Painting bedroom ceiling dark - 12 foot ceiling
Greetings, I need to repaint my bedroom. I want to do a limited colore palette, which I find more restful. I recently ordered roman shades for these three bay windows, and was thinking of painting three paint options:
1.) Paint ceiling a shade of black. The walls, ceiling molding, and baseboards would be a second color (maybe a tan), and have the window trim be the same black as the ceiling.
2.) Paint the ceiling, walls, baseboard, and moldings a white or light tan, and have just the window trim black, with black night stands.
3.) Paint the window cove walls back, while the rest of the walls would be white, and have the ceiling, moldings, and baseboards white, and maybe also paint black a 2nd wall (like the walls next to the fireplace.
4.) Something else?
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-Roman shade fabric is a combo of white, silver, gold, and black.
- Ceilings are about 12 feet
-House on somewhat busy city street.
-Bedroom has 4 windows, including one huge-door sized window with a balcony, and then lots of doors on one wall for add-on bathroom and tiny closet, and a fireplace (excessive amount of features for one room)
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emiliaonice
17 days ago
houssaon
17 days agolast modified: 17 days agoHow about this shade of gray with either black or white trim and an icy blue ceiling? Blue ceilings are very calming.
tracefloyd
14 days agoI've seen this technique for high celings, where the ceiling color is used on the upper walls. I would go Navy or Charcoal as opposed to black. Same effect but less stark.
worthyvess
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Lyn Nielson
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