bedrooms

If you plan your room schemes so that the colors relate to those in adjacent areas, your home will have a unified and harmonious feel.

Your home is like a huge blank canvas, and just as an artist considers his canvas as a whole rather than section by section, so you need to think about the way the colors in one area relate to, and are affected by, those in the rooms that lead off it. Each room should have a distinctive character that reflects its shape, size, function, and aspect. … read more

Here are some decorating tips for creating your own country bedroom look:

Walls: Whether they are plastered, papered, or tongue-and-groove paneled, keep walls plain. Combining low-level, tongue-and-groove paneling with a plain painted surface above is traditional. Consider narrow, vertical tongue-and-groove paneling up to wainscoting level if funds allow, with wide, horizontal tongue-and-groove paneling above, or vice versa. The paneling can be left natural, stained, or painted in solid, matte tones.

Patterned wallpapers are unsuitable, as are chalky ice-cream pastel colors such as light pinks, blues, and mauves. Earth colors, natural dye colors, off-white, and white are ideal for the look … read more