1- Pick your favorite decade. 1950's onward are the typical rock and roll eras. Different decades have different colour schemes and accessories, red is a very 50's colour, lava lamps and tie dye are very 60's/ 70's, and so on.
2- Pick your colour scheme. Bold colours are rock and roll. Concider monochromes (black and white stripes for example). Smokey purples, fire engine reds, electric blues. Or the colour scheme of your favorite band. See
Wallpaper and Borders.co.uk for black and white ideas..
3- Concider your fabrics. Heavy rich fabrics are best (velvet, suede, faux fur). Heavy extra long floor sweeping curtains in velvet will look amazing, as would similar cushions/ throws/ rugs. It's imporatant to make the room comfortable enough to spend hours lounging in. Musicians tend to sit/ lie around an awful lot, this is what contributes to the importance of textiles in a rock and roll theme.
4- Decorate with emblems (skull & crossbone, guitar, flames)
a- Accessorize your walls by framing your favorite posters. For example, your old faded, slighlty torn nirvana or Deep Purple posters will look amazing in large frames with thin plain black borders. Place them in pairs on one wall, eg over the couch or either side of the chimney breast. Look for musican note bookends like these
Treble Clefs from Fish Bookends.com.
b- Turn your ordinary items into feature pieces. Look for plectrum shaped ashtrays/ coffee table bowls. A clock with drumstick hands. Try making one out of a vinyl record! See
Life Hackery for '
5 Ways To Reuse Old Vinyl Records', and check eHow/ WikiHow/ Google. Throw a few skull and crossbone/ flame/ city skyline iron-on transferes onto oversized, slightly understuffed cushions. Buy unusual lamps (see lighting), or replace normal lampshades or stick trimming onto existing ones. Also, try looking for
coloured lightbulbs like these from
Lamps Online...
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| Incandescent - Fireglow |
5- Lighting. This brings us on to lighting. Create a sultry, darker atmosphere with your lighting. Instead of a central ceiling light, use floor lamps/ table lamps with low wattage bulbs/ coloured bulbs, or if you've an unused fireplace, bundle up your fairylights into it for a muted glow. If you're into candles then you've a huge variety to choose from. Chunky large church style candles give the best look, placed symetrically on, for example, the mantlepiece.
