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Terri Symington, ASID What a great bed to work with...! I would start by eliminated everything except the bed. The bench looks interesting, but the dark leather makes it blend in with the bed. Some contrast would be nice with the bench, as with a tufted linen top.

The side table does not mix well with the bed. It looks like you have room to do a side table on each side of the bed if you move the bed a little closer to the window... and they don't need to match. I think a pair of wall lamps would be a better choice than the current lamp. Keep the lamp shades more up to date...

I don't care for that color of blue with the carpeting in this room. And I don't like the ceiling being such a stark white. Also, the bedding choices are not all that attractive... so based on a wall color selection that works with the carpet color... I would redo the bedding. A simple linen on the windows would help soften the room and make it feel more finished.

Accessories and art work will then complete the room.

Barnhart Gallery Hi Contempo -- Your blue and your green are both beautiful, but they aren't playing together. I've thrown some art (you'd choose your own, of course) incorporating your colors around the room to show you that if you add some blue to the bed and green to the walls, your choices will come together visually.

Lee Poehler I love what you have. I would paint the room a color sceme to match bedding. I think all you need is textue around bed, plants, art, large rug under bed. Also have a magizine article popping in head. a wire rack (sm microwave stand) with fesh fruit, water bottles, favs if you know their fav drink or treat, sm vase of fresh cut flowers, towels. All the little things you can think of that will add to their comfort.

flgrandma I'd move the bench away from the bottom of the bed. If it's against a wall it will probably be OK as it. You certainly want a bench in the room for luggage if nothing else.

bumbles12 All you need to do is change the wall colour to a nice cream/white or beige colour as you have heaps of colour on your bed. Maybe a big mirror on the wall too.

contemporarystylin Just from what I had around. It feels much better ! Wow.. Y'all are a bunch of geniuses!

contemporarystylin Barnhartgallery, loved ur tip a lot, blue on the bed & green outside- surely did the trick. What application did you use to place the art for visual help?

aksnt11 The blue is very pretty, and bright/bold. The bed itself is very bold.... one option is to simplify with the bedding, so it's not competing with the wall and bed. Perhaps all white bedding, a duvet and shams maybe? Which would bring in the color of the door and window. Keep the accent pillows in the colors that you love, maybe add one the color of the carpet too. Changing the lampshade to white also would be great, accent the shade with a beaded top or bottom . (Fun to do yourself with a hot glue gun!) And inexspensive mismatched picture frames for accents could be painted the white and dark brown of wood tones (maybe the green accent color too, also a fun inexspensive thing to DIY) and be randomly placed as a collection above the headboard.

Barnhart Gallery Argh, contempo, I'm afraid I'm stuck using the plain old "Paint" function on Windows at the moment, as the design shop program I had doesn't work on my latest computer platform. Seems every time I upgrade, I lose a valueable function along with the ability to open old files. Computers!

Glad a visual helped, and I liked your bench where it was; it made sense to me there as an extension of the bed. Perhaps a teal and green throw would make it more to others' liking.

sooboodesigns Is that a tray ceiling you have? If not, I would extend the new paint color all the way up to the ceiling to make the room look higher. Because your bed has high elements, it would be nice to to have it look more comfortable in that room.
I would sand and paint the bed. I love dark wood, but this has a dated feeling. Even experiment with staining and rubbing for a more European feeling?
With your spread and cases.. Its so much easier to to have white or cream as your duvet or spread and THEN you can add your accent color(s). ..and even change them out when you get bored.
Oh.. what would be pretty is if you kept the bed wood as it is, then found a white matilesse spread. That would lighten every thing up. Keep the blue, change the shade for white and wella! Throw a white or cream throw over the ottoman to lighten that up easily! And for goodness sake, get a white ceiling fan...
I just redid my bedroom and LOVE IT! And I painted it a gray that shows some blue hints to it.. I painted my black dresser (that was my brothers from the 70's!!) white and kept the sliver handles. I had a lucite lamp from an old hotel sale I bought 30 years ago, put a black shade on it on the dresser. I found an ADORABLE wood and wicker top ROUND side table in WHITE and found a small simple thin chrome lamp with a white shade with black trim. OMG.. i got that at The Christmas Store!! and found a simple black frame that has an intricate black leaf print on white there, too. ALL those things were about $5o in all. I found a european all white cotton duvet at TJ MAXX for $35 in an oversized queen size and I ordered online a white tailored bedskirt with black trim. LIKE THE BED LAMP for I t hink $30. I have a new sleigh bed in a very light washed white over natural sea pine we found at the local antique store for $200. All my furniture in there is way wrong for the room so i threw neutral throws on them and who cares.. its perfect! We got fake wood blinds in white from Walmart for the windows and that room is the cutest ever It used to be a Ralph Lauren RED with a pale yellow duvet and great RL sheets.
I'm telling you this because if you have time to go putzing around discount stores, you will find things you never imaged... and it will all click. I loved my red bedroom, but I knew I needed a change and I found this wall color in a magazine I saved for YEARS and was clearing out a space and saw it in there and when flipping thru it, i saw this photo of this one room and just KNEW! I went to Home Depot, found a color and that was that. Soothing is the word. That is what you want your bedroom to be..soft and soothing and relaxing. Am I wrong?

bevballew The walls need to be painted to work with the bed treatment. You need artwork or painting s and an end table on each side of the bed and reading lamps that are mounted on the wall. You need to move the bed more centered and a window treatment or just valance with colors that are in the spread.

bevballew Or get a new bedspread and keep the blue.

alwaysdesigning Before doing anything further I think the walls need a new color. Once that is done, step back and see how it looks. I think you will see a one hundred percent improvement. Then you can add things you think you need. For the green and brown, try Sherwin Williams Believable Buff; it is a khaki with a hint of sage undertone. Trim in white or cream. I love it in my guest room and I am using a navy painted iron bed, sage ticking dust ruffle, a quilt with sage, navy, red, and cream. It looks wonderful. Some gold fabric lamps, cream painted tables, a window frame mirror above the bed, and a bench for suitcases. It looks great. Good luck