I Love me some Orlando, but the before is much better. Of course, if invited, I would spend time in that bedroom anytime. wink, wink...

I like the new wall color, but mostly I love the new bed linens in the after shot... can I get a source for the sheets and comforter?

Hmm... I think the blue artwork really POPS in the first photo, and is kind of absorbed into the walls in the second.

Really love the spark of the blue in #1.

To each his own.

Not even the same artwork. Why is the focus on the wall color when it's really an overall redo?

I just painted my bedroom a very similar color, a bit more grey, and I love it! Right now I am enjoy subtle wall colors with bright/bold accents like fuchsia.

Love the grey blue bedding!

Ha ha! If it was not labeled as a subtle makeover, then people would complain that it wasn't drastic enough to be called a before and after.

While I do like a subtle wall color, I can't take anything that goes into the pastels. I need my wall colors to have dimension, saturation. Pastels always look insipid to me. They give the impression of indecision.

I have tried "bold", dark, saturated colors in various rooms of my home, and have found that they work only in the rooms that get north light. In the other rooms I have used mid-range, warm, organic colors. In places where I've needed a version of white, I've used the BM range of whites, which are great for correcting other colors in the room. If any of those read as pastel on the wall, though, they are rejected.

If the featured room were mine, I would use a slightly lighter version of the graphite gray of that coverlet. But that's my personal taste.

I think the new color looks wonderful. If you click through the link there are more shots of the room.

I love the bedding too.

The artwork doesn't work in the "after" shot; it is too coordinated with the bedding and too similar in tone to the wall colour. Artwork that is warm in tone, yellow perhaps, would really sing in this room.

I really like the color in the after, but I agree with those who felt the artwork kinda made the room in the before. I would have kept the painting over the bed from the before photo and combined it with the updates from the after.

Personally, I think it needs something a bit less matchy and more unexpected to break up things in the after. Nonetheless, it's a nice redo and it looks like a cozy room!

color makes a huge difference! nice!

Before and After; Adding a subtle wall color, a subtle splash of color of new linens, subtle change of wall art, Voila! Its in the subtleties.

very calming.

I really love this! The before is a bit sterile, where the after is vibrant, I really like it!

Same color as my bedroom! It's so calming :-)

i would say the paintings on the walls and the matching blue of the covers pulled the room together rather than the paint in this one.

LOVE the after. Big difference. Good choice. People always say white brightens up a dark space. I found it leaves a warm dark space colder looking. There was some woman on here about six months ago who painted her yellow walls white in a warm old fashioned space in an attempt to make it modern and bright and it was horrible. You can't fight the bones of the house. This colour choice works with the architecture and the light. Great job.

Sorry but the paint colour, paintings (not just one but two) and the bed linen is too matchy matchy for my taste. Would have preferred to see the original paintings on the wall.

The new colour is an improvement, although I wouldn't call it subtle. I would never be brave enough to paint my walls that bold shade - I have bare white walls!

White's nice.

Yuck. Before artwork so much less banale.

The 'before' artwork... the blue painting, does anyone keep seeing Robert Pattinson? Because I can't help but see him in that painting (and no, I'm not a fan... my brain is just making that connection this morning).

'New color' is pretty much hidden under two huge blech purple hued paintings. Real smart. Both 'before' and 'after' just look tired.

Love the after, but would also love to see an after where they only thing that changes is the wall colour, so you can really see the difference it makes!

For a bedroom definitely more subtle for me, and soft. Amazing how the smallest amount of color made such a difference, it even looks more cozy.

Depends on what the room is being used for. I like the bedroom to be dark and subtle, but I like my kitchen white because all my stuff is brightly colored. My favorite room color-wise is the butter-yellow downstairs bathroom. I found an amazing print in the free-stuff bin outside our local music store of forest-dwelling skeletons greeting a spaceship. The background color in the print matches the paint color on the wall perfectly!

I love Orlando. Just reading his written word alone is enough to brighten my day, but then there's this added perk of his photos & style & great finds.
I love AT, too, but they didn't do justice to the makeover. He didn't even leave the artwork everyone is so picking on.. and the color saturation varies much in the additional photos. You get a much better feel for the room in his post.

I like the bedding from the after, but the wall paint and art work from the before best.
:)

I like the bedding and wall color in the after, but I liked the art in the before. Well, I like the art in the after too, it just gets a little lost on the blue wall. It does help the new bedding stand out more though.

I love the idea of the subtle paint job, and I love the artwork. I just think the wall washes out these particular paintings :/
They kind of blend in in an awkward way and it doesn't allow them to pop like the before picture where the white background contrasted so intensely with the dark/colorful works.