I actually did it. I actually finished our Bedroom Suite and I couldn’t love it more! What follows is essentially a photo dump of every little element that makes our new bedroom feel especially us…

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We’ve come a long way, baby! Here’s where we started in the bathroom:

Now here’s the finished space:

We painted the walls black, installed a better pattern on the floor, and added accents with Danish vibes to truly allow the artwork to sing.

The showstopper is the wallpaper I installed on the front of the Ikea vanity.

The other accents in the space were kept minimal in color palette but I still wanted to add visual interest by combining different patterns and geometrics. I used another Marimekko pattern on the shower curtain:

As I ordinarily do, I added a strip of fabric to the bottom of a standard shower curtain to bring the height to 84”. Unlike my ordinary style, I used a patterned curtain with a solid stripe this time. Look at me! Going wild!

With the black and white striped rug, the circular pattern feels just unique enough to make a statement but not overwhelm the space with additional colors.

I added hardware to our freestanding IKEA cabinet and then carried the wood from that cabinet onto the mirror beside the shower by adding strips of wood veneer.

This mirror serves as our daily dressing mirror and the hooks beside it allow us to hang our lounging robes. Of course we have family robes in grey scale. Of course we do. Here’s how everything flows with our art choices in the bedroom:

And now let’s take a look at the bedroom before:

And now the bedroom in its completed state:

The bedroom feels so much more peaceful now without all the chaos of clutter. And, because I know you want to know where I got this bed, I DIYed it. Well, I reupholstered our existing storage bed in two Marimekko prints!

Initially, I’d planned to only reupholster the headboard in the Marimekko Unikko pattern but I felt like this room needed something else to balance the florals.

Marimekko Ajo (stripes) to the rescue! This fabric added an additional layer of geometry to the bed in a fun and unexpected way.

I also love how it pulls the stripe from the bench and the duvet without overpowering the room in stripes.

Looking direct at the bed, you hardly notice it. But then, from the side, it’s additional fun!

Here are the accents we added that we are happy to let shine:

This bedroom and bathroom suite is a real homage to our family. It’s inspired by my wife’s favorite artists from the 1980s/90s and by the spirit of breaking rules.

Over the past year, both of us have aged more than we expected. 2020 was a hard one for us and this space is a reclamation of our sense of youth and playfulness.

This room is a celebration of coming out of the dark. It’s another testament to black and how darkness doesn’t have to feel heavy or burdensome.

By now, everyone should be revealing their completed spaces for this season’s One Room Challenge. You can go check in with everyone else by clicking this logo image:

If you’d like to catch up on the entire progress of this Principal Bedroom / Bathroom makeover, you can read all of the updates from this season’s ORC here:

Below, you’ll find design concepts and shopping lists for everything I’ve used into these two rooms:

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We’re one week away from the final reveal of this combo Bedroom/Bathroom space and it’s time for some styling! I’ve been clear that I am most inspired by art in all my designs. The instances of artwork and design in this space are singing. Here’s how I’m pulling it all together …

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Last week, I showed you how I wallpapered the drawer fronts on the vanity and I’m honestly still not over it. I stare at it a lot. I love it so much.

Modern Bathroom Accessories

Fortunately, I was able to stop staring at my beautiful vanity long enough to tie up some loose ends this week:

Like this little shelf between the mirrors. It’s holding our family’s daily grab-n-go paper products like cotton swabs.

I also added these fun cups for storing our individual toothbrush and toothpastes:

These porcelain cups feature a typeset designed by Arne Jacobson in the 1930s. This font is a staple in Modern Scandinavian decor and fits right in with the other Danish elements we’ve incorporated. For an extra layer of black and white, I also used his font on the wall hooks where we store our towels:

Since two of our family members share the same first letter of their names, I didn’t feel obligated to designated one hook or cup for each of us. Instead, I was able to play with the alphabet a little. Alphabet decor is a trick you see incorporated most often in children’s spaces but I like the playfulness it brings to this otherwise-grownup space.

While I’m still awaiting the shipment that has our shower curtain, bath towels, and fabrics for the bedroom upholstery, I was able to find some new hand towels that complement the modern aesthetic and speak to the colors in the vanity without overwhelming the space.

I also used my free time this week to finish the vinyl tile installation and add the new rug you see above.

The addition of the black in the tile brings the room together. There may not be a ton of color in this room, but the visual interest isn’t subtle. The repetition of black and white in varying patterns adds a layered element without overwhelming the space with color.

Why neutral? When we rebuilt this house, I made a conscious decision to use only black and white wall and trim colors in order to bring the feeling of a modern art gallery. We have a large collection of art and it grows every time we travel. Unfortunately, we’ve never had a home where we could display most of our modern artworks because the styles of our previous homes didn’t match the art we love most.

All that changes now.

