Yesterday, I met with the one that is (hopefully) going to take up all the broken flooring and subfloor in our present dwelling gymnasium and exchange the subfloor, in addition to take away the remainder of the partitions across the unique 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 are able to 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 purpose 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 should be wrestling with choices as soon as the ground is completed. Proper now, the room seems like this…
I painstakingly painted all of these stripes on these partitions utilizing 15 totally different paint colours. It wasn’t a straightforward venture in any respect, and I really like how they turned out…for a house gymnasium. However there’s no method 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 occupied with how I need this room to feel and look 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 will probably be this identical crimson oak hardwood flooring, stained the very same colour, carried by means of the brand new bed room.
The home windows…
One other factor I do know for positive is that I’m protecting the window shades and curtains. Whereas I usually favor lined draperies, I really like these curtains an excessive amount of to eliminate them. These are those I received (affiliate hyperlink), and so they’re nice high quality. I believe they’ll work completely for what I envision.
However I gained’t be protecting the black curtain rods. I’ll both paint these gold, or I’ll swap these out for the type i utilized in my studio, which is by far my favourite curtain rod I’ve purchased up to now. That is the one I’ve in my studio, with these curtain rings, and whereas it says it’s not adjustable, I did minimize mine all the way down to the precise dimension 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 fairly bed room with a beautiful mild in the course of the room, that is Texas. There’s no method I might sleep with no ceiling fan.
The mattress…
I’ll even be making a brand new headboard, and perhaps even a complete upholstered mattress. I really like the headboard we have now now…
However we’ve had that headboard for about ten years now. It was one of many first initiatives I did for our home after we moved in, and I’m prepared for one thing contemporary and new.
I thought of utilizing the striped velvet that I initially ordered as a pattern for my studio desk chair. Actually, I did a mock up of that just a few weeks again. Right here’s what that regarded like…
I nearly ordered sufficient to upholster a mattress the opposite day, however I didn’t undergo with it. I believe I favor the mattress being a stable colour, 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 primary query is what to do with the partitions, as a result of as I’ve already mentioned, these striped partitions should go. I’ve checked out so many various choices and footage for inspiration, and I hold coming again to 1 factor — grasscloth. I really feel like I’ve come full circle. My love for grasscloth began about 15 years in the past. Actually, I used grasscloth in our bed room within the condominium. 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 received 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 received 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 of grasscloth for numerous rooms and initiatives, and but, as we speak I discover myself in a grassclothless dwelling. So I’m pondering that now may be a very good 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), an attractive upholstered headboard (or entire uphostered mattress) in a still-to-be-determined colour 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 all the time lands on the high of my checklist (a minimum of in my high 10, if not my high 5) of favourite gadgets in relation to adorning. It might 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 in all probability 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’ll be able to study extra about me right here.
