Calling all interior decorators....
BettyIdiot
go ahead to give my miniscule area of space a revamp, EXACTLY HOW I WANT IT
(I had to put that in caps because I"m so damned proud). I recently swapped
bedrooms with my ickle bro, so my room is no longer lilac but blue and
orange with various fish all over the wall. But, because I'm no longer 5
(and haven't been for 10 years) my mum is giving me some (lets call it
artistic license) Artistic License to get rid of the fishes and put them
black where they belong. i.e.. not on my wall.
Here's the major problem, my house (being a townhouse) is very limited on
space. And there's a whole lot of stuff I have to get rid of before I can
start redecorating but, I have a double bed, and two VERY heavy cabinets.
And that's about it. There's a built in wardrobe in one of the walls, but
that's it. That's all I've got to work with. Here's the second major
problem. Being unemployed and 15, I'm on a VERY limited budget, which is
coming out of my already burnt pockets. Let us say about 70 pounds
(*shudders*)
And this is where you (and particularly people in the UK) come in. Firstly I
need a colour scheme. I've got a particular colour I would like to use.
Which is Raspberry OR Indigo I"m open to debate. IF you've got a particular
colour scheme you've used/seen before, do tell. I"m about as familiar with
Interior Design as Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen is with fashion. Considering my
cheap-o budget, I"m also going to need to do a bit of Handy Andying, so if
any of you know any sort of DIY interior design websites or books, share
share. Lastly, people in the UK (or anywhere else that know of relatively
cheap internet shops) I was thinking of having like a drape thing going on
over my door so where can I buy cheap fabrics? be it online or anywhere
else. and I"ma need storage boxes and things. so HELP. please and I'd be
grateful for all eternity.
Happy Hallowe'ening
~BI~
(Marvels at her overuse of Changng Rooms links)
BettyIdiot
eighties. I've pinned gummy bands up, and there's even 'Frankie says Relax'
on my wall somwehere, so if you could incorporate that in with your godly
advice it'd be muchly appreciated.
~BI~
Marylittlegoth
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type colours.
Also, we've been redecorating most of the house, and I can heartily
recommend B & Q's Everywhere paint. Comes in a reasonable variety of colours
and you can use it to paint everything, including walls, woodwork and
radiators, which is what we've done in the living room. It's also quite
cheap, goes on reasonably easily, and washes out of rollers quite well.
We've used it (light terracotta and white) all over the living room.
We're slowly redecorating the whole house on a limited budget. Our latest
neat trick was buying cheap chrome bathroom shelfy type accessories and
painting them "hammered iron" with Hammerite. They now match the rather nice
wrought iron candle sconces we got as a wedding present 6 yrs ago and hadn't
put anywhere proper. We've got most of the tin left and I'm now wondering
what to paint "hammered iron" next. :o)
We're also very good at scrounging and re-using other people tat. At least
half of our furniture is recycled from various family members.
--
marylittlegoth
"insert interesting quote here"
Raven
creativity.
Lots of things (candleholders, shelves, sconces, drapes, frames, etc.) can
be had from thrift shops for a dollar or two (or less). Yard sales are also
good for hunting up odd, one-of-a-kind items. Remember as you are looking
that things can be repainted, fixed up, decorated somehow.
You can make stencils from cardboard or masking tape, and you can create
borders and/or accent images for your walls (like wrought iron fencing,
gothic arches, stone door or window frames, bats, whatever you can think of)
You can also paint murals freehand, like climbing ivy, spiderwebs, clouds,
whatever suits your fancy. If you use craft acrylics, they can be painted
over pretty easily.
You can also do 'faux finish' painting. Most paint and home improvement
shops have displays or even classed teaching ways to do marbling, rag
painting, etc. This stuff is pretty in vogue, so your parents might be more
apt to go along with it.
