Rethinking The Gray And White Striped Walls In Our Bedroom Suite Foyer

I’ve been with no dryer for a few month-and-a-half proper now as a result of the contractor unhooked the dryer in order that he might reroute {that electrical} wire (dryers want a non-standard electrical wire and outlet) to the closet space, and he did that simply earlier than Christmas. And since I’m with no closet, all of my garments are all hanging within the sunroom…

My sneakers are lined up in my studio, which causes an issue with me opening and shutting the drawers and cupboards…

And all of my purses are piled on the studio countertop…

My jewellery remains to be in our toilet…

So not solely have I not been in a position to dry a load of garments in a month-and-a-half, however you possibly can simply think about the method of on the point of go someplace. 😀 I begin at one finish of the home to take a bathe and do my hair and make-up, then I trek to the sunroom to pick out an outfit. Subsequent I’m going to the other finish of the home to pick out sneakers and a purse, then it’s again to the opposite finish of the home to the lavatory to pick out jewellery. I can get most of my steps in for the day simply on the point of go away the home! 😀 So there’s no query in my thoughts that it is smart to do the closet and laundry space first. Simply getting all of that consolidated into one room will make an enormous distinction and make life a lot simpler. And with the ability to dry a load of laundry once more will really feel like I’ve received the lottery.

Anyway, that was a rabbit path. That’s not even what I wished to debate immediately. What’s actually been on my thoughts is the lobby in our bed room suite. (And sure, I’ve landed on the time period “lobby” for this space, a minimum of for now. I’m testing it out. 😀 )

As a reminder, right here’s how our bed room suite is laid out. The bed room suite lobby is off of the music room and might be separated from that room with French doorways. While you stroll into the bed room suite, the closet/laundry space are on the correct with the bed room straight forward. After which the lavatory is off of the bed room.

It’s been some time since I’ve proven the lavatory, so right here’s a reminder what our toilet appear to be. Many of the coloration is on the mural wall behind the tub.

However all the partitions in the principle space of the lavatory are this gentle blue-green in a troweled Venetian plaster end.

Within the bed room, the headboard might be a enjoyable fowl print material with teal, inexperienced, and orange, and the world rug is usually orange.

The partitions might be teal grasscloth above white wainscoting, and the draperies might be darkish teal velvet. I’ll add splashes of inexperienced, orange, and teal all through the delicate furnishings and equipment.

After which for the closet, I’ll be utilizing this wallpaper in a single part…

And all the cupboards might be painted a lightweight coral coloration that leans extra in the direction of orange as a substitute of pink. I’ll select one thing that coordinates with this space for the paint coloration…

So I made a decision to place all of these issues collectively on the ground plan to see what they regarded like. I don’t want all the things to match, however I do need all the things to coordinate. I really like how all of this appears to be like…

However then I obtained to the lobby and heard the sound of screeching breaks in my head. These grey and white stripes simply aren’t chopping it for me.

After all, the lobby doesn’t appear to be this anymore. The doorways have been eliminated, which implies that all the areas are far more open to one another than they had been previously when this was a hallway. And with that in thoughts, I feel the stripes are much more misplaced.

I even have to think about that simply exterior of the bed room suite on the entryway wall simply contained in the entrance door to our home, I plan to make use of the mural that I purchased a number of months in the past from Anthropologie. That mural appears to be like like this…

And whereas it received’t be instantly subsequent to the French doorways resulting in the bed room suite, the 2 space are very shut. When the bed room doorways are open (which they are going to be more often than not), the 2 areas are very seen collectively.

So with all the patterns and colours happening in all of those areas, that leaves me pondering that the lobby to our bed room suite must be one strong coloration. And naturally, my thoughts at all times goes on to darkish teal.

I might do one thing daring and paint it one thing brighter and extra colourful (y’all know me properly sufficient to know that strong white is out of the query), however I don’t need something that may demand an excessive amount of consideration and compete with what I’ve obtained happening within the music room simply exterior the bed room suite.

And I additionally don’t need the lobby drawing consideration away from the principle areas of the bed room suite. This lobby just isn’t the star of the present. In order that leads me again to the darkish teal, which is just about a impartial coloration in our home.

UPDATE: I ought to have talked about that the lobby wall coloration received’t be proper up towards the bed room grasscloth or the closet cupboard coloration. These areas might be separated with white floor-to-ceiling wainscoting. That white floor-to-ceiling wainscoting will go within the brief “hallway” that connects the lobby to the bed room, after which I’ll be mimicking that very same look within the closet entry that might be created as soon as the cupboards are constructed on both aspect of the doorway to the walk-in closet.

So there might be a really particular visible separation between the lobby and the opposite two areas of the bed room suite. That may permit me to deal with the lobby as its personal separate space so far as wall coloration goes.