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need help for our master bedroom

13 years ago
need help, wanting to create a warm and cosy and inviting bedroom,

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  • PRO
    13 years ago
    What exactly are you looking for? Colors, furniture, window treatments? What's your style?
  • PRO
    13 years ago
    Her are some neutral options below that are sophisticated and elegant.
  • PRO
    13 years ago
    Given where you are with your bed linens, why not go the full way and paint the walls deep blue
    What is nice is that a night the dark walls make the room feel cosy and inviting but with a white contrast in the daylight you can have drama as well.
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  • 13 years ago
    Your browns and blues need to be pulled together or changed. The brown curtains and wood night stands suggest a warm woodsy feel. The blue plaid cover is a cool color so you need to incorparate some brown into your bedding. Maybe a brown or beige bed skirt. Mix in a few brown throw pillows. Lastly and most important add some pictures. Large wood framed woodsy pictures. Bare walls are not warm or inviting they lack character. Remember its your room. Do what you like!
  • 13 years ago
    thanks for suggestions, looking for ideas that compliment what we have already, have been thinking of getting a headboard, would like suggestions for room color, and window coverings,we have neutral/ warm tones in the rest of the house, funny that bed linen appears blue, its actually black, its just a duvet cover so could be inexpensivley replaced
  • 13 years ago
    I have a habit of pulling things from one room to another. If you have a taller lamp, I would try that on the bed side table. Also a large picture or picture grouping on either side of the bed will help. You could even put up a shelf and arrange pictures on and around it. Use the search box at the top of this page - put in picture shelf, bedside table, even bed with window and get tons of ideas.
  • 13 years ago
    Sally, since your room is small, cozy will happen easier with a dark wall color, and the navy idea was pretty inspired. Definitely lose the black. A high gloss navy on your walls would transform the space in really great ways. A dark color will actually make a small room feel expensive and cozy - and navy feels crisp and clean against silver, gray, white (entry door / closet door). White crown moulding would help too. http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/eveningdove see the sample room for new traditions to see how great natural wood (floor there / bed tables here) will look with navy walls. http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/for-your-home/new-traditional

    Might as well build on something designers already worked out - with your flooring, pair that navy with dove gray - buy four panels of velvet drapery and let that be your headboard. West elm has those now and if you layer the grommets and widen your rod on the wall about 1' then they will sit all the way open to give your room more light when you are not sleeping.

    Layer the bed for the best results - navy bedskirt and euro shams, white duvet cover, white and pale gray sheets and shams, blue and white accent pillows. Layer a gray quilt folded down at the foot of the bed. A layered bed is going to be your most important cozy aspect - that and texture (thus the recommendations for dark walls, velvet drapes)

    You need larger lamps for the scale of your bedside tables - home goods is a good source for a matched pair - gray, silver, white ceramic. Drum shades. Coordinating art over each bedside table - tall portrait art - 18 x 24 min in silver frames. Then on the side wall, crop in close and print family candid photos in black and white and frame them in white to make a gallery. Put some romantic memento in a white shadowbox. Hang a family initial in white to go in the grouping - buy a gallery wall template or make your own with newsprint.
  • 13 years ago
    I appreciate your suggestions @libradesigneye the bed description is really helpfull, however, my husband feels we really do need a headboard. and for the color im just not feeling the navy, is there another dark colour that would work? really like the color of photo from @DOWNS INTERIORS what colour is it?
  • PRO
    13 years ago
    If you keep the bed in front of the windows, use drapery to cover the window and extend the headboard. Take the curtains to the outside of the window (at least the width of the be) and to the ceiling. I would paint the walls a gray with a hint of blue to it. Introduce a 3rd color- soft gold/yellow. Also, bring in a smaller print- a floral or stripe. You need some pillows for the bed to add some luxury. Add some personal decor- I love these lamps....you may not, but just giving examples. Or art work that you love.
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  • 13 years ago
    Really like this idea with minimalistic headboard and drapes thanks for sharing your ideas when you suggest a grey wall with a hint of blue is that because the bed linens look blue? our carpet is light brown, would the paint go with this?
  • 13 years ago
    So you need a taupe wall - something like http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family/SW7043-worldly-gray/ but pick this after you pick out your textiles. Easier to find the perfect paint color after you build the rest - a low headboard is a great solution.
  • 13 years ago
    kelly, I love the window treatment and the low headboard! Sally, you could easily make a headboard like that. Search on the internet for ideas. An upholstered one is very easy if you have basic skills with a staple gun! Since you said the duvet cover and drapes can be replaced, what color would YOU like? What colors make you feel warm and cozy? After all, all that you are working with so far is the wood color of the nightstands.
  • 13 years ago
    Larger lamps with color in the shades. Keep the headboard low. Cover the box spring. Widen the drapery.

