How do i turn my room into a "modern" room?

Question

This is how my room looks now:

http://i26.tinypic.com/2uep6w1.jpg

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http://i28.tinypic.com/24wukoy.jpg

I want to turn it into something like this:

http://common.csnstores.com/common/products/TMA/TMA1103_l.jpg

http://common.csnstores.com/common/products/TMA/TMA1101_l.jpg

I want a black and white scheme but i'm not sure about painting my walls white my room might look to pale.

Can anyone give me color ideas and other ideas?

Answer 1

In both of the modern rooms you showed the bed was really low to the ground. I'm guessing thats what you would like but I think you should keep it a twin size because your room is pretty small.  

If you want to keep a black and white theme throughout your room, I recommend painting the walls a light greyish color or white, whatever you choose, but I would do grey. Play around with the sherwin and benjamin moore colors to find out what shade you would like.

but I personally like benjamin moore paints better. Not much of a difference, just personal preference.

Okay now the first place I would look is ikea. Its my favorite store, all modern and very cheap.  I would suggest getting black furniture because painting your room black would look too dark and white furniture on white walls wont stand out that much.

Since your room is pretty small (I have a small room too) then be careful what you put in there. Make your you measure before you buy anything. Here is some furniture from ikea that would be good in there.

For furniture, I would get one nightstand, a small desk and some shelving that can be used as a dresser and your TV can sit on it. Also, a black twin bed with a headboard. Here are some examples. these all come in black.

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And since you have hardwood floors, you should get a big white rug to cover most of the room. try rugsusa.com and search flokati. flokati rugs are really soft, I love them.

Now for the bedspread, I would get a completely white comforter since your furniture is black and add maybe 3 black throw pillows.

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then you can hang something like this above your bed:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/produc...

or track lighting would look good in a modern room.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/produc...

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Now keep in mind how modern furniture looks. I usually imagine big spacey rooms with low, boxy furniture. So, to make your room look spacey, you need to keep the furniture on a minimum, to have walking space. If you just get a low, wide dresser to put the TV on then youve already created alot of new space. Also, the trimming and doors in your room are painted like woodenish. When you paint your room, I would recommend going with grey paint for the walls and get the trimming painted white. Also in a modern room, you wouls see boxy chairs with blankets draped over them. If you wanted to do that, I would recommend getting a white chair and putting it over by where your closet is and draping a black blanket over it.

Well I hope I helped and good luck! This question was alot of fun to answer!

-Sara

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