Guest post: Turquoise and red bedrooms

Today I'm welcoming a guest blogger to Charles Whyte to inspire my own red and turquoise bedroom. Take it away Jenn! xEllise
 
Hi everyone! I'm Jenn and I write for Arcadian Home Decor, an e-commerce website that specializes in top home decor ideas around the world. I helped my mom redecorate my bedroom when I was a teenager and I've been addicted to interior design ever since. Now I get to write about home decor for a living and I get to guest post for amazing blogs like Charles Whyte, where owner Ellise's ideas keep me coming back daily. Thanks for letting me write here today Ellise! Sometimes the most unusual of colours look incredible when paired up in a great home decor plan, and an example of this are turquoise and red bedrooms. These two flashy hues come together in stylish harmony to help streamline and add visual impact to both modern and traditional spaces. Check out these eight one-of-a-kind turquoise and red bedrooms.

A blast of colour

There's no shortage of colour in this eclectic bedroom - the turquoise headboard and red leopard-print cushion, as well as the orange accents, make a surprising match.

Patterns show the way

In this beautiful bedroom, turquoise and red patterns in the bedding and window treatments meld in a unique yet pretty way.

Subtle style

More muted tones of turquoise and red in this bedroom still creates a serene environment - the flowery accoutrements used throughout the space help to tie everything together.

Darling daybed

This cozy daybed is flanked by a red fabric headboard and a turquoise accent wall, which takes centre stage and is truly the star of the show.

Gorgeous great room

This modest apartment is decked out in complementary shades of turquoise and red, seen in the soft red accent wall behind the bed and the funky turquoise glass light fixtures with table decorations.

Boutique hotel chic

This guest bedroom looks well-dressed in red damask along with turquoise and white stripes. The hues are mimicked in the wall hanging as well as the wall colour.

Perfect for baby

Turquoise and red (along with a dash of yellow) are calming but still trendy colours for a modern nursery. Image credits: { 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 } What do you think of the turquoise and red color bedroom ideas? Don't forget to check out Arcadian Home Decor for more home decor ideas!


Thank you Jenn and Arcadian Home Decor! My favourites are the 'darling daybed' and the 'blast of colour'. These images are so bright and have inspired me to swing my attention back to my own bedroom. It incorporates these colours but needs a few finishing touches (see here for the painting my mum did to start it all).

Cheating on fashion with furniture

It would not be a stretch to surmise that when Carrie announces that she's "been cheating on fashion with furniture" in Sex and the City 2, the passion for the show was re-ignited in fans across the globe. Characters and viewers alike have aged a few years since the final season and the first movie, and in some of us our yearnings have moved from fashion designs to interior ones. When compared to the show's four stars, Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte, it could be argued that most of us never were fashionable. The volume of designer fashion seen hanging from their limbs is, and always has been, out of reach for the majority. Indulging in fantasy is all part of the appeal though, and the interiors in SATC2 are similarly gratifying. Some may still ogle at the fashion, but I admit my eyes were eating up the interiors, particularly the New York apartments. Any scene in Carrie and Big's bedroom is a blur in my memory and I was enamoured with the striking bed head (pictured below).

This is Velvet Gate Tuxedo fabric from Kravet. Loving.

The movie also provided enough wallpaper to satisfy my penchant for beautiful and unique designs running across interior walls. There were birds on walls and even on cushions (you can just see a glimpse of the Paul Smith Birdie Blossom cushion in the first photo of this post). And how's this for a chandelier? I think the wallpaper in the background is the one with birds.

Whatever the critics are saying about the latest instalment of this cult show, it holds visual appeal in buckets and the feel good factor by the handbag-full. At times the comedy goes so far that the movie could be taken as a parody of the series, but I guess that was their technique for making it into a show for the big screen. If this element holds no appeal, just use these moments to feast your eyes on something in the background and wait for the more poignant scenes. One that sticks with me is when Miranda finally gets perfectionist Charlotte to admit that being a mother is really hard. Finally, the facade falls.

Charles Whyte was a guest of the lovely Anna Tee (aka my cycling idol) at a very special SATC2 preview screening. It was an evening of entertainment and surprises, so much so that we declared ourselves to be like two kids in a candy shop! Endless thanks to Karen Gee for enabling it all.