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Need help with Master bedroom finishing touches

10 years ago

I can't decide what to put on the walls. The window on the right throws off the symmetry of the room, so I'm having trouble figuring out what and where to place items. The wall on the left is bare and large as well. Also, do I need larger lamps? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My taste is traditional/classic with modern coastal touches.

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Gantt's Decorating

10 years ago

I hit the wrong button and lost this post so if I seem cranky that is why. I won't waste any time with niceties. Here is what you need to do with this room!!! Take down the window treatments. Find art work that has the colors you want in the room. You will need one large one for over the headboard. The frames should almost match the wood in the furniture. Depending on the size you will need enough( coordinating in color and subject) to hang a gallery arrangement on the large empty wall on the left. The art should start about 12" above the baseboard and go up to about 8" from the ceiling. The one over the headboard should have about 6" to the ceiling and 3" to the top of the headboard. Paint the walls and woodwork trim the "same" color. Doors windows baseboard all of it. This eliminates contrast and makes the room look bigger. It also helps the odd placement of the window less noticeable. If you need daytime privacy on the windows, put gathered sheer on rods tight top and bottom. If the windows are deep enough make roman shades in plain fabric exactly the color of the walls. Now the only thing to focus on in the room is the bed. Using colors a little brighter than the colors in the framed art, dress the bed. Move the bed to the right as far as it will go or until the headboard is lined up with the outer edge of the window trim. This will give you a little breathing room on the left of the bed. Replace the ceiling fixture with something much less flashy. Put much larger lamps on the night tables. IIn rooms overflowing with furniture like this it is important for the walls to be medium to dark so the furniture blends not contrasts with the walls. Unfortunately I don't have pictures, but I have done several rooms with similar problems and this will make the room look as good as possible under the circumstances Bill.

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printesa
10 years ago
Would it be possible to move the bed with the headboard on the left wall? I don't know where the door is so I can't tell if you can move it or not. As for the lamps, they need to be bigger (at least as tall as the headboard)
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FRED HOFFMAN ARCHITECTURE
10 years ago
Please take more pictures. It is very difficult without more interior views.
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Given the wooden window frames, consider roman shades or woven wood roll up shades. I would not add too much white since three of your walls, your baseboard and your crowne molding are already white, not to mention your bedframe (great bed by the way). Having said that, white night stands would be good, but suggest something other than white lamps, although white lamp shades would work. You mentioned Ikea. They have some great fabrics, bedcovers and lamps/lampshades. Ikea also has various window treatments, including roman type shades. They also sell a sliding panel system that is awesome if you see a color that works. It comes in various colors and would really add some life to the room. The panels slide on a rail system, allowing you to close and open them as desired. Agree it would be nice to pull the colors together with fabric that has both the green and the blue, either with the bedcover, pillows or window coverings. Also like the suggestion to try several small items over the bed (doesn't have to be pictures). The example picture shows three pictures of the same size. Two smaller items with one large in the middle also works well and might be a better fit with your square shaped bedframe. FYI, the lamps in the photo with the three pictures over the bed are really a bit small for that room. Notice in the picture of your bed, the lamps are much taller. Either tall lamps or lamps with a fairly large scale would be a good match to your bedframe. I would hold off on the ceiling light fixture until you have the bed in the room and have chosen your lamps, window treatments and other furniture. With all of these elements in the room, you will have an easier time chosing a ceiling fixture that matches the scale of the room and matches the style of your other furnishings. You have a great start going. Good luck with the finishing touches.
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Hi Orla. I've looked at your ideabook and assume you're happy to stick with the monotone look? I'd look at papering the ŵall behind the bed in Cole and son library panel wallpaper in midnight (pic will follow but it would also look good in a light shade!). The rest of the walls I'd do in a pale but warm grey. Which way does the room face in terms of lights? Go for black bedside cabinets but maybe something with curved lines or round handles against the bed. Either glass bedside lamps with white shades or in a warm metal or pendants hung low over the bedsides, Stick to white bed linen but add a charcoal throw with lots of texture. Choose cushions with different texture and patterns from White through to charcoal. Depending on what flooring you have you could also add a grey textured rug under the bed. I'd go for plain pale-mid grey curtains. If you have the space/budget a patterned black/grey and white chair would look great. I think the key thing is texture for interest so maybe also a large antiqued mirror, a chandelier with a silk drum shade, white flowers etc.
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Melissa Gibson
Original Author
10 years ago
Unfortunately this is the only way the furniture can be arranged in the room since our furniture is so large (purchased it before buying this house). The first picture is the wall on the left(as seen from doorway) the second is the wall to the right (doorway wall, it is also recessed where the dresser sits). The third pic is of art work I already have that could possible work. Just not sure where to put it. The wall to the left of doorway is all closet.
pcmom1
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
I not giving up yet on rearranging the furniture! Can you post a photo while standing next to the bed looking at the opposite wall? Also draw out a sketch of the room with dimensions and also give dimensions of the furniture.

