I'll Want an Area Rug for Our Bedroom
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We want a fresh look to our bedroom, ideas????
Comments (9)Hi bdilly- Your basic furniture is nice, you don't need to change it. Please paint your walls all one color. The creamy white that you have in their would be just fine. Next, breeze through the bedding sections of store catalogs and hotel brochures, and see which ones make you think, "Oh, I would just love to be on vacation in that room!" Well, that is the feeling you want to recreate in your bedroom! If the rooms you seem to love have all white bedding with thick fluffy comforters and lots of thick white pillows and white curtains, then that's what you get. In the meanwhile, please get rid of the wreath over your bed and the dried flowers on your nightstand. Though when the holidays come, a real pine wreath that smells wonderful would be great. Dried flowers are from the days when fresh flowers were exorbitantly expensive and even a flowering plant was too. These days you can buy a smallish orchid plant that will last for months and then when it dies, you can just buy another. Or buy a few stems of lucky bamboo and put them in a plain glass cylinder. No fake or dried anything, please! You have a large corner on the left side of the window that is perfect for a large live green floor plant such as a kentia palm or an areca palm. For your dresser, if the plant on it is not live, remove it. Do you ever light the candles on the dresser? If not, remove them. If you think you might like to light candles, think about getting some nice slim candlesticks (in a silver tone if you will go with a silver or grey accent color), with tapers. You can remove the plaques with sayings on them, too. You probably can't see them from the bed anyway, and sayings on plaques aren't a "fresh" way to decorate. You can get a vase and cut some branches of something from your garden and put that on your dresser, even if there are no flowers growing yet. If you have the funds, you may want to think about finding a more attractive fan. Don't forego the fan if you need one, but there are many that look attractive. Think about adding some color to the room, and use it in artwork that you hang on the wall, a throw on the bed, possible a rug on the floor, possibly a subtle pattern in a curtain. It can be real color, or some very subtle color such as silver or gray, or two colors together such as silver and light blue, silver and royal blue, grey and royal blue, you get the idea. I saw that you used royal blue pillows in the living room, and curtains which had a grey geometric trellis pattern, that's why I thought of these colors. Here's an example- Your bedroom is actually rather large. You could get a marvelous tufted bench to put at the foot of your bed in any color you like, for example, royal blue velvet. If you want, the tufted bench can open up for storage. Then get a throw for your bed in a in a nubby chenille knit of shades of blue, and then you can get your bedding all in white and a big fluffy comforter. Get three big Euro pillows with white shams, and lots of pillows with white pillowcases. Get white lined blackout curtains. They can be plain white, or white on white pattern or embroidered. Replace your bedside lamps with ones that have more of a curve in their base. Or if royal blue is too bold for you, you could do silver and white together, or gray and white, that is very calm and soothing. Then you can get a throw for the bed that is gray and white, get curtains that are white with a subtle pattern of gray or silver, get lamps with a silvery base, and get a tufted bench of gray velvet. Look at these curtains, aren't these dreamy? https://www.amazon.com/Lambrequin-Casablanca-Metallic-Trellis-Pattern/dp/B00G6PH150 Look at this throw, I don't know what kind of synthetic "mink plush" is, but it sounds like it feels marvelous, and that color is royal for sure! Here's the bench with storage Once you figure out what colors you like, you can get some artwork for the room. Get some large things that really make a statement. For over the bed you want something that is 3/4 the width of the bed, and something to take the place of the roundish three-dimensional thing (although if you felt up to it, you could paint the round thing whatever color you wanted, for example silver, or bluish and keep it). Your art pieces (either 2-dimensional or three-dimensional) can have the color you like and can also incorporate the green of your live plants if you like, because everything goes with green. I love these colors, and one of the picture in your ideabooks showed a painting with blues and greens, so maybe you can look for artwork in this family if it is not too bold for you. If it is in your budget, you can replace the mirror over your dresser with a round mirror in a frame or a starburst mirror. There are many types, pick one that will go with the decor you choose for your room. Here are a few types -...See MoreDo you have area rugs in your bedroom?
Comments (19)We had wood floors in our guest bedroom but we ended up sleeping in there a lot because it had a tv and also if someone was sick. So anyway, on the wood floors we had three area rugs, one on each side of the bed and one at the foot. They were woven, something like sisal, with black fabric binding. Never tripped on them or even came close. They had some kind of non-slip-ish backing, which unfortunately wore out. I loved those rugs. I wouldn't bother with a rug under the bed, just gathers dust and hard to clean....See MoreThoughts on this Rug for Our Master Bedroom?
Comments (1)not a pro. The items that you show appear to me to be glam or more polished and stylish than the rug is. I think you can do better. And yes you need a 9 x 12 to use with a king sized bed. A king bed is roughly 6 1/2 ft wide by 7 ft long. so this will give you approximately a 3 ft border around your bed....See Moreshould I have gotten a bigger area rug for bedroom?
Comments (4)Yes, I’d go up to an 8x10. Go to a site like Rugs USA — they have a feature for uploading your picture and doing a mock-up. It’ll give you an idea of how various sizes will look....See Moreenduring
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoIt seems that the software program is now working, go figure.
I now have a drawing of my room to scale, with 2 rug options lain on top of each other. One rug is 7x9 and the other is 5x8. It looks like the 7x9 works better.
I am concerned about the end curling up at the corner where we would be entering the room. Causing a trip factor.
Thoughts?
enduring
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5 years agoI miss measured my larger rug in the above drawing so here is the correction:
@Saypoint, the register is in the way for that side of the bed. I will move things around and see if the bed can go on that wall. We used to have it diagonal in the lower left corner, but it caused a lot of dead space in that corner. Thanks for the suggestion.
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5 years agoTypo. Flokai rugs. Here are a few. They come in all sizes and make great bedroom rugs. Sheepskin rugs ate option as well. You could also get Flor.com rug tiles that could be sized and designed specifically for your size requirements. They come in all kinds of colors,patterns and shapes and are great for hard to fit spaces. www.flor.com
Check out their website.
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Saypoint zone 6 CT
5 years agoI also have a very small bedroom, and there is not enough room for a rug of any kind on one side of the bed. I have 3x5 rugs at the foot and one side.
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5 years agoMy floor is in. The room is small, about 12x12 not counting the nice small 2 reach in closets. The queen bed takes up a good share of the room, along with my mammoth dresser. I get a lot of bang for my buck with that dresser. New windows are in, new drapes. With all the moving of stuff around to get the windows in throughout the house and the floor put in, I can't find my pretty new duvet cover, that prompted all this fuss! Anyway I decided not to get a larger area rug. I love seeing the floors. Currently I have a nice fluffy bath mat on each side of the bed. They are cheap, easy to pick up to vacuum, and I can wash them periodically. Thank you all for helping with this project. I wished I had a larger bedroom to put in a lovely area rug, but I think my plan, like @Saypoint shows above, is the way to go.
Below: can't find my bedding :0 I'm still looking, but in the mean time we sleep comfortably with this summer weight quilt. My bed is a 12" Latex bed that I 'm finding is quit nice. I should have got the 5" foundation instead of the 8", because its a little tall. Each side is a different soft/hard combo. Tonight DH and I are going to swap sides to see if my softer top layer is to his liking, compared to his medium top layer, though this is a different thread in the conversation side of home deco.
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