Speaking of getting more unusual stuff past your parents, look at decorating
magazines and collect materials from pain & home shops. It is a good time to
decorate gothy; deep, rich colors seem to be very in these days! If you can
show your folks a glossy, swanky brochure featuring the effect you want to
do, they may be more likely to let you do it....
A good resource for more inexpensive decorating ideas is Gothic Martha
Stewart: http://www.toreadors.com/martha/index.html
Happy decorating!
Raven
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ease the existential pain.²
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Jessica V.
I see Raspberry with cream/ivory tones or Indigo with gold/yellow tones.
The right raspberry could go very well with the indigo as well. I
u/s that victorian antiques are not very desirable in England and that
antique/junk dealers there sell them inexpensively. The back splash
from a Gothic/Victorian sideboard can make a great wall shelf unit. An
Gothic chair can become the high priestess'' chair, some velvet and a
staple gun would be all you'd need to recover the seat to match you room.
I love rummage & boot sales for unusual old things for decor. Faux
finishes, some very basic upholstery skills and one can turn trash into
treasure. Put the word out to friends parents, relatives at cetera that
you're redecorating, chances are you'll be able to find some very usable
castoffs for free.
Does Woolworth's carry fabric in the UK? When we had the stores in the
states they had some fab deals on fabrics.
Some links I like:
http://mariesmanor.fateback.com/Medievil/Gothic-Bedrooms.html
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles05/decorative4.shtml
Gothic Architecture - Window styles could be done with inexpensive
moldings and the craft store "leading" for faux stained glass windows in
the states the faux stained glass stuff is called Gallery Glass.
http://www.vintagedesigns.com/architecture/gothic/pointed/char/
And of course Gothic Martha Stewart which has been mentioned.
Jessica
Kathleen
<snip>
> And this is where you (and particularly people in the UK) come in. Firstly I
> need a colour scheme. I've got a particular colour I would like to use.
> Which is Raspberry OR Indigo I"m open to debate. IF you've got a particular
> colour scheme you've used/seen before, do tell.
<snip>
We're getting ready to re-do my daughter's room - she's about your age.
We're going to leave the walls white, but the ceiling will be a deep
indigo with the constellations painted in gold.
Kathleen
sanura
Have you thought about just doing a feature wall in your desired colour, and
the rest in a lighter colour? I have to say, beware of painting an entire
room a deep rich colour, as it can make a room (especially one already
small) much smaller. By using a darker feature wall you anchor the space,
whilst the lighter walls (lets say cream or off white if it is going with
raspberry) will open it up and not make it seem so cramped. You can then use
inexpensive curtaining material or buy curtains in the same colour as the
feature wall to tie the other walls in if you have windows on them. Or have
the cream as the curtains, and a simple swag made out of the contrasting
fabric. To add to the victorian and gothic type theme, you can add a black
trim around the bottom of the swag, so that when the ends hang, you see the
contrasting black peeking out. You can also add that trim to the tie-backs,
to the edge of lamps, etc. You can even find the kind of trim that already
has the fusable web on it so that you can just iron it on. It keeps a good
continuity around the place.
If you already have a bed-spread in cotton or something, you can dye that
rather easily, but make sure that it is dyable and the thread isn't going to
resist the dye... or you are just going to end up with a muddy look that
won't work at all. A swag above the bed (anchored to the wall by three large
painted hooks) also looks great if you use a nice seethrough flowey fabric.
I once saw it done wonderfully with a white seethrough fabric that draped
wonderfully, and it had tiny gold stars speckled across it. Another thing
that is not difficult or expensive to make :) I know decorating on a
budget.. it is hard, but achievable. If you change your walls and bed, then
that is half the battle... the rest can follow more slowly, but if you can
paint and have basic sewing skills, it is not hard to create a throw for a
seat, a few cushions, and matching accessories for a room without blowing
all your cash. Even creating covers for tables and wardrobes isn't too hard,
if you want to conceal a horribly chipped old thing with something more
contemporary.
