Decorating ideas please
 

As you'll all know, we've refurbished a 1974 bungalow and made it into a house. Internally it's now very modern with lovely oak and glazed doors like this. This is the double door to the sitting room

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/100_1159.jpg

The ick p1ss green paint was under some equally hideous wallpaper, this is about the only wall that wasn't replastered.

And this is the front door

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/100_1160.jpg

Sort of gives you an idea... we have laminate floors everywhere, velux windows upstairs at the front in a sloping ceiling, big picture windows facing south west at the back.

Kitchen is cream unts with red/brown/green tiles, like this:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/100_1163.jpg

This is the view from the sitting room into the den:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/100_1164.jpg

This is the fireplace in the sitting room. That's the messy kitchen you can see, too:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/100_1165.jpg

Nearly finished sorting all the boxes!!!!

So... decorating ideas required please. Colours? Lots of glass faces south-west so in summer there will be lots of light. Strong colours anywhere or white throughout? One wall wallpapered? Is coving fashionable? Blinds or curtains?

Ideas gratefully received...

Re: Decorating ideas please
 

Coving is a no no IMO if your after modern, feature walls still popular, magnolia or very light brown still work especially with what you have there Ed.

Re: Decorating ideas please
 

I don't like all this papering one wall lark. I think you want one colour throughout. Probably a magnolia, but towards the whiter end.

IMO coving won't go with the fairly modern effect doors you have,.

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Listen to old lawrence there....;)

All good advice.

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I got coving and it looks ok, it's not your cheap polystyrene tosh its plain and made from plasterboard.

It's great for hiding cables and the like behind.

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Rob I go into a lot of peoples houses and I know what works and what don't :p

For the record I have coving in some rooms in my house .

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Exactly why I have it here.

Got cables running under it I couldnt hide any other way.

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Seems fine to me, just buy loads of cheap prints & a bag of nails.
SORTED ;)

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Yeah but the poor bugger who changes the coving in the future will have a pain with it especially if the adhesive is set around and intwinned with the cables , I'm talking from experience here btw.

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Who cares?!


It wont be me ;)

Oh and plenty of adhesive so it doesnt have to be pinned or filled along the edges ;)