Since we've been talking about home decor lately
Mia Girly
no idea what I want to do with it. The problem is that I have this
ugly blond color wood as the trim, windowsill, door, and closet doors.
So any dark and spooky sort of paint looks awful with it. And I am not
allowed to paint or stain it. (I live at home, and my dad wants all
the wood in the house to match, grrr).
I've been using the virtual room painting thing at
www.benjaminmoore.com . The color I wanted (million dollar red) looks
AWFUL with this blonde/khaki/godforsaken wood.
I am thinking I could to a light sort of icy purple. Then I would get
lots of sheer fabric in purple, blue, and green and make it sort of
like a fairy theme almost. That way my odd little gothy candle holders
and my collection of glass bottles would work.
Otherwise I was thinking a sort of exotic theme (like something out of
the arabian nights) again with sheer fabrics, but maybe with more reds
and golds (and a dust color paint on the walls)
I can paint most of my furnature, or cover it with fabric. I would
love any and all style ideas, or websites with ideas.
~mia~
sanura
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Just for an idea... Why don't you try pearlesant paint? You can get it in a
range of colours, and painting it in a cross hatch pattern looks great on
the walls. However, if this is too much for your room, perhaps it would look
good as a feature wall. The good thing about feature walls, is that you can
get away with them being a dramatic colour, whilst the other walls can
compliment it, but blend in a little bit more to the surrounding areas.
Now, for some ideas and hints. Without seeing the colour that I am matching
to exactly, or the room, I may not get an idea that will match up exactly
with what will look good there.
Now, if you are looking for something exotic, there is this peacock blue
pearlesant paint which would look great for a feature wall. Add to that a
more icy blue/mauve or even a light green (slightly more into the browner
side, rather than yellow side of green) colour if you want something more
dramatic for the other walls. A good trick, should you want to seperate the
trim from the painting, and tie them in, is to use a pre-printed wallpaper
trim to buffer between the paint/trim. You can pick a trim, pattern that you
like that compliments both, and then it will tie them together. Just to let
you know, a blue colour will help you sleep a hell of a lot better than red.
Not only that, but it will not seem quite as hot in there in summer, than it
would seem to feel with the red.
If you do have a thing for red, perhaps try one with a little bit more of a
bluer/browner tint to it. I'd like to reccommend another pearlesant paint,
similar to the apple spice colour thingime on there. Again, it is a strong
colour, and you may find that if you paint the whole room in a colour like
that, that it will seem a little confined. So again, a feature wall would
look best, with a different colour for the other three walls. A feature wall
of a darker colour, combined with the other walls of a lighter colour, will
serve to open up the room, rather than make it seem smaller. A cream or
light light yellow tinted green (or a green lighter but in the same colour
range as the trim) would look good for the other walls, as it will set off
the maroony type red. Another colour that would look good as a feature wall
in that situation would be a deep, deep purple, with cream/ivory walls for
the other walls, or again, the light green. A wallpaper trim here, would
also work.
Working with feature walls is great, because it gives you a veritable canvas
to work with. An idea I would like to do one day is to get a series of 6
black and white photos done up, and paint six wide square frames for them to
go in, with the colours of the other walls as the colour of the frames. Then
have the matting in a complimenting colour. My colours would be deep purple
for the wall, cream for the frames, and a minty sorta yellow green for the
matting. They would be placed along the wall at eye-height at regular
interviews, and then low book cases would be placed along underneath them.
You then have an area to display your things, and have photos of close
family and friends that you can change as often as you want too. Eh, just an
idea, anyway. I have a lot of them ;) Please post what you end up doing! And
we wanna see pictures ;)
Sanura =^.,.^=
PS. Sorry for the long long post... interior decoration is a hobby of mine.
A site that I have found with some good colour schemes on it is
www.603010.com.au check it out :)
silvasurfa
I've found that a surprisingly versatile colour for walls is a sort of
greyed sage green... it goes well with pale purples, blues and so on. Pale
purple is a bit candyish for walls imho, sort of a nursery colour, but ymmv.
So consider greens for the walls if you go for a fairyland theme, it will
help you break away from the Disney version of fairyland and into a more
traditional fairytale dream feel.
I haven't got a whole heap of ideas re Arabian Nights, other than that
tented ceilings can be incredibly good.
sanura
> greyed sage green... it goes well with pale purples, blues and so on. Pale
> purple is a bit candyish for walls imho, sort of a nursery colour, but
ymmv.
> So consider greens for the walls if you go for a fairyland theme, it will
> help you break away from the Disney version of fairyland and into a more
> traditional fairytale dream feel.
>
> I haven't got a whole heap of ideas re Arabian Nights, other than that
> tented ceilings can be incredibly good.
>
Gauzy material is good for that, so that it is does not seem 'heavy'. If you
can get a metal hoop, that you can open/close, and are any good at doing a
tiny bit of sewing, it can look brilliant. Also, another idea I have heard
of (re: arabian nights type theme or faerie land type theme), is using the
cheap beaded door curtains... you cut off the lengths of beaded strands,
hang a couple either side of the wall, and then you can create a scolloped
look around the edges of the top of the room, below the windowsill, etc, by
using a hot glue gun to fix certain points in place. This looks surprisingly
good :) Especially when combined with gauzy, light curtains/blinds, or, if
done in more rich colours, a cream sort of coloured blind, with heavier
red/gold colour curtains, or peacock blue/emerald greenish type colours...