Sanura
TheLorriedel
>BettyIdiot wrote:
><snip>
>> And this is where you (and particularly people in the UK) come in. Firstly
>I
>> need a colour scheme. I've got a particular colour I would like to use.
>> Which is Raspberry OR Indigo I"m open to debate. IF you've got a particular
>> colour scheme you've used/seen before, do tell.
Could you give us a bit more information, please? What are the dimensions
of the room? The height of the ceiling? I also need to know the dimensions of
the bed and cabinets.
Thank you, Lorriedel
"Life makes more sense if you have a willing suspension of disbelief."
snowflake
there is one in Harlow and one in Colchester. I got loads of red organza
for just £1.99 a metre there, they also have black and other dark shades! I
was in there on sunday and they also sell halloween fabrics cheaper than
proper fabric stores. My bedroom has cream walls as it isnt very big, but I
have loads of red fabric around the window and bed, red and black bedding
and black candlesticks etc bought from boot fairs and second hand shops. I
also got a wood and leather chair from a boot fair for £5 and some cheap
fabric scraps and made cushions from that. One very cheap but definately
goth bedroom!
Have fun
Amanda
BettyIdiot
Well, the room is about 8ft 1/2 long, 5 1/2 ft wide and about 9 ft high, but
it slowly slopes a foot down.The bed is 4foot by six foot. The tallest
cabinet si about 8ft high and is at the highest point of my bedroom. Also
the wall on which my wardrobe is in, is an alcove type of thig. The room
isn't square, it's like a dodgy shape you get out of tetris. The smallest
part fo the room (width wise) is about3 - 31/2 ft and the smallest bit
lengthwise is about 7 1/2 ft.
Are there any other colorus that go with Raspberry? As I share my room with
my dog and she's not particularly neat so I fear that cream may get dirty
too quickly, and me having hte busy social life that I do, cannot afford to
keep cleaning it. My friend sugegsted Indigo and Silver. Tell me what you
think?
H Duffy
> And this is where you (and particularly people in the UK) come in. Firstly
I
> need a colour scheme. I've got a particular colour I would like to use.
> Which is Raspberry OR Indigo I"m open to debate. IF you've got a
particular
> colour scheme you've used/seen before, do tell. I"m about as familiar with
> Interior Design as Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen is with fashion. Considering
my
> cheap-o budget, I"m also going to need to do a bit of Handy Andying, so if
> any of you know any sort of DIY interior design websites or books, share
> share. Lastly, people in the UK (or anywhere else that know of relatively
> cheap internet shops) I was thinking of having like a drape thing going on
> over my door so where can I buy cheap fabrics? be it online or anywhere
> else. and I"ma need storage boxes and things. so HELP. please and I'd be
> grateful for all eternity.
Cheap fabric; try looking for sari shops. You can often get sari lengths
(that's about 15 foot, four metres or so) of fantastic fabrics, in a huge
range of colours, materials, and patterns, for very little money; I found
all sorts of colour voiles for a couple of quid, and more elaborate fabrics
for perhaps ten or fifteen pounds; one length should be enough for a
bedspread, or a pair of curtains, or a door-curtain and a couple of large
cushions. I don't know whereabouts you are, you if you head for any
predominantly Indian area of London, you should be able to find sari shops.
You say some of the furniture is fairly heavy; Can you paint it? If you
paint it a light colour, preferably one that matches the walls, that should
de-emphasise it, and maximise your space. If the room is small, your best
bet might be to paint most of it white or off-white, and just have one wall
in a stronger colour, plus accents such as the curtains, bedspread, knobs or
handles on the furniture, and so on. This will also probably work out
cheaper, since white paint tends to be inexpensive, whereas colours can be a
bit pricey.
If you want off-white rather than white, try adding custard powder or
instant coffee mixed with a little water. yes, it sounds odd, but apparently
it works, and you can just add a little at a time and blend well until you
get the shade you want. Custard powder will give you a warm yellowy cream,
which I think would go very well with raspberry. It might also look good
with the indigo, but it may depend on the exact shade; if it's a green-toned
blue, rather than a purple-ish shade, you might be better off with pure
white.
