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Mixed Print Bedroom by Todd Romano

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Oh, whoa. This blue-and-white print bedroom by designer Todd Romano doesn't just bring up the question of combining multiple prints. It answers it with an emphatic, "Yes, yes, hell yes!"...

 
 

Todd Romano's decoration of this room in his own home combines a blue floral on white, a dense blue paisley, and a smart navy stripe.

With all of this going on, we almost missed the fact that the outer bedcover itself is pure white. The headboard, too, breaks up the pattern (a little) with its clean white field. Finish off with a classic white lamp shade and crisp modern accessories (the night stand and artwork), and you have one expert combining of prints.

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I like the patterns together, but that's TOO much. Oy Vey, I think I'd have nightmares sleeping here.

posted by mlleErica on January 21st 2009 at 5:20pm
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The only thing in that room that isn't giving me a seizure is the lucite side table.

posted by medenver on January 21st 2009 at 5:21pm
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This makes my head hurt. I can't imagine getting a nice, restful sleep in that room.

posted by emmabemma on January 21st 2009 at 5:23pm
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Blue and white -- like black and white -- almost always works when mixing prints.

I don't love the bedskirt matching the wallpaper -- that seems a bit old-fashioned, but maybe what's old is what's new.

posted by Lisa (Montreal) on January 21st 2009 at 5:23pm
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I feel dizzy . . .

posted by ChrisToronto on January 21st 2009 at 5:25pm
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I think when so many patterns together they become a neutral backdrop for other pieces---like when you have a child in a field of sunflowers, you don't notice the sunflowers as much.

posted by tenderleaf on January 21st 2009 at 5:26pm
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No, no, no, hell no...!

posted by hollandstudio on January 21st 2009 at 5:28pm
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I feel kind of dizzy and sick looking at it.

posted by als1 on January 21st 2009 at 5:29pm
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"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."

The last words of Oscar Wilde, on his deathbed in a cheap French Hotel.

posted by jrochest on January 21st 2009 at 5:34pm
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wow, I am also getting dizzy looking at that! Having the ceiling both wallpapered and sloped probably makes it worse than it would be if just the walls were papered.

posted by UWSretreat on January 21st 2009 at 5:35pm
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if you stare hard enough, you'll see a chimpanzee pop out at you

posted by frogfood on January 21st 2009 at 5:39pm
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I hate it. Fugly.

posted by eddie p on January 21st 2009 at 5:40pm
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This actually hurts my eyes.

posted by Kat G on January 21st 2009 at 5:42pm
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With the right pajamas, no one will ever find you.

posted by K T G on January 21st 2009 at 5:43pm
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I love this...it would be great in a small attic bedroom.

posted by Aaron on January 21st 2009 at 5:48pm
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No no no NO! I'm getting a headache just looking at this photo, let alone being in the room.

posted by littleinkpot on January 21st 2009 at 5:48pm
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dizzy...sick...disoriented...can't look for long at the photo and would not dare walk into the room!

posted by NL on January 21st 2009 at 5:55pm
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That picture is giving me a headache!!!

posted by brenjay on January 21st 2009 at 5:57pm
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I don't like it. It's way too much for me. I rather see wall papers mixed with simple one color beddings like in this one: http://www.houzz.com/photos/7193/Pierce-Allen-traditional-bedroom-new-york-single-family-house

posted by kimmiller on January 21st 2009 at 6:03pm
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Ye gads.

posted by Cassis on January 21st 2009 at 6:24pm
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Okay- if it were solid blue to the roofline (or chair-rail on a flat wall) that would be super sweet... but this is definitely too busy for my eye as-is.

posted by SeattleMama on January 21st 2009 at 6:26pm
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Ze goggles... Zay do NOTHING!

posted by Hollie on January 21st 2009 at 6:29pm
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hollandstudio already said what I was going to post.

posted by mrs yow on January 21st 2009 at 6:43pm
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If the ceiling weren't also wallpapered, I'd be okay with it, as it is the wallpaper seems to create the illusion that the walls and ceiling are one flat surface instead of individual planes, and that just makes my head spin.

posted by SputnikSpak on January 21st 2009 at 6:52pm
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It burns...

It would be a good way to keep your houseguests from staying too long.

posted by thursday on January 21st 2009 at 6:56pm
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I feel sea sick, my eyes don't know where to look!

posted by cassielynn on January 21st 2009 at 7:09pm
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Ha, ha, ha - for a moment I couldn't find the bed! It was so well camouflaged. I thought the aim was to create a restful space in the bedroom, not to create migraines

posted by atelier70design on January 21st 2009 at 7:53pm
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Aaron - looks like we're among the extreme minority on this one!

posted by regina on January 21st 2009 at 8:13pm
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I just threw up...and it looks better than that room.

posted by suzy8track on January 21st 2009 at 9:55pm
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The brilliance of it is that you don't have to lie in bed wondering why that strangely shaped ceiling is coming down on you because the wallpaper so effectively blurs the edges of the walls. It's just delicious.

posted by Curtis on January 22nd 2009 at 1:09am
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It's a good thing they used different prints, otherwise it would be hard to find the bed!

posted by aaakid on January 22nd 2009 at 1:34am
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Is that the migraine lab at some Bush-era secret prison that doesn't exist?

posted by AlmostAD on January 22nd 2009 at 1:51am
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Well, the overall effect does seem a little much for me, but I do agree the various prints combine nicely. The problem is that the prints take over too much of the room.... but the stripes, paisley and floral all work together nicely. I just sort of wish there was a little less of the floral.

I also wish I was better at identifying prints that work well together. I have a patterned run in my bedroom, and need to find bedding that works with it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24635463@N07/2333327927/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24635463@N07/2330030463/

(I bought my current comforter cover b/c it was cute and on sale, and I really needed a new one. But it is also patterned and doesn't work well with the rug... Meanwhile, I'm still looking (but not very hard) for bedding.)

posted by SanDiegoAT on January 22nd 2009 at 2:01am
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OH GOD, MY EYES.

Excuse me, I'm going to go look at a white wall for a bit.

posted by ryttu3k on January 22nd 2009 at 3:57am
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Some thing out of Alice in Wonderland. Some of these posts are very funny . . . ryttu3k and aaakid, thanks.

posted by click212 on January 22nd 2009 at 9:11am
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I feel a migraine coming on...

posted by gryt on January 22nd 2009 at 11:56am
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If you put on special glasses will it be in 3D?

posted by kiljoywashere on January 22nd 2009 at 12:57pm
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Lord have mercy!

posted by jooly on January 22nd 2009 at 2:18pm
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no part of that room is any good
it's sad that 'designers' can present such atrocities

posted by staticfritz on January 22nd 2009 at 2:53pm
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A for creating the worse room that I have ever seen. This room would really work if you had a brown bag on each side... forget the table lamps. The occupants need to have a place to dispose of their vomit.

posted by sunrise on January 22nd 2009 at 8:17pm
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It's actually not a lot of patternS (plural) -- it's TWO patterns, used matchy-matchy, 80s style.

posted by Lisa (Montreal) on January 24th 2009 at 11:56am
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my eyes... they bleed lol!

posted by click 4 beds on November 4th 2009 at 6:44am
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