Ok I'm changing what was a study into a dressing room (it's 3mx3m roughly) in my 3 bed house, I live alone without kids hence the reason I can have this room - I am not loaded.
I have a desk in the room which I really can't afford to replace. It's a white gloss desk. All around the room on top of the picture rail there is a white gloss shelf which I have filled with shoes inside clear boxes.
I have a gold ornate mirror that I would love to have put in this room, but because the desk is so contemporary I don't feel I can use the mirror.
Does anyone have any good ideas on how contemporary and ornate can work together?
I was thinking: white gloss desk, put some vinyl stickers on it which extend off the desk and onto the wall in a floral pattern. Put the gold mirror over the desk. On the wall opposite the mirror buy a collection of gold ornate frames and hang jewellery inside the frames in an artistic way. Then put an ornate chair (which I found today for £40) under the desk. Dress the window with a white/maybe pink voile on a gold pole. Buy a contemporary white light fitting. And have assorted knick knacks on the desk in tones of pinks, blacks, whites and greys (walls are a really light grey)
My worry is the desk will look a bit random if I arrange the room like this? So maybe I should get a panton style chair, keep the desk, vinyl stickers, window voile, and use a more contemporary mirror.
Really I want to go down the OTT ornate route but my brain is telling me the contemporary version will work best with the desk and that mixing it together will look shit?
Sorry for such a long winded post!
PS> the desk was quite expensive and I can't sell it (it's my exs and he wants to store it here while we wait for our early mortgage repayment thingy to be up when I can buy him out ) or put it anywhere else .
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Style guru needed: do I go contemporary route or ornate/vintage or maybe both?!
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navyeyelasH · 15/01/2011 17:23
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