Japanese/Indian themed bedroom ideas?

Erin

I've just got the okay to redo my room! I'm a teenager and want to do a mix of an indian and japanese theme. I want the main colors to be oranges, maroons, pinks. Things like that. Does anyone have any ideas? Links to bedding? Furniture? Wall art? Trinkets to wrap up the whole look? Thanks!

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Asian Bedroom Decor
Step 1
Select an Asian style for inspiration. The traditional Chinese look features lacquered black surfaces, silk textiles and red and gold accents. Japanese design trends range from Tokyo modernist high rise minimalism to Wabi-Sabi's rustic simplicity. Go Indonesian with a tropical or rain forest theme, or Indian with bright, ornamented textiles and solid wooden furnishings.

Step 2
Paint your bedroom or an accent wall. Faded earth tones lend a tranquil yet modern feeling to the bedroom, an ideal backdrop for many Asian bedroom themes. Even white gets reinterpreted in Asian bedrooms, with soft eggshell or distressed antique whitewash defining a Japanese farmhouse look and glossy black creating a contemporary Japanese or Chinese aesthetic. A wall mural or accent wall adds a focal point to Asian decor. Simple designs, like faded green leaves, create a neutral backdrop, while a packaged wall mural of a bamboo forest defines the room.

Step 3
Integrate key Asian furnishings into the room. A simple platform bed with a low profile and topped with a futon mattress bespeaks Asian minimalism. You can adorn it with a Wabi-Sabi element such as an old wooden door painted creamy white and repurposed into a headboard or vintage textiles. Original Asian antiques give the room a dash of authenticity, but many reproductions incorporate artisan touches such as wood joinery, multiple niches or hand-painted trims.

Step 4
Welcome nature into your bedroom decor. Many Asian architectural traditions consider how to frame a perfect garden view or ways to allow natural light to enter and travel through a room. Low, modular furnishings keep spaces breezy and open. Minimal window coverings emphasize natural light. A tri-fold Shoji screen with translucent paper panels can serve as a privacy barrier while allowing light to filter through. Window frames and door frames provide perfect spots for leafy green plants or a beautiful flower arrangement.

Step 5
Accessorize with Asian arts, crafts and functional pieces. Try a row of paper lanterns in bright colors and patterns above your bed or, for a more sophisticated look, two simple off-white lanterns flanking either side. For Indian flair, try a vintage beaded and mirrored sari on the bed or over the window. Balinese puppets make for intriguing wall art. A mosquito net over the bed recalls a rain forest retreat. Wall art may include scroll paintings, Tangka images, ethnic textiles or even Japanese toys and cartoon imagery.



Read more: How to Decorate an Asian Themed Bedroom | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_5439121_decorate-asian-themed-bedroom.html#ixzz0rGcIIqes
i hope this will help you

Help with bedroom decor?

Q. I have a small bedroom and I've been wanting to redecorate it for about a year now... I just don't know where to start since it's so small... I want it to be black, white&red and 'music' themed. I have a keyboard and a guitar that need to go in as well as my essentials, such as my bed, my dresser, my mirror and makeup table, ect. Has anyone any ideas on how I can save space in my room? (I can't buy a lot of new furniture, just shelving and small things) any ideas at all?
Thanks c:

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Buy a bed like that one http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoV0KYY1QTj0AA6iJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dspace%2Bsaving%2Bbed%26fr%3Dcrmas%26fr2%3Dpiv-web%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D11&w=468&h=600&imgurl=bedroomdecorideas.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F01%2FSpace-Saving-Beds-02.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbedroomdecorideas.org%2Fspace-saving-beds-for-small-rooms%2F&size=103+KB&name=%3Cb%3ESpace+Saving+%3C%2Fb%3EBeds+for+Small+Rooms+%7C+Bedroom+Decor+Ideas&p=space+saving+bed&oid=a19f7b1814880b643091f2a51a40bc9e&fr2=piv-web&fr=crmas&tt=%253Cb%253ESpace%2BSaving%2B%253C%252Fb%253EBeds%2Bfor%2BSmall%2BRooms%2B%257C%2BBedroom%2BDecor%2BIdeas&b=0&ni=96&no=11&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11vt9rp6g&sigb=136brtill&sigi=129q5i44j&.crumb=TXTaX9HP166


you can find something like it in IKEA, you'll be really surprised of how much space it can save
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bedroom painting and decorating ideas?!?!?

S

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 need decor ideas for my living room?

.:.Meg.:.

So my bf and I live in a 1 bedroom apartment and since were a young couple we don't have many things. Were in are early 20's and we hang nothing to hang on the walls in the living room. Do you have any cheap idea or maybe things that I can make?
Also what stores would be cheap but good to find the sticker wall designs?

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Get your digital camera out (or borrow one) and take some pictures of things you enjoy- try to look at them differently, like if your man is into cars, take a pic of the hood ornament up close or the part of the tire....then mess around with them like looking at them in sepia tones or other ways to change the picture alittle and then blow up the pic...frame it in a cool from - I used IKEA for inexpensive frames, and there you go..you'll have very personal art and it doesn't cost much!

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