I’m finally ready to turn my attention to our new bedroom, and I’m so excited to get started on this room! I had thought I might get started this past weekend, but I was worn out. These last few weeks have been very eventful with having my new workshop built, having our driveway poured, finishing my studio, cleaning out the carport, and other non-home-related obligations. I was pretty worn out, so I decided to take the weekend to recoup before diving into the bedroom project.
But now I’m ready, and I can’t wait to see this room finished! I was excited about it before, when I was trying to make that fabric work that I had on hand. But now that I’ve changed that plan and have chosen all new fabrics, I’m even more excited. I’m bordering on giddy. 😀
Here’s the direction I’m heading with the colors, fabrics, etc.
Of course, the grasscloth will go on the top portion of the walls. I bought enough to use on all of the walls, not just an accent wall. On the bottom portion of the walls, I’ll add wainscoting. I’ve used two kind of wainscoting in our house, and I’m still not 100% sure which one I’ll use in the bedroom. In the adjoining bathroom, I used this type, which I believe is called judge’s paneling.
That’s also the style I used in the hallway bathroom…
But I used this picture frame molding style in the music room…
I’m still considering those options, but if I had to choose right now, I’d probably go with the picture frame molding style for the bedroom, and leave the judge’s paneling for the bathrooms.
Of course, the bird fabric is going to be used on an upholstered headboard. I’m leaning towards this style with a nailhead trim. Or I might just use cording. I do like how that looks, but I’m a sucker for a nailhead trim. But the headboard will be tall and beautiful, and it will make a statement in the room.
I’ll be using the dark teal velvet for draperies. The velvet is Ballard Designs Signature Velvet in Deep Teal. On the website, it’s priced at $46.50 per yard, but I have a browser extension on my laptop called Microsoft Shopping that will tell me if a product is listed on another website at a cheaper price. And look at this! I was about to make my purchase on the Ballard Designs website at $46.50 per yard, and I got this popup telling me it was cheaper on eBay.
The seller has great ratings, and they assured me that the fabric isn’t flawed. It’s new fabric, not seconds, and they had a lot of it! So I ended up buying 21 yards from this seller for the price that I was about to pay for 12 yards on the Ballard Designs website. And because of the quantity I bought, they gave me a discounted shipping price. So if you don’t have that browser extension, I highly suggest it!
The rest of the fabrics in the picture will be used for accents. I’d love to use the thick, plush velvet on a chair, but that fabric is $159 per yard. I can’t see me paying that to cover a chair, which would probably take 5 to 7 yards of fabric. I could just buy a brand new chair for that price, which is what I’ll probably end up doing.
So here’s my plan of action for this room:
First and foremost, I need to install new hardwood flooring. Right now, there’s only subfloor in there. That flooring has been stacked in my breakfast room for weeks, so it should be fully acclimated to our house and ready to go.
Once the flooring is installed, I’ll need to rent the big sander to sand the floors. Then I’ll finish the floors (stain and seal) to match the rest of the house.
After the floors, I’ll start on the walls. I’ve debated whether to do the wainscoting or the wallpaper first. I think it makes more sense to do the wainscoting first. I also need to install crown molding.
Once the wainscoting and crown molding are done, then I’ll hang the grasscloth wallpaper. I’m a little nervous about this step. Grasscloth isn’t the easiest thing to work with because you can’t get wallpaper paste on the front of it or it’ll leave marks. But I’ll watch plenty of videos about the process before then so that I can feel more confident.
Next up, I’ll make the headboard. I’m so incredibly excited about that project. It’s been a very long time since I’ve made an upholstered headboard, so I’m really looking forward to this one.
After that, I’ll tackle the draperies. I’m less excited about that just because (1) sewing isn’t a favorite thing of mine. I do it because it’s necessary, but I don’t love it. And (2) I need to make so many drapery panels (six total), and I decided to make the panels for the bigger front window 1.5 widths of fabric each instead of 1 width each. I hate making those, but the final look will be worth the trouble.
Next up, I’ll need to build two bedside tables. I shared the ones that were really inspiring me a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve decided to go with these.
I love everything about that bedside table except the price. This one is from Wayfair, and it’s $1829. Of course, we need two of them. So I’ll be using this as inspiration to build my own.
At some point, I need to either find and order a new chair or find an older chair to reuphoster for my reading corner. If I’m going to order a new one, I need to do that soon. I’ll want one where I can choose the fabric that goes on it, and those generally take quite a while from order date to delivery date.
I’ll also need to repaint/refinish the dresser that is in our current bedroom, and that we’ll be reusing in our new bedroom. The current color doesn’t work with the new colors and fabrics.
And then I’ll add the finishing decorating touches to the room, and that’s it! So, any wagers on how long this will take me? 😀 It’s definitely not as involved as a master bathroom remodel or a studio remodel, but there are quite a few projects (sewing, building, reupholstery) that are required for this room. I’m so bad at estimating how long things will take to finish, but I can say that Matt and I are both very anxious to get into our new bedroom! Let’s hope I can stay focused and get this done quickly, because then it’s on to the room that I’m THE MOST excited about — the closet and laundry area!
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.