Just something else for you to consider, anyway :)
Also, if you like the canopy look, you can find wall bracket type things,
paint them up, make them look pretty, and then drape over to create a royal
looking sort of thing above your bed (again, looks good if that is a feature
wall). I've seen this done really well, with three balsa boxes, painted in
gold against a rich red wall, with white drapes. There were feature display
items in the boxes, and the material was ivory, draped from hooks below each
box. Oh, and if you go for an arabian nights type thing, then one hint:
tassels... I love them! *grin* Ok, I just love tassels.. you don't need to
take that one to heart.
Sanura =^.,.^=
Dyfferent
wrote:
>Otherwise I was thinking a sort of exotic theme (like something out of
>the arabian nights) again with sheer fabrics, but maybe with more reds
>and golds (and a dust color paint on the walls)
There's a bedroom like that in the past projects archive at
http://www.diynet.com/ (the project name is Moroccan Bedroom).
http://www.diynet.com/DIY/article/0,2058,2081,00.html is the project
page. It looks much like what you described...
You might try joining the Yahoo group gothicdecor, but the moderator
has new members screened so that if they're spammers their initial
posts won't show up. It make take a little while before you can
actually post (I'm in the group mostly for its links list).
:)
Dyf
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happycabbage
If you have some free time to do it, why not fabric the wood trim? Basically
all that you have to do is get liquid starch and brush it on and the stick
on the fabric. And its temporary, just pull it off and wipe it down. You
might want to look it up to make sure its safe on wood. I would assume that
it is since they have recommended it for covering wooden paneling. Here are
some good, short instructions:
http://apartments.about.com/c/ht/01/01/How_Use_Fabric_Decorate0978722802.htm
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Dark Phoenix
> no idea what I want to do with it. The problem is that I have this
> ugly blond color wood as the trim, windowsill, door, and closet doors.
Deep dark green looks really great with blond wood. (discovered this by
accident; haven't painted the trim in the lounge room yet!) So does any
shade of blue. True, it does make the trim stand out...
Either of these colors would go with the fairy theme, using lighter shades
in gauzy fab; a rich blue would go with arabian knights (think of the blue
mosque). And the blond trim goes great with metallic gold stuff. Gold isn't
as goth as silver, but to me, any metallic gets some goth points. Specially
if there is a ton of it.
Are the closet doors sliders or bifolds? Sliders you could tone down a bit
by putting a valence over the top of them, even drape down the sides like
they were a window. T'would cut down on the expanse of blond..
HTH,
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Mia Girly
> On 17 Apr 2003 22:36:29 -0700, maria...@hotmail.com (Mia Girly)
> wrote:
>
> >Otherwise I was thinking a sort of exotic theme (like something out of
> >the arabian nights) again with sheer fabrics, but maybe with more reds
> >and golds (and a dust color paint on the walls)
>
> There's a bedroom like that in the past projects archive at
> http://www.diynet.com/ (the project name is Moroccan Bedroom).
>
> http://www.diynet.com/DIY/article/0,2058,2081,00.html is the project
> page. It looks much like what you described...
>
> You might try joining the Yahoo group gothicdecor, but the moderator
> has new members screened so that if they're spammers their initial
> posts won't show up. It make take a little while before you can
> actually post (I'm in the group mostly for its links list).
oh my gosh thats a lot like what I was thinking! I wish the pictures
were bigger. I was thinking purple but i really like that blue. Thanks
for the tip about the yahoo group (everyone keeps telling me about
yahoo groups I guess I'm out of the loop!) I just discoverd that there
is a goth decor LJ community (looks like there isn't much action there
but maybe things will pick up with new members).
~Mia~
Mia Girly
> range of colours, and painting it in a cross hatch pattern looks great on
> the walls. However, if this is too much for your room, perhaps it would look
> good as a feature wall. The good thing about feature walls, is that you can
> get away with them being a dramatic colour, whilst the other walls can
> compliment it, but blend in a little bit more to the surrounding areas.
>
Is that pearlesant paint the expensive kind? Or am I thinking of
metallic? I think I have some paint samples of both around here
somewhere. What if I made my ceiling my feature wall? Theres no wood
up there (except the top of the door frame) so it wouldnt have to
blend with the ugly wood so much. hmmmmmm.....
~Mia~
sanura
here... and looks excellent. And just a hint with ceilings... If you choose
a dark colour, you will make it feel smaller in there... and apparently it
is bad fang shui to have a blue ceiling *laughs*, I don't know why though.
For a friend, my boyfriend and I painted her flat. And I did a sky blue
ceiling for her bedroom, with clouds painted on it.. she loves it, and I
think it looks great. Her walls were cream, and she uses blue, purple and
orange accessories mainly... it looks good. So yes, a ceiling can be used as
a feature :) If you're a good hand at painting, you can try to do some
artwork up there, eg. dark blue paint, and flick a paintbrush or toothbrush
with pearlesant or metallic silver paint... Then paint a moon, and you're
done ;) Just keep in mind, that you will get a bit of a cricked neck if you
are doing detailed work (I did!!!), and that you will have to put down a
drop sheet for the floor, after moving pretty much everything out of the
room (you need to get to all parts of the ceiling).
With the night sky idea, keep in mind that it will make your room seem a
little smaller. However, again, if you have a hand for painting, you can buy
stencils and a few sponges, brushes, and do vines and leaves around the
trims of wood, in green. It would also fit in with your faerie theme! This
would make it seem a little less ugly, I think, and look really cool too...
eh, just keep it in mind :) If you need any hints on sponging, effects, etc.
just ask :)
Sanura =^.,.^=