Library Room Time Sensitive Design Help Needed
I'm beginning a renovation in my bedroom with a mix of ikea and custom cabinets that I'll be using liquid wood to turn every bookcase and wall into an all wood library with sliding doors that reveal a murphy bed.
My first question: Should the doors, baseboards and/or windows be taken from white to the same dark wood color? Most wooden home libraries I've seen have a floor that's the same color as the rest of the room, but my floors are a light wood as where everything I'm having done above the floors are going to be wood (other than the ceiling).
Second question: I have a recessed ceiling and not sure if I should make the vertical part of the ceiling wood as a continuation of the wall, or have it white. The room is currently all white and I didn't notice but the last painters painted that portion of the ceiling like the walls and I think it's the drywall material meaning maybe it's supposed to more of a wall than ceiling.
Third: Should I put molding on any of the walls so it doesn't go from bookcases to a flat wooden wall? I have some molding on lower half of the dining room and foyer, but my entire house is otherwise Mid Century Modern, so not sure.
Fourth: Any other design or construction tips you have might, please, I'd be so thankful to hear them! The contractors are beginning today, December 12th and ending before the 18th.
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I think I need to know a lot more about this . Why sliding doors for a murphy bed they have great bottomes that hide the bed nicley . Ikea atyle usually does not lend itself to looking like high end wood work and I do not think slapping ligiud wood on them will fool anyone I agree a nice dark moody color for cabinets and walls could work. The cabinets on either side of the door are not good and that whole wall with the dark piece in the middle is the murphy be why not gat a proper unit for the murphy yne design all the cabinets to work with that style . I have added trim to Ikea cabinets to make them a bit less contempory but not some fake wood thing . It is hard to say what your plan in your head is by looking at these pics. Do you have 1000s of books to line the walls . I love a library space but not just slapped up in a bedroom that is nothing like the sapce you want Your bookshelves IMO need to go to the drop down ceiling all the way around. Waht are the cabinets in front of the windows ? This is agood way to do those cabinets and even the drk color is good
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Lyn Nielson