Yesterday, I met with the one who is (hopefully) going to take up the entire broken flooring and subfloor in our present dwelling gymnasium and change the subfloor, in addition to take away the remainder of the partitions across the authentic closet space. I’ll be putting in and ending the hardwood flooring myself, after which I need to be able to get the remainder of the room completed with none delay in order that we will transfer in and get settled as quickly as doable. I simply need out of our present bed room so badly, and I’m able to get into our everlasting bed room.
So with that aim in thoughts, I’ve been making an attempt to get all of my plans in place for our “new” bed room in order that I gained’t must be wrestling with choices as soon as the ground is completed. Proper now, the room seems to be like this…
I painstakingly painted all of these stripes on these partitions utilizing 15 completely different paint colours. It wasn’t a simple venture in any respect, and I really like how they turned out…for a house gymnasium. However there’s no approach I need these partitions to remain like that when this room turns into our bed room.
So I’ve been looking out for concepts, and I’ve been interested by how I need this room to appear and feel when it’s completed. Right here’s what I do know for positive.
The ground…
The ground in right here will match the remainder of the home. I gained’t be doing one other painted flooring within the new bed room. So it will likely be this similar purple oak hardwood flooring, stained the very same shade, carried by the brand new bed room.
The home windows…
One other factor I do know for positive is that I’m retaining the window shades and curtains. Whereas I usually desire lined draperies, I really like these curtains an excessive amount of to do away with them. These are the ones I got (affiliate hyperlink), and so they’re nice high quality. I feel they’ll work completely for what I envision.
However I gained’t be retaining the black curtain rods. I’ll both paint these gold, or I’ll swap these out for the sort i utilized in my studio, which is by far my favourite curtain rod I’ve purchased so far. This is the one I have in my studio, with these curtain rings, and whereas it says it’s not adjustable, I did lower mine all the way down to the precise measurement I wanted utilizing my miter noticed.
The ceiling fan..
And the ceiling fan will keep. As a lot as I’d like to have a reasonably bed room with a stunning mild in the course of the room, that is Texas. There’s no approach I may sleep with no ceiling fan.
The mattress…
I’ll even be making a brand new headboard, and possibly even a whole upholstered mattress. I really like the headboard we’ve now…
However we’ve had that headboard for about ten years now. It was one of many first tasks I did for our home after we moved in, and I’m prepared for one thing contemporary and new.
I considered utilizing the striped velvet that I initially ordered as a pattern for my studio desk chair. In truth, I did a mock up of that a couple of weeks again. Right here’s what that appeared like…
I nearly ordered sufficient to upholster a mattress the opposite day, however I didn’t undergo with it. I feel I desire the mattress being a stable shade, and the stripe getting used as an accent. So I’ll order sufficient for a few giant Euro shams or one thing like that.
The partitions…
However the principle query is what to do with the partitions, as a result of as I’ve already mentioned, these striped partitions must go. I’ve checked out so many various choices and footage for inspiration, and I maintain coming again to at least one factor — grasscloth. I really feel like I’ve come full circle. My love for grasscloth began about 15 years in the past. In truth, I used grasscloth in our bed room within the rental. Teal, white, grasscloth, woven window shades. Some issues by no means get previous or outdated in my thoughts. This was again in 2010.
Sadly, I by no means obtained to complete the bed room. We determined to promote, and I eliminated the grasscloth and completely modified the room.
After which on this home, I used grasscloth as an accent on the entryway wall.
When that obtained ruined and I needed to take it down, I used what I had left on the drawers of the console desk that I constructed for the entryway.
There have been many different instances I’ve thought-about grasscloth for numerous rooms and tasks, and but, as we speak I discover myself in a grassclothless dwelling. So I’m pondering that now is likely to be a superb time to rectify that oversight. I can envision a dark-ish teal grasscloth, white wainscoting, white gauzy curtains (affiliate hyperlink), rustic walnut woven shades (affiliate hyperlink), a ravishing upholstered headboard (or complete uphostered mattress) in a still-to-be-determined shade and cloth, and a few accent pillows within the striped velvet.
This can be my final likelihood to make use of grasscloth. I’ve liked it for 15 years now, and it at all times lands on the high of my record (at the least in my high 10, if not my high 5) of favourite gadgets relating to adorning. It could be a disgrace to complete each room on this home and never find yourself with grasscloth someplace. So I’m pondering this bed room — our long-term bed room that we’ll most likely be in for the remainder of our time on this home — is the proper place for it. And I really feel prefer it’s both now or by no means.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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