MODERN ARTWORK

The entire concept for these two rooms was born out of our artwork. The first piece, below, was given to our daughter as a gift when she was born by one of our closest friends and her play aunts:

It was damaged in the tornado, but I was able to salvage it. This original graffiti-style piece was created by Nashville-based artist, Mayeli Art and served as the inspiration for bringing in street style to this room.

While I was traveling, I found a beautiful print by New Orleans-based artist Veronica Casares Lee that had the colors and overall tone we were looking to incorporate in the bathroom.

Her print, above, complements the existing art pieces (wood block and Jonathan Adler Acrylic Pill Statue) I’d already intended to use in the space.

The artwork shone above is from our collection. We’ve had both these pieces for a number of years and, once cleaned up from the tornado debris and storage, they’ll be installed behind the bed to offset the window. When complete, the installation will look like a trio of artwork with our original historic window as the centerpiece.

OTHER BEDROOM / BATHROOM UPDATES THIS WEEK

After months of debate over which handle style to install on the freestanding storage cabinet, we finally handed on simple edge pull handles so we can more easily access the items we need.

To add another wood element, and offset the starkness of the black and white, I applied a simple veneer edge banding to the existing white Ikea mirror. This moment, by the shower, will call to the wood on the mirror vignette and the freestanding cabinet.

WHAT’S LEFT TO BE DONE?

It wouldn’t be an ORC if I weren’t stressed ‘til the last minute, right? There’s a lot that still needs to happen and a lot of materials we’re still waiting to receive. Here’s my list;

• custom shower curtain – waiting for fabric
• bed reupholstery – waiting for fabric
• art installation – waiting for two new pieces
• styling
• possible surprise project (if the materials arrive in time)
• pro photographs of the completed spaces

Here’s where we stand as of today:

Do you think everyone else is farther along in the game by now? You can go check in with everyone else by clicking this logo image:

If you’d like to catch up on the entire progress of this Principal Bedroom / Bathroom makeover, you can read all of the updates from this season’s ORC here:

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Below, you’ll find design concepts and shopping lists for everything I’m incorporating into these two rooms:

See you next week! Until then, stay safe and sane.

xoxo
Teri

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I promised you I was going to talk about textiles this week but I lied. Instead, I spent last week working on our family’s shared bathroom updates and I am too excited to wait. It’s not like anything you’ve seen from me before.

Here’s why …

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I WALLPAPERED THE VANITY

AND I FREAKING LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!

When we first designed this new bathroom, we decided to install a Hemnes vanity from Ikea. It has a ton of storage. Like, seriously, a TON of storage:

This is the side of the vanity that I share with our six year-old daughter. So it’s pretty packed. Because remember: although this is technically the principal suite bathroom, it’s going to function as our main family bathroom for a while. (more on that here)

So we need storage. Lots and lots of storage:

And the Ikea Hemnes vanity offers a lot more storage space than the average vanity. It’s also highly affordable.

Unfortunately, it’s also pretty boring. Especially in white. And I don’t want this bathroom to be boring. I want this bathroom to be fun!

Enter wallpaper, stage right:

I love wallpaper. I use it all the time. I used it here, here, here, here, and here. In the past, I’ve detailed a lot of ways to use wallpaper on an actual wall. Which is obvious.

But I’ve also talked a lot about using wallpaper on furniture (like this Serena & Lily-inspired console table, this easy vase DIY with wallpaper samples, and this grasscloth artwork mat). So I’m not going to detail all the steps of how I used wallpaper to give this vanity a makeover because that’s covered in the console table post. But I will tell you that I chose to install the wallpaper only on the flat portion of the drawer front.

In that closeup shot, you can see that these drawers have a slight bevel on the edges. I opted to keep the beveled portion of the drawer white and use that as my guide for my paper cuts.

So you can see there’s still plenty of white surface on the front of this furniture piece. That allows for the best adhesion and it keeps the furniture looking like furniture and less like an extension of the wall.

As for the actual wallpaper I used, I opted to stick with a traditional paper that requires a separate paste application. The exact paper I used is available here. It’s technically a wall mural and you can add your own custom dimensions. It even came with a powdered glue mixture but I opted to use my favorite paste because I already had some in the basement and I trust it.

Additionally, I replaced the light fixtures in the room and they’re good. Really good.

But nothing beats what I did on the wall above the vanity. It’s the creme de la creme of the space. It’s the piece that turns the boring mirrors into artwork. I created a custom vanity mirror vignette to make two $20 Ikea mirrors look custom and high-end using a thin piece of plywood and even with these ridiculous lumber prices, it’s the best $30 I’ve spent in this room!

All of the sources will be linked at the end of the post and this is clearly just an in-process shot but DOESN’T IT LOOK FABULOUS?!

I used simple silhouette cage pendants over the vanity and gave them an upgrade with an oversized G40 porcelain lightbulb.

