The idea was to achieve a costy womb-like atmosphere
I can point you to quite a number of home furnishing retailers you specialise in costy merchandise !
As far as colours go it depends on how adventurous you're trying to be. If you simply want to avoid a disaster, a mid charcoal grey is probably the way to go.
The oatmeal colour various people have suggested is similarly quite a safe choice (although I'd tend more towards the orange part of the spectrum - likely to be called something like 'biscuit').
However, it's possible you could get away with a much more striking effect if you were prepared to risk potential awfulness. Are your bookcases light or dark wood ? If the former, some kind of rich maroon colour might work for the carpet, aiming for a sort of "East India Company smoking room" effect. If the latter, possibly something like chocolate brown.
If you can get some digital photos of the room I'm happy to produce mockups in Photoshop.
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Date: 2007-03-30 09:25 am (UTC)I can point you to quite a number of home furnishing retailers you specialise in costy merchandise !
As far as colours go it depends on how adventurous you're trying to be. If you simply want to avoid a disaster, a mid charcoal grey is probably the way to go.
The oatmeal colour various people have suggested is similarly quite a safe choice (although I'd tend more towards the orange part of the spectrum - likely to be called something like 'biscuit').
However, it's possible you could get away with a much more striking effect if you were prepared to risk potential awfulness. Are your bookcases light or dark wood ? If the former, some kind of rich maroon colour might work for the carpet, aiming for a sort of "East India Company smoking room" effect. If the latter, possibly something like chocolate brown.
If you can get some digital photos of the room I'm happy to produce mockups in Photoshop.