Bedroom Design again

The feedback from the previous bedroom designs wasn't good, there was a lot I needed to change. One of the things was that there wasn't a lot of objects in the room, and the toy box just seems to be in the way. So I should either have minimum things in the room to emphasise her loneliness  or I should put a lot more things in there to make it feel more like a child's room. Also,The colours were too similar, I needed to experiment with different colours. Caroline suggested I look at colour wheels, as they show all the colours that compliment each other.

Colour wheel from: http://allysonmccourtstyle.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/are-you-a-colour-chameleon/ 

As I was looking at these, Dewi suggested I look at Vinvent Van Gogh's painting, as he used a lot of blue and yellow/orange, which are complimenting colours.

'Starry Night' By Vinvent Van Gogh

'Café Terrace at Night' By Vincent Van Gogh

So, with these things in mind, I then tried to re create the bedroom.

Image by Cassie Austin

Image by Cassie Austin

Image by Cassie Austin

Image by Cassie Austin

But, I didn't like any of these, it still didn't feel right, and I feel like I'm not getting the hang of the colour wheel. I spoke to Deb, and she said that she imagined the girls room to be really dingy. So I thought about this, and went back to look at my research, and looked at the style of the childrems bedrooms in them.

Image: Coraline (2009) Henry Selick

First, a still from 'Coraline'. Her real life bedroom is very dull, with few toys in and a couple of boxes. The colours are also very plain.

Image:'Behind closed doors' Jonathan Button

This is from 'Behind Closed Doors'. The child's room in this is also very plain and dark. It is a quite similar to my design, in that the room doesn't have much except for the bed, table and lamp.

Image: 'Matilda' (1996) Danny DeVito

I also looked at 'Matilda'. Her bedroom has a lot in, but its still very plain coloured, and the use of lighting is very interesting. I am thinking about making the lamp work, and having it be the main source of light, like in this image.

So, I tried again:

Image by Cassie Austin

Image by Cassie Austin

Image by Cassie Austin

Image by Cassie Austin

I think these ones work so much better, adding the dingy marks on the wall really worked. Also, instead of having one framed painting up on that wall, I changed it to a few small drawings put up. These are also placed at the childs height, implying that she put them up herself.

I prefer the green one, it has a darker and sadder feeling to it.