TO think my decorating idea is a good one?!

[LucyDontLockIt]

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?!

We've got brick effect wallpaper in our living room, we love it! We used to have a floral pattern which look horrible and cheap.

Everyone is different

Everyone saying feature walls are out, is it the done thing to have all 4 walls the same colour now?

The majority of the house is white. Kitchen is black floor tiles, white cupboards, chrome sink and oven. Dining room is wood floor, white walls and dark oak furniture ... living room is upside down because I have just started decorating it. I was going to do a feature wall but now I'm scared I'll end up on eastenders! So seriously, nobody does feature walls now?

I've always had a feature wsll in the lounge. Either darker shade of paint to other 3 or wallpaper

Too much black in a small space!

I sort of have a feature wall in a sitting room which was designed by an interior designer. But it’s very subtle. Walls are painted grey and the wallpaper is a similar shade of grey and cream. Very simple. Just adds a bit of interest.

Another option is to have one wall a darker version of the colour in your other walls. We did that in a dining room and it worked well. Not a massive difference but just a bit darker.

Well I'm the living room I was thinking of white walls with a white/silver wallpaper on one wall. I need to get some magazines don't I!

If it's small, then a brick or feature wall will make it feel smaller. Black furniture can look very cheap if you're not careful: and it dates quickly.

Brick effect wallpaper and a metal bed sounds like a prison cell.

I'd find a bedroom like that very relaxing and would enjoy sleeping in it. It's an especially good idea for a guest bedroom: guests' tastes will vary and this won't offend the eye of any of them and besides, should you ever want to turn this room to another use you won't have to waste time ripping wallpaper with giant peonies or the like down from the wall.

I don't think anything but duvet covers in strong rich colourssolid or perhaps with understated geometric patternwould look well in the room. Pastels, flowery covers would be completely out of keeping. I didn't know there was such a thing as fake-brick wallpaper and now I'm sorry I do. Just don't. No, reallly, don't. Unless you're planning on putting plastic hula girls, shiny posters of flamingoes, and combination ash tray-thermometers in the form of a miniature Eiffel Tower to make it clear that you're paying camp tribute to kitsch.

Yeah the feature walls are out now. Remember years ago when everybody had 3 walls a colour and a main wall a floral wallpaper? Yeah no..

All the one colour now. I still like grey as long as the rest of the room looks nice

Black and chrome screams ‘cheap bachelor pad’ to me — the kind of single male-occupied space that just has an armchair in front of a PS4, accessorised with a lot of takeaway containers.

Sounds awful - especially the colourful duvet colour. Adding colour to a room doesn't mean black and white and then a random duvet - will look like your usual one is in the wash!
'Pops of colour' only work when there is good balance and harmony.

Get on pinterest!

Sounds v teenagery and a bit passé

I put brick effect bedroom into Pintrest and this was the only half decent one that came up. It still looks vaguely prison cell like but not hideous.

Itd look better with just painted walls.

Ooh I just re-did my ds’s bedroom. It’s tiny tiny and had one of those huge old elevated bed/desks in (couldn’t fit much else). It was hideous when we took everything out. We did floorboards stained in dark oak (lovely and warm looking), a Klimt style rug for colour, warm cream walls, dark red farrow and ball picture rail, cream blind, wooden bed (futon company twingle sofabed in red) with dark red duvet. It looks twice the size and he loves it.

I like a feature wall, don't follow fashion. However the one rule for me would be don't do those cheapo wall papers from b&q or Homebase with the big garish flowers or something on.

Do something expensive and subtle. It's just one wall. And blend the other walls in with it. So less feature as in "in your face", more a subtle differential that blends well and adds interest.