Room ideas

Decorating a room for me either hits me in the face with what I should do, or takes time that drags on for either days, weeks or months. My big room is one of those that has been dragging for years. I find simple inspiration everywhere, whether it is a color from a magazine, or something I see while shopping that I can build from. The next room I am getting ready to start is my little girls room. I found this beautiful bumper pad that was dark chocolate with pink graphic bees on it. It hit me like a wall. Not wanting to spend the 150$ on the piece I turned to what I could do to recreate or just take inspiration from. I have settled on pale pink walls with dark chocolate brown graphic flowers as a middle border. I found a brown bumper pad that I am going to sew on new ties of pink, and find out if a friend can embroider a graphic designed bee that I come up with on it. The bumper pad was a total of $30 and only $7 for the pink fabric. Buying just a plain pink bedskirt for only 10$ I also purchased a dark brown ribbon to trim the bottom with. In the store I found that I was looking for a second smaller width ribbon to offset the dark brown. I knew I needed an accent color, and found it in a thin green with brown polka dot ribbon. I will then take that green and expand it to be the center colors of the graphic flowers on the walls. To incorporate my bee in other areas, especially if I can't have them embroidered, will also be on the wall. Simple yet buzzing around the flowers around the room stamped in brown.

Having trouble selecting a color you like for your room? What I do is go to the store and grab all the paint chips in the colors that I want. (They are free and what they are there for.) Then lay them on the floor by the wall and slowly take away the colors that you know immediatly won't work. Eventually you will find your color.

Not ready to decorate, but find things you love or interest you? Buy a notebook that you can paste pictures or write notes in that is specifically for your home. I have one and when I see something I like it goes in that book. It is filled with paint chips, pictures of items from sunday circulars, pictures of rooms I found on the internet and magazines, to swatches of fabric I loved in the fabric store. I also draw up sketches of ways a room can layout or even how an outside path can wind around. Don't just make it indoor things, the outdoors are just as important.

Inspiration is everywhere, you just have to grab it when it comes.