Home Decoration / Bedroom

[old.user4556]

Can anyone recommend a website or reading material that has ideas or interior designs for a modern bedroom?

Remember, i'm only 25 so it must be trendy for a yuppie; everything I find on the web is very "granny" and the magazines in the shops aren't much better. I don't want to be having buttsekz with my Mrs in what looks like my Gran's front room, it's just wrong.

Perhaps you've decorated to a modern standard yourself, so lets hear/see some ideas.

 

[DaGaffer]

Living Etc. magazine is about the best combination of trendy stuff you can actually do without it being pretentious wank like Wallpaper.

 

[throdgrain]

This thread is funny

 

[old.user4556]

How so?

 

[Tom]

What might suit you best G is bare walls, if the plaster is in good condition.

If it is, then just paint on a cheapo coat of emulsion, then follow it up with 3-4 coats of your chosen colour.

If the plaster is crap, then get some heavy lining paper, paper it up, and then paint that instead.

Remember when you're choosing paint colours that the colours on the card are as they would look in daylight - if the room is dark they won't look the same. Choose wisely, best to buy a small tin and test an area first.

Oh and a decent quality roller makes all the difference.

 

[old.user4556]

Well the walls will be basic magnolia to begin with (it's a new build) so they will be pretty smooth, but yes just simple emulsion paint and simple colours (but what colours...).

 

[Tom]

For matching colours you can't really go wrong with the booklets that they'll have in B&Q in the paint section.

 

[DaGaffer]

This thread is funny

You live in a Set. What do you know?

 

[Wij]

Well the walls will be basic magnolia to begin with (it's a new build) so they will be pretty smooth, but yes just simple emulsion paint and simple colours (but what colours...).

Leave them magnolia. Coloured walls suck

Minimalist-Wij

 

[old.user4556]

mmmm, dunno Wij - same brightness as magnolia but different hue ?

 

[Lazarus]

http://www.dulux.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...=LIST&storeId=10752&catalogId=10051&langId=-1

 

[Tom]

You're best off buying a bunch of magazines from a decent sized Newsagent, WHSmith perhaps.

Just remember that if you use strong colours, even pale, you will have to buy furniture that matches. Its no good having nice pale green walls with blue sofas, because it will always look shit.

There are a lot of really nice paints around these days that can give you a textured finish like suede. I've seen some nice brown suede finishes that look great - but only on the one wall. If you painted the entire room, they'd look crap. If you have a chimney breast (unlikely) then these paints can look great to make the breast stand out, but if not then just one wall (the one that faces the window, or the one that the bed backs onto) would still look great. These paints are a bit expensive though.


Don't forget lighting though, and not just lighting from the ceiling. Lighting affects the mood of a room massively. For instance, if you paint your room in dark colours thats going to be fine, but if the room doesn't have a lot of natural light - it would look oppressive. Considering this is a bedroom, you'll probably want it to look light and airy/fresh during the day, warm and relaxing at night. Strong colours aren't going to do this. You should set aside a couple of hundred quid for some decent lighting, a couple of uplighters in opposite corners, some bedside lamps for reading, and perhaps a lamp or two to highlight a feature of the room.

I'm just rambling really, but thats what I try and do when making an interview look pretty for telly.

 

[old.user4556]

Living Etc. magazine is about the best combination of trendy stuff you can actually do without it being pretentious wank like Wallpaper.

Had a look at Wallpaper today, pretentious indeed - got Living etc, and Bedroom Bathroom Kitchen (or whatever the order is). Got some ideas.

I've decided thus for the master bedroom:

Nice and simple as Wij suggested; paint the whole room brilliant white including the coving and ceiling (which'll be white anyway). The bed is double and is a sort of modern chrome framed affair, a white five drawer high chest of drawers from Ikea (already have this in my room) with a beech top will house by smalls and some tops. The bed sheets will probably be white with a dash of obscure colour, probably light blue.

Bedside cabinets will probably be a minimalist affair, perhaps Ikea's Malm units in white. The wall opposite the bed will have a single shelf below a large, partially illuminated mirror for when I need to preen myself. Also good for watching the expression on my girlfriend's face when I give her a hot beef injection.

Above the bed will be two large-ish squares (about 2' square) that will be embossed from the wall - sticking out by about 1 inch or so. Behind the squares will be Ikea's Trettioen, two per square that will provide an atmospheric glow to the back of the squares.

