Since yesterday was Wednesday, and I don’t work on Wednesdays, I still don’t have any progress to show you on the closet island. But I have made some decisions on some things, both for the closet and for our bedroom. So let me get you caught up on those.
First, I wrote a few weeks ago about the headboard that I plan to make for the bedroom. If you’re new around here, this is a mockup I did to show the general direction that I’ll be heading once I get started on the bedroom makeover.
And as a reminder, this is what the bedroom looks like right now.
The striped walls are left over from when this room was our home gym. I loved those stripes for a home gym, but that’s not at all the look I want in our bedroom, so those have to go. And they’ll be replaced with creamy white wainscoting and a rich teal grasscloth wallpaper.
Anyway, in that post about the headboard design options, my main issue was that the fabric I’ll be using isn’t wide enough to cover the width of a queen size headboard without having to seam the fabric together. But after a couple of people sent me pictures of upholstered headboards done by professional upholsterers that did have seams in them, but that were done very well with perfectly matched patterns, I’ve decided that I’m going to stick with the fully upholstered headboard option. And this is the design I’ve decided on.
That’s basically the same design I put in the mockup, minus that top curved section in the middle of the headboard. This more streamlined design fits me a bit better, I think. Y’all know how I tend towards squares and rectangles over circles, ovals, and lots of curves. This design gives me both, but without it being too heavy on the curves. Those two curved areas on the corners will give just the right amount of needed softness to the design.
But I’ve decided to go with a contrast welt around the side and top edges of the headboard, and it just so happens that I have several yards of a solid fabric that looks like it’ll work for that, pictured on the right side of the picture below.
I bought that fabric several years ago, and I can’t remember why. I think it might have even been so far back as when I tried to turn our living room into a dining room. How many of you were here then and remember that wayward era? 😀 So I’ve loved this color for many years, and it’s nice fabric, so I’ve never parted with it. It’s just been folded up in my fabric stash ever since then. And it just happens to bring out those cute little orange/coral birds perfectly, so I think it’ll make a great contrast welt for the headboard.
Also, I don’t think I ever showed you the fabric that I chose for the recliner in the bedroom. I know I’ll disappoint some of you who were hoping that I’d go with the coral color, but I decided to go with the teal color called French, which was the lighter of the two teals I was considering. The darker one is called Sapphire.
So this is what the recliner will look like. It’s the Jude recliner from Interior Define (affiliate link), which happens to be 25% off right now.
But keep in mind that there will be plenty of opportunity to bring in accent colors with throws, a pillow, artwork on the wall behind it, etc. I think this is the right color to use to balance that corner of the room.
Now on to the closet island color decision. I realized pretty quickly, as I was reading through the comments, that I’m going to disappoint about half of you regardless of what decision I make. But the overwhelming favorite from everyone who commented was… (drum roll, please)…
…Billowy Breeze. About 60% of you said I should stick with Billowy Breeze. The other 40% of you were kind of all over the place, with suggestions ranging from one of the pinks, yellow, green, navy blue, etc. But a solid 60% of you said to stick with Billowy Breeze, so that’s what I’m going to do. Your points about there being so much more color in the room once I bring in my shoes, purses, and clothes, made a lot of sense.
And then when I brought in the plywood for the top of the island and saw just how big this finished piece is going to be in the room, I also made another decision. I’m going to paint the entire thing, including the top, in Billowy Breeze.
I am, after all, building this to look like a double-sided dresser, and most (but not all) dressers have a top that matches the body of the dresser. If the body is painted, the top is generally (but not always) painted the same color.
But once it’s done, and because it’s so big and sits right in the center of the room, this island is going to be so dominant that I don’t want such a large, white (or even marbled) countertop being the focus. So, it’ll be Billowy Breeze all around. It will be color-drenched, indeed!
And that means that I’ll also be painting the countertops over the washer and dryer with Billowy Breeze as well. I don’t want any countertops standing out and grabbing attention. But I will be making a little something to sit on the island countertop that will be painted in one of the pink colors. That way, that color can be brought to the center of the room, but it’ll just be an accent and not a monstrous island in a color that dominates the whole room.
I probably still have at least three days of building left on the island before I can even get to the priming and painting, but I’m glad to have that decision made! And I have a whole, uninterrupted workday ahead of me, and I have all of the supplies needed to finish this build already on hand. So hopefully, I won’t have to waste any part of today with more trips to Home Depot or Lowe’s. I hope to have a good deal of progress to share with you tomorrow!
Side note: I updated yesterday’s post this morning with the example of the rage bait Facebook post because I saw it yet again this morning when I opened up the app on my phone. I’ve seen it no fewer than ten times now on different pages, and it’s just one example of probably tens of thousands of posts like it.
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 house by myself. You can learn more about me here.
