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We have a spare room that we've ran out of ideas on how to decorate it. My husband and I are both avid sports fans and we have sports memorabilia that we were thinking of having a room where we can have our things displayed. Does anyone know of any website that could help us decorate our entire room, from paint down to placement of furniture.
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some good decorating ideas that you can use in an adults sports room too
http://boysthemebedrooms.com/sports/all-sports-kids-bedroom-decorating-ideas.html
some good decorating ideas that you can use in an adults sports room too
http://boysthemebedrooms.com/sports/all-sports-kids-bedroom-decorating-ideas.html
How can I make my room look bigger?
Q. My bedroom walls are a sky blue, I have a full sized futon in there, a "hand" chair two small square tables right next to each other holding the tv, a round table behind my bed ((cuz right now the bed is up against the wall like a day bed)) I can rearrange the furniture anything!! ((but paint my walls lol))
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Here are a few tips, excerpted from a larger list (see source below for the complete list):
1. Use a soft even light and eliminate shadows which tend to slice a room up into smaller spaces. If you have low or average-height ceilings, avoid overhead lighting - as this will visually lower your ceiling. However, if you have high ceilings, a sparkling chandelier or ceiling fan draws the eye up to the vertical volume of a room.
Try to focus the lighting around the perimeter of the room, as this will effectively push the walls back, providing an illusion of more space.
Also remember that a floor lamp can eliminate the need for a side table. And consider track lighting to reduce the number of lampshades, which interrupt the view of a room.
2. Use at least one tall element in a room to draw the eye upward, towards the ceiling. Not only does this maximize the vertical space in the room, but it also draws the eye up to the less crowded ceiling space above.
3. Don't let loud or bold patterns take over the room. Bold patterns and prints can still be used as focal points or accents within the room, but keep them to a minimum.
4. Use just one or two colors per room for visual simplicity that expands a space. Also keep in mind that white, neutral or pale colors best reflect light, visually "pushing back" walls. This is not a hard and fast rule, as many designers prefer richer colors in smaller spaces.
5. What you have to watch for when using rich colors in a small space is to reduce the contrast in the horizontal and vertical planes. For example, a light carpet, dark wall and white ceiling will often cause the walls to feel like they are "closing in" on you. If you do decide to use a dark color, reduce the contrasts with the floor and ceiling. For example, continue the wall color onto the ceiling (or use a shade that's only two or three shades lighter than the walls on the ceiling) to keep the contrast levels.
6. Think of storage as much as possible when decorating a small space. Two great ideas are to use skirts on beds or tables to create hidden storage areas. Also, ottomans that will slide under a coffee table or end tables can add much-needed seating without taking up floor space all the time.
Hide small clutter such as mail, pens, etc. inside vases, pitchers or decorative boxes and baskets.
7. A vertical stripe motif to your walls, which can be painted on in neutral tones, such as creams and beiges, will help to draw the eye up to the ceiling... maximizing the sense of vertical space.
Again, this treatments is excellent for small spaces with tall ceilings, as it brings the focus to the overall size of the room, not just the floor space.
8. Mirrors are probably the single-best way to expand visual space in a small space. By using mirrors to reflecting other parts of the room or other areas outside of the room (e.g. angling a mirror to provide a reflection of another room or the outside window), they create visual space like nothing else. Mirrors are also excellent at bouncing light around, adding to the feeling of space.
And there's no need to limit mirror placement solely to the walls. Mirrors can be used in a variety of ways to increase the feeling of space.
9. Use fabrics with texture as opposed to pattern to add interest without adding visual clutter.
Simple-patterned tapestry wall hangings are a great example of using texture to create visual impact.
10. If you don't have a lot of windows in the small space, create an artificial view using a painting or tapestry which shows a landscape or some other open space, giving the visual sense of space outside of the room.
However, the view should be clean, spacious and open. A busy landscape will effectively "pull back" into the room, which may not be the effect you are looking for.
Here are a few tips, excerpted from a larger list (see source below for the complete list):
1. Use a soft even light and eliminate shadows which tend to slice a room up into smaller spaces. If you have low or average-height ceilings, avoid overhead lighting - as this will visually lower your ceiling. However, if you have high ceilings, a sparkling chandelier or ceiling fan draws the eye up to the vertical volume of a room.
Try to focus the lighting around the perimeter of the room, as this will effectively push the walls back, providing an illusion of more space.
Also remember that a floor lamp can eliminate the need for a side table. And consider track lighting to reduce the number of lampshades, which interrupt the view of a room.
2. Use at least one tall element in a room to draw the eye upward, towards the ceiling. Not only does this maximize the vertical space in the room, but it also draws the eye up to the less crowded ceiling space above.
3. Don't let loud or bold patterns take over the room. Bold patterns and prints can still be used as focal points or accents within the room, but keep them to a minimum.
4. Use just one or two colors per room for visual simplicity that expands a space. Also keep in mind that white, neutral or pale colors best reflect light, visually "pushing back" walls. This is not a hard and fast rule, as many designers prefer richer colors in smaller spaces.
5. What you have to watch for when using rich colors in a small space is to reduce the contrast in the horizontal and vertical planes. For example, a light carpet, dark wall and white ceiling will often cause the walls to feel like they are "closing in" on you. If you do decide to use a dark color, reduce the contrasts with the floor and ceiling. For example, continue the wall color onto the ceiling (or use a shade that's only two or three shades lighter than the walls on the ceiling) to keep the contrast levels.
6. Think of storage as much as possible when decorating a small space. Two great ideas are to use skirts on beds or tables to create hidden storage areas. Also, ottomans that will slide under a coffee table or end tables can add much-needed seating without taking up floor space all the time.
Hide small clutter such as mail, pens, etc. inside vases, pitchers or decorative boxes and baskets.
7. A vertical stripe motif to your walls, which can be painted on in neutral tones, such as creams and beiges, will help to draw the eye up to the ceiling... maximizing the sense of vertical space.
Again, this treatments is excellent for small spaces with tall ceilings, as it brings the focus to the overall size of the room, not just the floor space.
8. Mirrors are probably the single-best way to expand visual space in a small space. By using mirrors to reflecting other parts of the room or other areas outside of the room (e.g. angling a mirror to provide a reflection of another room or the outside window), they create visual space like nothing else. Mirrors are also excellent at bouncing light around, adding to the feeling of space.
And there's no need to limit mirror placement solely to the walls. Mirrors can be used in a variety of ways to increase the feeling of space.
9. Use fabrics with texture as opposed to pattern to add interest without adding visual clutter.
Simple-patterned tapestry wall hangings are a great example of using texture to create visual impact.
10. If you don't have a lot of windows in the small space, create an artificial view using a painting or tapestry which shows a landscape or some other open space, giving the visual sense of space outside of the room.
However, the view should be clean, spacious and open. A busy landscape will effectively "pull back" into the room, which may not be the effect you are looking for.
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