LanceHughes
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wood is a neutral - NOT at all. There's a rainbow of woods. Some woods are of a neutral color, but that doesn't mean all woods are neutral by fiat.
cherrywood is french-y boudoir acceptable (not sure HOW exactly. i see white furniture typically- just like you had mentioned before.) This is were "we" are going to have our biggest problem. I have to ask - what do you mean by "A French boudoir"? That's at the basis of trying to help you get the effect you're talking about. If white furniture with gold trim is central, well, can't be done with cherrywood. The white furniture (w/ gold) evokes in most people that Louis XIV look. Show someone, anyone such a piece of furniture in a show room and their mind instantly places it in such a room. And (unfortunately for your idea of using the cherrywood instead) if one shows a Louis XIV room without furniture, and asks "Which one these pieces of furniture belong in here?" NO ONE will pick the colorful, RED cherrywood furniture.
Going the other way, you yourself say - in two phrases, reversed and merged here for emphasis - "not sure HOW exactly cherrywood is french-y boudoir acceptable." Your gut is right. It isn't acceptable in what I think you meant by French boudoir. That's why I was trying to get you off Louis XIV and into something more YOU as opposed to something more Marie Antoinette.
i dont want a strong aqua. i was thinking more like a teal in a very muted but not muddy tone. i dont want my walls to scream at me. come to think of it- the photo that you had tried to post was what i was thinking of (despite its pastel nature.) I'm going to guess that you meant "despite [the] pastel nature [of the rest of the furnishings and accents."] But, but,... that wall color is called "dusky aqua." When you say "a teal in a very muted but not muddy tone," my immediate response is "show me the paint chip." Can't decide on paint chip? Sometimes it really helps to go buy a small quantity of each of your top three choices and put 'em on the walls - space about 2' by 3' tall of each - not too close either! Put one piece of furniture in front of each of your paint samples - maybe even make the paint samples close enuf to the floor so that furniture upper back corner can be tested for appearnce. PLAN! Spend a little time and money to get it right...... just sayin'
P.S. From you, I'm getting medium teal - as in half-way between full and pastel.
When you say "not muddy," that makes me think not greyed down, but less bright than full chroma. When you say "very muted, no screaming," I think "not pastel, but not full chroma."
When you say "teal, not aqua," I'm thinking closer to green than blue. GET THEE TO THE PAINT STORE! Black and white axis is not only one. You have the intensity of the color. You can have a BRIGHT, pale yellow... or a pale, yellow grey. Colors are NOT as most people think they are.
BUT, and I cannot emphasize this enough.... BUT, before you paint, please, please, please get three identical chips of your color choice and lay them side-by-side ON the cherrywood and do the test I suggest above. Look at the chips for a few seconds, look away at a white or beige surface for a few seconds, then back at the chips for a few seconds. Your eyes WILL vibrate - it's a simple physiological reaction. When reds are adjacent to blues, the overlap will vibrate, plain and simple. If you have your heart set on teal, pick the greenest teal you can stand.
i wanted to have teal accents: my sheets under my black and white comforter set
one teal accent pillow - ARRRGH - NEVER one pillow - three at least! I like three - more is "so 90s." One is "my lack of confidence is showing."
sheer drapes behind the black and white ones
maybe teal candles or something
but that would be it, which is why i thought the walls being a teal color would work
OKAY, I see where you-'n'-I are having a problem. When I say "accent color" I mean the proportion of color used. There's NO rule that says "Accent pieces must all be off the accent color and no other pieces may be of that color." I'm thinking that so far, we have 20% of the surfaces are going to be cherrywood which automatically makes it the major accent color.
I CAN'T TELL - I have no proportions, no measurements!!!! Decorators speak of 60-30-10. That's ideal. I don't see you going with more cherrywood to come to 30. Since the black-white comforter and curtains(?) are a given, we're to 50-20-15-15. That means the blacks and whites are going to compete, almost looking like there are three equal accent colors - teal, black and white.
YIKES! No wonder this is such a problem for you......(and for me)
You've set yourself an unsolvable problem. It's like a math problem that says "what number is both greater than 8 and smaller than 5?" It's that you have too many constraints. I was trying to go: 40-40 black and white, 20 cherrywood and that's IT! That can be sharp and sexy - but in any instance, think about the proportion of cherry wood to your black and white comforter. (Do you own the drapes, or was that a "going-to-get" idea?) Think about size of walls in proportion. Think about the best wall color to back-up the furniture (trick - you can have 1 painted one color, 3 white - WAY too difficult this instance, or two-and-two, or some such.....)
This is why Interior Designers START with "what MUST be used" and the measurements of everything. I don't even know if you have a headboard or a footboard.
I got nuthin' (more), sorry.........
< Message edited by LanceHughes -- 6/6/2010 6:06:55 PM >
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