If the bulb is going to show, it needs to be a stunner. And this lightbulb is a stunner. As are the lightbulbs I installed in the linear sputnik chandelier in the center of the room (these bulbs are G25):

You can also see that I’ve begun installing new vinyl tile over the existing tile. This was always the tile I wanted in this bathroom but it was on backorder last summer when I needed to install flooring. Now that it’s back in stock, it’s giving us a callback to the downstairs bathroom tile which is also black and white hexagon:

These two bathrooms are cousins. Not twins. But they work well together in their respective spaces in the house. The downstairs is more traditional while the upstairs addition is clearly all new and more modern.

So if you’re keeping score, here’s the transformation of this bathroom thus far:

This week, I’m finishing up the vinyl tile installation, adding the final piece to the plywood mirror vignette, customizing our shower curtain, framing and hanging artwork, and adding the final decorative touches to this bathroom and bedroom.

Reminder: This is not a client’s project. I’m completing this space in my own home as part of the One Room Challenge. The ORC is a biannual event in which interior designers and home decor bloggers come together to cheer one another on as we complete one space in our own homes in just eight weeks.

Please go check out all the other spaces getting an overhaul this season by clicking the image below:

If you’d like to catch up on the entire progress of this Principal Bedroom / Bathroom makeover, you can read all of the updates from this season’s ORC here:

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Next week, I’ll show you each little accent that makes these rooms (and the closet!) special. After that, we’re on to the final reveal in Week Eight!

I’m genuinely so excited to have a completed bedroom for the first time in my adult life. Seriously. My bedroom has always been an afterthought so it’s a real treat for me to have a finished space. Artwork, objet d’art – the whole nine yards!

As promised, here are the complete design concepts and source lists for the bedroom and bathroom:

See you next week! Until then, stay safe and sane.

xoxo
Teri

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Our bedroom is small. Our closet is small. Our 100 year-old house has very little storage. How do we handle it? We get creative with dual function furniture. Here’s what we’re using to make this small bedroom function like a big room.

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If you missed the last four weeks of the Spring 2021 One Room Challenge, I encourage you to go back and read about how we built this entire space from scratch after our house was hit by a tornado (here), how we settled on a really crisp color palette based in neutrals (here), how we’re planning to make this bedroom and bathroom very fun (here), and how we turned a small closet into a storage workhorse using custom shelving and furniture (here). Or you can click any of the images below to get caught up:

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When I left you last week, I showed you how we added a couple small dressers inside the closet to create additional folded clothes storage. That’s my first tip for small bedrooms with limited floorspace for storage:

SMALL BEDROOM STORAGE TIP 1: Add a small dresser in the closet

When your bedroom can’t accommodate additional furniture, check to see if your closet floor is wide and deep enough to house a small dresser for folded clothing. Most closets – even reach-in closets – have enough width and depth to accommodate for a small dresser that can provide optimal storage for cotton clothes.

Since most of our clothes are more casual (jeans, tee shirts, leggings), I would prefer to fold them into drawers instead of hanging them. That frees up space on the closet rod so only our nicest clothing items (blazers, dresses, trousers) can hang more loosely. The more space you free on your closet rod, the less likely you’ll have to iron your blouses and trousers every time you wear them.

In the other side of our odd little closet, I added an additional small dresser to accommodate casual shoe storage:

We have a lot of shoes but not all of them are nice or big enough to warrant being placed on display on the shelves. This little dresser gives me just the right amount of space to store clogs, sandals, and our extensive Chuck Taylor collection within the drawers. (yes, I said “our” because we are lucky enough to wear the same shoe size which means what’s her’s is mine)

Here’s a peek inside the small shoe dresser:

These are my everyday, workhorse shoes. They’re not the ones I would probably wear to take cute photos. But they are my favorites. While I don’t necessarily want to display them, I do need a place to store them. This suits the purpose just fine.

I added a sachet of dried lavender to the drawers to keep them smelling fresh.

While the specific dresser you use will depend on the amount of space you have, here are three that have a low profile to allow for tucking in under hanging clothes (click images to shop directly through the retailer using my affiliate links):

SMALL BEDROOM STORAGE TIP 2: Use space-saving clothes hangers

I also use velvet hangers instead of wood or plastic to hang my clothing. These hangers grip delicate fabrics more easily so they don’t continuously slide off when I’m rummaging for my favorite top. Velvet hangers also provide the added bonus of taking up less space, width-wise, so you can more easily fit more clothing on the rod.

There are a lot of different space-saving clothes hanger styles and colors to choose from but here are my favorites (click images to shop directly through the retailer using my affiliate links):

SMALL BEDROOM STORAGE TIP 3: Make your bed perform double duties

Every bedroom requires a bed. It’s a giant piece of furniture that you must own in order to sleep at night. So if you have to have it, why not make it work harder?!

