Decorating ideas please

[anna]

Ed, its obviously all down to your taste.

Perhaps using the colour scheme from the kitchen tiles and colour match with one wall on the fireplace wall the darkest colour of the tiles (the brownish colour?) to bring out the warmth in the room but matching the floor too.

If you going to put blinds in how about a deep coloured wood blind to be able to open fully in summer but also keep the warmth cosy feeling in winter?

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Ed

So... decorating ideas required please.

You could do either, bright and bold, i.e red etc etc or go natural neutral colours.

Our house is similar. Laminate floor etc etc. I for some reason like browns / natural colours. Our Bedroom has one wall in dark chocolate colour and the rest of it is a natural stone colour, works well in daylight, is bright and gives light back, but at night it gives off a warm relaxing kind of feel.

Living room is the same, chocolate leather sofa, with natural stone colour walls with laminate.

If you are going strong colours, then personally I'd not paint a whole room like that and do someting with a feature wall and make it into a focal point i.e. one red wall and then the rest white.

and I f*cking hate magnolia. I dont know why, it seems such a safe dull choice, its what everybody paints their walls when they dont know what colours to choose.

Best thing I can suggest is go to B & Q and pick up some testers and colour charts. Some of the Dulux ones have ideas for what colours for what rooms. Also I think the Dulux website will also give you some ideas of what works with what colour and in what situation...

I`d say that with a house looking that modern you just need to paint it all in just a plain cream/magnolia. It all looks lovely Ed, very impressive.

The cream would be a blank canvas so in time if you felt you needed a splash of colour you`ll have more of an idea of what colours to introduce. If you want colour then i`d say that the only option i`d possibly go for would be in your lounge and a nice cream wallpaper with a deep red flower would be nice but this might be too much on all the walls so look at papering some in a patterned paper ie. alcoves and the remaining walls in a plain paper. I recently decorated my lounge with patterned paper in the alcoves and the plain matching paper from the same range on the remaining walls.... looks fantastic

If you added a load of red accessories ie. vases, bowls of pot pourri, candles etc it`ll add a lot of warmth.

Best of luck and best wishes to you all in your new home x

[dirtydog]

I generally only decorate in 2/3 colours White, magnolia and soft cream those colours go with everything. I'd be more inclined to get some nice pictures to put up rather than doing a feature wall etc. Pictures are much easier to change when you get bored with them