Rethinking The Gray And White Striped Walls In Our Bedroom Suite Foyer

I’ve been with out a dryer for a couple of 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 out a 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 capable of 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’m 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 with 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, a minimum of 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 can be separated from that room with French doorways. Whenever you stroll into the bed room suite, the closet/laundry space are on the precise 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. A lot of the colour is on the mural wall behind the tub.

However all the 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 can be a enjoyable hen print material with teal, inexperienced, and orange, and the world rug is generally orange.

The partitions can be teal grasscloth above white wainscoting, and the draperies can be darkish teal velvet. I’ll add splashes of inexperienced, orange, and teal all through the comfortable furnishings and equipment.

After which for the closet, I’ll be utilizing this wallpaper in a single part…

And all the cupboards can be painted a lightweight coral colour that leans extra in the 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 the whole lot to match, however I do need the whole lot to coordinate. I really like how all of this seems to be…

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 chopping it for me.

In fact, the lobby doesn’t seem like this anymore. The doorways have been eliminated, which signifies that all the areas are far more open to one another than they have been up to now 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 seems to be like this…

And whereas it gained’t be straight 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 all the patterns and colours occurring in all of those areas, that leaves me considering that the lobby to our bed room suite must be one strong colour. And naturally, my thoughts at all times 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 can demand an excessive amount of consideration and compete with what I’ve acquired occurring 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 shouldn’t 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.

UPDATE: I ought to have talked about that the lobby wall colour gained’t be proper up towards the bed room grasscloth or the closet cupboard colour. These areas can 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 can be created as soon as the cupboards are constructed on both aspect of the doorway to the walk-in closet.

So there can 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.