Yesterday, I met with the person who is (hopefully) going to take up all of the damaged flooring and subfloor in our current home gym and replace the subfloor, as well as remove the rest of the walls around the original closet area. I’ll be installing and finishing the hardwood flooring myself, and then I want to be ready to get the rest of the room finished without any delay so that we can move in and get settled as soon as possible. I just want out of our current bedroom so badly, and I’m ready to get into our permanent bedroom.
So with that goal in mind, I’ve been trying to get all of my plans in place for our “new” bedroom so that I won’t have to be wrestling with decisions once the floor is finished. Right now, the room looks like this…
I painstakingly painted all of those stripes on those walls using 15 different paint colors. It wasn’t an easy project at all, and I love how they turned out…for a home gym. But there’s no way I want those walls to stay like that when this room becomes our bedroom.
So I’ve been on the lookout for ideas, and I’ve been thinking about how I want this room to look and feel when it’s finished. Here’s what I know for sure.
The floor…
The floor in here will match the rest of the house. I won’t be doing another painted floor in the new bedroom. So it will be this same red oak hardwood flooring, stained the exact same color, carried through the new bedroom.
The windows…
Another thing I know for sure is that I’m keeping the window shades and curtains. While I generally prefer lined draperies, I love these curtains too much to get rid of them. These are the ones I got (affiliate link), and they’re great quality. I think they’ll work perfectly for what I envision.
But I won’t be keeping the black curtain rods. I’ll either paint these gold, or I’ll swap these out for the kind i used in my studio, which is by far my favorite curtain rod I’ve bought to date. This is the one I have in my studio, with these curtain rings, and while it says it’s not adjustable, I did cut mine down to the exact size I needed using my miter saw.
The ceiling fan..
And the ceiling fan will stay. As much as I’d love to have a pretty bedroom with a gorgeous light in the middle of the room, this is Texas. There’s no way I could sleep without a ceiling fan.
The bed…
I’ll also be making a new headboard, and maybe even an entire upholstered bed. I love the headboard we have now…
But we’ve had that headboard for about ten years now. It was one of the first projects I did for our house after we moved in, and I’m ready for something fresh and new.
I thought about using the striped velvet that I originally ordered as a sample for my studio desk chair. In fact, I did a mock up of that a few weeks back. Here’s what that looked like…
I almost ordered enough to upholster a bed the other day, but I didn’t go through with it. I think I prefer the bed being a solid color, and the stripe being used as an accent. So I’ll order enough for a couple of large Euro shams or something like that.
The walls…
But the main question is what to do with the walls, because as I’ve already said, those striped walls have to go. I’ve looked at so many different options and pictures for inspiration, and I keep coming back to one thing — grasscloth. I feel like I’ve come full circle. My love for grasscloth started about 15 years ago. In fact, I used grasscloth in our bedroom in the condo. Teal, white, grasscloth, woven window shades. Some things never get old or outdated in my mind. This was back in 2010.
Unfortunately, I never got to finish the bedroom. We decided to sell, and I removed the grasscloth and totally changed the room.
And then in this house, I used grasscloth as an accent on the entryway wall.
When that got ruined and I had to take it down, I used what I had left on the drawers of the console table that I built for the entryway.
There have been many other times I’ve considered grasscloth for various rooms and projects, and yet, today I find myself in a grassclothless home. So I’m thinking that now might be a good time to rectify that oversight. I can envision a dark-ish teal grasscloth, white wainscoting, white gauzy curtains (affiliate link), rustic walnut woven shades (affiliate link), a beautiful upholstered headboard (or whole uphostered bed) in a still-to-be-determined color and fabric, and some accent pillows in the striped velvet.
This may be my last chance to use grasscloth. I’ve loved it for 15 years now, and it always lands at the top of my list (at least in my top 10, if not my top 5) of favorite items when it comes to decorating. It would be a shame to finish every room in this house and not end up with grasscloth somewhere. So I’m thinking this bedroom — our long-term bedroom that we’ll probably be in for the rest of our time in this house — is the perfect place for it. And I feel like it’s either now or never.
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.