How would I go about designing an Audrey Hepburn bedroom?

Q. My room is teeny tiny and my mum is allowing me to do whatever I want to it, I want an Audrey Hepburn style room, my family has bought me a few pictures. What colour scheme/furniture would look best to work with the theme? I am 16 next month if thats important...
She was an old hollywood actress

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn

Tada!

A. Audrey Hepburn was a very stylish lady of the times. She was most famous in films in the 1950's. So I would choose things from that era.

She worn pearls, tight waist belts to show off her tiny waistline, she carried a fashionable purse always and a hat.
She was always very put together.

One of the ideas in decorating in that time frame was to do a black and white decor with splashes of pinks, blacks or grays. Sometimes reds. They had silver fabrics too with lots of shimmer and elegance.
Choose things with lots of sparkle she was a Hollywood star!
Poka-dots were really in fashion.

Furniture was a modern now retro style, very streamline in style or to the other extreme of curves more Victorian in style and often in white or deep wood tones. Tufted headboards on the beds with tacks.
Art nouveau mirrors , elegant chairs, Chrystal glass sparkly lamps.
You can likely find much of the furniture are used stores or Salvation Army stores. A little paint or furniture polish they will look new again.

http://www.jonvaccaridesign.com/designs_slide6.php

http://www.jonvaccaridesign.com/designs_slide4.php

http://www.jonvaccaridesign.com/furniture_showroom.php




http://www.target.com/gp/search/186-4363527-3883358?field-keywords=vintage-50s-furniture&AFID=Google&CPNG=Furniture&LNM=vintage_50s_furniture&LID=23399036&ref=tgt_adv_XSGT0504

http://www.efurniturebuys.com/productdetail.asp?productid=3027&refid=bizrate

http://www.poshliving.com/catalog/Bedding-Bath/Bedding-Collections/Serena-and-Lily-Tess-Bedding-Collection/1106/21165/product_detail.asp

Here are some links to some decals of dots to carry through the idea of poka-dots onto your walls. The poka-dots were usually black on pink or black or red on white. You could paint your room pink and put some dots all over a wall and a few scattered in limited areas on other walls to tie it in.

http://www.dezignwithaz.com/removable-wall-stickers-otherz/bubble-cloud-wall-decals-p-588.html

There is bedding on the market with dots on it to follow through with the dot design plan. Some examples on links below.

http://www.pbteen.com/products/p1351/?catalogId=53&bnrid=3782901&cm_ven=Shopping&cm_cat=Shopzilla.com&cm_pla=Feed&cm_ite=Shopzilla.com


http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Kids-Durham-Polka-Dot-Quilt-Set/3465575/product.html?sec_iid=33969

Or you could paint a large silhouette of Audrey Hepburn on one wall.
Take a look at this link to see what I mean.

http://www.dezignwithaz.com/graphic-wall-decals-characters/dreamz-home-wall-stickers-p-600.html

When you follow the links above scroll and click on the other things on the site when you get to them. Many have lots of ideas for you.

Best wishes have fun and make the room about your love for Audrey Hepburn and your personality too.

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I am redecorating my room, and I wanna go for an 'Asian' theme, any ideas?

Q. Like I want a 'peaceful' and asian cultural decor. I want any ideas on wall color, bed sheet colors, colors!!!! I have wood floor in my room, so i can pretty much do whatever..Any ideas on how to bring out the Asian culture..thank you so much!

A. You need to be more specific. WAY more specific. Do you want Japanese? Chinese? Mongolian? Korean? There are lots of "Asian" themes and each one is very different.

These are the ones I personally liked. They don't SCREAM "asian!!!!" But they get the point across.

Here's a modern Japanese bedroom
http://www.comcore21.com/imagesep/xLS-LS3-ZUR-xxxset.jpg

Chinese
http://www.ttekceba.com.au/images/bedroom1.jpg

Korean
http://www.furniture-rental-tokyo.com/photo/kinwai/2006/ruby_bedroom.jpg

Asian themed rooms tend to be very minimalist. Lots of black and red.... If the room is huge, then I would do the walls in black and paint white asian designs... like this a cherry blossom outline in white. Simple, elegant.

You can buy lucky bamboo, too.
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&q=lucky+bamboo+&btnG=Search+Images
They are hard to kill (I am a plant MURDERER, yes, I admit it). I have them all over my house. They look great.
This one is fake and looks good in corners:
http://www.artificialplantsuk.co.uk/7ft-bamboo-natural-in-grp-b.jpg

Well, anyway, have fun with it!

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I need design ideas for a elegant, but still young, bedroom.?

Q. I want to stay in a color theme of grays, blues, white and purples. My room is pretty small. I also want to bring in elements of nature if at all possible. I would like it to be elegant and stylish, with girly touches. But NO PINK.

A. You said you have a small room. I'm guessing the bed is the biggest element in it, so start there. Find a comforter set you like and use the colors in the comforter to set the tone for the other elements in the room: walls, lamps, furniture and accessories. Use lighter shades on the walls, and darker tones on the furniture and the lamp shades. Use light colored accessories to contrast with the darker furniture and brighten the room up. I would pull in natural elements with artwork.
Check out Ikea. They have some great curtain panels that are inexpensive and have a really natural, organic feel to them. You can put them straight up on the wall as art instead of using them as actual curtains.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/Textiles/10702/

Target is having some great sales, I just saw a couple trendy, botanical pieces bedding sets there today. Here are a few that sound like they're in your color scheme:
http://www.target.com/Modern-Home-Flocked-Leaf-Comforter/dp/B000Q5TC76/qid=1220753379/ref=br_1_16/601-0405511-1328106?ie=UTF8&node=355895011&frombrowse=1&pricerange=&index=tgt-mf-mv&field-browse=355895011&rank=pmrank&rh=&page=1)
http://www.target.com/Modern-Home-Flocked-Comforter-Set/dp/B000K0QWL6/qid=1220753655/ref=br_1_1/601-0405511-1328106?ie=UTF8&node=372864011&frombrowse=1&pricerange=&index=tgt-mf-mv&field-browse=372864011&rank=pmrank&rh=&page=3
http://www.target.com/DwellStudio-Target-Bloom-Comforter-Set/dp/B0016AJBXU/qid=1220753630/ref=br_1_13/601-0405511-1328106?ie=UTF8&node=372864011&frombrowse=1&pricerange=&index=tgt-mf-mv&field-browse=372864011&rank=pmrank&rh=&page=2
http://www.target.com/Floral-Comforter-Black/dp/B0016A3TXS/qid=1220753630/ref=br_1_3/601-0405511-1328106?ie=UTF8&node=372864011&frombrowse=1&pricerange=&index=tgt-mf-mv&field-browse=372864011&rank=pmrank&rh=&page=2
http://www.target.com/Zeus-Comforter-Set/dp/B000JIJ8GU/qid=1220753569/ref=br_1_1/601-0405511-1328106?ie=UTF8&node=372864011&frombrowse=1&rh=&page=1

Good Luck!

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