My fiance and I recently painted our bedroom in what we were hoping to be a pretty golden yellow….but it turned out A LOT harder on the eyes than we had imagined! This is our second time painting the room this year….the first, we were going for a light grey, but I made the mistake of letting him choose and it ended up an awful mauve. lol So…I guess we didn’t do much better picking a color together! Anyway, my plan was for yellow walls, black bedding, and black designs here and there. I bought black sheets and a deep silvery/grey comforter with black embellishments, sheer white curtains with a black floral pattern, a new lamp with a black and white design shade…and our bedroom floor is Pergo….we also have pine wood trim (and the doors have been painted white for quite some time). Also, the dressers are beautiful solid black wood with maple colored tops.
SOMETHING just does not look right. I don’t know if you are able to have this image in your mind..think yellow walls, black and wood everything else. It seems to need something to blend the neutral everything else with the bright yellow walls. I have black wrought iron wall sconces with dark red candles on them…..and Im thinking this splash of red may be the way to go to help the room come together. I’d prefer NOT to buy ANOTHER bed set…that’s just more money down the drain. I’m wondering if I should change the curtains, since I can find some inexpensive ones? Also….we need a rug for the Pergo. We have been looking for a large black rug, which has been tough based on the size we need (we were going to opt for black carpeting from Home Depot and getting it "edged" so it looks like an area rug)….now, I’m wondering if red would look better? Maybe new bedding IS a must, but having JUST bought this one..that’s a lot more money out of our pockets.
Normally, I’m good at decorating….every other room I have redone has turned out beautifully! I just don’t have the knack for trying to get a more "trendy" look, I suppose. I realize it’s hard to visualize what I am saying….so I guess, if I could get some help with online images of yellow rooms with black and red, just to give me some more ideas….I’d greatly appreciate it!! The Pergo floor looks nice, should we paint the pine trim white? I don’t think my fiance is a big fan of that idea, since he did that ll himself….but I know he’d be willing to, if it truly made the room look better. I just don’t want to make another mistake! Thanks for any photo links and input!

Are ballasts only for fluorescent lamps?

How about other kinds like wall sconce, pendant light, etc? are they all electronic?

I am a teenage girl and I am planning on putting this in my room to make it look mature and be able to have candle lighting in a cool way!

Link:
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=17284576

I know they say out of stock but I can get them in the store near my house.

My guest bathroom is very small and very dark also and I want to bring some life into this small space. I bought a gorgeous mahogany cabinet and a brushed nickel faucet with goes perfect with the black marble top of the vanity. Now, it is time for a mirror. I am thinking about a wall mirror for the entire wall leaving only small spaces for each side for sconces and I am wondering what finish should be the mirror. I found on the internet some custom made mirrors but i have to choose the finish of the frame around them , should it be brushed nickel or brushed silver to add more light, and if brushed silver would it match the brushed nickel faucet or it does not matter. or both the mirror frame and the faucet should be the same finish. would the brush nickel frame make the room darker. Please if you have any interior design background answer me and tell me what to do to bring life to this small space and make it look bigger. and I guess if I have to make sconces in both sides of the mirror, they should math the mirror frame? pls help?

My walls are called Gobi Dessert which is a medium beige/taupe color. The tile is light greys, taupe. The toliet and vanity are old and are black. So I am getting black hand towels, painting this oval mirror black and getting black light sconces that have golden color glass shades. Since its so small I am not doing rugs in there. but above one of the towel racks on the long wall I was going to put a black and white picture that is decent size in a bigger black frame. I didnt know what else you put in a bathroom. Do people put decorative wall clocks in there? fake flowers on the vanity? A candle? Its only 35 square feet including the vanity and toliet space.

Okay so I’m looking to decorate my bedroom a sort of antique-ish/shabby-chic style. I have a small silver candelabra ceiling chandelier and silver velvet curtains that hang in place of closet sliding doors. I have lots of gold frames and silver frames with antique portraits and cameos. I have a silver oval wall mirror set with matching candle sconces. I would like some help with a bedspread because I have no clue what color would go with both the silver and gold ( i feel like it kind of clashes but i can’t get rid of either). I also would like to know what color I should paint my walls? Please give me some suggestions and/or direct me to some ideas with links and pics!! thank you !!

I want to paint the walls in my bathroom (not the tiles themselves, just the part of the wall above the tiled part). The tiles go from the floor to about halfway up the wall, and then the top half of the wall is plaster. The tiles are off-white (almost bisque) with the emerald green trim. It’s a full bath, but really small with little natural light except in the late morning. The tiles are not the focal point of the room, except for possibly the green trim. Our fixtures (mirror, sconces, and towel bar) are brushed nickel. Any suggestions?

ok well im planing on painting my bedroom a Carolina blue color on the walls.
i just need to know what would match with it?

was tihnking about something like this:
http://www.kohls.com/kohlsStore/furnitureandhomedecor/walldecor/sconcesandwalllighting/PRD~144290/San+Miguel+Contempo+Wall+Sconce.jsp

http://www.kohls.com/kohlsStore/furnitureandhomedecor/walldecor/displayledges/PRD~152872/LevelLine+3pc+Ledge+Set++Black.jsp

http://www.kohls.com/kohlsStore/furnitureandhomedecor/walldecor/displayledges/PRD~92298/LevelLine+3pc+Ledge+Set.jsp

or something of that sort.
and could you guys give me some stores (in north Carolina)

my parents don’t want to order stuff online :[
if you know anything else that would look good then send me the link, i wanna see!
um..
im a girl
i kinda want it to be very calm and relaxing kinda
I DONT WANT IT TO BE THE CAROLINA TEAM
even though i like them i dont want any of that kinda stuff in my room
i want…..
a mirror
night stand
dresser
maybe photography on the walls

The home we are buying has lovely patterned finished drywalled ceilings and crown molding. Problem is they didn’t put in overhead lighting. I’d like pot lights or something.

Is there a way to add lighting to a room with already finished ceilings without redoing the ceiling?

Also how do you add wall sconces once the walls are in?

So I was watching HGTV today and saw these candle sconces that I’d really like to purchase for my own room. Unfortunately, I’ve been searching online everywhere and couldn’t find any even close to them.

To see what these candle sconces look like please click on the link below. It’s a short video of a deserving design episode and you can see the candle wall sconces in the second room (a little over half way through the video or at about 2:22). If anyone can give me a link to any website that sells anything like these please let me know! Thanks!

http://www.hgtv.com/videos/sorority-house-makeover/19067.html