ok….I am helping my sister-in-law with her bedroom and my brain is a little fried on this project so ANY help is appreciated! She loves her wallpaper so that is staying as is all the furniture (the chair will probably go). The help I need is figuring out what to do regarding window treatments and the adjacent walls that flank the wallpaper wall (one has a window the other a barn door that leads to the closet). The white roller shades are a temporary fix for privacy until we get something permanent figured out. thanks!!
Wow — this is tough! My ideas are: add curtains or blinds to the windows in a color that is one of the main colors in the wallpaper (probably one of the blues), and then paint the two side walls in that color so the three walls read as one expanse. (The trim could stay white if you want.) My vote would be for shades or blinds rather than curtains, since it feels like there's a lot going on with the big patterned wall making a focal point in the room and you don't want to compete with it. Blinds would be more unobtrusive than curtains, and I know you can get blinds in blue (we have some).
It would be really spectacular if you could continue the wallpaper pattern onto the blind or shade over the bed, so when closed it would complete the wall pattern, and I'm sure there are artistic people who could do that. Too bad I'm not one of them!
Very interested to see what ideas other people come up with! This is fun.
Since the wallpaper is the star, I’d go for sleek window treatments that don’t compete with it maybe motorized roller shades in a textured fabric or roman shades in a solid color that pulls from the wallpaper (deep blue or a muted neutral). If she wants a softer look, floor-length curtains could work too, mounted high and wide to make the window feel bigger.
For the adjacent walls, the one with the barn door could use some visual balance maybe a piece of sculptural wall art or a sleek, narrow console table if space allows. The window wall could benefit from a statement piece, like a large, simple-framed mirror or floating shelves to add dimension without cluttering the space. Excited to see how it turns out!
The shade over the bed looks like a patch. Perhaps it can be made to look like the wallpaper for amore even look.
I think you really need to go for curtains in this space. Mount them the rods as high as possible and extend them as wide beyond the window frames, bring the curtains to the floor. Take the navy and white throw pillow as your cue and go with a similar print or large stripe in the same colors. On the wall it looks like you have very little clearance for the door. With liquid starch and fabric you can create a flat art piece (look on line for directions) that works like wallpaper but can simply peel off when you want a change.
My first questions concern the window over the bed. Is that window ever opened? Does she ever want to have the window treatments open or raised? If not, I would make a headboard from plywood that goes at least halfway up the window (if you want some light and to open it) or all the way to the top of the window. Add foam padding, and then a smaller abstract print fabric that has most of the same colors in it as the wallpaper. I would add drapery panels on the side wall window, almost ceiling to floor, in a solid color (maybe the lime green or purple), then banded down the inside edges with the same fabric as on the headboard. I know you said the chair is going, but it seems great in there. Add a couple of colorful pillows, maybe one and the same print fabric.
I suggest taking those two dressers that are standing in as night stands and putting them under the side window, butting up against each other to look like one long piece of furniture. You could even get a new top that is the full length of the two of them together. And this is said with the presumption that the chair is gone (as it should be). Get smaller nightstands and wall-mounted lights for the bed. You could even install wall-hung shelves as nightstands to take up less visual -0 and actual - space. Lights like this would work well
