Any suggestions for bedroom color?

Isabella4

I'm a great wallpaper fan, and I absolutely love to wallpaper....or I did, before bc, was always ripping off and re-papering somewhere or other !

My bedroom was last wallpapered 6 years ago, it took 18 rolls, cream background, tiny sprigs of flowers type pattern, I made curtains and bedlinen to match, and covered chair and bedroom stool as well. I then made see thru Austrian blinds, with a very fine lacy material, and I have a large size ornate brass bedstead, and mahogany furniture.

I itch to wallpaper again, but can't use my 'bad' arm for long.

I just wallpapered a small downstairs toilet. It took 3 rolls, and nearly 3 weeks, it about killed me, so unless I pay a decorator, my bedroom will stay as it is forever !!!

Isabella.

yellowrose

You know the problem with painting is that it starts a "room-improvement jag.  New paint makes the drapes look off, new drapes make the comforter/spread look all wrong, oh wouldn't it be nice to change the carpet, wouldn't wood floors look great, the new floors just scream for new furniture. 

Wait,  let me just get my wallet out...  (been there, done that!)

Bugs

That is SO TRUE txgrl!!  I was just thinking the other day, I want to go a cocoa brown color in my bathroom.  Then I thought...hmm, wouldn't a tile floor look beautiful with that? LOL

Bugs

Hanna60978

Wow Isabella, your bedroom sounds gorgeous.  What thread is this?  OK. Just wanted to make sure where I was.

I am tired of paint on every wall at the moment, and would like some wallpaper in my world now. I'm thinking light cream background with ferns and sprigs strewn around and a few wildflowers and a little sparrow here and there in the bedroom.  The lace at your windows sounds gorgeous.  Something I've always wanted.

Hanna 

Isabella4

Thanks Hanna, as my bedroom is a no go area for DH I could go to town with all the feminine things!

I don't sleep very well, and have my radio, TV, music and laptop in there with me, and now and then a dog or cat will sneak in, I spend much more time awake than sleeping.

Beats someone in there with me snoring and farting !!!!!! ( WHY do men fart?????)

I always like pastel colours in a bedroom, I also have a spare room that I did for my 2 g/daughters, all pinks, greens and creams and pretty bedlinen, the g/sons moan like hell if they have to sleep in there ....typical men !!

Isabella.  

tawyna1

hi

i think thats it .

otter brown by valspar.

wish i knew the green color i like. it is out doors inside.

gsg

HannaB said: g - just what exactly do you do with...ahem...those tassels hanging from the bedpost?!?  OoooLala g!)

My response:  If my husband wants to get frisky, I tie him up with the tassels so I can roll over and go to sleep undisturbed.  Mojo shmojo....or should I say OoooLala  Shmooolala? 

jdash

rocktobermom  i think you resemble ann margaret !  now thats a compliment!!!

Hanna60978

g!  I too have a set of those tassels.  I got them for free when I ordered some stuff at Bombay company online.  I don't have any bedposts so I just tied them onto the handles of a tall wardrobe like they showed in the magazine.   They look ok when the doors are closed, but keep getting in the way when I open and close the doors. So, I think you have found a better use for them!  

Rocktobermom, Your home is just gorgeous and you have a true flair for decorating and comfort combined! Plus, your daughter is super adorable.  What a cutie! You're doing a wonderful job raising her - its evident!  She already knows how to paint a room and do the hula!  I could envision her on HGTV decorating one day! 

OK.  So I will see you all elsewhere.  Carry on with your lovely decorating ideas.  Creating something lovely in your surroundings is so satisfying!

hanna 

rferraris

Somewhere back in this thread I read that someone liked red & yellow.  I thought I'd share a picture of my dining room.  Photo was taken during my post treatment party.

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gsg

Beautiful dining room, RF.  I always think of yellow and red together as a sophisticated combination...LOVE it!

Hanna:  I usually have the tassels holding back my bedroom sheers, but the last time I washed them I never put the tassels back on and that's where they stayed.  My newfound laziness has no bounds. 

Anonymous

Patrice, as usual you crack me up!

"My response:  If my husband wants to get frisky, I tie him up with the tassels so I can roll over and go to sleep undisturbed.  Mojo shmojo....or should I say OoooLala  Shmooolala?"

Uh, I'll meet you in the Mojo thread. I think we can use a bit of help!

Isabella, you are to smart.  All that sewing and wallpapering.  And you're not lazy.  I'd rather hire someone.  That's why it's not getting done because we can't afford to hire someone.   If we "took on" our den, kitchen and mud room we'd be scrubbing and painting for the next five years!  Most of that stuff is paneling.  Yep, from the 70s.   Ya think Oprah would give those rooms a face lift?

Shirley

Isabella4

RF   I once papered my dining room in deep red hessian.

It was in 4' wide rolls, and terrible to put up, but it looked sooo rich.

Glad I moved house a couple of years later, I wouldn't have liked to have scraped that off, I had to put it on with some real strong 'liquid rubber'  stuff.

Isabella.

gsg

Shirley:  That thread is for people who want their mojo back.  I don't know why, but I'm complacent with the fact that mine went missing.  My husband, on the other hand, not so much.

I just discovered I had a picture of the torn-up brown paper wallpaper in my family room stored on my computer. It was taken when I was still in the process of putting the room back together after the guy was done working. The lighting was kind of weird and it doesn't look exactly like this in person.  It's more leather-looking in person.  I think the flash from the camera made it appear "off" and too light behind the television.