My mom is offering to buy me all new bed stuff for xmas, which is cool except for the fact that I can't find a color that would go with my blue curtains and lampshades. I don't want to change curtains and I have a duvet/sheet set that goes with them nicely. But they're pretty plain and I'd like to modernize a little to go with a great set of lamps I recently bought.
Here's what can't change: with these lampshades:
the blue version, although irl it's much more green-blue, a dark teal color
I can't find a color online that is close to my curtains, probably because everything is all fallish. Basically they're a turquoise/light teal color and the lampshades are a dark teal with white bases. My bed is an antique white four poster bed with matching furniture throughout the room. (One day I'd like to evolve to a Jonathon Adler style headboard but until then...)
I'd like something modern and nothing country, traditional, or too manly/girly. Everything I see online is too something. Too orange, too green, too grandmotherly, etc. I'd like a duvet and sham set but I'm open to different styles (comforters, quilts, coverlets, etc.).
What colors or styles can you think of to go with the turquoise color but will still look modern and eclectic, all at the same time? It's tricky...
I think brown would be one of the easiest options but lately I'm more into gray and pewter which seems to be another popular bedding trend.
(this is called "dark bronze" - not sure if it actually looks metallic IRL)
Or you could do black & white, which could be really glamorous. I saw this bedding on the Anthro site and loved how it isn't an all-over pattern and then I found it used in a room on the Domino site. You could just get some throw pillows to add more color (not sure how colorful the rest of your room already is).
Hmm...I'm thinking white, grey/black, with orange accents which compliment the blue in your lamp shades and curtains.
Duvet $69.95 Pillow cases $19.95 $35.99 Set of 2 $27.99
-- Edited by Cortney1982 at 12:26, 2007-10-19
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