The Color Blue.. Help

This is a material she had gotten from Walmart . Its nice material too. The picture of the striped one she used for her valances did not turn out good. Sorry!!

oooooooo wow... Love it.... The golds, browns and blues look great together.....Is beautiful........

Thank you so very much SweetSunshine. I could not visualize the colors but seeing them makes a big difference. Looks like I have a lot to work with the blues... smiles

Will have to take a pic when I finish and post it. It will be a few weeks......I already decided to do the bedroom in sage. And the bathroom, I have no idea... So I will be painting for awhile.. Good exercise I tell myself, doing all this painting..

Radio,

The one thing I do believe is that the ceilings should be white....maybe not pure white, I toned down the white my my ceilings, but defiitely a white ceiling....it makes the room feel larger....opens it up.

I have tray ceilings in several rooms & the part that is parallel to the walls have the same colour as the walls, bit the parts that are the ceiling are white. I used pure white in the closets to lighten them up.

I also purchased the medallions that go around the ceiling lights & am painting them shades of the wall colour & also keeping the white in them....just to add a bit of interest but still keeping the white ceilings.

Hope all goes well for you,
Debbie

Ty Debbie for the suggestion for the ceiling. I had no idea what color to use. I was getting into that "earthy" nature idea and thought of painting the ceiling a super light, with just a hint of green or purple. lol...Ha..if I had [painted the green, the grass would be my ceiling.. or the "hint of purple" would have been I dunno, but a color I have seen in the clouds lol...Have to say, my imagination was running wild....

OO and I had to paint over the "darker" blue with the light blue because I was actually getting sick to my stomach looking at it. Although the darker blue is a "pretty" color, something just didn't agree with me... So what I have now are two shades of "very soft" blue, which is actually soothing. The trim, ceiling and a few more walls and I shall be done.. Am thinking a lighter than a potato sack cream would look nice with the soft blues. Well not potato sack, I see the color in my head, just don't have a name for it.. lol Anyway it would be kind of country cottage looking.. And no idea what to paint the fireplace..wipes brow...

Since I now have the "softer" blues, I am now enjoying painting. Gonna be "chillen" in my soft blues soon.....

Thank you soooooo much for all of your help. I really do appreciate everyone's suggestions.

In my farm house, the previous owners stuccoed over the brick fireplace wall. Then they built a beautiful wooden mantel. It's pretty, but I so love brick. The fireplace in the basement is the brick. I was thinking about taking off the stucco, but what I did was to paint the stucco a lighter shade of the wall shade, so there is a contrast, but not too much...just enough so it stands out as being different than the walls & looks a bit like the fireplace.

I have been looking at fireplace designs on the internet...trying to get some ideas of what to do with it. Someone in the past had put an insert into that fireplace & never connected it to the chimney. I took out the insert & it was a black mess in there...most hadn't gone up the fleu & a lot of smoke had come out into the house. The chimney sweep said I would have had a fire in the chimney if I hadn't taken the insert out....lucky me....I didn't like it anyway & wanted it out....then I had a good excuse & did the right thing just by luck.

Sounds like you are having fun after all.....making something fun & creative out of a stressful situation usually helps & then it's really exciting with the outcome.

Debbie