Help with choosing colors for my bedroom/livingroom.?

Question

I'm 15 years old and I want to paint my room with bold or funky colors. I'm getting a leopard print bed and i have laminent flooring.

Also i'm a guy and i my t.v and playstation and a futon and a bunch of other stuff so it's my bedroom and my living room. I was also thinking of putting a mural or something on the wall.

Answer 1

Have neutral walls but highlight it with prints or artfully placed materials.

Answer 2

Paint 3 walls a pale olive green and the paint the 4th wall a light tan and paint some palm trees on it to give a jungle theme to match your leopard bed. Buy a cool basket at Wal-Mart and put a tall silk plant in it.They have a dynamite floor lamp at Lowe's that looks like a coconut tree! The blubs are the coconuts.

Finally, get an area rug to go in there. It could be a straw or jute rug, or a dark green one to look like grass, or even a leopard look rug to match the spread.

Gather some wild cane or bamboo and put it in a big bottle in the corner. Get an accent light and put it on your floor to make the leaf shadows on your ceiling.

And maybe some bamboo look shades for the windows. Gee it looks great!!!
Hope you have as much fun making it as I did picturing it!

Answer 3

Pick out the darker colours from the leopard print and put them on the walls. The lighter colours you've already got on the floor with the laminate flooring.

Answer 4

lowes makes a suede finish paint, paint it in a tan, or golden yellow shade to blend with the leopard, or even a terracotta orange shade. get other animal prints for pillows, drapes, and so on. some jungle animal paintings or figurines, bamboo shades if not drapes. you might cut a long oval shape from plywood and then look up african shields and paint a design on the shield to go with that theme . or you could take it the other way, and do jaguires and get a stuffed python, or the real thing in a tank, and make your figurines aztec and inca sorts of things. then get lots of cheese cloth and fake a mosquito netting over your bed. how about a real parrot, not cheap but they live like 75 yrs so likely less in the long run than my huge list of cats hamsters and bunnies.

Answer 5

You could go for Neutrals with some green perhaps the mural you paint could be a jungle scene that would go with the leopard print. Another suggestion would be to co for brown oranges and creams and paint a African safari scene.

Answer 6

maybe just paint the walls cream/beige- it'll match almost everything so you can have bold accessories. You can also make your ceiling a bold color like orange like the other guy said- orange is definitely bold and it'll match your leopard print

Answer 7

dulux:
sexy pink on the bottom of your wall with babe on the top
jazzy orange
zingy yellow

ok forget the pink - you didnt say you were a guy

id paint one wall in bright colour and make a feature of it and then do the other walls in pale colours that contrast with the bright wall as for a mural i have no idea you could go on and on with this one!

Answer 8

My sister did her room in neon pink and black and it really worked out nicely. Another sister left her walls white, but painted her ceiling bright orange. It gave the room a really soft orange glow and was a really unique idea.

Answer 9

Limiting the colour pallette is always effective.
I did find a website once - I think it was Dulux - where you could choose your colours and it showed a picture of how it would look. So you could pick and change until you got the right look.

Answer 10

I would choose two earthy tones. Have one dark tone and one light tone. Put the dark tone on your feature wall and the light tone on the rest of the walls. This is how I have done my living room and it looks cool.