Hey there! First, I'd like to give a BIG shout out to Remodelaholic and DIY Showoff for featuring my powder room Before & After. Thank you so much! It's amazing how a little blog love can make a girl's day! :-) And now...on to the next project...the master bedroom! Let me just say this: the previous owners of our house were nothing if not consistent. They went ALL IN on the dark red and navy color scheme, including all the woodwork. Here's what the master bedroom looked like before. The Lowdown Floors: White wall-to-wall carpet Walls: "Builder white" with red and navy stencils Built-ins: Red-painted cabinets White ceiling fan Here's a close-up of the built-ins. Notice that the actual window frames are also painted red {an issue we have still not resolved throughout most of the house}. Here's where Brian and I disagreed: I thought the built-ins would be nice if we could paint them, because they added a custom touch to the room. Brian wanted to take them out because 1) they ate up square footage in our little house, 2) painting them was going to be a TOTAL pain, and 3) they weren't deep enough to hang anything, so we could only use them for stacking sweaters and stuff. So we lived with it like this while Brian tried to convince me that they sucked. Note that we installed plantation shutters, painted over the stencils {that was like priority number ONE before we even moved in, no matter how bad it looked!} and put down taupe Berber carpet as an interim solution to the white wall-to-wall. But eventually, he wore me down and ripped out the built-ins. I still think they could have worked, but {I'm told that} compromise is key in these situations! {Normally I'm super stubborn, so I'm glad I have photo evidence of The Time I Gave In! Haha!} Look at that satisfied smile. Ugh! Below you can see the loveliness that is our master closet/bath area. Brian framed out the door so while we're contemplating what to DO with it, at least we don't have to LOOK at it. ;-) This is how we live: one night, I was giving the boys a bath and walked back here to get some shampoo. No can do! My husband had temporarily drywalled himself in. ...but eventually he got out. He's handy like that! :-) Once the door was framed and the drywall was patched, we were able to install the new hardwood floors! These are the same Brazillian Cherry hardwoods that we used elsewhere in the house. I love them because of the color variance among the boards {and I think this is where a good installer is critical, because they laid it out very well}. Below is the view towards the master bathroom, if you're standing by the windows. You can see the little hallway with closets that leads to the master bath, and the door framed/drywall patched. You can see that we had to sacrifice the base moldings too. Here's how it looks now. The walls are painted in a bluish/greenish gray, which is a little greener than I thought but it's a nice "watery" shade. Like a spa! That's what I tell myself. A spa with a red buffalo-check wallpapered bathroom! ;-) Crown and base molding were installed, we added downlights on a dimmer, and the fan was replaced. You can see we have a lot of work left to do: area rug, bedding, drapes {how would that look with the plantation shutters?} and probably moving some furniture around too... Right now, we have the bed, 2 matching nightstands, and 3 {yes, 3!} dressers lined up across from the bed. We thought that they would look cohesive and built-in since they are all the same style and the middle one is lower, but they just look like 3 boring dressers lined up with a TV mounted on the wall above. I recently read that when decorating your master bedroom, you should start with your vision of the perfect hotel room. Isn't that a good idea? I'll be back with some inspiration photos and ideas, but I'm open to suggestions too! Happy Wednesday! :-)
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6/6/2012 12:52:26 pm
I don't think your three dressers are boring...what great storage! They just need lighting and pictures. I also think the idea of looking at hotel rooms is great since what you normally see there are dream bedrooms.
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