Brown blinds.
My decorating Achilles' heel.
Maybe they are the reason I've been shying away from design posts lately. I just can't get them out of my head.
What am I talking about? Well, it's time to paint the bedroom and, under other circumstances (sans blinds), I'd be pumped as all get out. It's not that I don't like the color brown. I mean, these blinds that run throughout the house are actually a dark brown--three shades away from black (and a color I can work with). So, I guess it could be worse. I shouldn't complain, I know, but every color scheme I wanted to go with didn't include brown. This is the reason for my decorating distress.
Simple solution? Take them down and get new blinds.
Negative, Ghostrider.
These blinds were here before me and expensive. Plus, as far as a blind's function goes, they are brilliant. In short: They are here to stay (at least for a while).
So, instead of NEVER painting the bedroom, I am having to come up with alternate color combos. It isn't such a daunting task as I assumed but I still am stuck.
Current Bedroom Deets
Tray ceiling
White baseboard
Permanent dark brown blinds
A lot of black decorations (picture frames & TV stand)
What colors I love
Teal
Blue
Light Gray
I've really considered the scheme in the picture above, but as you see, I've had some reservations with it as well. See, I have a tray ceiling to deal with. So that means I need to paint that sucker as well and I really don't want it to be a dark or bright color. That's why I want to it to be either light gray or white.
So here are the three options I've come up with:
1. An accent wall of color (hopefully a teal or blue) and the rest of the walls a gray or white as well as the tray ceiling.
2. All walls painted a color and the tray ceiling a white or gray. (Probably white so it can compliment the trim.)
3. Half walls! Paint the bottom half of the room a bright color and the rest (including the tray ceiling) gray or white.
So, there are my options. What do you think? What would YOU do?
Help!
-Tyler Anne (aka Chick Tyler)
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I love the teal color you mark as "too dark". I don't think so at all. I vote either using it in accent wall form or if you notice the blue bedroom on right in pic 2, it is only 1/2 wall and the bottom has some sort of paneling. How bout that?
ReplyDeleteI'm considering dark blinds at the moment, and found it surprisingly hard to find pictures of rooms where people have done it well! I particularly like the picture with dark grey blinds on this website:
ReplyDeletehttp://mulberryinteriordesign.ca/2013/06/keeping-it-light-and-not-necessarily-white/
This is making me consider a light biscuit tone on the walls and floor, with white ceiling and skirting board. Add in some darker furniture accents.