4.27.2012

Guest Room Color Schemeing

Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever shown you guys a photo of our upstairs loft. Well, that day still isn't here. For the few years we've been living in this apartment, our loft has been our extra storage/weight room. Soon though, that will be a-changin'! We just added a garage onto our rental agreement so we can turn that into an extra storage/weight room and utilize the loft as a guest room.

And I. Am. So. Excited. Another room to decorate! Yay!

Because I like things to be cohesive, part of me wants the color palette to be similar to the rest of the apartment but the other, less neurotic part of me, wants something a little more exciting since I don't have to stare at it everyday. I'm torn.

Here's the palette for the rooms in our apartment currently. I don't expect any of them to change, except I might attempt to phase the red out of our kitchen (you know how I am with strong color). We'll see about that.


I went a little more fun and bright than usual for the balcony because it's outdoors. I can handle color outdoors. Also, I'm going to guess you can probably tell what my favorite color is. I've got bits of aqua in every single room. Can't help myself!

Currently I'm not really leaning toward any specific color palette, which I think makes making a decision even harder. This is where my head is at so far:

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Powder blue, soft pink, and a really pale creamy yellow. It definitely meshes with the rest of our apartment, I'm just not sure if it's too baby-shower.

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I love the burlap and blue green combo. The black and white is just graphic enough to be interesting but non-irritating to my sensitive-to-too much-color-or-contrast eyeballs.

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I'm not a huge fan of the currently super popular grey & yellow combo, only because the yellow is so damn sunshiney. This, however, I can get behind. Ivory, slate, and a cooled down almost mustardy yellow.

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Last, but not least, this super soft and feminine palette. Lots of white with a powdery lilac and aqua.

 Now that you've seen the colors in out apartment & my various inspiration, what do you think? Which palette for the guest room is your favorite?

2 comments:

Debbie said...

I really love the first 2 pictures you have here. I just love the soft colors! I wish my husband would let me do softer colors like your house, but he's pretty picky about colors and would do everything in black and brown if I let him!

Erica J said...

love those schemes! I honestly cant pick but if i had to, i would pick the bedroom. i love my pastels! i am nominating you for a blogger award, it will be up later today! i think i already nominated you a while back, but whatever, i like your blog & where is there a rule u can only nominate once?