Have curtains, need wall color. Photos included. Please help!!
We have dark velvet gray curtains that we have not put up. I purchased them thinking they would be much darker and now we can't return them. So, what do we do...Paint the walls of course!
We have an old 1890s farmhouse (fixer upper, for sure). This room was added on in the 1990s but they used antique windows, which we love. Beautiful room but the first color when we moved in (pink) was horrid (see pic). We painted it SW Kyrpton (see pic) to eliminate the pink and re-painted the trim (just a basic white). Now, we've been in the room for 5 years and we need a change. The room is so bright and we want dark and cozy. I really don't want light walls, if possible.
Here are the curtains we have - they look a darker in person: https://www.halfpricedrapes.com/signature-natural-grey-velvet-blackout-curtains-drapes.html
Do you have any dark wall colors (I'm partial to blue don't know where to start). We love the room but don't love the curtains. Money is tight so I'd rather use the curtains and re-paint the walls but I don't know what dark color with go with them.
Any and all ideas are welcome...thank you!
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoHow about a very dark teal? these curtains are almost the same color.
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PRO7 years ago- 7 years ago
thank you everyone for the suggestions - I'm def struggling with what to do and open to all of these ideas. My heart wants a dark blue room or similar color room but I know that might not work best here...but I want it to! I'm willing to listen to all of your advice. We are new to this and not professionals at all...we just love our home and want it to be warm and inviting. Our first step in doing that was removing the ugly pink walls (no offense to anyone who liked that but that is not "us" at all).
To answer your question specifically, Patricia Colwell Consulting, we purchased drapes for this room because even though there are two large pine trees outside the window, it gets a lot of light and it wakes us up early (not that we sleep super late but when you don't get to sleep much, ever minute counts). Also, the window are antique windows, which we love, but they aren't very warm. The drapes would help trap the cold, at least, that's our hope. It's a south-ish facing room and for whatever reason, it's very bright in here. The wall color looks washed out and too "baby blue" for us, so we were looking for a change but are open to ideas on how to get the room more "warm", although I feel like the general advice is to use light off-white on walls. I'm not against a different color on the walls than "dark" but I just don't know where to go to get the warm cozy vibe we want for the bedroom.
The light during the day washes out the walls and they look too "baby boy blue"for us. They look nice in the evening, it's more of a gray.
The only furniture in the room in our bedframe (see pic). Bedframe is from C&B and a bit older and will go some time soon but the next frame will also be darker wood. 3 closets with bi-fold doors and 2 doorways...so a lot of white trim and doors. Painted part of window is now white again - I don't know what my husband was thinking. Ceiling fan is also gone - we will replace with another one that fits better once we figure the rest of the room out!
hope that answers everyone's questions!
- 7 years ago
Beautiful room!
It's hard to advise based on the color on my monitor, but I painted a room BM Newburyport Blue. It looks to me as if your curtains might be similar to the timber wolf shade.
Below a room with the Newburyport Blue.
- 7 years ago
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7 years agoHere are your curtains, so people can see them in the post. Would the place that you bought them from allow you to do an even swap for a different color, or are they a custom size? 2nd pic is the colors these come in.
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