Literally, use the empty space under your bed for storage! I’ve been employing this trick my entire life in some capacity. The space under your bed is the perfect spot for spare linens or seasonal clothing that you don’t need to access frequently.

Originally, as a young adult, I used under-bed storage bins on wheels to house all of my winter clothes in the summer and summer clothes in the winter. There are tons of options for gliding storage bins. Some are plastic and heavier duty. Some are fabric and help protect clothes from moths. Here are my favorite inexpensive under bed storage items you can buy right off the shelf (click images to shop directly through the retailer using my affiliate links):

Bins are an excellent option for under the bed storage but this year, we got an upgrade to the hack. WE BOUGHT A BED WITH BUILT-IN STORAGE DRAWERS!! Can you tell I’m excited?!

When I originally began researching beds with built-in storage, I kept finding beds for kids. Which is fine if you’re a kid. We are full adult women with Perimenopause on the horizon and I already have to sleep with a fan and throw a leg out the comforter to stay cool at night. If my wife literally even breathes near me while I’m trying to sleep, I would rather sleep on the floor.

All of that is to say: I need a king sized bed. I cannot fathom sleeping in a queen or full at this stage in my life. But, you know, you do you.

It took a long time to find a good storage bed that wasn’t made in a smaller size but I finally did it and then I found a bunch of them! Here’s the one we have (note that it sells out really quickly from every retailer and this is the only place I could find it at the moment):

We bought the bed in the linen color because that’s what was in stock at the time but we’re planning an update to the headboard which you’ve likely already snuck a little peek at in the first photo of this post.

Here’s the storage under our bed. Yes, I have a child’s winter hat. You can decide if it’s mine or my kid’s:

I like upholstered beds for adult bedrooms but I’m actually looking at other options for the guest room and I chose a painted wood trundle bed that can be converted to a storage bed for our daughter’s bedroom.

Here are more storage bed options, depending on the look you want (click images to shop directly through the retailer using my affiliate links):

SMALL BEDROOM STORAGE TIP 4: Use vertical storage options

Since our bed is wide but our bedroom is not, we had to get creative with our bedside tables. We don’t have the space for big, bulky tables and even if we did, they would obstruct the access to the under-bed storage. So that wouldn’t be functional. How do I know? Experience:

But we do have about 20” on each side of the bed where we could have small tables. One option would be to use small, lightweight tables with no storage capacity. But I require a little bit of privacy in my bedside tables. Between the pill bottles, chapstick, water bottle, a little tray for my daily jewelry and hair ties, remotes for the fan, TV, and mattress (yes, we have a fancy Sleep Number mattress), my bedside table surface would get pretty cluttered without some capacity for concealed storage.

To the rescue? Floating bedside tables!

That’s an image from before they were installed. Notice something?

A STORAGE DRAWER!!!!!

Okay, so this floating bedside table has a drawer and it attaches directly to the wall via a French cleat hanger on the back and the company that makes them, Article, includes all the hardware and the anchors you need to install them.

Also in the package was a template for you to use in order to get your anchors in exactly the right spots.

This is not sponsored by Article. I bought these Lenia Floating Bedside Tables myself. I’m just so impressed by them that I’m raving.

I searched for so long to find a quality floating bedside table and these are real wood with a beautiful veneer (not a sticker). They’re stained black – not painted – so you get the texture of the wood shining through. I love them so much!

Here’s how they look installed on the wall:

They’re very simple pieces of furniture which is exactly what I wanted. You can also see how they blend right into the wall. In order to make this bedroom feel bigger, I’ve chosen many black pieces of furniture to allow the eye to continue around the room with fewer visual obstructions.

As you can see, I’ve also installed two sconces on either side of the bed and I’ll be detailing more about how I am going to hide all these cords in a couple weeks when we discuss lighting and decor.

For now, here’s how the bed area looks with the new bedside tables:

Because this bedroom is narrow, rather than wide, a simple bench is the perfect addition to the foot of the bed. And because I believe every room deserves at least one iconic splurge, I opted to finally buy my dream bench: A George Nelson Slatted Wood Bench.

This bench is a real splurge at around $1500 but there are a ton of less expensive options available in a few different color options. Here are the best knock-offs I’ve seen (click images to shop directly through the retailer using my affiliate links):

SMALL BEDROOM STORAGE TIP 5: Shop kid’s furniture

I know I just railed on how I don’t want a kid’s bed BUT hear me out. On the wall opposite our bed, we have a small amount of space to place a dresser. The depth is perfect for a standard dresser but the width between the bathroom door and the inswing of the bedroom entry door is tight.

One option would be to go vertical again by purchasing a tallboy dresser. Highboy dressers are generally taller and more narrow than a standard dresser. They usually feature four to six drawers that are stacked vertically, rather than appearing in columns.

