Y’all, I’m now in full-on bed room suite mode. I had my enjoyable in the course of the month of January with getting my tasks accomplished on the outside of my workshop whereas I allowed myself time to assume by way of the varied points that have been hindering me from beginning on this big 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 begin on that tomorrow. Woohoo!!! My plan is to get all the flooring put in all through the entire bed room suite, then hire the large sander and edge sander and get it all of the flooring sanded. Then I’ll stain and seal the flooring all through somewhat than doing one room/space at a time. After the flooring has been stained and sealed, I’ll want to present it a couple of days to remedy 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 a couple of days (perhaps two weeks, however I’ll simply have to attend and see). When the flooring is nice and dry/cured, I’ll cowl the whole 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 day by day life proper now. And Matt’s completely completely happy 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 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 may 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 footwear 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 remains to be in our lavatory…
So not solely have I not been capable of dry a load of garments in a month-and-a-half, however you’ll be able to simply think about the method of on the brink 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 an outfit. Subsequent I am going to the other finish of the home to pick footwear and a purse, then it’s again to the opposite finish of the home to the toilet to pick jewellery. I can get most of my steps in for the day simply on the brink of go away the home! 😀 So there’s no query in my thoughts that it is smart 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 needed to debate at the moment. 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 will likely be separated from that room with French doorways. Once you stroll into the bed room suite, the closet/laundry space are on the suitable 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 lavatory appear like. A lot of the coloration is on the mural wall behind the bath.
However all the partitions in the principle space of the toilet are this gentle blue-green in a troweled Venetian plaster end.
Within the bed room, the headboard will likely be a enjoyable fowl print cloth with teal, inexperienced, and orange, and the world rug is generally orange.
The partitions will likely be teal grasscloth above white wainscoting, and the draperies will likely 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 will likely be painted a light-weight coral coloration 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 coloration…
So I made a decision to place all of these issues collectively on the ground plan to see what they seemed like. I don’t want the whole lot to match, however I do need the whole lot to coordinate. I like how all of this seems to be…
However then I obtained to the lobby and heard the sound of screeching breaks in my head. These grey and white stripes simply aren’t reducing it for me.
After all, the lobby doesn’t appear 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 think about 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 happening in all of those areas, that leaves me pondering that the lobby to our bed room suite must be one strong coloration. And naturally, my thoughts at all times goes on to darkish teal.
I may do one thing daring and paint it one thing brighter and extra colourful (y’all know me properly 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 obtained happening within the music room simply outdoors the bed room suite.
And I additionally don’t need the lobby drawing consideration away from the principle areas of the bed room suite. This lobby is just not the star of the present. In order that leads me again to the darkish teal, which is just about a impartial coloration in our home.
Darkish teal will make the world look darkish. That’s for certain. However is {that a} dangerous factor? Or is it moody and heat, and ideal for a bed room suite? I can’t resolve. 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 at all times put it again within the lobby ceiling to present this space a number of pure gentle in the course of the day.
However what I do know for certain is that the grey and white stripes gained’t make the minimize now that I’ve put the whole lot 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 tune that goes, “Certainly one of these items is just not like the opposite. Certainly one of these items doesn’t belong.” The stripes simply don’t belong.
UPDATE: I ought to have talked about that the lobby wall coloration gained’t be proper up towards the bed room grasscloth or the closet cupboard coloration. These areas will likely be separated with white floor-to-ceiling wainscoting. That white floor-to-ceiling wainscoting will go within the brief “hallway” that connects the lobby to the bed room, after which I’ll be mimicking that very same look within the closet entry that will likely be created as soon as the cupboards are constructed on both facet of the doorway to the walk-in closet.
So there will likely be a really particular visible separation between the lobby and the opposite two areas of the bed room suite. That can permit me to deal with the lobby as its personal separate space so far as wall coloration goes.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify 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.