Painting the furniture may require you to sand it down first, to give the
paint something to grip on to, so it may be time-consuming; maybe you could
enlist help from friends? Bear in mind that you can help to update old
furniture by changing the knobs or handles; this is cheap and easy, but can
make quite a difference!
Storage boxes; well, Ikea and Muji are both good for that sort of thing, but
it's also worth looking in large stationer's and office supply shops, like
Staples or Office World. Remember that boring/ugly boxes can be painted or
covered with decorative paper or fabric to make them fit in with your
scheme.
It's worth getting hold of an Ikea catalogue, or at least having a look at
their website; they have lots of good ideas for maximising space, and for
clever storage methods and so on, and they fully subscribe to the "Buy cheap
stuff and then mess around with it to make it look good" philosophy, so even
if you don't buy their stuff, you may get some ideas from them!
Good luck with it; if you take photos, post links to them when you're done!
H
alyson
<snip>
> And this is where you (and particularly people in the UK) come in. Firstly I
> need a colour scheme. I've got a particular colour I would like to use.
> Which is Raspberry OR Indigo I"m open to debate. IF you've got a particular
> colour scheme you've used/seen before, do tell.
We have recently decorated our bedroom incorporating both those
colours in a Victorian Gothic style. I was influenced by Victorian
Gothic Revival design, in particular places like Cardiff Castle. We
painted the ceiling indigo and covered it in stars, with a large sun
around the light fitting. All the woodwork and furniture is either
raspberry or deep green with indigo panels with gothic/celtic
stencilling. To stop the overall effect being too gloomy, the walls
were covered with a stone/gold wallpaper with a Calligraphy pattern.
For fabric, we chose Indigo bedding, made an indigo drape over the
bedhead and the curtains are indigo with gold calligraphy and
raspberry tie-backs.
The overall effect is not as gaudy as it might sound as all the
colours tie in so well together. I'm very proud that the room I'd
visualised creating has turned out pretty much as I'd hoped and our
parents' love it!!
If you want to research this sort of style of decor, have a look on
the internet for William Burges, Cardiff Castle, Marquis of Bute,
William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones etc to give some sort of
inspiration on how these sort of colours were used in decor in the
past.
Aly.
(on a side-note, if anyone is ever in the area of Cardiff, Wales; you
really must visit Cardiff Castle - the decor is mind blowing! I lived
near there for most of my life and only visited it for the first time
a few years ago)
Raven
QjD4d.68625$U04....@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk, sent 9/23/04 1:01 PM, was
inscribed as follows:
What about raspberry with a caramel/beige/khaki color, maybe done in a
tone-on-tone rag painted style? Maybe even use a hint of a metallc gold in
one of your texturing paints, to add a bit of shimmer & richness. It is
similar to the cream but not too dark, and the rag painting will give it not
only texture, but will hide all sorts of doggy schmutz (as my grandmother
used to say!)
Personally, I love the richness of tans & warm neutrals combined with deep
jeweltones like raspberry, burgundy, emerald, midnight blue, and so on.
If you really prefer a cooler tone, try a light grey with a slightly darker
blue-grey mottling. You can get equally pleasing results combining
jeweltones with cooler neutrals, and instead of adding gold, you could add a
teensy bit of silver to give it a hint of shimmer.
Raven (who just painted most of the rooms in her house various combinations
of blood red, fern green, aubergine and café au lait, and loves it!)
Kara
That's another thing I've wanted to do. I have lots of plastic
glow-in-the-dark stars to hang in the ceiling. I want to paint the
ceiling dark blue, cover it in those, and buy the moon-shaped lamp
from IKEA. It will be like going to sleep under the oppen sky.
But I must say I like your idea too.
Kara
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable
that we have to change it every six months."
