I have recently painted my bedroom completely white with white curtains, red carpet and a white duvet cover (but it looks like the duvet cover can be changed). Now I want something really original to go on the white base of the walls. Something that will make people go ‘Wow I like your room!’ I’m open to any colours except browns, maroons grays, etc. I especially like blue. I have a big interest in music so that could be linked in, but doesn’t necessarily have to be. Please give some ideas!!!
Well I would say if you want a room with the wow factor you have to use quite eye catching colours. I would say this means use more red in your room design and add another contrasting colour, Green would be the obvious complementary colour but with white and red you might end up feeling like you’ve walked into christmas, thats why I would say turquoise is a good colour to add as well as its similar to blue which you like, as well as black I know its boring but its very effective if used right.
Accessories etc. In the colours (hoping your from uk, lots of ikea though so thats international)
Table lamp (In red or turquoise, I have it in pink and its really lovely)
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40159371
Shelves (red black or white)
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/60103632
Bedside table (red or white)
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/70120546
Cushions (black or red)
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/60100704
I think the best way to get visual impact in your room is to make a feature wall. It’s hard to say what would be the best way to do so because I don’t know your age of gender so I dont know whats right but I’ll just throw some ideas at you 
-Possibly make a big collage wall, take music mags and collage all over a wall with articles and pictures of your favourite artists, also you could carry this through and cover any storage boxes you have in music mags too.
-Maybe a mural on the wall, something simple like a black silouhette of a skyline on the white wall would look really stylish and that way you keep the wall colours neutral so you can change the other colours in your room later.
- Backboard paint is pretty cool stuff, you could paint a whole wall in blackboard paint and then get some red and turqiouse picture frames or just big clip frames and put pics of bands/friends/places in them and then just let your friends write on you chalk board walls, that way you can use it as a doodle pad, maybe write your fav song lyrics of the time on it etc.
- Going back to the song lyrics from the backboard idea you could get a letter stencil and paint some of your fave song lyrics (quite big) on one wall, you could paint this in any of the colours.
- Red white and black lends itself quite well to the typical chinese themed room, you could do that with a twist, Maybe get your name in chinese lettering and enlarge it and paint it on your wall, or some other words which mean something to you then go for duvet sets and accessories which feature chinese symbols.
- Maybe just find some wallpaper that fits in with the colour and use that on one feature wall, also you could use any leftover paper to cover storage boxes.
http://www.wallpaperdirect.co.uk/products/kuboaa/hazel-wind/44679
http://www.wallpaperdirect.co.uk/products/brewers/numbers/65388
Hope I helped, even if it just gave you a few ideas, good luck x
well, if you want people to go "wow i like your room" then why did you paint it white? just saying…. Well anyways, you can paint stripes or polkadots on your walls, or i even know that u can buy sticker-like things for walls from the Home Depot- it works very well and looks nice.
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Well I would say if you want a room with the wow factor you have to use quite eye catching colours. I would say this means use more red in your room design and add another contrasting colour, Green would be the obvious complementary colour but with white and red you might end up feeling like you’ve walked into christmas, thats why I would say turquoise is a good colour to add as well as its similar to blue which you like, as well as black I know its boring but its very effective if used right.
Accessories etc. In the colours (hoping your from uk, lots of ikea though so thats international)
Table lamp (In red or turquoise, I have it in pink and its really lovely)
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40159371
Shelves (red black or white)
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/60103632
Bedside table (red or white)
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/70120546
Cushions (black or red)
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/60100704
I think the best way to get visual impact in your room is to make a feature wall. It’s hard to say what would be the best way to do so because I don’t know your age of gender so I dont know whats right but I’ll just throw some ideas at you
-Possibly make a big collage wall, take music mags and collage all over a wall with articles and pictures of your favourite artists, also you could carry this through and cover any storage boxes you have in music mags too.
-Maybe a mural on the wall, something simple like a black silouhette of a skyline on the white wall would look really stylish and that way you keep the wall colours neutral so you can change the other colours in your room later.
- Backboard paint is pretty cool stuff, you could paint a whole wall in blackboard paint and then get some red and turqiouse picture frames or just big clip frames and put pics of bands/friends/places in them and then just let your friends write on you chalk board walls, that way you can use it as a doodle pad, maybe write your fav song lyrics of the time on it etc.
- Going back to the song lyrics from the backboard idea you could get a letter stencil and paint some of your fave song lyrics (quite big) on one wall, you could paint this in any of the colours.
- Red white and black lends itself quite well to the typical chinese themed room, you could do that with a twist, Maybe get your name in chinese lettering and enlarge it and paint it on your wall, or some other words which mean something to you then go for duvet sets and accessories which feature chinese symbols.
- Maybe just find some wallpaper that fits in with the colour and use that on one feature wall, also you could use any leftover paper to cover storage boxes.
http://www.wallpaperdirect.co.uk/products/kuboaa/hazel-wind/44679
http://www.wallpaperdirect.co.uk/products/brewers/numbers/65388
Hope I helped, even if it just gave you a few ideas, good luck x
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