I am a teen, and this summer I decided to redo my room. I have chosen the color purple and I got a new purple plum colored bedspread with zebra accents. My mom wants to make the walls lavender with 1 dark plum wall, but I want to make 3 purple plum walls with 1 lavender wall and to pull the plum to the lavender have a stripe with the color throughout all the walls. Would that work?
By Tess O.
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Hmmm. IDK about that. How about plum walls, a lavender ceiling, and bright white trimwork (around the windows, the door, etc.)? Mom is probably concerned that all plum walls will be way too dark, so maybe you can compromise to find a plum paint that is just one little shade lighter than the one you want. My daughter wanted bright lime green walls and I almost went berserk. But I gotta admit that with white trim and black accents, it looked really good. (She's gonna be an interior designer - that's what she's studying at college.) Have fun and good luck!
Draw a picture of your room with the colors you want to see what it will look like. There are also room decorating sites, think home depot has one.
Paint is fairly cheap (compared to a lot of other changes) and easy to change when you move out. Painting a stripe on a wall is easy if you use good quality painter's tape to set the edges (be sure to take the tape off while the paint is still wet).
I think that since this is your room, and you are going to have to live with whatever you do, that you should just go with what you think. However, the previous posters have some good advice. It would be nice to see how the color works before you paint, so if you can find some decorating sites that would be great. My son wanted his room blue with clouds along the ceiling, but decided that the blue he chose was the wrong blue when it was on the wall, so we didn't do the clouds.
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