s late on Dominicus night equally I sit down downwards to write this postal service
Well, it’s late on Dominicus night equally I sit down downwards to write this postal service. We but got back from a whirlwind weekend in Northern Virginia, where we did everything from helping John’sec sister alongside a chamber update to buying roughly material for the plant nursery. So today nosotros’ll be chronicling x things that we helped Carrie shop for, hang, too install into her bedroom for a squeamish piffling “adult upgrade.” And hither’sec Carrie instantly…
She latterly asked us to aid her to make a “grown upwardly sleeping accommodation” later saving upward about cash over the last few years since our picture sesh inward her flat dorsum inwards 2011 (recall that?). She told us that she was make to bound for a few nicer items – like an upholstered headboard, more substantial side tables, 2 tabular array lamps, novel fine art or a mirror for over the bed, too around updated bedding. So nosotros got to work hunting downwards approximately options for her to select from, spell working with roughly of the things that she already had (like her Ikea curtains from 2008, the paint colour we rolled on a few years back, together with the greenish and tan area rug that she’sec had for a spell).
The vibe that she wanted was “that-soothing-by and large-white-hotel-room-meets-Olivia-Pope’s-bedchamber vibe” (that’sec literally how she described her dream sleeping accommodation to us). So nosotros simply got together too watched a bunch of Scandal on the DVR alongside big ol’ glasses of ruddy wine in our hands as well as willed the room to redo itself. Just kidding, nosotros shopped, assembled, and finished her room in well-nigh 24 hours this weekend (later ordering a issue of things beforehand). So here’s how it looked when nosotros got in that location on Saturday morn (don’t mind the missing bed skirt that commonly hides the material under the bed):
And hither’sec a moodboard that nosotros made for the room, only because it’sec fun to encounter how moodboard items tin can “interpret” to existent life (in addition to we take some real-life afterwards photos correct inside this postal service – so in that location’second almost to be some moment gratification!). Oh but it in all probability helps to name that this board didn’t go tossed together all like a shot – it was more than of a boring-make over a few weeks’ fourth dimension (nosotros showed Carrie a ton of options inward a bunch of toll ranges for many of these objects so that she could make the phone call and take what she genuinely liked best – specially since it was her moolah as well as her room).
- We idea 2 of these Pier ane pillows (on clearance for $fourteen.98) would await squeamish in front end of the white shams on her bed.
- This geometric brass-framed mirror for over the bed gives off that hotel-chic vibe (as well as it’sec only $39.99 from Target).
- We idea this on-clearance soft seersucker Rex-sized bedding would add together some squeamish texture (nosotros always dearest a Rex-sized duvet/quilt/coverlet for a queen-sized bed, but because it provides extra drapey-ness)
- This $29 beaded metal pillow is a fun complement to the greenish pillows, patch tying into some other brass-toned choices inwards the moodboard.
- A set of ii of these shapely chic lamps were $149 from Joss & Main (Carrie loved the posh brass bases together with finials).
- This curvy queen-sized upholstered headboard was some other Joss & Main find for $269 (the brass blast-head details sealed the bargain).
- Carrie really plant these dapper piffling castered brass side tables from Ballard Designs herself (at 15% off) – together with we all loved how they tied inwards amongst other items nosotros’d been eying for her.
Those last 3 items were patently more inward the “splurge” category – simply it was fun to mix inward clearanced pillows too about discounted bedding along with a dainty upscale-looking-just-affordable mirror. So hither’second her room like a shot, afterward adding those seven things (good, ten since in that location were 2 dark-green pillows, ii lamps, and 2 side tables).
It’s amazing how much the room has changed. The large curvy headboard and brass-framed mirror at once added a ton of smoothen, together with for approximately argue fifty-fifty the ceilings experience higher.
And things like those charming white ceramic lamps on the brass side tables…
…along alongside the textured novel bedding and pillows, take added even more than of that upscale, soothing-as-heck vibe.
It was actually dainty to run alongside some of the things she’s had for a squeamish long time, similar those vi yr sometime mantle sheers too the existing carpet. We also brought over ii of these fake topiaries that we’ve had forever equally a piffling room-warming gift for her windowsills.
As for Carrie’second reaction to the room, it was pretty awesome (come to intend of it, I wish nosotros had gotten it on cinema). She said she loved it most a one thousand thousand times, too fifty-fifty texted us after to tell “I don’t mean I said give thanks yous plenty. I’m inwards dearest with the bedroom. It looks ameliorate than I e’er idea it could. Thank you lot! Thank y’all!” Is she sweetness or what?
We likewise grabbed these detail shots for y’all, just to exhibit that when yous’re going for the white-on-white-with-with-minor-pops-of-other-colors affair (similar green and gold), y’all don’t desire everything to live the same texture, because that can stop up looking kind of apartment. So instead, if you lot’re going alongside a somewhat monochromatic design, it’second fun to layer in roughly dissimilar material, sheens, textures, together with subtle patterns.
For instance, in one pretty small-scale space you lot can observe all of these things inwards the mix:
- hard metal blast-heads against the plush upholstered headboard
- shiny white ceramic lamps alongside gleaming golden bases
- breezy white curtains amongst just about subtle blueprint
- a squeamish reflective mirror to bounce about more than lite
- texture-rich seersucker bedding
- a metallic beaded accent pillow
Oh too 1 simple organizing particular that we loved virtually Carrie’second flat was this hook rail that she had hung for her chunky necklaces a spell dorsum. It’sec such an slowly too functional manner to run across all of her argument necklaces, in addition to she says she wears them a lot more than (together with it helps to proceed them from getting tangled up inwards a drawer). So I couldn’t resist sharing a shot of that:
So a big thank you goes out to Carrie for the fun challenge and for letting us part her bedroom amongst the internetz. We’ll be back amongst about more DIY stuff for you this week (together with an awesome thrift shop detect for our ain home!) since this was pretty much just hunting/hanging/installing material. We’re merely so glad that that Carrie’second sweetly smitten amongst her “new” sleeping room, too that nosotros could encounter a mood board come to life in addition to portion it with you lot guys! What did you lot do this weekend? Was anyone else at Ikea on Dominicus nighttime? It was a madhouse. But assort of a fun madhouse…
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