Vintage Home Furniture

Re-doing my room and need help!?

I'll start from the beginning. I want my room to sort of look like older 1910-1920's New York, Chicago, big city style with black and white photos of architecture and buildings of all around the world. But not like a city loft bedroom with lots of metal and really square. My bed head and foot boards are those skinny rod iron poles like you would find in older beds. The thing is, my other furniture is like my past theme with some bouquets of flowers and cream colored (i've had that theme since i was really young) and I'm not sure if I should leave them like that. It would cost a lot to repaint them and I'm not sure my parents would want to re-paint it. How can I make my room the way I want it and have a good color theme that matches that era. I was thinking brick hearth red walls with black and white, but that seems sort of Chinese to me. Any other ideas. O ya... I have a lot of knick knacks and trophies, etc... What should I do with those? My head and foot boards are wrought iron. A dark charcoal almost black color. Would a brick hearth red walls go well with that. Does brick hearth red go well with wood, just plain non-painted wood? (its my lining of the walls on the bottom near the floor. What type of rug should I get for an older black and white, big city type of room? We are takin out the carpet and putting in wood floors.

Public Comments

1. kay my room is kinda like this already. first i think you should paint your furniture ...it wont cost that much if you do it yourself and you can always chip the paint off if you want it back someday. but what i did is i painted my walls white and all my furniture black. I have pictures on the walls in black frames (make sure they're black and white..u could use pictures of old city buildings or something) and also some of those cube black boxes that you hang on the walls that i put stuff in ( you could put some of your trophies in them or you could get black shelves and stagger them above each other..i have 2) if you really want read you could use it as an accent color and put red pillows on your bed ( i would have a black or white bedspread) or have red sheets...red curtains..my accent color is pink..mine isnt really "chicago" but you could definitly make it that way with the pictures and accessories your use. good luck!!