    You love your family, I can see. Enlarge some of your favorite pictures of them and group them on the largest wall.

    If you want privacy even when the drapes are open, add sheers under the drapes. Drapes always look richer when they are fuller.

    Warm and cozy calls for warm colors. Your wood is warm. Warm up your walls with a buttery yellow.

    Ceiling fan with lighting that has a dimmer switch! Mood setting, for sure. Basket for your books to sit in. Fresh flowers.
  • 13 years ago
    thanks for such a wide variety of feedback, can anyone suggest another dark colour otger than navy?would chocolate brown work with drapes and shades that kelly suggested?
  • 13 years ago
    I don't see why it wouldn't if that is what you like and work all your other colors such as paint and bedding with it.
  • 13 years ago
    so do you think it would make room feel warm though?
  • 13 years ago
    Add 2 large mirrors behind the night stands. Lamps need to be larger. Group pictures to make larger collage.
  • 13 years ago
    Using brown? Yes, I do. That is what you are looking to do. Correct? If you could find a nice bedspread or duvet with some of that brown in it, and choose another color from it for your walls, you would have a starting point. Kind of like planning accent colors from a painting.
  • 13 years ago
    I am late to the brown and blue thing that was going on for people, but I do think some shades of blue go nicely with brown. Like a robins egg blue that isn't too wimpy, lol.
  • 13 years ago
    thanks handymam, im on here to get advice as to how to make it better
  • 13 years ago
    I think you should start with the bedding and go from there. Find something that works with the chocolate if that's what you want. (I am assuming you want to use the drapes that are up already?? Get wider drapery poles and move them out past the window like the example kelly posted and find some sheers for the middle. You may need some blinds or shades if the room isn't dark enough for you at night though.

    Have you thought about making a low headboard?
  • 13 years ago
    the mirror is a folding door to the closet, suggestions for what to replace it with are welcome
  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 13 years ago
    If you want to keep the mirror doors because you actually use the mirror, why not trim them out with moulding like an actual door then? That would be an easy solution. Paint the trim like the rest of the room.
  • 13 years ago
    handymam, i plan to change drapery to something that resembles kellys suggestion in photo with low headboard
  • 13 years ago
    I think that will be very pretty and work for your space. I am sure some other people will help you with colors once you have picked out what else you will be using for bedding. Wall color will really make the room change into something special.
  • 13 years ago
    last modified: 13 years ago
    Love the bed in front of the window. When you do great window treatments, it seems to surround the bed and will give that warm, cozy and inviting feeling for which you are looking. Make your windows special.
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  • 13 years ago
    Well there you go sally! judyg found you a chocolate bedroom! The black makes it look very sophisticated!
  • 13 years ago
    love those big lamps
  • 13 years ago
    Softer tan by SW, or a little richer color, Macadamia.
  • PRO
    13 years ago
    I really love all of the great examples of beds like yours in front of windows. I think you bedroom is going to be very nice with the examples given here.
  • 13 years ago
    Please Help, I went overboard with grey, grey walls, grey curtains and snow leopard quilt set, ash, granite and white, under sheet is dark purple. I'm looking for suggestions on how to break it up,
  • 13 years ago
    Looks a lot better, just need to get some color back in there. How about mid-tone lilac walls, and some decorative pillows and/or a throw pulling in purple and lilac and gray and white, along with a secondary accent in smaller amounts of yellow, orange, or green?
  • 13 years ago
    It looks great! You could also push ed panels all the way to the ends and put something light in the middle and leave it that way. Then it would appear that the drapes are always open.

    Love the pillows kelly suggested!
    Sally thanked handymam
  • PRO
    13 years ago
    Like Kelly's Lamps and pillows great ideas - Your lamps are way too small. And gray has a way of absorbing light so you need to add either artificial light, or white/light balancing colors in pillows/open windows/[pictures/lamp shades or bases
    Sally thanked Peggy Poulos Interior and Exterior Design
  • 13 years ago
    thanks for the suggestions, i like teal as an accent color, the pier one lamps are great, would an accent colour of lavender or mauve work?