-Oscar Wilde
Kara
<deadd...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>FINALLY, after many years of debating and blackmailing, I"ve been given the
>go ahead to give my miniscule area of space a revamp, EXACTLY HOW I WANT IT
>(I had to put that in caps because I"m so damned proud). I recently swapped
>bedrooms with my ickle bro, so my room is no longer lilac but blue and
>orange with various fish all over the wall. But, because I'm no longer 5
>(and haven't been for 10 years) my mum is giving me some (lets call it
>artistic license) Artistic License to get rid of the fishes and put them
>black where they belong. i.e.. not on my wall.
There have been a couple of good threads on home-decorating in
alt-gothic lately. Make a google-search for Need Site Recommendation
(from October last year) and Goth Homemaking (around November last
year. This one is quite long, and not everything relevant, but might
be of interest if you have the time).
There is something I have allways wanted to do, which is to paint a
tree in a corner of he room and let the branches spread across the
walls, and over the roof if possible. This could be added to by
bringing in real branches and hanging lanterns in them.
Covering an area with fairy lights can look wonderfull, but you need a
lot of them to work, and that could be expencive.
For cheap fabrics, find out where the forigners buy theres. At least
in Oslo there is a whole area with fabric-shops run by forigners, full
of cheap, beautfull fabrics. You wont find cottons and wool and the
like there, but lots of nice fabrics for draping. Also, Halloween is
coming up, the fabric-shops will be full of beautiful stuff. They
usually go on sale after Halloween, but then you risk your favorite
fabric being sold out.
That's about what I can think of at the moment. I wrote a leangthy
post in 'Need Site Recommondation' that I could dig out for you, but
it was more about getting the 'gothic look' than what you seem to be
interested in.
BettyIdiot
Well so far. I"ve had smoe excellant ideas, and have totally thrown out the
idea of raspberry, decided that I'd like to go for like a Midnight or Cosmic
blue and team it with silver. Because (many thanks to H Duffy for jogging my
dead memory) I remember walking past a shop that sold Sari material in that
colour combination and it was way cheap. I might have to take a trip up
there again soon.
Please keep the ideas coming in. Even thoguh I've settle odn a colour
scheme, I'm going to mix everything together :D It's going to rock :D
<---cheesy
~BI~
(Marvels at hwo blue peterish she sounds)
TheLorriedel
Ah, I was excited about the raspberry scheme, but you should do what
pleases you most.
Paint is the cheapest and most effective way to change the feel of a room.
Check out the "oops" section of your local paint store, they may have exactly
what you want. To re-do your room, furniture and accessories, you will need a
a small can of paint for the trim, a large can of primer and coloured paint for
the walls. You could also paint your furniture and accessories with spray
paint. I usually top coat spray painted items with a clear urethane spray, a
shiny or matte finish is available. You may need to use a primer first to
cover the old wall colour. You might consider painting the room a neutral
colour like periwinkle, a light bluish-purple colour with cream or light grey
trim that could work with either indigo or raspberry accents. You could add a
black wrought iron, silver, or pewter headboard and sconces for an instant
Gothic look at a low cost. I think you should add a comfy chair or 2, if
possible, and a table to the room. Could a fold-out shelf be added to the
inside of the wardrobe for use as a desk? The furniture could be stained or
painter to unify the finishes. I think either black or indigo would be
stunning.
My favourite version of this room, given your preferences would be the
periwinkle walls with light grey trim, and pewter accents, including sconces
and a mirror. I would have a small table with a an idigo under-table cloth and
a Raspberry topper covered with glass to use for a vanity table in the morning
and for tea with a friend in the afternoon. I would put a small pewter lamp
with a raspberry shade that has small beads and charms sewn along the edge.
The shade could be made from material matching your quilt or comforter cover.
