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paint the room or leave as is?

11 months ago

I was considering painting the wall behind the bed and the ceiling a light green. What are your thoughts? Or do i do the whole room?

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  • 11 months ago

    It should look fine, but, I would choose a darker green, to go with the green in your bedspread, rather than a light green.

  • PRO
    11 months ago
    last modified: 11 months ago

    Painting just the wall behind the bed and the tray ceiling a soft, light green will create a focal point.

    It will make the bed feel grounded and framed, while the ceiling will echo that calming color overhead.

    This option keeps the space airy since the other walls stay light, preventing it from feeling too enclosed.



  • PRO
    11 months ago

    Here are 2 diferent green colors pulled from your linens. Not sure I would go in this direction. Consider leaving the walls the existing color.



    Maybe instead of being so literal with the palm pattern on the linens you simply just add the color in the linens.


  • 11 months ago

    Your current wall color is calming and lovely. I wouldn't change it. If you do paint it though, go for the whole room - walls and ceiling. You already have enough interest in here that you don't need to create a focal point wall. It will just look distracting.


    The only change I'd make is framing your great bird pic in a wood frame to match your furniture. It would really pull the look together.


    I'm curious why no mirror over the dresser. I don't have one either, but thought I was the only one!

  • 11 months ago

    The nice thing about the current color of your bedroom walls is that it allows for flexibility re: bedding options. I like changing up my bedding fairly often - I can make my bedroom feel "refreshed" with very little effort by just grabbing various items from the linen closet. I mix up different linen duvet covers/coverlets/throws/throw pillows/sheet sets depending on what I feel like trying out.


    My SO and I each use our own duvets - I have coordinating ones + have found that unplanned duvets work together well on the bed (one is folded in thirds across the foot of the bed). I am getting ready to repaint my bedroom, and I'm trying to select a new flexible wall color. I'd like to do something other than white - however, I haven't determined what to use yet.


    You don't have to have a bedding "fetish" like I do - but it's nice to be able to change the look of your room by using different bedding items + a different piece of art over your bed a few times each year.

  • PRO
    11 months ago

    First Thing I'd do?


    Repeat the flooring from the hallway and add a nice big LIGHT area rug to replace a meh builder beige!! Color ? As is or go bolder







    I'd get that bench ( 2 ottomans ) at the foot of the bed recovered......or swap for a new foot of bed bench and use those somewhere else! The stripe is a whole different feel than bedding .....drags down the fresh of the palms

    Lose the small, dark and inconsequential furnishings tables and probably left from a move from the north?

    Get a nice big round mirror for over the dresser or is that to be tv?

    Lower the Pelican art by about 6" hang is too high :)

    I


  • 11 months ago

    I would change the flooring before doing anything else. The carpet looks slightly pinkish in the picture - hopefully not so much in person? It looks like a beige with a pink undertone. But I'm not sure green walls would work well with it.

  • 11 months ago
    last modified: 11 months ago

    I think painting the wall behind bed and the ceiling will create a tunnel like feeling. Instead of adding a strong green (wherever you decide to add), suggest a different approach. The first thing that grabbed my eye was the bedding and I immediately thought that the furniture, art, carpeting and wall color would benefit from a softer approach.

    If interested: grasscloth wallpaper behind bed that works better/highlights your art (excuse sample below lol) and bedding to complement both. Now is the time to consider other options before painting room. Hope this helps.




    Just add a cover on yours.


  • 11 months ago

    I would paint the whole room a sage green that is a more neutral shade of green that coordinates with the comforter rather than matching the saturated greens in the comforter.





  • 11 months ago

    The point of the tray ceiling is to elevate it. Painting brings it down. That seems a huge expensive waste of a tray ceiling.

  • PRO
    11 months ago

    ^^^


    I love that idea as well. Sayonara to carpet AND the paper






  • 11 months ago

    As far as being able to change bedding - I have both my master and guest bedrooms painted colors - one is a grayish purple and the other a smokey blue green.



    Both look fine with the neutral bedding in this photo, but I own all kinds of patterns that work interchangeably in either room







    Even holiday bedding in red works in both rooms


  • PRO
    11 months ago

    I am impress all the time with Maureen taste! She has very nice suggestions.

  • PRO
    11 months ago

    You can just just bring in some color with the accessories. Whether the budget allows you to change out the carpet or not, consider adding a rug to pull your comforter and print together.


    You could also paint the ceiling tray for an added boast.


    Pops of white help brighten the look too.


  • 11 months ago

    Thank you for all the different ideas

  • 11 months ago

    How do you reply back individually??

  • PRO
    11 months ago

    Here's the look of the bedroom with dark green walls.


  • 11 months ago

    So after reading the post i decided to keep it neutral, since i do tend to like to change looks. So what type rug? Ottomans are getting sold,
    so i wanted something at bottom of bed, and do i frame the picture and it something over bed??

  • 11 months ago

    I love your bed frame; it's so unusual. I would prefer seeing the unobstructed foot board. Do you actually use the ottomans other than for setting things on? If you do (perhaps as a perch for putting on shoes, etc), then replace with a bench that allows as much of the footboard to show as possible. If not, I would not replace the ottomans with anything.

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