GeorgiaBea
I will be moving to a small, one bedroom apartment and I have no idea how to decorate it! I have a queen size bed and it seems like it is the only thing that can fit in the bedroom but I was told a king size bed would fit. It has a fireplace and small dining are as well. Please help!!!
I want to use portraits to create a theme for my apartment but I can't decide on one. Please help!
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CLASSY... a few JUST a FEW small but CLASSY touches and pieces of furniture.
Like a wrap around couch, and small end table in the living room.. a SMALL glass topped table in the dining with only a couple of chairs. AND fresh flowers. Sounds great actually.
I'm all about only using one or two classy pieces.
A beautiful bedroom throw on the bed, a couple of fake fur rugs and VOILA...
I loved seeing your avi and seeing the classy fedora.. That just fits the picture.
CLASSY... a few JUST a FEW small but CLASSY touches and pieces of furniture.
Like a wrap around couch, and small end table in the living room.. a SMALL glass topped table in the dining with only a couple of chairs. AND fresh flowers. Sounds great actually.
I'm all about only using one or two classy pieces.
A beautiful bedroom throw on the bed, a couple of fake fur rugs and VOILA...
I loved seeing your avi and seeing the classy fedora.. That just fits the picture.
brown and cream bedroom ideas anyone?
ic96
I've looked EVERYWHERE for bedroom ideas for a Brown and Cream bedroom colour. My room is pretty small. I have no idea how to place things into my room and where to place it. My computer also has to be in my room is occupies more space. I only have a bed and this desk/shelf type of thing: http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/20116071 but in walnut effect colour. Can someone PLEASE tell me how to place furniture and stuff in my room for example "you should place the bed on the brown side of the wall and beside it should be....etc" P.s also tell me which furniture i should buy. THANK you so much,
http://us.mydeco.com/rooms/detail/my-room-1038829/
^This is exactly how my bedroom looks like but the wall on the left is more of a cream colour.
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I really love brown and cream walls, and they really look good in small-ish rooms. So that was a good place to start. I think a brown theme would go well, especially if you already have a walnut-ty type desk, which, I can imagine, must be beautiful! So I think you should build off that, if you want to have a bit of a themed room, and for everything to match. You could have really cool little bedside tables, I'd advise just browsing through google images, some of the furniture there is really inspiring, with a lot of unconventional style type stuff, which is really cool! You can find a lot of new modern walnut wood furniture, but you might find that sort of shabby-chic furnitures really work well, so you may have to hunt around garage sales, and the like. You can find some really cool stuff there!
Bedding like this:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.100-mile-house-log-homes.com/bedding-sets-comforters.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.100-mile-house-log-homes.com/bedding-set.html&usg=__sVbEKQogL9vvkRfFxi1rEdb6Ido=&h=336&w=336&sz=91&hl=en&start=0&tbnid=enwOkwjKAqp_jM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbedding%2Bsets%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1676%26bih%3D856%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=415&vpy=96&dur=3052&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=131&ty=96&ei=vPBoTM_XI432swPtkoDmBQ&oei=vPBoTM_XI432swPtkoDmBQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=48&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0
would really compliment your walls, the brown is really beautiful, and the bedding/pillows tie in both the creams and browns of your walls! The layered effect, of lots of pillows with lots of different textures but the same sort of tones can only really work in certain situations with specific colours, as sometimes the whole room can just look too busy! However, in this case, with the somewhat neutral colour scheme, it really works, so you should take advantage of this!
If you have the room, you could also have just one nice chair in your room, which has similar woods, but a really cool antiquey fabric on thes seat, which would really go with this theme I'm (trying to!) describe, which not only could you use as just a statement piece, but also as a chair for your desk/computer. However, these sort of furnitures are not only expensive, but really really hard to find, so these are just suggestions, of course, and you can really do anything!
Instead of doing this antiquey style room, which admittedly would be really hard to pull off, and very expensive (well, a girl can dream! ), it might be easier for you to do just really clean edges, take the same style wood colour of your desk, and just use that as a base for your whole room. If it doesn't really match your bed, that doesn't matter, because the bed is kind of an individual, unique piece in the room, which is supposed to be the focus point, because of the bold statements in colours, textures, fabrics, etc. Some colours which could look really nice in your room as accents, on the bedding or the pillows, or whatever, could possibly be really soft blues, probably not harsh blues as they might clash with the creams. Or, you could do really dark blues, like navy, and then compliment that with really really pale blue, in a floral print maybe?! That would also look very good. The whole brown colour concept is excellent, as it goes with pretty much everything, but they especially compliment blues...
