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Month of Makeovers
Transform a Bedroom with Color and Style

Month of Makeovers:

Transform a Bedroom with Color and Style
Before and After Bed and Bath
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Fresh color and a new window seat pump up the style.

The Challenge:
To refresh a dowdy bedroom and turn it into a sophisticated master-suite retreat. The colonial-style furniture looks like a set piece with everything perfectly matched. (The bedside lamps are mismatched but neither one is in scale with the bed or the bedside tables.) The high contrast between the dark bedspread, furnishings, and valance and the light wall color seems disjointed rather than dramatic and doesn't create a restful atmosphere.

The Solution:
Choose a new wall color and new bedding for a monochromatic scheme, replace the bedside tables with unmatched ones, and dress the windows with new draperies. A new reclining chair and window seat complete the transformation.

Skirt a decorator table on one side of the bed and bring in a low chest on the other to provide plenty of space for reading lamps and other necessities.

Matching lamps add formality and are in better scale with the bed; unmatched lamps could work here too, if their bases were of equal visual weight and the bottom edges of the lampshades were aligned.
Add soft touches. Covered buttons, fringe, and welting give pillows a custom-finished look, but if you can sew a straight line, you can make these yourself. Look at pillow patterns for guidelines on yardage requirements and assembly techniques.

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