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TO think my decorating idea is a good one?!

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LucyDontLockIt · 15/09/2018 16:52

Small bedroom, not quite a box room but certainly a single room.
My idea for decoration - white walls with one "brick effect" feature wall.
Distressed oak flooring. Matching Black bedside table and drawers
(These ones)
Black and chrome metal bed frame with a colourful duvet cover.
DH thinks it sounds dull. AIBU in thinking it sounds quite nice?!

TO think my decorating idea is a good one?!
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Bluntness100 · 15/09/2018 17:48

Bet you wish you never asked

🤣🤣🤣

Motoko · 15/09/2018 17:55

No to brick wallpaper, especially in a small room, and the whole scheme sounds quite cold, with hard surfaces everywhere. It's a bedroom, so you need it to feel warm and restful.

If you're going for a hardwood floor, you'll need a rug. A padded headboard is more comfortable to sit up against, than a metal one, where the pillows fall between the posts or twirly bits.

Sorry, not what you want to hear, but it doesn't sound like a room you'd want to linger in. Style over substance comes to mind. Are you decorating it to be used, or to post pictures of on Instagram?

kenandbarbie · 15/09/2018 18:12

All sounds nice except the brick effect wallpaper

Racecardriver · 15/09/2018 18:17

Well dull isn't at all the word I would choose. Potentially v gaudy.

GerdaLovesLili · 15/09/2018 18:23

Brick effect wallpaper? I've only ever seen it used on Eastenders...

LucyDontLockIt · 15/09/2018 18:39

😂 I'm so glad I asked!!

Ok so the room is a guest room, used by DSS for one night maybe twice a month. He doesn't care what it looks like. I was going to decorate it totally to DSS's liking but DH says no, just decorate it as a general guest room.

So my idea was shit, that's fair enough! Any suggestions on what I should do? Nothing too girly but not overly boyish either as it's to be used by adults. It's literally a blank canvas (I'll be gutting it) so any suggestions or ideas appreciated!

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Sitranced · 15/09/2018 18:41

Sounds like a makeover from Changing Rooms.

RibbonAurora · 15/09/2018 18:49

Brick effect wallpaper? Um. No. And feature walls are a bit passé anyway, though I do like that flowery one pictured. The floor sounds nice but black furniture always looks a bit cheap flatpack to me. I'm with your DH tbh .

Aquamarine1029 · 15/09/2018 18:51

I think your idea sounds very cold and harsh. The black and chrome bed is seriously dated. You can still go warmer and softer with remaining gender neutral.

TO think my decorating idea is a good one?!
MrsStrowman · 15/09/2018 18:53

Sorry not to my taste

RabbitsAreTasty · 15/09/2018 18:54

What is the style / colour of the rest of your house?

TulipsInBloom1 · 15/09/2018 18:56

Whack Dulux Goose Down on the walls. White linen. Wood or white furniture. Navy throw at the bottom of the bed. Wood floor fine but put a rug down.

wildbhoysmama · 15/09/2018 19:00

Just buy an interiors magazine and there'll be loads of ideas- Your home/ Style at home are good for budget ideas too.

White walls are great, very fresh, but with a soft carpet, white bedding and lots of gorgeous cushions and cosy throws in whatever colour takes your fancy- navy? Ochre? Duck egg? Grey? So many out there with plains/ stripes/ checks/ patterns to chose from. You could do one wall in another colour/ wallpaper if you like once you see what sort furnishings take your fancy.
. Bedside tables should be white or wood- classic.

OnASwissRoll · 15/09/2018 19:10

Yeah I'm with your DH. Brick wallpaper is naff.

What about a white/grey/blue/mustard colour palette?

TO think my decorating idea is a good one?!
TO think my decorating idea is a good one?!
GimbleInTheWabe · 15/09/2018 19:17

I love @OnASwissRoll's second image. Looks really cosy and inviting but not too styled and pretty easy to pull off, probably quite affordable too if you get the soft furnishings from the high street.
You want somewhere where your guest/DSS can relax in.

