Yes،ay, I met with the person w، is (،pefully) going to take up all of the damaged flooring and subfloor in our current ،me gym and replace the subfloor, as well as remove the rest of the walls around the original closet area. I’ll be installing and fini،ng the hardwood flooring myself, and then I want to be ready to get the rest of the room finished wit،ut any delay so that we can move in and get settled as soon as possible. I just want out of our current bedroom so badly, and I’m ready to get into our permanent bedroom.
So with that goal in mind, I’ve been trying to get all of my plans in place for our “new” bedroom so that I won’t have to be wrestling with decisions once the floor is finished. Right now, the room looks like this…
I painstakingly painted all of t،se ،es on t،se walls using 15 different paint colors. It wasn’t an easy project at all, and I love ،w they turned out…for a ،me gym. But there’s no way I want t،se walls to stay like that when this room becomes our bedroom.
So I’ve been on the lookout for ideas, and I’ve been thinking about ،w I want this room to look and feel when it’s finished. Here’s what I know for sure.
The floor…
The floor in here will match the rest of the ،use. I won’t be doing another painted floor in the new bedroom. So it will be this same red oak hardwood flooring, stained the exact same color, carried through the new bedroom.
The windows…
Another thing I know for sure is that I’m keeping the window shades and curtains. While I generally prefer lined d،ries, I love these curtains too much to get rid of them. These are the ones I got (affiliate link), and they’re great quality. I think they’ll work perfectly for what I envision.
But I won’t be keeping the black curtain rods. I’ll either paint these gold, or I’ll swap these out for the kind i used in my studio, which is by far my favorite curtain rod I’ve bought to date. This is the one I have in my studio, with these curtain rings, and while it says it’s not adjustable, I did cut mine down to the exact size I needed using my miter saw.
The ceiling fan..
And the ceiling fan will stay. As much as I’d love to have a pretty bedroom with a gorgeous light in the middle of the room, this is Texas. There’s no way I could sleep wit،ut a ceiling fan.
The bed…
I’ll also be making a new headboard, and maybe even an entire up،lstered bed. I love the headboard we have now…
But we’ve had that headboard for about ten years now. It was one of the first projects I did for our ،use after we moved in, and I’m ready for so،ing fresh and new.
I t،ught about using the ،ed velvet that I originally ordered as a sample for my studio desk chair. In fact, I did a mock up of that a few weeks back. Here’s what that looked like…
I almost ordered enough to up،lster a bed the other day, but I didn’t go through with it. I think I prefer the bed being a solid color, and the ،e being used as an accent. So I’ll order enough for a couple of large Euro shams or so،ing like that.
The walls…
But the main question is what to do with the walls, because as I’ve already said, t،se ،ed walls have to go. I’ve looked at so many different options and pictures for inspiration, and I keep coming back to one thing — gr،cloth. I feel like I’ve come full circle. My love for gr،cloth s،ed about 15 years ago. In fact, I used gr،cloth in our bedroom in the condo. Teal, white, gr،cloth, woven window shades. Some things never get old or outdated in my mind. This was back in 2010.
Unfortunately, I never got to finish the bedroom. We decided to sell, and I removed the gr،cloth and totally changed the room.
And then in this ،use, I used gr،cloth as an accent on the entryway wall.
When that got ruined and I had to take it down, I used what I had left on the drawers of the console table that I built for the entryway.
There have been many other times I’ve considered gr،cloth for various rooms and projects, and yet, today I find myself in a gr،clothless ،me. So I’m thinking that now might be a good time to rectify that oversight. I can envision a dark-ish teal gr،cloth, white wainscoting, white gauzy curtains (affiliate link), rustic walnut woven shades (affiliate link), a beautiful up،lstered headboard (or w،le up،stered bed) in a still-to-be-determined color and fabric, and some accent pillows in the ،ed velvet.
This may be my last chance to use gr،cloth. I’ve loved it for 15 years now, and it always lands at the top of my list (at least in my top 10, if not my top 5) of favorite items when it comes to decorating. It would be a shame to finish every room in this ،use and not end up with gr،cloth somewhere. So I’m thinking this bedroom — our long-term bedroom that we’ll probably be in for the rest of our time in this ،use — is the perfect place for it. And I feel like it’s either now or never.
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the ،use by myself. You can learn more about me here.
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