For the issue of where to place your bed, I would say on the brown wall, or one of them at least, because the brown is kind of like the 'feature wall', so that's where your eye is drawn to, so it's good when the bed's there too. You should do bedside tables, if your bed isn't in the corner of the room, I would make sure to do two bedside tables on each side, to create symmetry in the room, plus they don't take up that much space, which is good. The other thing with room layout is that you don't necessarily want to mix your 'relax' area with your 'work' area, so having your computer in your room probably isn't the most ideal, but it doesn't really matter, just maybe you should define which area in your room is which, I mean, I realise that your room probably isn't the biggest room in the world, but what I'm just saying is probably don't place it right next to your bed.
Also potentially having some plants in your room could look really nice, create a nice atmosphere, and maybe make your room look bigger.
In saying this, I really have no idea what shape your room is, or what lighting you have, or the actual colour of your room, so this advice could be all completely wrong! It would be easier if we could see pictures of your room, but it doesn't really matter, you can choose to use my advice, or dismiss it as crap! There are so many potential combinations which could look great in your room, I'm sure you'll be able to work something out if need be. Good luck, hope this helped! =)
I really love brown and cream walls, and they really look good in small-ish rooms. So that was a good place to start. I think a brown theme would go well, especially if you already have a walnut-ty type desk, which, I can imagine, must be beautiful! So I think you should build off that, if you want to have a bit of a themed room, and for everything to match. You could have really cool little bedside tables, I'd advise just browsing through google images, some of the furniture there is really inspiring, with a lot of unconventional style type stuff, which is really cool! You can find a lot of new modern walnut wood furniture, but you might find that sort of shabby-chic furnitures really work well, so you may have to hunt around garage sales, and the like. You can find some really cool stuff there!
Bedding like this:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.100-mile-house-log-homes.com/bedding-sets-comforters.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.100-mile-house-log-homes.com/bedding-set.html&usg=__sVbEKQogL9vvkRfFxi1rEdb6Ido=&h=336&w=336&sz=91&hl=en&start=0&tbnid=enwOkwjKAqp_jM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbedding%2Bsets%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1676%26bih%3D856%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=415&vpy=96&dur=3052&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=131&ty=96&ei=vPBoTM_XI432swPtkoDmBQ&oei=vPBoTM_XI432swPtkoDmBQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=48&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0
would really compliment your walls, the brown is really beautiful, and the bedding/pillows tie in both the creams and browns of your walls! The layered effect, of lots of pillows with lots of different textures but the same sort of tones can only really work in certain situations with specific colours, as sometimes the whole room can just look too busy! However, in this case, with the somewhat neutral colour scheme, it really works, so you should take advantage of this!
If you have the room, you could also have just one nice chair in your room, which has similar woods, but a really cool antiquey fabric on thes seat, which would really go with this theme I'm (trying to!) describe, which not only could you use as just a statement piece, but also as a chair for your desk/computer. However, these sort of furnitures are not only expensive, but really really hard to find, so these are just suggestions, of course, and you can really do anything!
Instead of doing this antiquey style room, which admittedly would be really hard to pull off, and very expensive (well, a girl can dream! ), it might be easier for you to do just really clean edges, take the same style wood colour of your desk, and just use that as a base for your whole room. If it doesn't really match your bed, that doesn't matter, because the bed is kind of an individual, unique piece in the room, which is supposed to be the focus point, because of the bold statements in colours, textures, fabrics, etc. Some colours which could look really nice in your room as accents, on the bedding or the pillows, or whatever, could possibly be really soft blues, probably not harsh blues as they might clash with the creams. Or, you could do really dark blues, like navy, and then compliment that with really really pale blue, in a floral print maybe?! That would also look very good. The whole brown colour concept is excellent, as it goes with pretty much everything, but they especially compliment blues...
For the issue of where to place your bed, I would say on the brown wall, or one of them at least, because the brown is kind of like the 'feature wall', so that's where your eye is drawn to, so it's good when the bed's there too. You should do bedside tables, if your bed isn't in the corner of the room, I would make sure to do two bedside tables on each side, to create symmetry in the room, plus they don't take up that much space, which is good. The other thing with room layout is that you don't necessarily want to mix your 'relax' area with your 'work' area, so having your computer in your room probably isn't the most ideal, but it doesn't really matter, just maybe you should define which area in your room is which, I mean, I realise that your room probably isn't the biggest room in the world, but what I'm just saying is probably don't place it right next to your bed.
Also potentially having some plants in your room could look really nice, create a nice atmosphere, and maybe make your room look bigger.
In saying this, I really have no idea what shape your room is, or what lighting you have, or the actual colour of your room, so this advice could be all completely wrong! It would be easier if we could see pictures of your room, but it doesn't really matter, you can choose to use my advice, or dismiss it as crap! There are so many potential combinations which could look great in your room, I'm sure you'll be able to work something out if need be. Good luck, hope this helped! =)
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