Bedroom project
Fri, 3 Apr 2009Easter weekend is coming up, and it will be a 5 day weekend for me. I am so excited to have that many days off from my day job so I can get some more work done around the house. I'm thinking about tackling the main bedroom. Here is what it looked like when I bought the house and had just moved in. (I had to include the shot of the hacked-off door - typical of the shoddy workmanship in this house)
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The closet was massive, and blocked one of the windows which drove me insane. Since bedroom #2 is tiny and I am using it as a dressing room, this closet was home to only off season clothing and whatever other crap I could cram in it. So one day my boyfriend helped me tear it down.
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This is a relatively recent photo of my bedroom.
All of the bedding is from the bedroom in my last house and it will be replaced with I think a white simple duvet cover and all my bargellos. The lamp shades I found a while back at Habitat for Humanity ReStore and I want to turn them into hanging pendants. Those bedside tables are close to 30 years old and are from my parent's bedroom set. I was going to paint the sides/top white and leave the drawer faces alone but now I'm thinking they are just too big and I don't even use the drawers. The screen is a favourite mid-century shop find that I splurged on and I'm thinking about taking off the hinges and hanging a piece on either side of the bed behind whatever side table I send up with. As for a wall colour, I've had light pink in my head for a while, and the other day I started thinking about acid green. Crazy - perhaps. Fun - YES. No clue what to do. At the end of the bed, as I mentionned in a previous post, will be 2 4ft Expedits to house my overflowing magazine collection and knick knacks that I have no other home for. I did a bedroom inspiration post for some ideas several months ago, but I think I'm in need of some new inspiration and a creative boost.
Reader Comments (21)
you bedroom looks great! so much better without the closet.
and that chopped off door is hilarious.
#3 and #5 are very close to being my dream rooms. How brave of you to tackle the clostes. But you were right, such a pitty to hide the window! i look forward to seeing how you are organizing your magazines!
Looks awesome Kim! And thanks for the inspiration. Although, you might want to mention that if someone is planning on selling their house anytime soon, they might not want to follow in your footsteps by tearing out a closet. The closet is a requirement for the room to count as a bedroom when it comes time for house appraisals. Just thought I would mention that...yours looks great though - very spacious!
gorgeous pictures. some i had not yet seen. thanks.
xoj
Katie is right y'all, but I figure a new more reasonably sized closet can be built as easily as it was to take down when I am ready to sell the house.
Kim - I love the wooden setee with green cushion! Very chic. You could even put that at the end of your bed for added dimension.
so exciting!!! a master bedroom over haul. so jealous. can't wait to see pics!!!
Whoa, definite upgrade with the closet removed! (Especially since the doors of the closet look like the kind that are always falling off their tracks, which is a huge pet peeve of mine.)
The doors look like they're off the tracks because there was no track installed along the floor. And the doors were SUCH a pain as they were made of slabs of really heavy wood. I'm surprised they didn't pull the ceiling down.
Ahhh, it's so much better with that wardrobe gone. I ripped out a giant wardrobe too, so I know how you feel. At the risk of butting in, I love your lamps, don't delete/paint them! For one thing, they're family heritage, and more importantly, aren't they an authentic midcentury modern ceramic/teak combo? Just riffing here but they'd be completely amazing with some sort of natural blond grasscloth shade in a high narrow cylinder (or even flat cone shape), which would mesh with your SE Asian pieces too, and also echo the circles in the screen (which I'm in a fit of envy over). A pair of darker accessories like that can look great and can balance the femininity in a room (don't people worry about that? I try to mix feminine/masculine objects (whatever that is, but you know) for the resident man's sake. I think you could definitely rehabilitate those chests, too, with paint (white if the walls were white, a deep colour if they weren't).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimhascats/811948534 - shades like this Lindsay? :) I really love the look of low pendants on either side of a bed and when I found those shades, I knew I wanted to try it with them. So I'm selling the lamps with their original shades. And you know what the best part of this bedroom redo is? It's ALL MINE so I can frou frou it up the ying yang if I so desire (hence the pink fringe lampshades, and potential pale pink walls).
great pics - my fave is the one from Bolig Magasinet -gorgeous! And taking the closet down was definetly a good idea - you have to wonder who draws up these house plans with blocked windows, etc sometimes...
It looks good - but I would move the bed to the other side of the room (where the closet was). Perhaps remove the wicker chair out as it is too overpowering. Maybe replace the chair with a small round side table with a lamp and framed photos of loved ones. But well done.
btw the plant is way too big. Replace with a vase (or low level pot) with a much smaller plant
I have to leave the bed where it is as it's the only place where there are outlets for lighting next to the bed. (And the photo with the plant is a bit old - the plant died in the fall). You did give me an idea anon. I am not sure what artwork I have for my bedroom - but I've always wanted to do an arrangement of photos of my cats since I have none around the house.
p.s. sorry for all the exclamations points. i sounded like a cheerleader......
pleasure! I love my cat as well. True I didn't think of the outlets
I LOVE bedroom overhauls....more pics please! I like the fact that your room looks so much more OPEN now.. : )))) I would go for a white paint for sure.
Oh! Do the acid green, I've been dreaming of painting my bedroom the same bright hue. :-)
Love that chopped off door, heh heh. Lots of good inspiration and I know whatever you do will knock our socks off (as usual.)
What a difference removing that closet made!
I absolutely love the bed cover from Living, Etc.