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bluejeans07) wrote2007-04-23 11:43 am
bluejeans07) wrote2007-04-23 11:43 am
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Inspiration for Room!
I thought about what I wanted to do with my room last night and I did a little research. Since I watch decorating shows obsessively, have a BA in Illustration, and let's face it, I like making things pretty, I'm pretty confident in how I can redo the tiniest room in this house and make it awesome. Basically, I usually just use that room for sleeping, storage, and reading, I have a seperate work area in the second dining room in my parents' duplex which is nice and big for everything I need to do art and crafts. Also, this room doubles as a guest bedroom whenever I'm not there so I'm not going to make this room overly 'personal' but it'll definetely be in a style that I like.
Mom kind of set up the color scheme already with the furniture, the covers, and the blinds so it's going to be in powder blues and whites, which I like too. It's also a little 'country' with this tiny vanity that she bought and wants to keep in there so I can work around that too. My personal tastes run along the lines of the 'urban art noveau' that's actually really popular right now so I'm slightly 'in style and trendy', but I think can run close to Mom's taste. I already know the layout of the furniture, which is to slant the bed in the corner, take out the dresser, maybe add in a bookshelf and a small chair, and put the vanity against the wall.
BBC Design Inspiration: http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/design_inspiration/
This website is fantastic because it shows you a lot of ideas and how to tie in color schemes together with furniture and styles.
I've been looking at this room in particular: http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/design_inspiration/factsheets/202.shtml
It's based on Audrey Beardsley's work (an amazing art noveau artist, and a friend of Oscar Wilde) and it has a lot of ideas that I really like, particularly what they did with the walls... which incidently they don't cover in at all.
Digs Magazine: http://digsmagazine.com/
An online magazine that has awesome tips on how to keep costs down and gives great tips on how to make things like bookshelves, or how to reupholster things yourself.
Urban Lily: http://www.urbanlily.com/
This actually isn't a decorating website, this is a scrapbooking paper resource but they have so many cool things that is giving me so many ideas on what to do for the walls and how to make the most of my color scheme. I immediately fell in love with this one and then I fiddled around with it in photoshop to make it fit the color scheme:
I do like the stripe width, but I think I need to fiddle with where I put the colors. I'm only painting two of the walls like that and in the corner where I put my bed so the room would look longer.
Other ones I LOVE are this lovely flowered one, this great swirly one, and and the frame in this one.
Lots of ideas and more things to think about. :D I'll put photos up in my next post.
Mom kind of set up the color scheme already with the furniture, the covers, and the blinds so it's going to be in powder blues and whites, which I like too. It's also a little 'country' with this tiny vanity that she bought and wants to keep in there so I can work around that too. My personal tastes run along the lines of the 'urban art noveau' that's actually really popular right now so I'm slightly 'in style and trendy', but I think can run close to Mom's taste. I already know the layout of the furniture, which is to slant the bed in the corner, take out the dresser, maybe add in a bookshelf and a small chair, and put the vanity against the wall.
BBC Design Inspiration: http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/design_inspiration/
This website is fantastic because it shows you a lot of ideas and how to tie in color schemes together with furniture and styles.
I've been looking at this room in particular: http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/design_inspiration/factsheets/202.shtml
It's based on Audrey Beardsley's work (an amazing art noveau artist, and a friend of Oscar Wilde) and it has a lot of ideas that I really like, particularly what they did with the walls... which incidently they don't cover in at all.
Digs Magazine: http://digsmagazine.com/
An online magazine that has awesome tips on how to keep costs down and gives great tips on how to make things like bookshelves, or how to reupholster things yourself.
Urban Lily: http://www.urbanlily.com/
This actually isn't a decorating website, this is a scrapbooking paper resource but they have so many cool things that is giving me so many ideas on what to do for the walls and how to make the most of my color scheme. I immediately fell in love with this one and then I fiddled around with it in photoshop to make it fit the color scheme:
I do like the stripe width, but I think I need to fiddle with where I put the colors. I'm only painting two of the walls like that and in the corner where I put my bed so the room would look longer.
Other ones I LOVE are this lovely flowered one, this great swirly one, and and the frame in this one.
Lots of ideas and more things to think about. :D I'll put photos up in my next post.
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I can't wait to go nuts with that apt hah
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*loves*