long bedroom, lighting and paint help
AmyinSC
I just bought a home with 3 very LONG bedrooms. They are roughly 10 ft wide and 20 ft long. Any ideas on how to paint using accent walls or other tricks to make the rooms look more cozy and less like hallways? I was thinking a light color everywhere except the back wall. If I paint it a dark color will that help? Also, all 3 bedrooms have 2 ceiling light fixtures each. I like ceiling fans in bedrooms but I'm not sure if 2 in each room would look silly! Should I match my light fixtures, or try to combine into one light per room? I think one light in a 20 ft long room might cast too many shadows. (This house had 10 ft addition down one entire side of the house by a prior owner. Hence the odd rooms!) Thanks for any advice!
catwoman708
Well the accent wall would help add interest, but I think your best bet is to visually divide the rooms with furniture placement, creating two distinct, separate areas. One area for sleeping, with the bed and bedside tables, and perhaps a trunk, bench, or even a love seat at the foot of the bed. Then you have the other half of the room for multi-purpose use, such as sitting/TV/games, dressing area, exercise area, or a desk/workspace area, or combination of all of these. You can anchor the seating/multi purpose area with a large area rug, or divide the room with a folding screen or large piece of furniture. Giving you any ideas?
AmyinSC
Ooohhhh! I love the folding screen idea! I will use a combination of all of these ideas. Having 3 rooms to work with, I will make a sitting area in the master bedroom, and put my desk in the guest bedroom and I'll let my hubby make a rec space and put his foosball table in his office! I was wondering where to put that ting anyway! Thank you!
ju-ju
I love the idea of an accent wall, but painting a darker shade on the farthest wall may actually make your room appear longer.....perhaps 2 opposing walls painted the accent color? I just painted a room in my home 2 shades. A lovely soft shade of smokey blue (B.M. nantucket fog) on the bottom half, and an off white (B.M. soft chamois) on the top half. It really gives the room some visual interest, and makes the small space appear much larger. I agree with cat, furniture placement for you will be key.
BarbaraK
Maybe instead of making the wall a different color, use a trick they did on HGTV. Paint all the walls the same and then on the accent wall, tape it off into stripes and put a glaze on every other stripe. It gives it sheen and texture and makes it appear different without being too different.
catwoman708
I thought of a decorating show I saw several years ago, where they divided a long narrow room in half with a "wall" of sheer curtain panels, ceiling to floor. It gave the effect of a canopy around the bedroom area, or a "harem" room (I believe they put them on the walls around the bed also, which might be a little too much). It was pretty cool, but I would try to pull them back somehow, so there are a couple of openings into the sleeping area, so you don't have to fight your way through the curtains.
LandscapeDesigner
I was thinking opening two rooms onto each other and making a really big master bedroom out of it...maybe with a walk in closet.
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