Here are some cute highboy dressers (click images to shop directly through the retailer using my affiliate links):

There are some really pretty highboy dresser options out there but, unfortunately, that wouldn’t have worked for us. We like a TV in the bedroom and with a highboy, the height above the dresser would have been too high to hang a television for comfortable viewing.

Luckily, kid’s furniture is often made smaller than standard adult furniture. Usually, that presents an annoyance for me in my design work but in this instance, it worked out great!

I love this small dresser because it’s a very dark grey which lends itself to blending into the black wall background but it also has a really fun modern wood leg detail that will draw from the additional wood elements we will be adding in the room before the end of the project.

Eventually, the TV will be mounted just above the dresser on the wall. This will clear up space for a bit of the decor on the dresser. I also love those cubby shelves. This will allow me to store books and decorative objects within the dresser to create a more polished look. For now, while I await bins for the closet, they’re mostly housing miscellaneous items I need to put away.

The depth of the dresser allows for space to walk through the bedroom to the bathroom. That’s important because remember our bathroom is the only one upstairs and functions as a family bathroom.

Before I show you one final image of the bedroom at this stage, I want to remind you that I’m completing this bedroom and bathroom in my personal home as part of the One Room Challenge. The One Room Challenge is a community event. That means there are a ton – literally hundreds – of other designers and home bloggers completing spaces in their homes alongside me.

Please go take a minute to look at their projects. I know there are a ton you’ll enjoy seeing. Click here to see them all.

I’ll be back next week with some additional updates to show you. Next week is all about TEXTILES! So make sure you check back because textiles for a bedroom and bathroom can make or break the space.

Lastly, here’s the entire source list and design plan for both rooms (affiliate links). The bathroom design has gotten a serious new look since last week:

See you next week! Until then, stay safe and sane.

xoxo
Teri

DECORATING ON A BUDGET ISN’T ALWAYS EASY BUT I’M HERE TO HELP.

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Two women sharing one closet is hard. Two women sharing one closet that was designed to be a broom closet is basically a 1980s bad comic standing punchline. So it’s time to fix that. Here’s how we transformed this Hers and Hers storage to make sense for both of us:

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If you missed the last three weeks of the Spring 2021 One Room Challenge, I encourage you to go back and read about how we built this entire space from scratch after our house was hit by a tornado (here) and how we settled on a really crisp color palette based in neutrals (here) and how we’re planning to make this bedroom and bathroom very fun (here).

Last week, we left one another with a design plan for the bedroom and bathroom. It’s tweaked a little since then so here’s the updated concept board + purchase list:

The bathroom has gotten a seriously bold update to the design over the past week. Once we got the black and white accents in, we realized the space was feeling a little stiff. So we’ve added more color and natural wood to the design.

And since I’m going so bold in the rooms, I decided to tone down the closet design. But first, here’s the closet when we started:

Originally, this space was supposed to be a very small guest room closet. That’s the really skinny part you see (second photo). It was originally designed as a reach-in and the door access was going to be father towards the exterior wall.

The wider part (first photo) was meant to be a hall closet with shelving for spare linens and outlet access for rechargeable vacuums and small appliances. The door would have originally been perpendicular to our bedroom door (in the hallway).

Once we realized we were going to be occupying this bedroom (our bedroom was originally downstairs), it became clear that we would need more than just a sliver of closet space for both our clothing and shoe needs.

Since we love our shoes and have a hard time finding room to store them, we decided the best plan for this narrow spot in the closet, which we need for the door to be able to open (more on that later, would be to add shelving to the back wall to accommodate the majority of our kick.

I used the same method to build these shelves that you see here to create built-in wall shelving for our shoes and accessories.

Since we don’t have a ton of hanging clothes and both of us are relatively short, I opted to lower the closet rod and add more shelving above for more storage capacity.

The small dressers will allow for additional folded clothing storage and easier casual shoe (think sandals) storage.

Here’s the finished product:

Here’s how the shoes are stored inside the little dresser:

I’ve added an additional dresser to the bedroom where I house all my folded clothing.

And a secret storage hack that I’ll give more details on next week when we talk about furniture (hint: it’s the bed)

Finally, we added a door to the closet! We’ve lived in this house for nine months without a closet door. It was time.

There was no clearance for the inswing of a door in this floorplan so we needed to be creative. I know a lot of people like the look of a hanging glide rail track but I really don’t. I think they feel a little more industrial than I typically like.

But I did actually find one in a white finish that I could live with and opted to hang it inside the closet so it didn’t become a focal point of the room.

We reused one of the original doors to the house. It’s so perfectly imperfect. We even kept the original backplate for the door knob which has been painted over and over again. We’re using this as a finger glide since a traditional door knob would be too deep to fit behind the wall:

It’s so nice being able to close the door and not having to stare at clothes in my bedroom. I’m loving this upgrade.

