Using a black and grey monochromatic colour scheme can be tricky to navigate. there is a fine line between a clean, modern bedroom and an emo hideout, which is an issue if that’s not what you’re going for.
This article will provide some tips and examples to consider when designing your space.
1. Elegant and warm
The warm greys in this room conjoin nicely with the flooring and curtains. The drapery, along with the lush fabric headboard and the cushions on the bed add to the comfortable feel. In addition to these, I might add a large carpet in the centre of the room, either the grey of the wall or the champagne colour of the headboard.
2. Minimalist with a little bit of texture
A more minimalist approach. The colours are very simple: the white of the window wall and pot, the grey of the bed, the black of the wall and lampshade, and the wooden lampstand, floor and headrest, with a pop of green. The lack of bedside tables reduces the complexity of hues in the room. Keeping the duvet mid-tone, rather than a brighter grey works in reducing the harsh contrast with the black wall.
Having two black walls in this room would work or three, making the right window side an accent wall.
3. Black walls with select texture
A lovely effect if you have a black room with little natural light, is installing side light that highlight certain portions of the wall: it could be a different texture, like the wooden slats or the stone, or it could be a wall hanging or a unique piece of furniture.
4. Lighting with all black walls
Lighting with all black walls can be tricky, you have the ability to completely change a dark space with lighting. Putting a regular light bang in the middle of the ceiling is limiting the massive potential for the room. If that’s the only lighting fixture you can install, try going for a light that projects the light in different ways.
If you can put up other lighting sources, a hidden light such as the one above could create a deep and serene atmosphere. You could achieve this look many ways, the easiest and most consistent way would be strip LED lights. This would also give the option to change the colour of the lights at the click of a button.
5. Unique headboards
A really good way to change up the composition of a bedroom, especially a small one, is the headboard. You could buy one or have one custom made. The symmetrical dark tones on the head board does wonder to break up the rest of the, mainly, mid-tone room without a jarring amount of contrast.
6. Working with decorations rather than walls, renter friendly
If you’re looking to mix your blacks and greys, you could do this in the form of accessories rather than painting the walls. This is a really nice example of not having blocks of black in room and might be an easier for renters too.
The vertical shapes in the curtains mixed with the square pillows and the circle patterned throw make for a dynamic space.
7. Having a pinpoint in the room
The complete opposite of the previous example. This room is mainly made up of a delicate selection of greys but is balance by the stark black headboard in the middle of it all. Alongside this, it may be a good idea to add very small black details to the rest of the room, like the cushions and some decorations.
This way, the black headboard is the centre point of the room but it there will also little dots of black scattered about the room to balance with the greys.
8. A variety of greys
If you’re feeling adventurous, then a room filled with different shades of warm and cool greys could be something interesting to experiment with. Distinguishing or joining each individual element of the room, such as: the duvet, bed frame, door , wardrobe, all walls, the lighting everything.
9. Using black walls to balance a bright room
If there is going to be a lot of natural light in your room, then adding black walls will absorb the light nicely rather than reflect it and make the room dazzling like white or a brighter wall colour would.
10. Playing with blocks of tone
If into a more abstract looks and would really like you’re room composition to stand out, there is not better way of doing that than with blocks of tone.
Like when you squint at a painting, you can immediately tell the light and dark areas and how they interact, and design a room like this is a similar concept. Again, using tones to join and differentiate different parts of the room.
This technique will work ten fold if any kind of wall shelving units are added.
I hope you enjoyed this article, if there’s any other decoration ideas you’d like to see or have any suggestions for the website, let me know in the comments.
– Many thanks, Arryn
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