Bedroom Talk

Artistic Bedroom- What colors should I choose for my bedroom walls, and bed spread?

I am an artist, and have a lot of colorful accessories in my room, such as: a pink paper lantern, a string of colorful Karma flags (blue white, red, orange, yellow, green) from Thailand, decoupaged boxes, my own paintings, etc. I also have a life size mannequin (as creepy as it may sound, it's actually pretty cool). I love to display my photos in frames that I have made, but I also have a lot of black poster frames which showcase a ton of photos, collage-style. I am replacing my double bed with a queen size, am wanting to paint the walls and will obviously be purchasing new linen for my new bed. My carpet is a gray-blue color, but I don't know how much of a problem that is. I am wondering what colors would work well with all of this. I've been searching design websites but they all have so many "rules". I want to keep everything I have in my room right now, except I want to tie it all together with some sort of theme or color. Or is just way too mismatched??

Public Comments

1. I think you should go for a light gray on the walls so that it can be a neutral backdrop to your art and accessories. You are adding your color and personality with those things. ( what fun!) Your bedding can also be a quiet neutral or go in the opposite direction and pick something in a stripe that has the colors from your paintings, flags, etc. Don't worry about the decorating rules. You are an artist. I bet your instincts will help you pull this together in a way that is pleasing to you. -Melisa Great Decorating Tips for an awesome home. http://www.DecorateMyHome.net
2. Since your carpeting is a gray-blue, I would paint one wall; usually the wall where the bed goes a deeper gray than the carpeting. You could paint the rest of the walls a lighter gray. As far as the bedding, I would go with a deeper color; something that will contrast the walls. Even if the bedding had some black in it, you could use pillows, accessories so it all blends in. I am sure whatever you decide, it will look awesome.
3. play around with the Sherwin Williams color visualizer to find something that you like. It is the best paint visualizer on the web, imho. I like how their color palette is laid out, I like that you can search by color family & color name, the "painted" rooms look the most realistic, and it suggests coordinating color schemes. You can literally spend hours: http://www.sherwin.com/visualizer/ I think a neutral like "studio taupe" (# 7549) would provide the perfect backdrop for all of your colorful things. You can also take a photo of your house & upload it to the makeover gallery on this website: http://www.roomvues.com/ You can get color suggestions & they'll photoshop them onto your room so that you can get an idea of what it will look like.