Bedroom: To be moved across the Hall

Karen had the brazilliant suggestion last week to move the bedroom from its current space to the office. Which, as soon as she said it, was like a gigantic, "duh" went off in my head. Of course! This sentiment was echoed by several other ladies who saw the light/space in there.

further reasons:

*there is no foot traffic from P's downstair tenants on that side of the house
*there's less of a chance of people peeking over the gate to see in the windows, so the shades can be up!
*there's super gorgeous bouganvillia creeping over the side of one of the windows, so pretty
*the room has much better light
*there's a built-in bookshelf/cabinet in the other room, so it should be an office for that reason alone

And further, when I suggested that to Peter, he was down with it. Man, for a decision bully sometimes he's so agreeable.

I think it's a good sign that I'm obsessed with getting the bedroom perfect...right now Peter's bedroom is rather unlived in, and he agrees with this assessment. More color, more light, more art, less furniture.

It should be pared down to

bed
night tables
dresser


and that should be it.

Moving on briefly, I'm really loving these pillows. I will of course make my own most likely but the fabric is nice inspiration. We're going to look into getting a couch that can more comfortably support two laying-down people while they watch Flight of the Conchordes and Big Love. I love Megan and Russ's couch, and I think I've already sold Peter on the idea of a black couch. Something like this but in black?



So, to review on the bedroom front:

color: lightningish soothing ampy blue in no-VOC paints
branch: Perhaps as a mobile for now, especially considering the number of windows hogging wall space
bedroom styles: nature-inspired, soothing, spare in furniture, big in art/style


Laters!

from apartment therapy and print and pattern

Latest Variation

Soon, I swear, I'll move on to another obsession in a line of home obsessions.

But I'm loving this as an alternative to painting.

Clarifications on the Branch Idea

So, what I'm imagining is a single branch, emerging from the edge of the wall and tapering to a smaller, wispier point about halfway to 2/3 over the wall, so it would come over the top of the bed. I'd like leaves--maybe Japanese Maple leaves? Some big and some small.

These Japanese Maples are all very lovely and getting close to what I'd like. Again, the walls would be the blue color on the previous post, and I think that using a slightly lighter blue, perhaps with a silver tone, for the branch, would look much better than using a darker color.






I think that this is a good idea in part because Peter's house is right over the Hayward Fault, and putting artwork over our bed is probably a bad idea for that reason alone. And it just seems like such a calming influence.


This is very pretty, though I'd like the branches to be simplified if it was going to go up on the wall, and I don't know if Peter would be down with a bird on there (though of course I would be, but if I had my way I'd be sticking weird nature-related crap in every nook and cranny of the house).

These pictures are all too busy, but they're nice for inspiration.






Megan suggested that I hire a CCA student to paint this. I think that's a great idea. Alrernately, I could ask Nicole from Kitchen Sink fame to help me to project the image on the wall and paint it on. She's supersmart at things like that.

Bedroom Wall Obsession

In the latest Dominino, there was a great tree painted on the wall of a room. I would like to do the same, but as a delicate silhouette, perhaps simply a branch. The future bedroom (Peter's current, boring, beige bedroom) is dark and quiet and shaded by trees. It has a nice set of white built-in bookshelves on one wall, and a kind of gross mirrored closet door. Light wood floors, two walls of windows. I'd like to paint the bedroom this color.


And do a monochromatic silhouette of branches in either a slighter darker or lighter shade of blue--I'm thinking a silvery blue, or maybe even a green, I don't know. But not black. I want this to be subtle.

There were a lot of Flickr tree paintings and/or inspirationsto be found.


I love this graffiti


I want the painting to look like a shadow, more than anything.


This is a little wispy and poorly executed, but it's good to see the things that don't quite work. At all.


I love this wall. Of course, vastly inappropriate in North Berkeley digs. Those little pine trees on the side are so cute, though.




Again, wisperiffic. Totally not what I want. And I want the branch to be coming out of the wall, not from the floor.