1GoldenSun
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- Jun 17, 2017
All you interior decorators out there, please help.
I'm moving stuff around in my house and creating a guest room/office out of a room that previously had a different use. I already have some of the furnishings I intend to use in there, but they don't exactly match, and I'm not sure how to "pull the look together."
The walls are beige, and the paint job is still in great shape so I don't want to go to the expense and take the time to re-paint. The carpet is a dark sage green that I don't love but looks ok when paired with either browns or grays. Replacing that is not an option, but I have a good sized area rug that is a gray and white Chevron print that is in great shape and I'd like to be able to use. I also have a gray wood corner cupboard that I'd like to use by the bed in place of a nightstand and to provide some height to give the room architectural interest (plus it's not being used anywhere else in the house right now and I don't want to buy something new). I also have a dark brown wooden desk that is relatively new and in great shape, and I really like this desk so I want to use it. Additionally, I have some beautiful dark burgundy velvet curtains that I got a great deal on a couple years ago that I'm dying to hang somewhere.
So far that's all I have: beige walls, brown desk, gray rug, gray corner cupboard, burgundy curtains. They don't go particularly well together and I would never have chosen them for the same room, but they're what I'm stuck with and I'm trying to keep this room refresh low budget so I can spend my money on another room I'm also re-decorating that is higher priority. I will be buying a bed (I have the mattress already) and I was leaning toward a brown leather headboard but am very open to other options. I'll also probably buy some shelving (maybe floating shelves) and maybe a few decorative items where I see the need. I'll also buy a desk chair as the current one is in poor shape.
Any ideas on how to tie these colors together? The burgundy goes with either brown or gray but I'm not sure I've ever seen brown and gray used in the same decorating scheme.
I'm moving stuff around in my house and creating a guest room/office out of a room that previously had a different use. I already have some of the furnishings I intend to use in there, but they don't exactly match, and I'm not sure how to "pull the look together."
The walls are beige, and the paint job is still in great shape so I don't want to go to the expense and take the time to re-paint. The carpet is a dark sage green that I don't love but looks ok when paired with either browns or grays. Replacing that is not an option, but I have a good sized area rug that is a gray and white Chevron print that is in great shape and I'd like to be able to use. I also have a gray wood corner cupboard that I'd like to use by the bed in place of a nightstand and to provide some height to give the room architectural interest (plus it's not being used anywhere else in the house right now and I don't want to buy something new). I also have a dark brown wooden desk that is relatively new and in great shape, and I really like this desk so I want to use it. Additionally, I have some beautiful dark burgundy velvet curtains that I got a great deal on a couple years ago that I'm dying to hang somewhere.
So far that's all I have: beige walls, brown desk, gray rug, gray corner cupboard, burgundy curtains. They don't go particularly well together and I would never have chosen them for the same room, but they're what I'm stuck with and I'm trying to keep this room refresh low budget so I can spend my money on another room I'm also re-decorating that is higher priority. I will be buying a bed (I have the mattress already) and I was leaning toward a brown leather headboard but am very open to other options. I'll also probably buy some shelving (maybe floating shelves) and maybe a few decorative items where I see the need. I'll also buy a desk chair as the current one is in poor shape.
Any ideas on how to tie these colors together? The burgundy goes with either brown or gray but I'm not sure I've ever seen brown and gray used in the same decorating scheme.