Mara
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okay so the current bane of my decorating existence is our guest room. warning, this is a long ramble!!!
currently the guest room it has a hodgepodge of stuff in it that didn''t fit elsewhere along with a queen bed, a tall black iron mirror (that i want to leave), a small tall glass top table with a wire statue of a musical instrument on it in bronze and black, a pine nightstand and lamp.
here''s the deal. i want to paint it chesterfield buff from BM and i posted pictures of my sample paint spots in a previous thread, i will put them in here too.
i bought 3 bronze stars from ebay, very similar to the PB ones but just cheaper and different sizes. these are going over the bed in a cluster.
i also have a 3'' mahogany PB frame shelf that goes on the wall and we have 3 pieces of 16x20 large matted artwork that i bought last year at a festival, they are artistic pictures of musical instruments. i bought 3 16x20 dark mahogany thin frame from cost plus to put these in and put 2 on top of the 3'' shelf and another one over in a corner of the room over the small musical instrument and table.
the nightstand and lamp may or may not be replaced, those are the last things to be decided after the rest of the room is done. i have a picture of the existing guest room at home, i will have to post it later for some visuals.
the problem now is the BED and what to put on it. i have been agonizing over this for 2 weeks now, ridiculous. i thought maybe i wanted a green duvet cover, something in a sage to go with the light golden CB walls and the dark bronze/mahogany feel of the other pieces in the room. also the guest bath next door is creams/soft sages (i am painting the walls in there a pale pale sage) with accents in light grayish blue. but i couldn''t find a duvet cover on ebay from RH or PB that went with what i had in my head and i refused to pay retail because this is not supposed to be a huge money sinkhole to redecorate the room.
so then i hit on the idea of doing a layered bed, something like a quilt folded at the foot, with a white down blanket and then colored sheets with shams and pillows etc in the colors. i saw it in PB and thought that may be a nice way to not be ''married'' to a bed color or a duvet cover. we already have a white down blanket, so i figured some sage sheets on overstock $50 and a quilt and shams from eBay for like $150 or $200. so anyway i found PB nesting silk quilts on Ebay and fell in love with Dusty Mint. however a set was $280. the same silk nesting quilt in Lemongrass which was slightly different with a shams in a set was $200. so i bit the bullet and bough the Lemongrass quilt and sham set.
then i freaked out. my worry is that the yellow golden walls in CB mixed with the Lemongrass of the new bedding will be TOO yellow and will turn the walls a sickly green or something, visually. i brought a pillow upstairs that was ''my'' interpretation of Lemongrass and it looks kind of icky in the room with the CB. so now i am really freaking out. i haven''t paid for the eBay auction yet but i don''t plan to back out so now i have to figure out if i am freaking out over nothing OR if there really may be an issue with the color of the walls mixed with the lemongrass. HOWEVER, i wonder if i am worrynig over nothing because this is just a quilt and 2 shams that are going to be in this green, i was thinking all white sheets and then the dark wood accents and bronze in the room HOPEFULLY would balance it out? am i freaking over nothing?
i don''t want to have to get another color for the walls, but now i am thinking maybe i could have BM take the CB color at 75% to lighten it a bit so it''s not so yellowy? should i wait til we get the lemongrass here at the house to look at it? that won''t be til next wed or thurs probably and i was kind of hoping to paint this weekend.
typically i am not wishy washy like this but it''s SUPER HARD for me to make decor changes that are big like wall paint etc and i have the hardest time committing to things when you don''t know what it will look like. help!
pictures to follow...
currently the guest room it has a hodgepodge of stuff in it that didn''t fit elsewhere along with a queen bed, a tall black iron mirror (that i want to leave), a small tall glass top table with a wire statue of a musical instrument on it in bronze and black, a pine nightstand and lamp.
here''s the deal. i want to paint it chesterfield buff from BM and i posted pictures of my sample paint spots in a previous thread, i will put them in here too.
i bought 3 bronze stars from ebay, very similar to the PB ones but just cheaper and different sizes. these are going over the bed in a cluster.
i also have a 3'' mahogany PB frame shelf that goes on the wall and we have 3 pieces of 16x20 large matted artwork that i bought last year at a festival, they are artistic pictures of musical instruments. i bought 3 16x20 dark mahogany thin frame from cost plus to put these in and put 2 on top of the 3'' shelf and another one over in a corner of the room over the small musical instrument and table.
the nightstand and lamp may or may not be replaced, those are the last things to be decided after the rest of the room is done. i have a picture of the existing guest room at home, i will have to post it later for some visuals.
the problem now is the BED and what to put on it. i have been agonizing over this for 2 weeks now, ridiculous. i thought maybe i wanted a green duvet cover, something in a sage to go with the light golden CB walls and the dark bronze/mahogany feel of the other pieces in the room. also the guest bath next door is creams/soft sages (i am painting the walls in there a pale pale sage) with accents in light grayish blue. but i couldn''t find a duvet cover on ebay from RH or PB that went with what i had in my head and i refused to pay retail because this is not supposed to be a huge money sinkhole to redecorate the room.
so then i hit on the idea of doing a layered bed, something like a quilt folded at the foot, with a white down blanket and then colored sheets with shams and pillows etc in the colors. i saw it in PB and thought that may be a nice way to not be ''married'' to a bed color or a duvet cover. we already have a white down blanket, so i figured some sage sheets on overstock $50 and a quilt and shams from eBay for like $150 or $200. so anyway i found PB nesting silk quilts on Ebay and fell in love with Dusty Mint. however a set was $280. the same silk nesting quilt in Lemongrass which was slightly different with a shams in a set was $200. so i bit the bullet and bough the Lemongrass quilt and sham set.
then i freaked out. my worry is that the yellow golden walls in CB mixed with the Lemongrass of the new bedding will be TOO yellow and will turn the walls a sickly green or something, visually. i brought a pillow upstairs that was ''my'' interpretation of Lemongrass and it looks kind of icky in the room with the CB. so now i am really freaking out. i haven''t paid for the eBay auction yet but i don''t plan to back out so now i have to figure out if i am freaking out over nothing OR if there really may be an issue with the color of the walls mixed with the lemongrass. HOWEVER, i wonder if i am worrynig over nothing because this is just a quilt and 2 shams that are going to be in this green, i was thinking all white sheets and then the dark wood accents and bronze in the room HOPEFULLY would balance it out? am i freaking over nothing?
i don''t want to have to get another color for the walls, but now i am thinking maybe i could have BM take the CB color at 75% to lighten it a bit so it''s not so yellowy? should i wait til we get the lemongrass here at the house to look at it? that won''t be til next wed or thurs probably and i was kind of hoping to paint this weekend.
typically i am not wishy washy like this but it''s SUPER HARD for me to make decor changes that are big like wall paint etc and i have the hardest time committing to things when you don''t know what it will look like. help!
pictures to follow...
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