Can you believe this wallpaper-help
We are buying this house which will be beautiful once the wallpaper is removed. The dining room, powder room, master bed and bath, all wallpaper has to go!!!!!!!!! The curtains are beautiful, with golf, neutral, clay, moss green in them. The owner's girlfriend said she wanted to pull those colors out throughout the house. She was talking about accent wall with the clay color in each room and then a gold color???? We are leaving the my boyfriend's ex's house and starting our life together, so excited about ideas and getting it looking pretty.
This is a transitional ranch, with walkout basement, 2 bedrm, beautiful outside area that needs nothing. The basement is fine, just the upstairs needs HELP!
Look forward to your ideas!
This is a transitional ranch, with walkout basement, 2 bedrm, beautiful outside area that needs nothing. The basement is fine, just the upstairs needs HELP!
Look forward to your ideas!
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If you want to do your whole house in one color, I would do Dove White on the ceilings and look at these neutrals: Grant Beige HC-83, Shaker Beige HC-45 by Benjamin Moore, Benjamin Moore Northern Cliffs 1536, houzz=Coastal Fog AC-1 by Benjamin Moore, Revere Pewter HC-172 by Benjamin Moore, and Camouflage 2143-40 Paint.
A Grant Beige space: Orchard Dining Room B. A Shaker Beige: Seeley Living Room A. A Northern Cliffs room: Bridge Street Residence Living Room. Here is Costal Fog: Mary Best Designs. The very popular Revere Pewter: Ravenna Craftsman Dining Room. Last and not least, Camouflage: Wyndmoor Residence Master Bath.
Camouflage would look especially good in the bath rooms with the beige tile.
I like the drapes in the living room, but think the ones in the dining room are a bit fussy.
Avoid the temptation of putting things on top of the kitchen cabinets. They just become dust collectors.
Or you can cover the entire set of three windows with panels on a decorative traverse rod. This room has panels and sheers on a decorative rod: Mapleview Residence. The nice thing about traverse rods is that they make it easy to open and close the curtains. This hardware is really handsome: Master Bedroom.
The pictures provided by Houssaon depict elegant spaces. Yours can look just as elegant. Your instinct to get rid of the wallpaper is right on target because there is much too much pattern going on.
Also, be careful of OVERaccessorizing. Every flat space does not need a knick-knack. Do not feel that you have to hang something on every wall. Group art together on one feature wall. Allow some blank walls for the eye to rest. Use symmetry for balance. Use lamps, chairs, framed art in pairs. Study the pictures provided by Houssaon as they definitely point you in the right direction for calming elegance.
What style of furniture will you be bringing to the home? What type of feeling do you want your home to evoke?
More clever people than me might disagree, but I don't think that you are going to get any long term satisfaction from the curtains. The interior of the house is nice and stark, like mid century modern, barely has any skirting boards or cornices or architraves: ornate Victorian curtains will never work here, I don't recon.
I am suspicious of people who suggest paint colours without knowing what is happening with the floor, but those muted colours would seem to work well with the lovely kitchen.
Of course remove the wallpaper and prep the walls for painting. When you do paint, paint out the wood trim in a white or lighter colour to compliment the wall colour you EVENTUALLY choose. I agree that this should not be done based on pictures and certainly should be the LAST thing chosen.
Remove the carpet and replace with a good vinyl (drop and done looks just like real wood and comes in planks). This will cut cost and be softer on the feet while absorbing sound.
Replace the light fixture! You could go with a long thin pendant and still put a large piece of artwork on the end wall.
The drapes REALLY need to go. While they may be of beautiful quality, they are very dated and will not help you improve the look of the space. Look for inside mount drapery like silhouettes from Hunter Douglas.
I hope these suggestions are helpful...
I'm assuming you will have your own furniture and will not be loading up the corners with oversized pieces....
Every room should have a focal point...decide what you want yours to be...you could even have a wall mounted plug in fireplace on the end wall ! Now that would be fun!!!
Best of luck!
My comment is to work on one room at a time. Take down the curtains, strip wallpaper, then paint. Once you get the wallpaper stripped, you can decide if you want to replace carpet now or later. Take a second look at the curtains out in the bright sunlight once the wall paper is gone. The sheers in the dining room can be washed or dry cleaned and re-hung straight up and down if they are not worn and sun-damaged. The top treatment is quite dated, but the fabric could possibly be re-used after cleaning. Price new curtains before you discard these neutral sheers. If they are damaged, just get rid of them.
The heavy reddish curtains in the family room might be kept if you like them. They'll look much different when the walls are newly painted.