old-style decorating?

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Proxima_Centauri wrote: »

It's a good point about the fittings, etc. In one room I've got a boring beige bedcover and a beige lampshade, and a biscuity-colour carpet. What with that and the magnolia colour walls no wonder the room looks drab! It would be good to replace them with something more colourful once I decide what colour scheme to go with.

How about a bright red or lemon to brighten up the biscuit shades

prosaver

Lance_De_Boils wrote: »

What a lovely picture. Where did you find it please?

yes it is
Lewis.
http://www.johnlewis.com/richard-macneil-paris-flower-shop-print-on-canvas-70-x-100cm/p231894187

prosaver

btw i like magnolia all my downstairs rooms are decorated. I find it cosy and warm feel with low light lamps.. this one looks a bit like this .. without the kitchen..

plus ive got a light coloured
carpet..
snug and keep the room warm

heres an idea..

without the copyright logo in the midddle

madnotstupid

Our flat is pretty full-on colours - each room is different and really bright. The most calm is the bedroom which is beige / cream on three walls then pillar box red on the fourth. the furniture is red high gloss and dark wood. It's quite striking with just one wall of a feature colour, and we have red bed linen and accessories. It would be a cheaper way of brightening up your place if you only paint one wall.

trailingspouse

If you want to do it cheap, go for white - much less waste, and easy to colour match when you re-do it. If you go for different colours in different rooms, you're paying over the odds three times - once because the coloured paint is more expensive than the white, and again because you will always have some paint left over, and finally when you want to repaint and the leftover paint has dried in the tin and they don't make that colour any more.

White makes a place look bright and clean and you can do your own thing in each room with curtains/cushions etc etc.

Homeagain

Wallpaper is far too much work unless you REALLY know what you are doing ... I wallpapered my bedroom - what a mess that I am now stuck with. Never again.