Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Paint color help...?

So i'm a teenager, so obviously I want a fun/bright room, but I'm more on the calm/mature side taste wise. My bedspread is a reversable magenta/blaze orange (magenta side up), with solid magenta %26amp; turquoise pillows and then random stripe and pokadot pillows (ligh %26amp; bright pink, magenta, lemon, and a duller of the orange) I got it from JC Penny's almost a year ago now (it was in the dorm section).





Originally, I was going to have the turquoise be my accent wall, and put my bright bed on the other side of the room and have a neutral chocolatly brown the kind of balance it out (and then add touches of the colors everywhere to bring it together).





My parents, however, hate the brown. They think it's too dark (It's not a dark brown, it's a richer light brown). At first I icnored them, but I'm starting to think maybe it won't turn out as nice as I am picturing it in my head (since all of my furnature %26amp; door/window framing is an oak wood that the brown doesn't really go with.)Paint color help...?
I think I would go with ';gleeful'; b/c you should still have a fun room when you're a teen. You've got your whole adult life to paint your home adult colors like brown.





Check out this room we did with ';cooled blue'; %26amp; ';melange green.'; It looks even more terrific than how I'd originally pictured it:


http://www.roomvues.com/publicPicture.ph鈥?/a>Paint color help...?
i would go with green





this is my room


http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=33ky8no%26amp;鈥?/a>
Light green


calm enough to blend in with other colors in the room


but still pops out and doesn't seem like a grandma's room
Have you ever thought about painting the walls turquoise and putting brown stripes down the wall. Another suggestion would be to paint the top half of the walls turquoise and paint the bottom half of the walls brown and then add stripes of turquoise to the brown bottom and brown stripes on the turquoise paint. It would be a lot of work but it would be well worth it. It's really not that hard just time consuming. To save some time you could paint only two of the walls that way.
Bring your bedding into the paint store and they can match up colors from the bedding pallette.Buy samples of your faves (about $3 each),test them on the walls and see which ones appeal to you the most.Windows,lighting and other elements can affect the way paint looks on samples and what they actually look like on the finished wall.

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