Colors for our master bedroom
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Cheryl @ Artzzle on Mar 01, 2015Hi Judy. We lived in a 50's rambler for 22 years and I found so many ways to style and rearrange small rooms. People today are going back to those styles too, to downsize and get the one level living factor. Our current home was a newly built rambler. We moved in in 2004. Small bedrooms here too. Do you have any pictures of the room you could send, to give a visual and locate the window wall? Do you have a queen or full bed?Helpful Reply
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Shari on Mar 01, 2015Whenever I begin a new decorating project, I find it helpful to find something as my inspiration. It can be a picture (like the navy & mint bedroom you saw), or it can be something like a piece of art or fabric that sets the style and color choices. For the bedroom, I would suggest selecting your bedding first since that is generally the primary source of color. Once you have found a comforter or quilt, that makes it so much easier to select your wall color and the color(s) for accessories. Why not try to copy the navy & mint room you like and throw in some light tan (a cousin to khaki) for your husband's benefit? I have a guest bedroom done in navy, aqua and light tan. The comforter is a navy, aqua and tan stripe, the walls are a pale aqua and I have painted the vanity in the adjoining en suite bathroom navy.Helpful Reply
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Lucille B on Mar 01, 2015When I moved into my new home I painted my bedroom a soft pink to pick up the colors of a new bed spread. Looked great but several years later I needed a new bed cover and found it impossible to match the wall color. Repainted my bedroom ivory which eliminates the problem. Something to consider as textiles don't live forever.Helpful Reply
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Nancy S on Mar 01, 2015I happened to have fallen in love with grey.. before 50 shades of gray came out. I had fallen in love with gray way back last fall, 2014, but I find myself redoing my bedroom walls and am looking for rose colored things. I happen to like white, green, and pink or shades of rose.. the green has to be light green, sort of like you mentioned.. but then again, I'm sort of hung up on the idea of Shabby Chic things. I find myself in ebay alot just looking thru the cabbage rose ideas but that went out a long time ago. We visted a long time childhood friend of mine way back in the late 90's. She had done her bedroom in the shabby chic cabbage rose and I loved it. Everything she had in there had a crisp linen feel.. and I know that she redid that room just for me when I came to visit. We had not seen each other in 30 years and it was amazing to get back together. Of course we did not have enough time. I had just lost my mother and it was the holidays between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I have not chosen anything. I have just decided that the colors will come to me once I think about it for a litle while. This spring will be beautiful and those colors of Spring do not always stay with us tho.. here in the South.. we get into too much magic of humidity and I find that I want to redo things, like a new guilt or something at the beginning of Fall. I think maybe it's a good idea to have two colors in a bedroom that you can use with the changing seasons. I don't know.. I don't have a clue. I just found your comment interesting because I am exactly where you are.. closed in a box with the walls needing to be stretched to have more space. If you are not sure about it.. wait and it will hit you soon. just make sure that you want to get into it and redo the bedroom.. as there is nothing worse than coming into a room and realizing.."Oh my.. I've chosen the wrong colors".. and having to start over.. good luck..Helpful Reply
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Cheryl @ Artzzle on Mar 01, 2015Wonderful advice, Nancy. It's OK to take your time on the color decisions. There are so many places to look online for ideas. Hometalk is great, and for BIG PICTURES examples, Houzz.com is fantastic, as it shows full rooms and isn't as overwhelming as Pinterest. Finding basics would be easier on Houzz and then all the fun little stuff is on Pinterest and Hometalk. The internet is great that way. P.S. If you still like the cabbage rose ideas, search for that phrase on these sites. Any style or color favorites can be jazzed up a bit for a change. But you don't need to abandon favorites all together. Use them in a different shade or way, to update your look a bit. Color is such a personal thing and your bedroom is your most personal room, so go with your favorites.Helpful Reply
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Anna B on Mar 01, 2015Thank you so much Cheryl, you've given me so much to think about! I'm definitely going to do the mood board, what a great idea. I subscribed to your blog today, so I can follow your other posts and contact you to let you know my progress! Again, thank you for all of your help and helping me to "own" my room.Helpful Reply
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