Y’all, I’m now in full-on bed room suite mode. I had my enjoyable through the month of January with getting my tasks executed on the outside of my workshop whereas I allowed myself time to assume by the varied points that had been hindering me from beginning on this large bed room suite mission, however now that I’ve labored out all of these roadblocks, I’m able to get began.
I spent yesterday getting the areas cleaned up and prepared for flooring set up. I hope to start out on that tomorrow. Woohoo!!! My plan is to get the entire flooring put in all through the entire bed room suite, then hire the massive sander and edge sander and get it all of the flooring sanded. Then I’ll stain and seal the flooring all through abruptly quite than doing one room/space at a time. After the flooring has been stained and sealed, I’ll want to offer it just a few days to treatment earlier than I can begin engaged on the closet/laundry room, so I’ll want to search out different tasks to occupy my time for just a few days (perhaps two weeks, however I’ll simply have to attend and see). When the flooring is sweet and dry/cured, I’ll cowl all the flooring and get began on the closet.
I made a decision to do the closet first as a result of not having a closet is inflicting the most important headache in my every day life proper now. And Matt’s completely glad so long as he has a mattress, a recliner, and a TV. He’s in no hurry to get moved right into a bed room, however I’m extremely anxious to have a closet and a laundry room.
I’ve been with no dryer for a few month-and-a-half proper now as a result of the contractor unhooked the dryer in order that he might reroute {that electrical} wire (dryers want a non-standard electrical wire and outlet) to the closet space, and he did that simply earlier than Christmas. And since I’m with no closet, all of my garments are all hanging within the sunroom…
My sneakers are lined up in my studio, which causes an issue with me opening and shutting the drawers and cupboards…
And all of my purses are piled on the studio countertop…
My jewellery continues to be in our toilet…
So not solely have I not been in a position to dry a load of garments in a month-and-a-half, however you may simply think about the method of on the point of go someplace. 😀 I begin at one finish of the home to take a bathe and do my hair and make-up, then I trek to the sunroom to pick out an outfit. Subsequent I am going to the other finish of the home to pick out sneakers and a purse, then it’s again to the opposite finish of the home to the toilet to pick out jewellery. I can get most of my steps in for the day simply on the point of go away the home! 😀 So there’s no query in my thoughts that it is sensible to do the closet and laundry space first. Simply getting all of that consolidated into one room will make an enormous distinction and make life a lot simpler. And having the ability to dry a load of laundry once more will really feel like I’ve gained the lottery.
Anyway, that was a rabbit path. That’s not even what I wished to debate right now. What’s actually been on my thoughts is the lobby in our bed room suite. (And sure, I’ve landed on the time period “lobby” for this space, not less than for now. I’m testing it out. 😀 )
As a reminder, right here’s how our bed room suite is laid out. The bed room suite lobby is off of the music room and shall be separated from that room with French doorways. Once you stroll into the bed room suite, the closet/laundry space are on the correct with the bed room straight forward. After which the toilet is off of the bed room.
It’s been some time since I’ve proven the toilet, so right here’s a reminder what our toilet seem like. Many of the colour is on the mural wall behind the bath.
However the entire partitions in the primary space of the toilet are this gentle blue-green in a troweled Venetian plaster end.
Within the bed room, the headboard shall be a enjoyable fowl print material with teal, inexperienced, and orange, and the world rug is usually orange.
The partitions shall be teal grasscloth above white wainscoting, and the draperies shall be darkish teal velvet. I’ll add splashes of inexperienced, orange, and teal all through the smooth furnishings and equipment.
After which for the closet, I’ll be utilizing this wallpaper in a single part…
And the entire cupboards shall be painted a light-weight coral colour that leans extra in direction of orange as an alternative of pink. I’ll select one thing that coordinates with this space for the paint colour…
So I made a decision to place all of these issues collectively on the ground plan to see what they regarded like. I don’t want all the pieces to match, however I do need all the pieces to coordinate. I really like how all of this appears to be like…
However then I acquired to the lobby and heard the sound of screeching breaks in my head. These grey and white stripes simply aren’t slicing it for me.
In fact, the lobby doesn’t seem like this anymore. The doorways have been eliminated, which implies that the entire areas are far more open to one another than they had been previously when this was a hallway. And with that in thoughts, I believe the stripes are much more misplaced.
I even have to contemplate that simply outdoors of the bed room suite on the entryway wall simply contained in the entrance door to our home, I plan to make use of the mural that I purchased a number of months in the past from Anthropologie. That mural appears to be like like this…
And whereas it gained’t be instantly subsequent to the French doorways resulting in the bed room suite, the 2 space are very shut. When the bed room doorways are open (which they are going to be more often than not), the 2 areas are very seen collectively.
So with the entire patterns and colours happening in all of those areas, that leaves me pondering that the lobby to our bed room suite must be one strong colour. And naturally, my thoughts all the time goes on to darkish teal.
I might do one thing daring and paint it one thing brighter and extra colourful (y’all know me nicely sufficient to know that strong white is out of the query), however I don’t need something that may demand an excessive amount of consideration and compete with what I’ve acquired happening within the music room simply outdoors the bed room suite.
And I additionally don’t need the lobby drawing consideration away from the primary areas of the bed room suite. This lobby will not be the star of the present. In order that leads me again to the darkish teal, which is just about a impartial colour in our home.
Darkish teal will make the world look darkish. That’s for positive. However is {that a} dangerous factor? Or is it moody and heat, and ideal for a bed room suite? I can’t determine. I’ll strive it out and see the way it works. Additionally, I nonetheless have that homeless solar tunnel skylight that’s simply hanging free in our attic, so I can all the time put it again within the lobby ceiling to offer this space numerous pure gentle through the day.
However what I do know for positive is that the grey and white stripes gained’t make the reduce now that I’ve put all the pieces collectively to see how all of them work with one another. The grey and white striped partitions take me again to my childhood Sesame Avenue days and that track that goes, “Considered one of this stuff will not be like the opposite. Considered one of this stuff doesn’t belong.” The stripes simply don’t belong.
UPDATE: I ought to have talked about that the lobby wall colour gained’t be proper up in opposition to the bed room grasscloth or the closet cupboard colour. These areas shall be separated with white floor-to-ceiling wainscoting. That white floor-to-ceiling wainscoting will go within the quick “hallway” that connects the lobby to the bed room, after which I’ll be mimicking that very same look within the closet entry that shall be created as soon as the cupboards are constructed on both aspect of the doorway to the walk-in closet.
So there shall be a really particular visible separation between the lobby and the opposite two areas of the bed room suite. That may enable me to deal with the lobby as its personal separate space so far as wall colour goes.
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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