| Given: Little windows, dark room, bright coral flowered | | | | shop for anything for the room such as lamp shades, |
| bedspread, two mismatched peeling brown painted | | | | curtain material, or other accessories. |
| tables, $300 budget. Goal: Guest bedroom | | | | For window shades or venetian blinds, we'll choose off |
| Let's go over to the paint store and look at their paint | | | | white, blending with the wall color. For the woodwork |
| chips. Choose a white tinged paint with a few drops of | | | | we'll do off white as well. Attics are usually dark and |
| coral for the walls. After that we need to find a way | | | | need all the help they can get. |
| to work in lots more coral shades wherever space | | | | With any money left over we'll buy a standing lamp, |
| permits, the floor, the wall posters, and little decorative | | | | one with an up light to illuminate the ceiling. The room |
| objects. Paint remover will take the peeling paint off | | | | will feel lighter and bigger. If any other money can be |
| the old tables. Then they can be painted a dull coral.. | | | | allotted, try to find a bright area rug in shades of |
| For the bedside tables, hopefully round, you can buy | | | | orange. A small chair next to the standing lamp and a |
| some coral velvet, make a tablecloth and drape the | | | | small table would add a lot. Put one or two |
| particle board tables you can find at Home Depot for | | | | paperbacks plus a little ceramic bowl on the table for |
| under $30.00. | | | | wrapped candies. |
| A light coral shimmery fabric would be great for the | | | | Any banners or posters should repeat the main colors, |
| windows. It would make the most of any light at all, | | | | either exactly or shades of brown and coral. Let your |
| outside light or from lamps. We'll keep the lampshades | | | | imagination choose freely but have a theme such as |
| off white, blending with the wall color. | | | | sunsets, flowers, ancient buildings, abstracts. |
| Most important is to paint a piece of cardboard we | | | | A brown teddy bear will be very happy on the coral |
| get at the paint store with the room color. Then we | | | | bedspread. |
| take that piece of cardboard with us whenever we | | | | |