Not sure what colour to have the squares, perhaps both white - perhaps one pale blue to match the splash of colour on the bedsheet and the other a dusky brown. Not decided that yet.

All plug sockets and light switches will be chrome to match the chrome bed frame.

 

[lilmissnaughty]

careful with too much white tho can come out a tad harsh n clinical...
dont wanna end up with:
clinical colourscheme + minimal furniture = asylum

nah should be alright if u soften it up with the right lighting, uplighters downlighters diffuse it a bit etc.
whatcha doin with the floor?wood or carpet?
u should make pics when its done so we can all see

 

[DaGaffer]

White can be OK so long you put contrasts in there. Personally, I've got a lot of white/cream colours downstairs, but I prefer warmer colours for bedrooms:

 

[Damini]

Just chipping in my two ovaries worth, but a white bedroom? This invokes many things for me (sterile room for chemo kids, doctors surgery, person with severe ocd who will insist you lie on a towel whilst love making and wipes you down with dettol before and after, observation room in weird sci fi film where two aliens hide behind a mirror and study "human life", a psychopath's room designed so the blood will be easier to detect and bleach away, a padded room sans padding) but sexy boudoir of shed inhibitions is not one. A white lounge, hallway, decked with modern art = beautiful. A white bedroom = questions such as: why does it smell of dettol in here, and why do you keep all your toenails in this drawer labelled "toenails"?

Hey, it could look nice and be romantic, or at the very least, potentially pornographic. I'm sure Wij's magnolia fest is a veritable den of things that used to be illegal, and probably still are in most american states. It just sounds a bit bleak to me. I'm not saying paint it lavender and have bedsheets with flowers on them, I just thought I'd say ugh to the whiteness. Sorry :/

 

[Ch3tan]

If you go for white, having one wall in a bolder colour will break it up and make it less sterile.

Have a look at the tips on the dulux site, should tell you which wall to do in relation to the position of your door and windows.

Also, apart from the skirting and borders, why use brilliant white? Lots of shades of white available. I have chalk white on my ceiling, takes away the sterile edge.

 

[TdC]

must have been hard getting the bedroom pics just so that you don't see the metal wall hangings and pink PVC gimp suit















jk looks nice

 

[DaGaffer]

must have been hard getting the bedroom pics just so that you don't see the metal wall hangings and pink PVC gimp suit

It's all in the angles my friend, all in the angles. Anyway, the dungeon's downstairs.

 

[Overdriven]

Nice living room =O I like those colours ;o

 

[TdC]

it's too neat I live in a cave, constructed from mountainbike and computer parts, with little bits and pieces strewn everywhere. Gaffer's house makes me itch. I'd be more at home in the dungeon he mentions

 

[Bodhi]

How about Rosso Corsa walls with Magnolia skirting boards?

 

[old.user4556]

Not a white fan

I guess you don't like white. I see what you mean, maybe too much white will be over kill - but see Gaff's front lounge? I absolutely love that, i love the whiteness of it and the clinical look of it. Perhaps i need to break it up with some colour, such as:

... but not black ...

 

[old.user4556]

More white:

 

[rynnor]

Lol - I have Da Gaffers bedroom colour in my living room - nice terracotta - gives a great feeling of warmth.

How bout putting in some laminate flooring - its not just wood styles either - you can get some really nice tile type ones that look pretty amazing once down as youd never get tiles in as neat a line.

 

[Damini]

White in the lounge = lovely. White in the hallway = modern chic. White in the bedroom = sexually over compensating estate agent. It's not that I don't like white as such, just there are some locations that just don't suit it.

And if you do insist on getting a white bedroom, don't get black ash furniture - the nineties will call and demand their perma batchelor look back.

 

[Clown]

Lol - I have Da Gaffers bedroom colour in my living room - nice terracotta - gives a great feeling of warmth.

Heh, us too.

We've had post your desktop. Post your real desktop. Does anyone want a post your house thread?

 

[old.user4556]

Don't see why not, i wouldn't like posting pictures of *all* my rooms - the net is full of weird, thieving stalker types like Trem.

Also, posting pics of your parent's house (if one lives with mum and dad) would be lame. Imo.

 

[Clown]

I live with my mum and dad, but I spend most of the time in my room. Depending on how bored I am, you might even see where I go poo poo!

 

[old.user4556]

Start a thread and see where it goes