Blue bedroom. My blue bedroom. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2016
Blue bedroom. Dark blue walls. My bedroom has dark blue walls. Lately many interior design articles and papers are showing and writing about dark colored bedrooms. As if it would be something new?
I painted my bedroom walls – all of them – dark blue at the beginning of 2015. I wanted another color on the walls already when I moved in in November 2009. Couldn’t stand the original pale green color. I began the project in October 2014, and finished it in February 2015.
My blue bedroom. Photo:©nini.tjader.2016
Not much has happened since. I change the bedspread, the bedskirt and the pillows now and then, and the curtains, but otherwise it looks much the same as in February 2015. I have changed the carpet too to the big one I had in the kitchen before.
My blue bedroom. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
I am happy with my blue bedroom and the dark walls. It is good to sleep here.
My blue bedroom. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
I have plenty of white details in the bedroom. Perfect against the dark walls. The bedframe is also white, as are the doors and outsides of the cupboards. The bedframe is one piece of an IKEA Malm bed. The rest of the bed is stored in my storage space. Its construction was/is really bad nowadays. Every time I got into bed it felt like the bed would fall apart. So I reverted to steady legs on the mattress and stored the rest of the bed, minus the bedframe.
My blue bedroom. Photo:©nini.tjader.2017
I have never regretted painting the walls in the bedroom dark blue. It gives calm.
My blue bedroom color. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2014
This is the color I used. I have some left if I need to repair somewhere.
My blue bedroom. Photo:©nini.tjader.2017
Having white, or light, details in furniture makes the room feel lighter than it actually is. It is a rather small room, but the dark color doesn’t make it feel smaller because of it. I have too many bookcases and wardrobes though, which makes it impossible to have bedside tables by the bed (even though the bed is only 120 cms wide). I solved that need with those small boxes on the wall as an alternative.
(Why do I have two iPhones charging there? One the old iPhone 3 is my alarmclock, the other is an iPhone 5s that I really should get rid off as I’ve exchanged if for an iPhone 7 recently. The old iPhone 3 has no SIM-card.).
My blue bedroom. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
Pictures and other decorative items in the bedroom stand out fine against the blue walls provided they are light enough.
My blue bedroom. Photo:©nini.tjader.2017
My oldest iMac (the very first Intel-model) stands there as an option for playing DVDs and watching them in bed. Still fully working with an old OS and applications which I don’t have on my regular Macs. Cannot get updated.
After having the bedroom dark blue since early 2015, I am still happy with the dark blue walls. I might in the future change them again, but for now they are fine.
My blue bedroom. View towards the livingroom. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