Your toiletries could be stored with magazines, etc., under the table. I would
put a chair on either side of the table. You should be able to find
scaled-down wing or club chairs at a re-sale shop. Don't worry about the
ulphostery. Make sure any material you buy for your room is washable. There
are beautiful fabrics that look like silk, velvet, or taffeta that are easy to
wash and dry. You can cover the chairs with a throw, or make slip covers. I
prefer to use slipcovers because it is easy to both use and wash them. I would
put a ruffled indigo bed skirt on the bed and a raspberry quilt or duvet cover
on your present quilt or comfroter. It is very easy to sew a rectangle and to
add a strip of iron on velcro to the bottom of the cover. It is also easy to
make 1 or 2 raspberry pillow shams with a few indigo accent pillows for the
bed. I would add a pillow each for the chairs.
You didn't mention a window, but here are some suggestions. If you like
to wake up to a diffused light, cover your window with an inexpensive lace
panel for the first layer. The second layer could be an indigo silk-like
panel. Pull the indigo panel to one side with knoted rope and attach to a cup
hook on the side of the window. The indigo panel can easily be closed at night
and when you want more privacy. A velvet version of the second panel would
make the room darker because the velvet would allow less light to pass into the
room. You could have a light enhancing version of this look by covering the
lace panel with a velvet jabot or curtain topper. A jabot is basically a scarf
that is put up at the top of the window frame.
If I can help you with any further advice, patterns, etc., just let me
know. And please let us know what you decide to do...And please post pictures!
Lorriedel
Paint samples:
http://www.glidden.com/glbTST_n/NUSGLI/colors/removeColorsFromPalette.do
BettyIdiot
the so many people um (I'll use care) care whether my room turns out
looking like a load of washing I've just done (i.e. not very good) or
something out of interior weekly (i.e very good). I had a thought that I
could use the raspberry colour for my walls and such and decorate it with
stencils or what have you with a light strawberry pink. And then accent the
room with the perriwinkle colour Lorridel was talking about. As far as I
know perriwinkle is a paler version of indigo, correct me if I'm wrong or
this colour scheme is not something that should grace my precious walls. IF
not I'm going to go with a hot pink and grey colour scheme. Mainly because
my room gets dark enough without the help of darker colours (indigo and
black are out - only for the walls though) so if I went dark, it'd be like
living in a blindness that doe snot exist. Ahh I don't know. I'm all a
confused.
~BI~
bubblebubble
You should also take a look at
http://www.geocities.com/diycat/index.html
and
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2010/GawthKrafteX.html They
have some great home decorating tips for cheap, cheap people like me,
as well as other crafty things you can do.
------------------
bubble bubble [toil and trouble]
Frances Kathleen Moffatt
bubblebubble (j_bu...@hotmail.com) writes:
> You should also take a look at
> http://www.geocities.com/diycat/index.html
> and
> http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2010/GawthKrafteX.html
*tips hat* Thank you for the links; I'm liking both of them muchly, and I
had not seen them before.
Torrain
Jessica V.
Addled brain working again...I redid my DD's room on a tight budget. It
isn't gothic, it's 1930s. But here's the rundown:
Bed frame head & footboard $40
Mahogany Drum table $30
Bookends $1.00
Pottery Vase $6.00
Three lamps $5
Oak five drawer bureau $20 + $30 worth of refinishing supplies and time
Pair of cut glass cologne bottles $3
Bohemian porcelain dresser tray and powder box $5
Hooked rug $5
Drapes Time + $15 in materials
Paint $8
Primer $12 (still have 3/4 of a quart left)
Larkin Oak dropfront desk $15
Bedspread free from her gr. grandmother's house
Bookcase one my parents didn't use anymore
Bookcase #2 one I didn't use anymore
$195 US for the whole deal, the dresser alone refinished would have cost
more than that. I challenge the Design on a Dime crew. :) It took
about a year and a half start to finish because I was being frugal and
buying the stuff at tag sales, flea markets, auctions and antique shops.
