What are some things I can do to "spice up" my room and make it look cool and modern?

Question

I LOVE blue, I would want everything to be blue. It is a smaller bedroom, so not too much room. I have already bought all new furniture, bed, desk, dresser, etc. and they are all beach colored (like a yellow-white color, like sand). I have also painted the walls blue. But I want the room to look very modern and cool, but can't get any farther than the painting and furniture. Any suggestions on sheets, quilts, pillows, accessories, lighting, pictures, etc.? One of the walls is a mirror (the whole wall), it slides open to reveal a closet, anything you can do with that?

Answer 1

You need to add a little bit of some other color. Not a lot - just a touch here and there. You could do it with throw pillows, with bedding in a print that incorporates your blue and whatever other color you choose, or in other accessories. You could paint some inexpensive frames, or use sand colored frames for prints that have the colors you choose. You could add lamps with sand colored bases and shades in the additional color(s). I wouldn't mess with the mirror - it helps make the room bigger, and you don't want to interfere with that.

As for choosing the right "other" color, it depends on the blue you've chosen, and your taste. The link below is to a fantastic website called Color Schemer. People upload color schemes and you can get ideas for some colors that will go with your blue. I did a search for schemes with the color blue in them - there are over 300. Some suggestions - if your blue leans toward aqua, try adding some orange or lime green. If it's more of a sky blue, try watermelon or sea glass green. If it's a grey blue, try plum or light olive.

The other place to look for coordinating colors is in magazines - not just home decor magazines, but any magazine that has advertisements. Look at the colors in the ads. The people who designed the ads are experts - they know what colors work together. I quilt, and I keep a file of interesting color schemes that I took from advertisements.

Answer 2

Buddhism and quantum physics actually go together quite well. I was studying Buddhism at university, and just starting to meditate, when a lot of the previously unconceivable physics began coming out. It was like they were proving some of the Buddhist ideas I was struggling to understand. Aryeh Kaplan, one of the pre-eminent Jewish scholars of this era, has been working on integrating modern cosmology into Jewish texts, including interpretations of timing that get the dates to agree. Cool stuff. It's definitely possible. And makes a lot more sense than seeing them as opposed. Religion was the first science, seeking to explain what hadn't yet been explained otherwise. Supernatural is just operating in another dimension that we can't entirely perceive. I'm becoming more and more of a materialist (a physical explanation for everything). I used to see that as overly limiting. Now I understand how fascinating, liberating and just plain cool it is. Nothing happens without being rooted or at the very absolute least passing through physicality. Modern physics is uncovering some of the mechanisms.

Answer 3

How about buying some of those Glow in the Dark stars that you can stick to your ceiling and I like the idea of the aquarium but if you don't have room for one you could just get a fish bowl and get either a gold fish or a Betta fish-Betta's are prettier and going w/ the beach theme try to find some posters of bikini clad women and hang them around the room and on the mirrored wall/doors you can take "slick" fabric paint and on a small piece of glass laying it flat you can draw w/ this slick paint anything beachy such as beach balls or sea shells and let the paint dry and then take a flat scraper and peel the paint off that glass and stick it to your mirrored door- like a window cling! Get some throw pillows in bright yellows and oranges and throw them around the room and buy some large beach towels and make curtains out of them!!!Any questions email me k?

Answer 4

Sounds like your room has a beach sort of feeling...should be your theme then. How about blue paintings..like the sea or the beach. And as long as your pillows, bed sheets, etc match your theme..you've got a great room...

You can even try adding an aquarium of fish... and use flourescent bulbs for your lighting...its sort of blue and it would match everything...

But personally..I'd just prefer posters of celebrities of my fav celebs...or drawings or artwork I've done.

I'm no designer..but these are just a few thoughts...

Answer 5

If its your room in a house? Is the house sweet? I dont get it? is it a dorm?
Well, if youre just talking about one room and you have so much stuff already, then all you can do now is KEEP IT SPARCE and maybe use a few modern lamps to reveal the modern clean look.

Answer 6

STRIPPER POLE!