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 small print, I’m beginning to rethink, second-guess, query, and probably tweak the design a bit. When you’ve been round for some time, you recognize it’s a standard factor for me to do. I’ll begin off with a fundamental roadmap, however then I’ll begin to take just a few scenic detours alongside the best way.
So let’s speak by just a few particulars about this bed room. Yesterday, the trim for the draperies arrived, so I introduced all the pieces into the room to get a have a look at it.
First, there’s the hen cloth that I plan to make use of on the headboard (I believe — that’s one of many issues I’m questioning). On prime of that, you’ll be able to see the orange/coral cloth that I plan to make use of on the welt twine across the upholstered headboard. And on prime of that, you’ll be able to see the precise grasscloth wallpaper, which is a bit darker and richer in colour than the present wall colour. After which on the left is the material cloth and the trim that got here in yesterday.
My first impression once I noticed the trim was that it was superb. It’ll do. I imply, while you purchase low cost trim as a substitute 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 colour is the orange, and the accent colour is the creamy white. I believe that appears so a lot better.
Right here’s an up shut view of the trim on the correct facet. You may see that the background is sort of a satin end. It’s sort of shiny. I’m simply typically 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 a substitute 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 little bit too vivid for the remainder of the gadgets within the room. So I believe I’m going to attempt to do one thing to tone it down ever so barely. I don’t need it to be utterly uninteresting and darkish. I simply need 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 certain it’s been over a decade since I’ve tea stained cloth, however fortunately, I’ve six further yards of this trim that I can mess around with. If there’s a unique means to remove a number of the brightness that you recognize of, aside from tea staining, let me know and I’ll check out that methodology as nicely.
The following 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 latest weeks. And you’ll see that my authentic plan was to make use of that hen cloth on the precise headbaord.
Effectively, I’m rethinking that plan and questioning if I’d need to do the headboard in a unique cloth, after which use the hen cloth on the precise bedding. And the explanation I began considering that’s as a result of I began considering by how I like to decorate a mattress. I typically like to make use of two actually large, sq. pillows in opposition to the headboard, after which some smaller pillows in entrance of that. And if I solely use the hen cloth on the headboard, after which begin layering large pillows in entrance of the headboard, I’m going to cowl up the gorgeous hen cloth.
For instance, right here’s our mattress from our earlier bed room…
Have a look at how a lot of the headboard is roofed up. Now think about that headboard being upholstered with my fairly hen cloth, and you may see that the majority of it could be hidden. It will make extra sense to place the gorgeous cloth on the large pillows, proper?
So now that I’m prepared to really make the headboard (that’s the following venture on my listing), I’m second-guessing. In fact, another choice could be to go a lot greater with the headboard. As a substitute of doing the rectangle form with the curved corners that I had selected, I might really go greater/taller with it. I might really return to the form that’s pictured within the mockup above. That might permit extra of the headboard to point out even with large pillows in entrance of it. That’s what I did means again in our apartment bed room. That bed room had a patterned cloth on the headboard, however as a result of it was a really tall headboard, the patterned cloth nonetheless confirmed even with the large pillows in entrance.
In fact, now that I’m prepared to really 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 cloth. That might permit room above the headboard for paintings, after which I might use the hen cloth on the precise bedding — two large pillows in opposition to the headboard and probably a cover cowl; or,
- Maintain the hen cloth on the headboard, however go along with a taller, curvier form so that it’s going to nonetheless present even with two large pillows resting in opposition to it.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance 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 may be taught extra about me right here.