Next week, I’m going to show you the other storage upgrades this room is getting. We’re talking furniture that serves double purposes. Because when you have a small house, every item must carry its own weight in functionality.

In the meantime, please go check in on the other Designers and their ORC rooms by clicking here:

Until then, stay safe and sane.

xoxo
Teri

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So now we have black walls and wood floors. We’ve got the basic foundation of the room in place. Let’s take a deep dive into the design process and I’ll show you all the plans we have for finishing this bedroom and bathroom …

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If you missed the last two weeks of the Spring 2021 One Room Challenge, I encourage you to go back and read about how we built this entire space from scratch after our house was hit by a tornado (here) and how we settled on a really crisp color palette based in neutrals (here).

To recap from last week, we’re currently sitting with a pretty bare room. The walls of the bedroom and bathroom are painted Black Magic by Sherwin Williams. The trim is Pure White by Sherwin Williams. We’ve purchased a new bed, bedding, and a rug. And that’s basically it:

That’s the view of the bedroom from the day we moved into the house last August. Since then, nothing has changed. We’re using temporary bedside tables while we await our new design. At this point, everything hinges on coming up with a concrete design plan for this room.

The decisions we make at this point will determine the overall feel of this room. So let’s talk about how I consider and then settle on a design plan.

Since I want the changes we make in our Principal Bedroom Suite to be long-lasting and worthwhile, I’m tackling this space as if I were designing for a client. I’m following the same general process I have for working with clients (except I’m also doing a lot of the installation myself, rather than hiring it out).

When I work with clients, the very first thing I do is create three concept boards for every room. While the general style typically remains the same, based on what the client has previously shown interest in, each board has a distinct overall vibe.

MODERN BLACK BEDROOM + BATHROOM DESIGNS

Modern Luxury Bedroom

My initial design concept for the bedroom section in our Principal Suite merged a lot of the characteristics of natural luxury and transitional style that we’ve incorporated in our previous bedrooms. I stuck with lighter neutral colors and luxurious fabrics like linens and velvet and added a darker focus with black accents and plaid wallpaper.

Modern Glam Bathroom

To accompany this luxurious bedroom design, I created a concept for our en suite bathroom that added glamorous touches to up the wow factor.

While we absolutely loved this original design concept, we did notice that it doesn’t quite fit with the general overall style of the house at this point.

As we get older, our personal style has begun to feel a lot less … mature. We’re looking to have more fun in our home at this point. As a professional designer, I create beautiful and luxurious spaces for clients all day long and now I’m craving something less perfect for my own space.

Modern Geometric Bedroom

Once I realized I wanted to add a little more Scandinavian style to the space in order to make it work with the remainder of the house, I began adding geometrics for the second concept. I love playing with stripes juxtaposed with natural elements, like wood, to create a balance of organic and industrial.

Modern Industrial Bathroom

By adding more industrial elements in the bathroom, I was able to wink at the history of our home without losing the overall modern feeling I want this addition to have.

This second design concept felt like it was getting closer to evoking the playful feeling we want our room to have but we weren’t quite there yet.

So I decided to go full-tilt fun:

Modern + Playful Bedroom

My personal style veers into the Scandinavian Modern spectrum. I’ve often been hesitant to use that term when I describe my vision for my home because I think it’s too frequently aligned with neutral and white spaces. Clearly, we’re not looking to have a neutral or white space.

If you remember my daughter’s bedroom design concept, you probably recognize the floral pattern already. Even if you don’t remember her bedroom, you likely recognize those bold poppies from just existing in the world. That pattern is Marimekko’s Unikko design and it dates back to 1964 and I absolutely love the story behind it.

Armi Ratia, the founder of the Finnish design and print house Marimekko, declared that she would never release a floral pattern at Marimekko. In protest, Designer Maija Isola submitted a series of bold florals for consideration to Armi. The designs were so beautiful and so perfectly Finnish-Modern that Armi ate her words and released the pattern, called, Unikko (Poppy in English) the next season.

To date, Unikko is the most famous and fruitful design to come from Marimekko. You can read more about this story here: The Secret History of Marimekko Unikko Fabric

Modern Playful Family Bathroom

Remember when I said we aren’t frilly? As the story above exemplifies, rules are made to be broken. This Unikko fabric inspired me to add more playfulness to our currently-shared family bathroom too. It might just show up in every space I design in our house moving forward.

I wonder how much fun the other designers are having in their homes this season. Now is the perfect time to go check them out and see if anyone else is using any iconic designs in their concepts.

You can go check out the other designers and give the ones who inspire you a follow. Once again, you can see the full list of participating designers here.

Next week, we’re going to tackle the building of our closet and discuss how we plan to store two women’s clothing and shoes in a closet that was meant to handle brooms and guest linens. It’s a fun ride! Make sure you check in to see how it’s going. Until then, stay safe and sane.

