color scheme, I'd tell them don't buy it and go get something at Walmart. Decorate with what you love. You don't have to coordinate everything. It might look funny to have modern art in a room decorated in 18th century style, for sure, but you can mix up color schemes and just do what you want. just group pix in a pleasing manner and enjoy them for what they are - art. Art museums make the walls white so the art is the star, but that's kinda harsh at home.
My husband and I turned his old house into a lake cabin, and the ceilings are only 7 feet high, so what I did there to make the room taller and larger was to have the ceiling white come down onto the walls, paint the walls just a shade lighter than the bulky living room furniture we couldn't afford to replace, so the furniture visually receded into the walls, and rather than create a horizontal line and lower the ceiling, I make the border a bold wavy line, like ocean waves. I just eyeballed it. It is really different, and it WORKED, even though it's sure different. I'd always been "taught" to paint the walls light, but if you have dark furniture, it makes the room seem cluttered and small, so imo, it was better to match the color of the furniture, only lighter so the room wasn't too dark. The house had such limitations!
So for you, it's horizontal lines that you want, the opposite of the big problem that I had. So do some horizontal stripes, or arrange all your pictures in a horizontal stripe, or make sure you don't break up the horizontal lines of your bed or dresser with a tall bookshelf in between, etc. I've seen in picture books that horizontal lines on a throw rug work well, but that'll put you back a couple hundred bucks that you probably don't have.
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