Whereas I’ve had the general imaginative and prescient for this bed room in my thoughts (and on a mockup) for a very long time, now that I’m getting down the main points, I’m beginning to rethink, second-guess, query, and presumably tweak the design a bit. Should you’ve been round for some time, it’s a standard factor for me to do. I’ll begin off with a primary roadmap, however then I’ll begin to take a number of scenic detours alongside the best way.
So let’s discuss by means of a number of particulars about this bed room. Yesterday, the trim for the draperies arrived, so I introduced the whole lot into the room to get a have a look at it.
First, there’s the hen material that I plan to make use of on the headboard (I feel — that’s one of many issues I’m questioning). On high of that, you may see the orange/coral material that I plan to make use of on the welt wire across the upholstered headboard. And on high of that, you may see the precise grasscloth wallpaper, which is a bit darker and richer in coloration than the present wall coloration. After which on the left is the material material and the trim that got here in yesterday.
My first impression after I noticed the trim was that it was advantageous. It’ll do. I imply, whenever you purchase low cost trim as an alternative of the $50-per-yard trim, you get what you pay for. It’s fairly. It’s a bit brighter than what I hoped for. But it surely’ll do.
However then I unintentionally flipped it over in order that the bottom confirmed, and I cherished it a lot extra. On the again, the dominant coloration is the orange, and the accent coloration is the creamy white. I feel that appears so a lot better.
Right here’s an up shut view of the trim on the best aspect. You may see that the background is sort of a satin end. It’s type of shiny. I’m simply usually not into shiny finishes.
However right here’s the bottom. I LOVE how that appears. It’s a lot bolder, which I like. It’s not shiny, which I REALLY like. So I’m going to make use of the trim with the bottom displaying as an alternative of the entrance, as I had initially deliberate.
However I nonetheless assume it’s only a contact too vivid. All of it — the orange and the white — appear a bit of too vivid for the remainder of the objects within the room. So I feel I’m going to attempt to do one thing to tone it down ever so barely. I don’t need it to be fully boring and darkish. I simply wish to do one thing to knock down that brightness only a slight bit. The one factor I can consider is to tea stain it with a really weak tea. I’m fairly positive it’s been over a decade since I’ve tea stained material, however fortunately, I’ve six further yards of this trim that I can mess around with. If there’s a special means to remove among the brightness that of, apart from tea staining, let me know and I’ll check out that methodology as nicely.
The subsequent factor I’ve been questioning about is the headboard. Let’s return to this mockup I’ve proven y’all a thousand occasions within the current weeks. And you may see that my authentic plan was to make use of that hen material on the precise headbaord.
Properly, I’m rethinking that plan and questioning if I’d wish to do the headboard in a special material, after which use the hen material on the precise bedding. And the rationale I began pondering that’s as a result of I began pondering by means of how I like to decorate a mattress. I usually like to make use of two actually massive, sq. pillows towards the headboard, after which some smaller pillows in entrance of that. And if I solely use the hen material on the headboard, after which begin layering massive pillows in entrance of the headboard, I’m going to cowl up the gorgeous hen material.
For instance, right here’s our mattress from our earlier bed room…
Take a look at how a lot of the headboard is roofed up. Now think about that headboard being upholstered with my fairly hen material, and you may see that almost all of it might be hidden. It might make extra sense to place the gorgeous material on the massive pillows, proper?
So now that I’m prepared to truly make the headboard (that’s the following venture on my listing), I’m second-guessing. After all, another choice could be to go a lot larger with the headboard. As an alternative of doing the rectangle form with the curved corners that I had selected, I may really go larger/taller with it. I may really return to the form that’s pictured within the mockup above. That might permit extra of the headboard to indicate even with massive pillows in entrance of it. That’s what I did means again in our apartment bed room. That bed room had a patterned material on the headboard, however as a result of it was a really tall headboard, the patterned material nonetheless confirmed even with the massive pillows in entrance.
After all, now that I’m prepared to truly make the headboard, I’m second-guessing myself. 😀 It’s simply what I do.
So the choices are:
Maintain the headboard shorter and rectangle with the curved corners, however cowl it in a stable material. That might permit room above the headboard for art work, after which I may use the hen material on the precise bedding — two massive pillows towards the headboard and presumably a cover cowl; or,
Maintain the hen material on the headboard, however go along with a taller, curvier form so that it’s going to nonetheless present even with two massive pillows resting towards it.
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