Can try putting your bed coming out from the corner at 45 degrees. That can help sometimes to free up wall space. Then put the lower dresser next to bed as one of the bedside tables.
Nancy Travisinteriors
10 years ago
Do the whole wall in floor to ceiling with drapes pick a shiny silky fabric that is 2 shades darker than walls. Solid. Then you can center bed on wall more. Yes taller lamps. Make base a accent color and light gray shades. Is that your wall color gray? Silver will also work for accent color, in drapes.
pcmom1
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
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Nancy Travisinteriors
10 years ago
On other long wall. Add 2 tall 5 -6 ft and wide 24" mirrors in dark thick frames hang low with 2" between them.
Nancy Travisinteriors
10 years ago
Why is dresser sitting in front of bed? It should be turned around and placed against wall. Put doors back on closet.
Nancy Travisinteriors
10 years ago
You have too much furn for small rm. what is sitting in front of strange set up with dresser? A TV? If a TV stand remove put dresser in its place and put TV on top.
Nancy Travisinteriors
10 years ago
pcmom. Though I like yr ideas, I think rm is to small to angle a bed. Need a very big room to pull off that look.
janeinfo
10 years ago
If you have an entry hall, your 9 drawer dresser could be used as an entry hall piece -- or maybe a tv stand in your den. Of coarse you would have to travel to get your clothing, but I think you have too much furniture in such a little room. My parents currently are doing this after downsizing into a smaller place. They are using their dresser as a tv stand. It works well and no one knows their clothes are in the drawers!
pcmom1
10 years ago
Trans you might be right there, but I always say "moving furniture is free"! I do think that it might work if that tall dresser could be moved to a different wall.

Poster, do you have a couple of friends and some furniture sliders?
Melissa Gibson
Original Author
10 years ago
Thanks everyone for the comments. We have rearranged every way possible already. With the bed on the long wall there was only about 6 inches between end of the bed and the tall dresser. I know that the furniture is to big but I'm not willing to part with it as it's only a few years old and I spent WAY to much on it. Unfortunately we need all the storage space possible and I've already tried to find other areas in the house for it but we just don't have the space (foyer to small and it looked stupid in the living room). Sucks, I know! We are a military family that has to move often, so I'm just trying to make the space look as good as possible with the current layout/furniture. I wish I could afford to buy new furniture for every new house we have to move to but thats just not possible. The closet doors are still being painted and will be hung back up soon. Thanks again for all the suggestions. I really appreciate them!
pcmom1
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
OK, nothing will move. I understand. So, back to what you asked to begin with.

I would your two prints to the long wall next to the bed. I think if you replace the small bedside lamps, move both off. Replace the one next to the wall, with a hanging light that would help with the asymmetry, the other could be put on the tall dresser or elsewhere in your home.

Second photo shows transinterior's idea of a full wall of drapery.
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studio10001
10 years ago
When you move a lot, simple is good.
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Marly
10 years ago
Get an oversize drapery rod and drapery rings, and hang a tapestry.
Melissa Gibson
Original Author
10 years ago
Decided to go a slightly different route and bought white linen curtains and new bedding. Still searching for an accent pillow and new lamps. Any recommendations on either?
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Sablotny Floors
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
I think you should hang your existing chandelier/light to the left of your bed to help with the symmetry. I also agree that you should get bigger/taller lamps to put on each side. I really love mercury glass. It's clean and pretty. As for the accent pillow, I think a silver or metallic one would be really pretty with the grays in your new bedding. It would also look great with mercury glass lamps. I think you should hang big (maybe rectangular or two big square) mirrors on the left wall where it is bare. It could act as a faux window and also help balance out the room. Just a few suggestions :)

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