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Any ideas on how to decorate this on a TIGHT budget? I'm open to all suggestions on colors, themes, etc.:) Details appreciated.
My bedroom : hardwood floors, no furniture yet. Off white walls (can paint), White doors and trim. Two tall, narrow windows. About 7 or 8 feet tall, start about two feet off floor and about 4 inches from ceiling. Pretty small. We have a queen size bed and after that there is probably enough room for say, a dresser and desk and then a bit left to walk through. Not much space at all. Just looking for some fresh, creative ideas from people instead of websites:)
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Well how about visiting your local budget store (like Walmart or Target if in the US) and look for side wicker tables. They are usually cheaper. I would go with White.
Then pick a fresh clean color for your walls. Like spa blue or light lemon yellow.
Get a white down comforter and white sheets. You can find these for cheap at budget stores.
Find a throw blanket in the color of your walls and fold at the edge of bed for a splash of color. Get white curtains. Find a lamp that goes well with the walls and also a canvas painting to hang right above the bed. (Target has some very cute canvas paintings for all color themes -some under $20).
It depends on what YOU like obviously. But on a tight budget- you can do a crisp clean Summer Spa room for very little money. Set a couple colored candles on a dresser and just give your room an airy feel.
I would skip any kind of carpet or rug altogether. Hardwood floors are the BEST.
As for bed. Just get a bed frame (especially if you hang a painting above the bed) and mattress. To give the bed more feel - add loads of pillows instead.
Well how about visiting your local budget store (like Walmart or Target if in the US) and look for side wicker tables. They are usually cheaper. I would go with White.
Then pick a fresh clean color for your walls. Like spa blue or light lemon yellow.
Get a white down comforter and white sheets. You can find these for cheap at budget stores.
Find a throw blanket in the color of your walls and fold at the edge of bed for a splash of color. Get white curtains. Find a lamp that goes well with the walls and also a canvas painting to hang right above the bed. (Target has some very cute canvas paintings for all color themes -some under $20).
It depends on what YOU like obviously. But on a tight budget- you can do a crisp clean Summer Spa room for very little money. Set a couple colored candles on a dresser and just give your room an airy feel.
I would skip any kind of carpet or rug altogether. Hardwood floors are the BEST.
As for bed. Just get a bed frame (especially if you hang a painting above the bed) and mattress. To give the bed more feel - add loads of pillows instead.
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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