purple bedroom?

Gingham_Ribbon

I would be there to advise and budget, but otherwise, I'd let her lead the way as much as she can. Let her tear out pictures from magazines and catalogues, have a few pots of tester paint to put on her walls, look at ideas on the net and come up with a dream room that you can work together to recreate on your budget.

lostinrates

jackieb wrote: »

. Not sure how it would look with a pine headboard and bedside cabinet.

She could always paint or decorate these. silver leaf would look quite cool.

My parents were great about letting me do stuff like that as a teen: two rules: it came out of my pocket money and it had to be completed. (loads they re did when I left home;))

gabyjane

Hi jackieb yes they are..have lasted us getting on for 6 years not and 3 house moves so really impressed with it. She has the bedside drawers and the 5 drawer chest, we have it in our room too.
The drawers are in the garage and will be revamped to go with the drawers i have 4 options..they were lilac fronts and have got marks on them now which is why i need something i little more hardwearing!

gloss white drawer fronts
aubergine gloss drawer fronts
aubergine paint and poss varnish?
white paint or eggshell..

Have got some silver matt knobs to go on them too which should look good..and she is getting a new white bed.

tiamai_d

I'd leave the walls neutral (only because it would be hard work painting over purple), put a large fabric curtain over the cupboard door, probably a darker purple then some lighter sparkly gauzy stuff (can't remember the name, but it's universal in girls rooms) draped over the top to make it a feature, maybe with some sparkly beads or crystals sewn on.

Buy a few dark purple accessories, you can pick up sheepskin rugs in purples pretty cheap. (only because I want a sheepskin rug!) pity you don't live close to me, a charity shop has a chaise lounge (pathetic spelling there) in purple for £40 that I wish I had space for!

I'd probably keep it to purple, lilac and silver then it would match the pine. You can wrap strings of beads round bedframes etc to tie it all in.

Mostly though, I would keep it all neutral and bring in the colour in things that can easily be removed or swapped.

Oh and a tip, to put fabric on a wall, it works best if you put up some sort of rail rather than trying to nail gun it to the wall. I had it in my room when I was younger and kept waking in the middle of the night trapped under a ton of fabric! I ended up putting up a long curtain pole, drapping the fabric over that, putting a huge mirror under it all like a window and sewing on some crystal drops I had (funnily enough it was dark purple, a nigtshade tone of purple/blue and a silvery shimmery gauzy meshy stuff).

Threebabes

When I was a kid I wanted my room navy blue and my dad painted it for me. What was I thinking of? LOL

I eventually grew out of it and had it pink and white.

I would let her have it purple, you can do it nicely if she lets you.

tiamai_d

Gaby, I would paint then varnish over the top. We tend to do that a lot with almost everything! My parents have painted their hallway cream and topped with a coat of matt varnish because they have large huskies who like to get everything filthy. The varnish means the walls can be scrubbed down and the pain doesn't chip either like gloss does.

I'm jealous your scandinavia drawers have lasted, DS1 got them just over 2 years ago and they are falling to bits! The wardrobe didn't even last a year.

jinky67

good colours go with dark purple are fuschia and turquoise and of course silver

I once persuaded my Mum to let us paint our room orange:eek:

Indie_Kid

When I was living at home, mine & my sisters room was purple. We had light purple on the top half of the wall, a wavy silver border and a darker purple below the border.

The room that will be mine when I go home will be purple again. They've decided that they're going to have one papered wall and the rest will be painted. They have this (but in bornw) in their room and it looks quite nice.

jackieb

jinky67 wrote: »

good colours go with dark purple are fuschia and turquoise and of course silver

I once persuaded my Mum to let us paint our room orange:eek:

My daughter used to have an orange Benetton sweatshirt. I liked it - and it was around the time that Big Brother had orange square duvet covers in the bedroom (BB2 maybe?) I got United Colours of Benetton paint in the same colour as her sweatshirt, and another orange in a slightly darker shade, and painted the walls alternative shades of orange - and had duvet covers with orange squares on them. At night, when the light was on, it looked like the room was on fire if you were outside looking in.

Sunshine12

Jackieb, havent read all the posts but if you do go for aubergine then duck egg blue goes fab with it. x