Monday 5 November 2012

Master Bedroom Inspiration

We're getting pretty close to the painting stages of the plan, so it's time to start giving some thought into what we'd like these rooms to end up looking like. The first room we're planning to tackle is our bedroom, so we can move in and have a room of sanity to begin and end our days in. 

I had already collected a lot of pictures and ideas of what I thought would look good, but Philip has been pretty busy with boiler removing madness so he hadn't given a lot of input. This past weekend we both sat down and he looked through some photos on Houzz to see what kind of style we were both leaning towards for our bedroom.

In the end, we both landed on the below photo as a good inspiration for our bedroom. It's a very similar color as our bedroom at the condo which we really liked (Benjamin Moore's Smoke) and we still have paint left which means we can save some money using the leftovers.



After spending a bit of time deliberating over what we liked about this particular photograph we came up with a few key things that should help us when choosing accessories and achieving this look. The textures and layering make the room look airy, but still with a lot of visual interest. These are the kinds of characteristics on our checklist when looking at accessories for the space.

We have a few more boring items to get off the list for the room such as installing the new white trim, buying new doors for the closet and just the regular door too, some racks for the closet, and blinds. After that, some of the items that are more fun to choose are also on the agenda.

The first is a textured light fixture. After one quick trip to Rona, we walked away with a few different ideas for adding texture and interest through the lighting, similar to what was shown in our inspiration photo. Definitely haven't narrowed it down to one yet, and have some more shopping around to do, but having this inspiration photo has helped to eliminate some less than interesting options since we know the look we're going for.








Some of the other items on the shopping list include robe hooks for behind our door, accessories for the side tables, artwork, potentially a chair for the corner, euro shams and fabric, fabric to make a headboard that's a little higher than our existing one, and potentially an area rug. We'll keep you posted!

Anyone seen a picture of a beautiful bedroom lately? What projects are you working on? 

Side note: You'll notice we added a page with our master list that we can update as we complete things, and Philip made a great banner for the top of the page! I've also heard some people had trouble with commenting...let me know what the issue was and I can try and fix it? Thanks!

8 comments:

  1. I'll kick off the voting. (Are we voting?)
    I like #4. With the heavy yellow background of the photo, it doesn't immediately strike me as airy, soft, or cool (colour-wise), but I think in the context it could really do a lot (especially if we go for a bright white bulb). Second choice might be #5, but that gets a little girly for me. Otherwise, wish #1 was white.
    Anyone else have a vote?

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    1. I also like #4 as far as color and the shape and pattern it has...but it was a bit small for me in the store (hard to tell here). I feel like the size has to be semi-big...like not so big we hit our head but big enough that it looks right. That has to be the most vague idea of the right size that's ever been explained. #5 was your choice lol so way to think it's girly ha. I like #1 in white too...I'm thinking we should go thrift store light searching and find something we can refinish in some way, seems silly to buy a fixture from Rona just to paint it, but if that's what we do then that's fine too. The rhymed.

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    1. I like that one too :), and our duvet is ivory with green stripes at the bottom which feels sort of "naturey" to me, which would go with that I think. We're also tossing around this one from Ikea: http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/90147465/

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  3. As if you are thinking about that one from Ikea! I've been drooling over it for atleast 1 yr and am totally buying it once Ikea opens!!! lol!!!

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    1. Ah, or you can just come to our house and look at it lol.

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  4. http://pinterest.com/search/?q=exercise+ball+lamp

    Here I thought you would like this idea!

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    1. I want to do this! Seems sad to pop an exercise ball...but still worth trying for sure.

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