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I'm redoing my bedroom. Using blue/brown color scheme. I've ordered a wingback leather bed and have no idea what to use for side tables. I also want something at the foot of the bed, some kind of storage/bench thing. I await inspiration.


t.

Does you bed look like this?

What shade of Blue are you using?

What about going with Black Furniture?

http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Ca ... oduct.html

This bench comes in many colors.

The bed looks similar, but I think the color is a bit more reddish and the frame is different, and no blocks on the face of the headboard. (the same, but different ) I do already have a black armoire, fairly simple in style, so black could work. I'm going with - I think, Sherwin Williams Rainwashed and Nuthatch (or maybe a darker brown. Maybe I should forget the brown and do blue and black. I have one long wall with two windows with about a 5-foot span of wall between the windows. I have four wooden box-shelves that are brown, but I could paint black. I'm going to paint a broad stripe of the blue between the windows (sill to sill) and mount the boxes. Black would simplify things - I wouldn't have to worry about the bed color clashing with other browns...
I'll paint the remaining walls a much, much paler shade of the same blue, and the trim is white, floors are oak.

t.

tlynn78 wrote:I'm redoing my bedroom. Using blue/brown color scheme. I've ordered a wingback leather bed and have no idea what to use for side tables. I also want something at the foot of the bed, some kind of storage/bench thing. I await inspiration.


t.

I'd like to suggest this:

http://users.adelphia.net/~javamoose/ROV/images/032.jpg

It goes with everything.

KillerTomato wrote:

tlynn78 wrote:I'm redoing my bedroom. Using blue/brown color scheme. I've ordered a wingback leather bed and have no idea what to use for side tables. I also want something at the foot of the bed, some kind of storage/bench thing. I await inspiration.


t.

I'd like to suggest this:

http://users.adelphia.net/~javamoose/ROV/images/032.jpg

It goes with everything.

You are such a guy.

tlynn78 wrote:The bed looks similar, but I think the color is a bit more reddish and the frame is different, and no blocks on the face of the headboard. (the same, but different ) I do already have a black armoire, fairly simple in style, so black could work. I'm going with - I think, Sherwin Williams Rainwashed and Nuthatch (or maybe a darker brown. Maybe I should forget the brown and do blue and black. I have one long wall with two windows with about a 5-foot span of wall between the windows. I have four wooden box-shelves that are brown, but I could paint black. I'm going to paint a broad stripe of the blue between the windows (sill to sill) and mount the boxes. Black would simplify things - I wouldn't have to worry about the bed color clashing with other browns...
I'll paint the remaining walls a much, much paler shade of the same blue, and the trim is white, floors are oak.

t.

I was originally thinking white, but I definitely think that black is the way to go, especially if the bed is more reddish.

Do you have an Ikea near you? Their Hemnes lines of furniture has fairly clean lines and comes in black.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:

KillerTomato wrote:

tlynn78 wrote:I'm redoing my bedroom. Using blue/brown color scheme. I've ordered a wingback leather bed and have no idea what to use for side tables. I also want something at the foot of the bed, some kind of storage/bench thing. I await inspiration.


t.

I'd like to suggest this:

http://users.adelphia.net/~javamoose/ROV/images/032.jpg

It goes with everything.

You are such a guy.

Guilty.

Hey, they lasted me through 8 years of college....

May I suggest a catalog/website called West Elm?

I bought a headboard and side tables from them. The furniture is very heavy and a lovely dark chocolate brown. Reasonably priced too when compared with those "other" catalogs. You may find some chocolate furniture in there to match.

We still have a brown/blue combination too. I just bought parts of a new bedset - muy expensive to buy all of it but some of the pieces are pretty and work with my other stuff...

It's Ralph Lauren Indochine. Its a pale greyish blue that looks fabu with chocolate.

I found a chocolate leather tufted bench at auction that now sits at the foot of our bed. It's a bit masculine but works well to offset the soft blue.

I am getting ready to paint rooms in our house now too.....First place to see how I do is the Master Bath. It's a pale chocolate milk color.....I have a paisley roman shade in there with blues and browns. Still not done with that color combo. It's my 4th year with it......

tlynn78 wrote:I'm redoing my bedroom. Using blue/brown color scheme. I've ordered a wingback leather bed and have no idea what to use for side tables. I also want something at the foot of the bed, some kind of storage/bench thing. I await inspiration.


t.

Just remember, duct tape makes everything look better!

5LD wrote:May I suggest a catalog/website called West Elm?

I bought a headboard and side tables from them. The furniture is very heavy and a lovely dark chocolate brown. Reasonably priced too when compared with those "other" catalogs. You may find some chocolate furniture in there to match.

May I thank you, 5LD, for this most wonderful suggestion. West Elm is a part of the WilliamSonoma/Pottery Barn group, which group is currently employing Darling Daughter in their management program. Any time I can encourage the continued success of the company that enables DD to support herself -- I'm there!

P.S. They do have some great stuff!

Many of these ideas are good (especially the milk crate and the duct tape), but when you're doing a brainstorming exercise, sometimes it's good to think outside the box.

Spoiler

Well, the Confessor's suggestion does have black in it.

Well, truly, this is the BOARED OF MANY TALENTS!

First, I read intelligent discussion of political issues and THEN, great decorating ideas.

We could be a Media Network unto ourselves.

--dimzee, who's now added WEDDING COORDINATOR and DOG-SITTER to her resume, so I can be the Bride/Dog/Clutter Whisperer.

Evil Squirrel wrote:

tlynn78 wrote:I'm redoing my bedroom. Using blue/brown color scheme. I've ordered a wingback leather bed and have no idea what to use for side tables. I also want something at the foot of the bed, some kind of storage/bench thing. I await inspiration.


t.

Just remember, duct tape makes everything look better!

I think that actually looks pretty boss, but here's what I think whenever I see stuff like that.

The cost for all that duct tape is probably more than it would cost to get a new chair.

I bought some 600 TC Egyptian cotton sheets yesterday. I'm anxious to get them, the highest I have is 340 TC and it's not Egyptian, so I want to see how much of a difference there is.

Great suggestions, peeps. Um, mostly. As for the milk crate and duct taped furniture, I've already passed mine along to my children for their own decorating pleasure. As for the um, swing, unless the male part of the equation is available as an accessory, it ain't happenin'

Now off to check out Ms. Duck's suggestion, with Hermillion's second.

t.