Green Bedroom Inspiration: Turn your Dream into Reality

Did you ever fall in love with a picture of a room on Instagram or Pinterest? In this blog post, I want to break down examples of how you can take an inspiration photo and turn it into something you can recreate in your room. I’m going to show you three examples where I used inspiration photos to design green bedrooms.

If you’re working on designing any room and hired an interior designer, they would ask you to look for inspiration photos like the ones I’m going to share with you. Designers would use these photos to pick apart the things that they could find to recreate that same look in your space. Note that you can also learn to do that yourself. 

First, I want to give you a warning. When you’re looking for inspiration photos, make sure that you choose rooms where you like what’s in the room and not the architecture of the room itself. Don’t pick a room that has an A-frame vaulted ceiling when your room has 8 foot ceilings. With this difference, you’re never going to get the same look in your room.

Bedroom 1

For this first green bedroom, the inspiration photo is the first photo. You’ll notice there’s no green paint on the walls. What makes the room green is the use of velvet green drapes and green accents in the bedding.

The other things that you’ll notice in the room are a really warm wood dresser, a natural fiber rug, a four poster wood bed, a ceramic style lamp, and white bedding. In the second photo, I show you what the same items look like on a smaller budget.

Here are affordable ideas that are similar to the inspiration photo:

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Bedroom 2

In the second example, the room is painted green. The color is Clary Sage by Sherwin Williams. Notice when you look at the inspiration image number one the focus on the moldings. There’s a cream padded headboard, toile accents, and the lighting is brass. Did you know that you can buy wainscoting and pre-cut molding kits on Etsy for affordable prices? They’re already primed and all you have to do is mount them on your wall.

In this example, this is what it looked like when I pulled together a similar look onto a mood board. In this case, I decided I liked this room with an oriental rug in it. You can see how you can take your inspiration images to create a mood board. This tactic gives you the opportunity to play with different things to see if you like them in the space before you buy them. 

Did you know that Sherwin Williams has an app where you can take a photo of your room and try out any of their colors in your room? It’s called Color Expert. You should be sure to try that out if you’re thinking about painting a room. It’s free to use.

Here are items to replicate the inspiration photo:

Bedroom 3

In this third, more modern room, they also used green paint. The color is Privilege Green. In this room, there’s a gray padded headboard, sheer drapes along with green drapes, and the lighting is brass and black. 

Here’s what a similar room could look like. In this case, again, I decided I didn’t like the rug in the inspiration photo as much as the rug on my mood board.

Try these items to decorate a similar bedroom:

What I want you to see from these three green bedroom examples is that I didn’t have to buy any of these things until I could try them out on the mood board. It is like trying on clothes before you buy them.

I can see what goes together and what doesn’t. I can take light fixtures to try and I can pull them off the board if I don’t like them. I can put in a different rug or a different bench, all without having to lug anything or return anything.

Using a mood board is actually a great way to save money because furniture and rugs are hard to return. You want to make sure that you’re going to like the hard to return pieces before you buy them.

If you want a tutorial on how to do a mood board yourself, you’ll want to check out this blog post: Canva Mood Board Tutorial For Beginners.

If you have an interest in sending me an inspiration picture and having me put together a mood board for you, just shoot me an email at [email protected].

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