Walls, floor and bed were my first targets. Art for the walls were
things we already had or things that came from her gr. grandmother's
house.
Rachael the Wiccan Rat
I've just redone my bedroom curtains, accessories, bed sets etc in purples
and reds - indigo verging on more purple than blue and scarlet. However -
all my walls all over the house are magnolia. This means that when I get fed
up with the colours (or have more money to do stuff again) I can
recoordinate cheaply by just changing the colours of furniture - for example
drawers in bedroom got painted metallic dark purple - the chest of drawers
cost me twenty quid from the YMCA furniture warehouse (which I can't
recommend enough - if you can paint or strip you can find real treasures in
there and often big towns have one !) Ditto curtains and stuff - curtains
bought from Ikea for three quid or so dyed red with dylon machine dyes, and
so on. I've just redone the front room too in black and denim accesories
(managed to get a huge sofa from the YMCA that is really dark blue for forty
quid. And all the covers come off for washing - essential when you have two
big hounds like I do). Before the access's were purple, sort of dark cyan
and green. I like strong colours. All my floors are floorboards stained
natural colours so again, no colour clashes.
Luckily I own my house and live in it by myself so I can decorate it however
I like - but I have a mind to sell it sometime in the future soon and maggy
and white walls sell best because they are a blank canvas for people to move
their kit in straight away with hardly a clashing colour to be found. Also I
don't get alot of light in the house as it is a long thin house in a terrace
with the thinner ens having the windows in - magnolia though boring by
itself (unles you like minimalist) is about as light reflecting as you can
get short of plain white (which IMO can be abit harsh). And it means I can
change stuff when I get bored without repainting which can cost abit and is
a shed load o' work if you like to change looks every six months (and I do
!)
Just an idea.
Rachael
Amazon
> Here's the major problem, my house (being a townhouse) is very limited on
> space. And there's a whole lot of stuff I have to get rid of before I can
> start redecorating but, I have a double bed, and two VERY heavy cabinets.
> And that's about it. There's a built in wardrobe in one of the walls, but
> that's it. That's all I've got to work with. Here's the second major
> problem. Being unemployed and 15, I'm on a VERY limited budget, which is
> coming out of my already burnt pockets. Let us say about 70 pounds
> (*shudders*)
Regarding the colour scheme --> I would say, go with Indigo (blue
(calming) = better sleep than what you'd get with red) --> However
others have suggested making an accent wall in the intense colour,
rather than making your already small room smaller by painting the
whole thing in a dark colour.
I agree with this --> One idea is, rather than going with
off-white/white/cream for the non-accent walls, you take your Indigo
(or Raspberry) and get the paint store to mix you a can of, say, 1
part Indigo to 12 parts white (or whatever the correct ratio is) so
that you have a super-pale, almost white verion of your accent colour.
This will tie them together a bit better.
I really like the idea of painting the ceiling like a night sky. If
you have high ceilings this would work beautifully (if they're low, it
will possibly feel like the roof is coming down on you).
For cheap fabrics, have you tried curch bazaars? It's pretty
spot-and-go what you can find there, but you might find something
lovely.
The sari shop idea is also a good one. :-)
Side note: Velveteen (sp) is half the price of velvet, if not cheeper,
and it doens't stretch the way velour does. :-)
Using bedding that matches your accent colour is a good plan -- you
could make a duvet cover (for example) out of the above-mentioned
velveteen, and then do a heap of throw pillows in a vaqriety of
patterned fabrics that include your accent colour (see the sari-pillow
idea).
Cheap xmas decorations can actually be helpful -- lots of silver stuff
that would go beautifully with Indigo (or raspberry, for that matter).
You can use bead-garland to decorate a window valance, or to make a
skeletal "canopy" over your bed --> basically, put in some $0.50
ceiling hooks over the corners of your bed, and drape dollar-store
silver bead-garland (and fabric, if you like) from hook to hook, and
then trail some down to the floor at each corner. :-)
Depending on where you put your cabinates, perhaps you could paint
them to match (blend in with) your accent wall.