Brick effect wallpaper is really tacky and tbh the whole 'feature wall' thing died a death a good while ago, thank god imo!

Kidneyvback · 15/09/2018 19:52

I'm with Swiss roll on this one! It's nice.

AnoukSpirit · 15/09/2018 20:38

Is the distressed oak flooring the actual flooring already or something you were going to add?

Grey weathered oak/wood flooring would be calming in a bedroom, especially a small room. It would also be a nice texture to have. One that you could introduce in other parts of the room, at different levels. Grey goes with more colours, and is softer.

What does the rest of the house look like? Does it all flow or is each room totally different?

I would generally in a small space not want more than 3 colours (although different shades of the same colour can be OK). So if the floor was grey I'd want to pick that up at different heights in the room - so maybe grey oak shelves on one wall or round a mirror frame.

Second colour on the walls (personally I wouldn't be keen on white bedroom walls unless you worked hard to soften it with the colours of everything else and had textiles and fixtures with colour at heights, it's very clinical). But the same colour on all the walls. If you really want a feature wall (not brick!) then make sure there are fixtures (shelves, mirror, pictures, etc) on the other three walls to draw them all back together again. Otherwise it feels too stark and disjointed in a small room.

Then your third colour for your textiles, soft furnishings, window coverings.

If it is quite small, arranging the furniture in non traditional ways can work better. So maybe the bedside table in the corner, the bed against the opposing wall, but the table still within reach of the bed. That way you feel like you've got more open room in front of you as the space is in the middle. You don't have to plonk the bed in the middle and make it a centrepiece. Makes the room feel less crowded.

Get some home furnishing/furniture catalogues, cut stuff out and arrange it on a piece of paper to have a play with what looks nice to you, which colours give the room the feel you'd like. Our ideas of a nice room could be horrible to you!

AnoukSpirit · 15/09/2018 20:41

Just thought, paint brochures have pictures of fully made up rooms too. So that could be a way to pick a colour palette you like as your starting point. And get some other ideas. Dulux etc usually publish a new one every season, and they do show off suggested colour combinations.

Shaboohshoobah1 · 15/09/2018 20:56

Don’t listen to strangers on the internet - they don’t have to live in your house! If you like it, do it - it’s your house to decorate how you like!

Bluntness100 · 15/09/2018 20:58

Don't go grey. It's about to die a death, everyone paints their houses grey...

It's quite difficult though as this is basically a boys room. And although it should be done as a general guest room, and to be honest I'm not sure why your husband wants that, his son should feel at home there and feel it's his room, then you're either going to have go neutral to make it palatable to him.

If you're into colour, then a dark racing green on the walls could work. A friend of mine has it in a small room and it's surprisingly nice. Or a nice sunny yellow could work.

Tough one though, I'd probably talk to my husband if I was you. I'd make this his sons room, he is more important than guests.

Motoko · 15/09/2018 21:11

If you like it, do it - it’s your house to decorate how you like!

It's also her husband's house, and he doesn't like it. So, compromise is needed.

Grey will still be around for a while, but another option would be a sage green, which has grey in it, but is a bit more interesting.

RippleEffects · 15/09/2018 21:19

I like the sound of the floor and a slightly industrial look.

In a small space I'd stick with white walls and create the look with the furnishings.

Ikea have a loft Industrial range that might be worth checking out for ideas.

llangennith · 15/09/2018 21:50

Makes a pleasant change to have an OP who asks for opinions and actually listens to them.

smallchanceofrain · 15/09/2018 21:58

Brick effect - please don't - it won't look like a New York loft because it's a small bedroom and they ain't real bricks.
Black and chrome - are you my ex-husband or Jeremy Clarkson?
Feature wall - are they back in?
Who is the room for? If it's a guest bedroom then I suppose you might get away with it.

CupOfStars · 15/09/2018 23:33

Don't go for grey. It looks so miserable and is just naff and overdone now.