Craving Contrast....

With regard to my bedroom, I discovered that what is missing is the WOW factor. I love contrast with color and I have it in every room except mine! The green on the walls is a nice shade but it doesn't have the oomph to it that I crave.

I was discussing this with my hubby last night. I asked him what he liked to see in a bedroom, what was restful and conducive to relaxation. He said as long as it was clean he didn't care. He has given me carte blanche with the style of the room!

So, I think I am going with darker more soothing tones. Deep purple and teal for accent colors on accessories. Purple can be masculine and not to feminine if it has more of the indigo undertones. Besides that, royalty wore purple! Then I will put a nice sleek charcoal gray on the walls. I am going to add contrast by painting our dingy, dark wood trim white. Which will go a long way to update the 1970's look in it right now.

There needs to be some architectural element to this "boxy" room but I am not sure how that will play out yet.

As for lighting, we are in desperate need of some small table lamps, or wall lamps. It would be so great to be able to turn out the light without having to get out of bed. And I am bound and determined to find a replacement for the boob light!

When looking at the picture I took of the window, I realized that we needed more privacy. However, I love the sunlight streaming through the glass. I thought about it and came up with contact paper :) My mom did this on their front door which has nine lites in it. It looked directly over into their neighbors front porch and so their neighbors could see everything going on inside my parents house. My mom hates to live in a fishbowl setting so she came up with contact paper. Apparently you can get it in really cool geometric patterns that allow it to be opaque enough for privacy but still let the light in. So with my mom for inspiration, I am going to see if I can find something similar for our bedroom window. (If you look really closely in the picture you can see that it just looks out into the street and isn't a very pretty view.)

Plus, the other thing I realized last night is that I was trying too hard for my room to evoke a certain theme rather than feeling. I was going for the "it feels like a decorator lives here" look rather than embrace the fact that I am not a decorator. I have my own peculiar style and so does my husband. We are unique and our room needs to reflect us, not some magazine cover.