There has been Wednesday since yesterday and I don’t work on Wednesdays, I still have no progress to show you on Closet Island. But I made some decisions for some things, both for the closet and for our bedroom. So let me get me in with it.
First I wrote about the headboard a few weeks ago that I would like to make for the bedroom. If you are new here, this is a model that I have done to show the general direction I go as soon as I have started with the bedroom.
And as a memory, the bedroom looks like it now.
The striped walls remain from the time when this room was our home fitness studio. I loved these stripes for a home fitness studio, but that’s not the look I want in our bedroom, so they have to go. And they are replaced by cream white wainscoting and a rich blue -green wallpaper.
Anyway, in this post about the options of the head part, my main problem was that the fabric I use is not wide enough to cover the width of a Queen -Size head part without taking the fabric together. But after a few people sent me pictures of padded head parts that were taken by professional upholsterers who had seams but were made very well with perfectly matching patterns, I decided to stick to the fully padded headboard option. And that’s the design I chose.
This is basically the same design that I have included in the model, minus the upper curved section in the middle of the headboard. This more optimized design fits me a little better, I think. You know how to go to squares and rectangles via circles, ovals and many curves. This design gives me both, but without it being too heavy in the curves. These two curved areas on the corners give the design the right amount of softness required.
But I decided to walk around the side and with the upper edges of the headboard with a contrast coast, and it just happens that I have several meters from a solid fabric that looks like it is shown for functioning on the right side of the image below.
I bought this fabric a few years ago and can’t remember why. I think it would have been so far back when I tried to turn our living room into a dining room. How many of them were here at the time and remember this peculiar era? I loved this color for many years and it is a beautiful fabric, so I never stepped away from it. Since then it has just been folded up in my fabric supply. And it happens to bring out these sweet little orange/coral birds perfectly, so I think that it represents a great contrast chain for the headboard.
Besides, I don’t think I have ever shown them the fabric that I selected for the lying down in the bedroom. I know that I will disappoint some of them who had hoped that I would go with the coral color, but I decided to go with the blue -green color as a French that was the lighter of the two blue -green ones that I had considered. The darker is called Sapphire.
So the couch will look. It is the Jude Lying chair of Interior Define (Affiliate -Link), which is currently 25% discount.
But remember that there will be many ways to add throws, a pillow, works of art on the wall behind it. I think this is the right color to compensate for this corner of the room.
Now to the color decision of the cabinet island. When I passed through the comments, it quickly became clear to me that I would disappoint about half of them, regardless of which decision I made. But the overwhelming favorite of all who commented was … (drum roll, please) …
… Wogged breeze. About 60% of them said I should stay with the bare breeze. The other 40% of them were everywhere, with suggestions from one of the pink, yellow, green, dark blue, etc., but solid 60% of them, they should stick to the breeze, so I will do so. Her points that there is so much more color in the room when I bring my shoes, wallets and clothing, made a lot of sense.
And when I brought the plywood for the tip of the island and saw how big this finished piece will be in the room, I also made another decision. I will paint the whole thing, including the top, in Blouwy Breeze.
I finally build this to look like a double -sided chest of drawers, and most (but not all) chest of drawers have a top that fits the chest of drawers. When the body is painted, the top is generally (but not always) the same color.
But as soon as it is finished and because it is so big and sits directly in the middle of the room, this island will be so dominant that I don’t want such a large, white (or even marbled) worktop into focus. So it will be all around on the breeze. In fact, it is dried in color!
And that means that I will also paint the worktops over the washing machine and the dryer with a waging breeze. I don’t want to draw and attract attention. But I will do a little bit to sit on the island worktop that is painted in one of the pink colors. In this way, this color can be brought into the middle of the room, but it only becomes an accent and no monstrous island in a color that dominates the whole room.
I probably still have buildings on the island at least three days before I can even get to primer and painting, but I’m glad I made this decision! And I have an entire, uninterrupted working day in front of me, and I have all the supplies that are needed to make this build available. Hopefully today I don’t have to waste any part of today with more trips to Home Depot or Lowe. I hope to make a lot of progress tomorrow!
Randnote: I updated yesterday’s post this morning with the example of the Facebook contribution by Anger Bait because I saw it again this morning when I opened the app on my cell phone. I have now seen it no less than ten times on different sides, and it’s just an example of probably tens of thousands of posts like it.