Discount department stores (Zellers, Canadian Tire, I don't know what
the UK equivalent is) will have fancy looking curtain rods (mine has
curly-cue finials) for probably less than 10 pounds where you are.
They're a lovely way to make things look a little fancier. Same with
the door-knob and cupboard-handle replacements that someone else
mentioned. You can get "wraught iron" or "pewter" coloured ones with
leaf-shapes on the flanges, or funky "I'm made of jelly" shapes, and
so on at the same type of store as the curtain rods. Perhaps you could
use funky-shaped cupboard handles and drawer-pulls to accent the 80s
theme.
Craft stores are good places to get antique-style "wrought iron"
candle holders and mini-shelves and "sconces" and stuff like that -->
but go when they have a sale.
Hehe. Now you've got me thinking about what I want to do with our
master bedroom. :-) Whee! :-D
Good luck with your room-creating! :-D
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
enigma
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> Discount department stores (Zellers, Canadian Tire, I don't
> know what the UK equivalent is) will have fancy looking
> curtain rods (mine has curly-cue finials) for probably less
> than 10 pounds where you are. They're a lovely way to make
> things look a little fancier. Same with the door-knob and
> cupboard-handle replacements that someone else mentioned.
> You can get "wraught iron" or "pewter" coloured ones with
> leaf-shapes on the flanges, or funky "I'm made of jelly"
> shapes, and so on at the same type of store as the curtain
> rods. Perhaps you could use funky-shaped cupboard handles
> and drawer-pulls to accent the 80s theme.
just to toss in another curtain rod idea... you can make your
own fancy rods with a length of wood dowel (use something
large enough to hold your curtains, 1/2" <1.27 cm> or larger
for velveteen. if you go with gauzy curtains you can use a
thinner rod) & those fancy cabinet door pulls. paint the dowel
with a coat of primer & then either use your indigo (or
raspberry) or a metallic paint. attach the knobs on the ends
after painting.
lee
Lindsay W
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> that would go beautifully with Indigo (or raspberry, for that matter).
> You can use bead-garland to decorate a window valance, or to make a
> skeletal "canopy" over your bed --> basically, put in some $0.50
> ceiling hooks over the corners of your bed, and drape dollar-store
> silver bead-garland (and fabric, if you like) from hook to hook, and
> then trail some down to the floor at each corner. :-)
Sorry, I can't find the original bit that mentioned Christmas lights - but
keep an eye out in the pound shops very soon! I have several sets from there
and they last just fine (especially considerring the use they get!). And at
a pound a time you can have lots of lights for very little cash! If you beat
me to them, that is... <rubs hands in pretty things anticipation> :)
Hope this helps,
Lindsay
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> Sorry, I can't find the original bit that mentioned Christmas lights - but
> keep an eye out in the pound shops very soon! I have several sets from
> there and they last just fine (especially considerring the use they get!).
> And at a pound a time you can have lots of lights for very little cash! If
> you beat me to them, that is... <rubs hands in pretty things anticipation>
> :)
>
>
Value range, but Tesco Value stuff is rather good, so those, like me, who
don't have a £ shop nearby, might want to bear it in mind :-)
Victoria
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a few around the house here and there. Except the set I cut up wanting to
have just blue bulbs (I fetched the blue ones out of the multicoloured set
and then cut the wires to size to feature enough bulb holders to support the
blue bulbs I had,,,,,zzzzz,,, you get what I mean) - which I managed to
totally blow the fuse bulb on and don't have another one that fits. But I am
just going to go buy another set now that I know what I did wrong (doh) as
they are sooo cheap.
I got a fibre optic tree for a tenner from tescoids (as I call them) last
year too, fwiw. It is dead cute.
Rachael
Rachael
Ronnie
deals going on for Brad new sari materials. They also have home decor
made from sari fabrics.
-Ronnie