Votes needed - choose a pattern

[Penthesilea]

Hi Bettermostians


Which of the following patterns do you like best?


Number 1




Number 2




Number 3




I'll explain in the next days .


This is how I plan to paint my living room wall.
The grey rectangle represents the sofa. The furniture will be white with red doors, the carpet will be red, and the other three walls will be plain white.




Edit:
I put up three more pics on page two of the thread and edited the poll. Voters can change their vote if they want.

[belbbmfan]

What does 'other' mean?

 

 

[Penthesilea]

What does 'other' mean?

 

 

I have no idea, it's up to you .
Maybe you like the pattern, but dislike the color, or vice versa, or whatever .
I'll change my initial post, I'll tell what this is about now.

[Fran]

I like Number 1.

[Monika]

2

[Front-Ranger]

I take it we're looking at an elevation view here.

I like Number 3. The others have long lines that lead my eye away.

Thanks for letting us vote!

[Brown Eyes]

I like number 3! 

[serious crayons]

I can't quite visualize what you mean regarding the furniture, so I just picked purely on how my eyes reacted to the abstract pattern. No. 2.

[delalluvia]

I like #1 because the multiple long lines that go all the way down give the room height, where the other patterns just seem to float and break up the line of sight and shorten the view.

But I picked 'other' because...red carpet?  Damn.

[Penthesilea]

Fabienne, look:

I like #1 because the multiple long lines that goes all the way down give the room height, where the other patterns just seem to float and break up the line of sight and shorten the view.

But I picked 'other' because...red carpet?  Damn.

See? There's "other"

[Penthesilea]

I can't quite visualize what you mean regarding the furniture, so I just picked purely on how my eyes reacted to the abstract pattern. No. 2.

Here's the furniture. It will stand on the opposite wall of the one I'll paint.




I'll hang the bookshelves differently though. Staggered? Not sure about the right word. They won't hang so neatly in a row over the TV and over each other.


Thank you to everybody who voted/chimed in so far!

[belbbmfan]

I voted 1. I like how the stripes on the right tie the sofa to the rest of the room.

It looks very chique Chrissi! Great choice of colours. 

[Brown Eyes]

Thanks for sharing the picture of the furniture Chrissi!  It looks very cool.  Let us know what you pick!

[mariez]

I chose No. 1 - it just seems to flow better to my eye.  Cool furniture, Chrissi - I like red!

[Jeff Wrangler]

Thanks for sharing the picture of the furniture Chrissi!  It looks very cool.  Let us know what you pick!

Yes. "White furniture" had me visualizing "white upholstery," and I was thinking, She has kids (and pets?); is she crazy picking white furniture?!?! 

[optom3]

No 3 for me, it seems more symetrical, and I love everything ordered, I guess it balances the chaos of my life. I love red and white BTW it reminds me of the dining room in my first house, I even had red and whire china. The grey makes it sophisticated as well as bright.

[Kerry]

Here's the furniture. It will stand on the opposite wall of the one I'll paint.



I'll hang the bookshelves differently though. Staggered? Not sure about the right word. They won't hang so neatly in a row over the TV and over each other.

Thank you to everybody who voted/chimed in so far!

The above is an extremely bright feature wall in its own right. Do I understand correctly that you will be painting the red-and-white patterns on the wall opposite the above furniture? Can any one room cope with TWO bright, red-and-white feature walls? Surely one such feature wall would be more than ample for any one room? And there will be red carpet too?

With all that red-and-white in one room, I believe a cool contrast is what's needed on the wall opposite the bright, lacquered wall fittings pictured above. A nice cool, very soft dove-gray wall (NO patterns!) would make for a subtle, restful contrast. It would act as a cool resting point for the eyes. If you want to continue the bright, retro look, maybe the wall opposite could be painted lime green. Again, as a contrast to all that red-and-white.  

For the above reasons, I voted Other.

[Penthesilea]

The above is an extremely bright feature wall in its own right. Do I understand correctly that you will be painting the red-and-white patterns on the wall opposite the above furniture? Can any one room cope with TWO bright, red-and-white feature walls? Surely one such feature wall would be more than ample for any one room? And there will be red carpet too?

Thanks for your insightful comment Kerry .
That's what I asked myself, too. Especially since the room isn't too big (it's not really small either) Maybe I'll rethink and put much less red on the wall. But I'm pretty sure about the red (not hunnerd per cent though).

With all that red-and-white in one room, I believe a cool contrast is what's needed on the wall opposite the bright, lacquered wall fittings pictured above. A nice cool, very soft dove-gray wall (NO patterns!) would make for a subtle, restful contrast.

But then I would have a grey sofa in front of a grey wall. Nah. That's not for me.
And with lime green, or any other additional color, wouldn't it get toooooo colorful? Red + white + grey + whatever?

I'll think more about it.

[Penthesilea]

Yes. "White furniture" had me visualizing "white upholstery," and I was thinking, She has kids (and pets?); is she crazy picking white furniture?!?! 

 
White upholstery - priceless .
I would be really out of my mind if I decided for a white sofa with three kids (and a dog who isn't allowed on the sofa).
I may be a bit off with my bright color choices, but I'm not completely nuts .

[Penthesilea]

OK, I made three more with much less red and edited the poll.


Number 4




Number 5





Number 6

[Front-Ranger]

I was going to vote for Number 4 this time, but I guess the polll is closed. Chrissi, don't be afraid to paint your walls red. My friend Adam painted his hallway red and put up a red stop sign, and it looks terrific!

[Penthesilea]

I was going to vote for Number 4 this time, but I guess the polll is closed. Chrissi, don't be afraid to paint your walls red. My friend Adam painted his hallway red and put up a red stop sign, and it looks terrific!

Thanks for reminding me of this thread, FRiend.

The work is done meanwhile. In the end, I threw caution to the wind and went with pattern # 1, the one with the most red in it.


I think it turned out great, even though we had kind of a mishap, which will be corrected at some later point. Here are some pics of my new living room. It still needs some finishing: lamps, new curtains (maybe also drapery), book shelves and correcting the mistake.








In the second pic you can see the mistake: the red lines should go down behind the sofa. We had measured the old sofa, then added some centimeters and thought we'd be on the safe side with that. Turned out we weren't .


We'll extend the red stripes downwards later. At the moment, the mere thought of my men (hubby and FIL) busying with red paint in the new living room makes me nervous, LOL.
On the left wall (opposite the window wall) there should go all-white bookshelves from almost top to bottom. But I like the room as it is now, I don't want to have it more narrow with an all-shelf-wall . On the other side, we need to put our books somehwere, there are thousands of them.

[Front-Ranger]

... we need to put our books somehwere, there are thousands of them.

When I got to this, I heard Jack's voice saying "There are a thousand of them." 

[mariez]

Very cool, Chrissi!  I like it.  As for the "mistake," well, it looks like maybe a few extra large throw pillows, strategically placed, might do the trick!