Help me decide- painted furniture

franksmom_2010

15 years ago

I'm painting all of our bedroom furniture. Better/newer/different furniture isn't in the budget anytime soon, so I'm making do with what I've got. We have cream colored walls, beige carpet, and the quilt and curtain fabric looks like this:

The colors read more of a blue on my screen, but in person, there's definitely a green undertone. It's sort of a pale grayed down teal.

There are two tall chests of drawers on opposite walls, a pair of nightstands, and a wooden chair. There's also a small chest at the foot of the bed that's already painted white, and I'm not planning to do anything with it.

I've driven myself nuts over this, so please help me pick paint colors. This is what I've narrowed it down to, but I'm open to other suggestions:

Plan A: paint everything white (I think this is too much)

Plan B: paint the dressers white, the nighstands a color from one of those chips, and the chair a darker cream

Plan C: paint the dressers white, the nightstands cream, and the chair ______ color (blue? celery? teal?)

I'd really like to make the dressers white, so that they could be repurposed somewhere else in the house if/when they get replaced. I've thought about pros and cons of all of the choices, and now I'm just frozen. I don't neccesarily want everything all matchy-matchy, but I'm stuck with these pieces for a while, so they need to be versatile, but I don't want it to be boring.

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Sueb20
15 years ago
I don't have a scientific reason for my opinion, but I'd paint the dressers and nightstands the cream color, and paint the chair the darker blue color (the blue that's next to the white in your picture). I wouldn't mix the white and the cream in different furniture pieces (as in Plan C).
rjinga
15 years ago
I have some thoughts, but I'd love to see the furniture too. Can you attach pics of the pieces you will paint?
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cyn427 (z. 7, N. VA)
15 years ago
I like the idea of cream for the dressers, but how about black for the chair? I would help the greyish teal/blue pop, I think. Several times, someone has posted a pic of a room with blue, white, and touches of black that looked spectacular.

Of course, I agree that a picture would help. This could be a terrible suggestion for your space.
User
15 years ago
I would paint all but the chair in the cream color, then depending on the feel you want in the room, I'd paint the chair either Celery or Navy. I'm assuming that your chair has a cushion, if so, I'd find a nice soft stripe that has all three of the colors in it. Then I'd reupholster the cushion and have a pillow or two made out of the stripe to help tie the three colors together.
franksmom_2010
Original Author
15 years ago
Here's one of the dressers:

The hardware is going to be replaced with something larger, in an antique pewter finish, and I'm adding a trim to the top edge. I'm pretty certain I'll be painting both of these white.

Here's one of the nightstands:

The chair isn't upholstered. It's just a plain wooden chair with turned legs.
cyn427 (z. 7, N. VA)
15 years ago
Love the tables and the dressers will look great once they are painted to match and have new hardware. I would definitely go dark with the chair-black or navy.
paintergirl94
15 years ago
Can you also add feet to the dresser?