Home Design Interior Monnie: Bedroom Colors

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Bedroom Colors

Whether on the wall, bedspread, furniture, rugs or accent pieces, white also can make a small bedroom appear larger. White — a color associated with protection, softness, safety and goodness — needs balance. Pair with neutrals such as taupe for an I had recently decided to paint my master bedroom gray (Benjamin Moore Silver Cloud) but am rethinking it. I plan to replace the beige carpet with whitewashed wood flooring. I bought a beautiful pale-turquoise coverlet and shams. The furniture in the room Even if the beach is still weeks away, there's no reason you can't take a seaside jaunt in your bedroom. So get out some paint chips and color swatches and plan for a bedroom color makeover. BE INSPIRED A good starting point for a bedroom makeover is a There is nothing like sleeping on down! 2. Select neutral bedding. It will serve as the perfect blank slate in order for you to build a bedroom color palette. After selecting your bedding, add color and texture through your artwork and accessories. She needed help picking out colors. I cried when she told me her story because of Mandy hand-delivered the paint and began the project the woman couldn't do on her own: painting her bedroom. "She tried paying us, she tried giving us stuff," she says. An extra burst of color comes from the stained-glass windows, which are original to the house. The design for the master bedroom began with a pale wash of turquoise wallpaper. From there, Eric added the stainless-steel, four-poster bed; the acrylic night .

There's an endless spectrum of ways to add color to your home, whether it's to your bedroom or your kitchen, but this Pacific Grove, California cottage—once owned by author John Steinbeck and available for rent on Airbnb—is the perfect lesson in how Can't sleep at night? Yes, we can blame terrible news events, worries about the economy, the mistake of Googling your "weird headache," the pet that drapes its body over your head or your loudly snoring significant other. And then there's the color of your You need about seven hours of sleep to be productive. You can increase the chances of getting those by sleeping in a bedroom that is colored blue, yellow, green, silver or orange. Hotel booking site Travelodge studied 2,000 British homes and found that All the bedrooms have small, one-door closets except the master bedroom But they come in only a few colors. I decided to make my own. I doubled a recipe that I found online by mixing 10 tablespoons of DAP Plaster of Paris ($3.94 for 4.4 pounds.) .