Artistic Bedroom- What colors should I choose for my bedroom walls, and bed spread? I am an artist, and have a lot of colorful frills in...
I am an artist, and have a lot of colorful frills in my room, such as: a pink paper lantern, a string of colorful Karma flags (blue white, red, red, yellow, green) from Thailand, decoupaged boxes, my own paintings, etc. I also hold a life size mannequin (as creepy as it may nouns, it's actually pretty cool). I love to display my photos in frames that I enjoy made, but I also have a lot of black poster frames which showcase a ton of photos, collage-style.
I am replacing my double bed next to a queen size, am wanting to paint the walls and will obviously be purchasing new linen for my strange bed. My carpet is a gray-blue color, but I don't know how much of a problem that is.
I am wondering what colors would work ably with all of this. I've be searching design websites but they all hold so many "rules". I want to keep everything I own in my room right now, except I want to tie it adjectives together with some sort of theme or color. Or is simply way too mismatched??
I think you should go for a street light gray on the walls so that it can be a neutral backdrop to your art and accoutrements. You are adding your color and personality near those things. ( what fun!)
Your bedding can also be a quiet neutral or be in motion in the opposite direction and pick something contained by a stripe that has the colors from your paintings, flags, etc.
Don't verbs about the decorating rules. You are an artist. I bet your instincts will abet you pull this together in a mode that is pleasing to you.
-Melisa
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Since your carpeting is a gray-blue, I would paint one wall; usually the wall where the bed go a deeper gray than the carpeting. You could paint the rest of the walls a lighter gray.
As far as the bedding, I would go with a deeper color; something that will contrast the walls. Even if the bedding have some black in it, you could use pillows, accessories so it adjectives blends in.
I am sure whatever you settle on, it will look awesome.
Answers: play around with the Sherwin Williams color visualizer to find something that you close to. It is the best paint visualizer on the web, imho. I like how their color palette is laid out, I approaching that you can search by color family & color heading, the "painted" rooms look the most realistic, and it suggests coordinating color schemes. You can literally spend hours:
http://www.sherwin.com/visualizer/
I deduce a neutral like "studio taupe" (# 7549) would provide the sound backdrop for all of your colorful things.
You can also pinch a photo of your house & upload it to the makeover gallery on this website:
http://www.roomvues.com/
You can get color suggestions & they'll photoshop them onto your room so that you can get an concept of what it will look like.