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07-22-2012, 02:21 PM
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#1 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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| Redecorating my bedroom: guy's opinion
My room (I live with my parents) right now is too stuffy and cluttered, too many things on the walls and unhappy memories. Not thinking of buying a lot of new furniture. Just moving and removing things, maybe paint the walls.
Looking for some ideas on what it'll look like, guy's opinion especially. It'd be great if some of you guys can post pics of your rooms if you're comfortable with it. Also, I want it to be a place my gf wants to spend time in  | 
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07-22-2012, 03:22 PM
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I redid my room last year or so, removed all old bad memory pictures and such and put up things that I enjoy looking at...
such as signed records, posters of events that I DJed at that have my name on em, canucks playoff towels, lol, repainted my room too, created contrast with painting one wall dark grey and the rest of them light grey. Installed blackout curtains and blinds because I love my room to be absolutely dark with the lights off.
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07-22-2012, 03:46 PM
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#3 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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Originally Posted by nabs  I redid my room last year or so, removed all old bad memory pictures and such and put up things that I enjoy looking at...
such as signed records, posters of events that I DJed at that have my name on em, canucks playoff towels, lol, repainted my room too, created contrast with painting one wall dark grey and the rest of them light grey. Installed blackout curtains and blinds because I love my room to be absolutely dark with the lights off. | Do you mind posting a pic of your man cave?
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07-22-2012, 03:56 PM
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I wish i could but my room is currently a mess.
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07-22-2012, 04:19 PM
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^ What guy has a neat room?  | |
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07-22-2012, 04:22 PM
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#6 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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^ Truth. I just want to see where you put your furniture in relation to everything. Grey's an interesting colour so I want to see how it works before I go all out on my room.
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07-22-2012, 04:23 PM
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#7 | | 無敵
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Originally Posted by Bigbaddie ^ What guy has a neat room? | Ones with GFs to clean it up for them 
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07-22-2012, 04:26 PM
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^ Best kind of girlfriend attribute.
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07-22-2012, 04:41 PM
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Get rid of posters and crap. Replace with lots of wall mounted shelves. = more storage area + less clutter off the ground
That's what I did when I was still living at home
For cheaper stronger shelves than ikea goto home depot and buy some nice pine finishing planks for furniture and wall shelf brackets. Screw into the wall studs and avoid using drywall anchors, then they will hold a lot of weight
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07-22-2012, 05:33 PM
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#10 | | MiX iT Up!
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Originally Posted by Matlock Get rid of posters and crap. Replace with lots of wall mounted shelves. = more storage area + less clutter off the ground
That's what I did when I was still living at home
For cheaper stronger shelves than ikea goto home depot and buy some nice pine finishing planks for furniture and wall shelf brackets. Screw into the wall studs and avoid using drywall anchors, then they will hold a lot of weight |
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I went from a light brown Ikea desk to "L-shaped" wall mounted desk. with two wall-mounted shelves. as soon as everything was done, room seemed MUCH brighter , less cluttered, and more spacious.
also dont have posters in room. makes it less cluttered. imo.
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07-22-2012, 06:00 PM
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#11 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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Any pics guys?
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07-22-2012, 06:17 PM
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Pic off the web: 
What is your current room size right now?
What is your bed size? Single? Double? Queen? King?
Maybe perhaps you can show US a picture or two of your current room,
and then we could point out a few advises for you.
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07-22-2012, 06:51 PM
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#13 | | MiX iT Up!
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and a bed.
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07-22-2012, 09:12 PM
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#14 | | Lomac owned my ass at least once
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post a pic of your room and we'll throw ideas your way
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07-22-2012, 10:42 PM
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a front end of a rsx on your wall
seems like its flew out of your wall
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07-22-2012, 10:59 PM
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I'm moving into parents downstairs
I want to paint the whole place but don't know what colors to choose from heh
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07-22-2012, 11:04 PM
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This may or may not help you, but take a look at Space Harmony for ideas. I use her for my own clients for tips/ideas/home staging. If her style doesn't help you take a look at other home staging/interior design companies portfolios. They usually have great ideas that you might not think of.
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07-23-2012, 10:13 AM
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If I remember to, I'll post pictures later tonight.. but to some it up it looks like an Ikea catalogue of sorts:
Malm bed
Malm nightstand
Malm 6-draw chest
Lack (Long) Coffee Table
All of it is the black-brown color, nice and dark with neutral tan colored walls.
The only thing I hate but will keep for now is my desk that doesn't match anything. 
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07-23-2012, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by miss_crayon This may or may not help you, but take a look at Space Harmony for ideas. I use her for my own clients for tips/ideas/home staging. If her style doesn't help you take a look at other home staging/interior design companies portfolios. They usually have great ideas that you might not think of. | I've always wondered: what happens to all the furniture and stuff bought for the staging after the house has been sold?
To OP: spend some time looking through ikea catalogs and have a walk through he actual store to steal ideas. I bought one of those big ikea "pax wardrobe" things and put everything in there so my room doesn't look cluttered.
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07-23-2012, 04:56 PM
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^The owners don't buy the furniture, they rent the furniture from home stagers.. hence the high costs ($1500-to $10,000 a month depending on size and style).
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07-23-2012, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by nabs I redid my room last year or so, removed all old bad memory pictures and such and put up things that I enjoy looking at...
such as signed records, posters of events that I DJed at that have my name on em, canucks playoff towels, lol, repainted my room too, created contrast with painting one wall dark grey and the rest of them light grey. Installed blackout curtains and blinds because I love my room to be absolutely dark with the lights off. | My room is similar, dark blue grey on the wall facing the door, the others are light blue grey. Old picture from when I finished renovations/painting/etc, so there's only a bed and drawer (got a new one).
Still pretty much looks like this, just have a diy rolly bench desk + shelf facing the bed and a small bookshelf beside the bed.
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07-24-2012, 12:31 AM
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#22 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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Not in Vancouver atm, will post pics once I get back in August.
Info: ~300 square feet, single bed, 1 window that's half the size of the wall, one wall is my closet (3 feet deep).
@K-dub: the blue-grey colour looks great. Do you have a colour sample or whatever you call that special code for colours from Behr?
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07-26-2012, 04:00 PM
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Best way to do it, is to take everything out of your room, off the floor/walls (put everything into storage or just toss it out), and then look at the room, think about painting it to get more light in, change the curtains/drapes etc. First thing I did with my new place is that I painted my bedroom an olive drab colour, got some pod lighting put up in the ceiling over my desk for my computer, and went from there. Depends on your style, I like a modern spartan-esque style, so I went with black/silver/chrome in my room, leather office chair, steel/glass desk, black book shelves, dresser and bed frame.
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07-26-2012, 10:48 PM
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maybe mine will help you out. i recently did exactly what you are doing, removed a lot of posters and stuff and repainted my room. it's still a bit busy, but it's also very fitting to my personality haha. hope this helps you out! and the walls are blueish grey, looks really blue in the pics though   | |
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07-26-2012, 10:52 PM
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You have a nice room
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