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Welcome back! Ready to see what this space looks like with some trim, flooring, and a little paint? Good news! I’ve got pictures! But first, you should get caught up on the background of this room in my One Room Challenge Week One post if you haven’t already. Just click the photo below and come back when you’re done. I’ll wait.

Okay great. Now you’re all caught up. That was a real doozy, right?! A tornado! A pandemic! A near-mental breakdown! It’s the kind of stuff reality TV shows want you to believe really happens but you don’t believe it and then it does happen to someone and you’re like Is this real life?

It’s also the kind of stuff that can really distract you from doing things like caulking your trim or installing the wallpaper you bought for the project. And that’s why we’re all here. See? Full circle.

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Now let’s get to business! Here’s the room(s):

LAYOUT OF THE BEDROOM / BATHROOM / CLOSET

Imagine you’re standing directly in my bedroom door like that peacock was in last week’s post. This is the view layed out in front of you. Except that most days, I try to keep the garage door closed so you don’t see how much stuff I’m hoarding in there directly out the bedroom window.

Directly in front of you, we chose to add two giant windows to really frame the view (I can see the Batman Building from my house!) and bring as much light into the space as possible.

This is the south side of the house, so all the sun hangs out here. It’s also painted black on the exterior so you may be concerned about how hot this space gets in the summer. But you don’t need to be because remember we added spray foam insulation to the entire house during the rebuild. If you missed that, no worries. It was covered the first time I tried to finish this bedroom for a One Room Challenge. More on that here: Previous ORC Projects

Now imagine you shift your body 45 degrees to the left. You’re looking at the third window in this 11×14’ bedroom because I believe in natural light more than I believe in aliens. And I definitely believe in aliens.

This window is special because it’s one of the original windows from our 1920s home. During the rebuild, we had to remove some of the windows from certain rooms to meet Building Codes Standards but I tried to reuse as many of them as possible in order to bring some old charm into this new part of the house.

It’s also special because, since it doesn’t open and close, I could frame it like a piece of artwork. And that’s exactly what I did.

It’s a real play on a picture window! Get it?! I love the look of a black gallery frame against a white mat so I brought that vibe into the space by adding this frame design to the window that will be directly over our bed.

For privacy, since I don’t ever want to cover this window with blinds or curtains, I made sure to specify to the builders that the window needed to be at least four feet off the ground. With a window that high, no one will see us when we’re getting dressed or watching alien conspiracy documentaries in the dark so we can have real weird dreams.

Now I’ve invited you into the bedroom (platonically) and you’re standing ten feet in front of the bedroom door, shifted 45 degrees to your right. That’s my bathroom! Unlike the bedroom, it’s really big (for a bathroom)! You can get a better perspective with these original design plans:

The bathroom is the room with the bathtub and toilet in it, for perspective.

Since I knew I couldn’t have a super deep bedroom, I didn’t want to have a really wide bedroom either. For two reasons; 1. Long rooms are a real challenge to furnish, and 2. I always knew I wanted my bed on the east-facing wall because a bed positioned under the lowest slope in the ceiling would give the physical sensation of falling backwards and I’m terrified of heights.

I also don’t think huge bedrooms really serve anyone. For us, the bedroom is a place for privacy (Hello, Entire World Reading This Right Now, I do see the irony in that statement!). So we don’t need a lot of space in our bedrooms. In fact, we’ve had bedrooms of varying sizes and the smallest rooms have always provided the most comfort and least square footage to dust and vacuum.

Bathrooms on the other hand? Bathrooms really need to be big to be luxurious. I like a wide shower and a soaker tub and a big vanity with a lot of storage. Just imagine it… rain shower head… a steamy room… some candles lit… It’s luxury at its finest.

THE BATHROOM

Unfortunately, that’s not the bathroom you’re going to see this go-round. Because this bathroom was built big in order to accommodate a dream bathroom that we currently don’t have the funds nor the lifestyle to justify.

As of right now, our daughter still requires assistance in her nightly routine. And I don’t want to bathe a child in a soaker tub. Nor do I want my six year-old killing the vibe in my glass door steam shower when she runs through to use the toilet.

For now, this is a family bathroom so we’re building it with inexpensive – and sturdy – products that will be easier to remove when it’s time for us to finally kick her to the downstairs bathroom and get the bathroom of our dreams. We’re happy with the vinyl tub/shower combo at this stage.

Now let’s shift your body 360 degrees and let’s go back into the bedroom.

Look past the black paint I know you’re eyeballing and inch forward a tad. We’ll get there in a minute, I promise.

From the bathroom door, you can see the closet wall directly in front of you. See that doorway opening? that leads into the small and mighty closet.

The original plans called for a much bigger closet and an accompanying hall closet to be built but as construction progressed and we realized we were going to be moving up here, we had to trim down the original closet and say goodbye to the hall closet to make space in this room for a king sized bed. I require a king. Oh the irony.

THE CLOSET

Two women share this really small closet. Two women with a large shoe collection. We have to do better.

Right now, it’s housing two Ikea dressers which will be the base for a nice built-in closet. We tore up the closet because we’d asked our contractors to leave this room empty in order to accommodate a custom closet but they didn’t listen and added unfunctional closet shelves we didn’t want nor need.

So we’re in the process of ripping out the MDF shelving to make way for a more custom solution that will actually suit our needs. For now, just remember – shoe storage. We need shoe storage. Shoes and blazers are important pieces of our collection.

PAINT + TRIM DETAILS

The two most common questions I am asked about our house are; 1. What’s that paint color? and 2. How big is that base trim? So I figured I could help everything by answering both of those questions upfront. For every black wall you see in my house, I’ve used Black Magic by Sherwin Williams. Every white wall and piece of trim is Pure White by Sherwin Williams.

By carrying the same colors and trim styles throughout the home, I’ve created a cohesive look. My daughter’s room is vibrant and a little wild! She’s five and she’s vibrant and a little wild. So it should be reflective of her.

Because we’ve continued a similar style – modern color blocking – and the same basic paint colors into her room, the house still flows together. Our style is modern. It wouldn’t make sense to have one room that feels Romantic Victorian in this house. It would feel out of place.

While the downstairs trim was pieced together with the remaining bits of historic moulding we could salvage, I didn’t want to try to mimic the look of 100 year-old wood trim upstairs. It wouldn’t have felt authentic to the addition. Instead, I opted to modify the existing downstairs trim profile, which is Craftman, with a more modern squared-edge crosshead cap (the part that is installed across the tops of the windows and doors).

If you want a similar look, here are the measurements for each piece you’ll need:

You may notice something is missing at the baseboards. We opted to keep the entire house feeling more modern and fresh by foregoing quarter round trim! Did you know you can do that?! You can as long as you are installing brand new floors and tell your contractor before you have the flooring installed. That way, the flooring butts directly up to the drywall and there’s no gap that needs to be concealed by quarter round.

Lastly, because I’m sentimental, I did want to bring back as many of the original details of this house that I could. So I worked hard stripping and repairing every single historic door we had in the original house. I found creative ways to reuse them all.

Our bedroom door is an old French door from the living room. The glass was frosted with a glass frosting paint. We have the same amount of privacy that a solid wood door would offer and get the benefits of natural light filtering into the hallway when the door is closed.

WE PAINTED OUR BEDROOM BLACK

If you follow designers in magazines or on Instagram, you’ve probably seen a lot of very dark and romantic rooms the past couple years.

We didn’t want that look. We did want a black bedroom (my wife was a teenage goth) but we wanted to make it feel more like us. And we just aren’t frilly in our tastes. We like crispness and a touch of fun without the whimsy.

To keep this black room feeling modern and fresh, we opted to paint all the trim white (see paint colors above). This gives the effect of color-blocking and breaking up the space a little to allow for additional colors to be used.

Above, you see the bedroom on the day we moved in. Everything is in place to make this room feel modern and fun. Now all we need are the finishing details.

I’ll be back next week to show you the final design concept for this space. In the meantime, please go check out the One Room Challenge and find some new designers to inspire you. Once again, you can see the full list of participating designers here.

Until then, stay safe and sane.

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Teri

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Last Spring, I joined the One Room Challenge for the fourth time to finalize the design and details of my Principal Suite (Bedroom and Bathroom).

In retrospect, it was a terrible idea. Even the extended timeline – eight weeks – wouldn’t have allowed for the completion of that space. After all, we weren’t just working on one room. We were rebuilding our entire house.

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So with a year of perspective (and a lot of embarrassment), I’m here to concede. I couldn’t do it the first time but I know we can get it done this time! I have a plan! But first, here’s where I abruptly left you …

HOW WE GOT HERE

That’s the very last photo I showed you of this space. It’s a view from inside the doorway of the bathroom, looking into the bedroom. They’d just finished drywall and we were working out the trim design details. That was Week Five of the ORC. I gave up on even trying a sixth, seventh, or eighth week. The process sped up really fast then screeched to a halt. Poor decisions were made. I got overwhelmed, emotionally. Just a few months of rebuilding a home after a disaster took its toll on me. I shut down.

If you want to see all the progress we’ve made (and Before + After pictures) on our 1920s Bungalow rebuild after the tornado, you can click here for a full run-down of every project I’ve shown. For the sake of getting everyone caught up, here’s the gist of how this bedroom came to be:

When we bought this historic home in July 2019, this was the entirety of the upstairs. Technically a half story, the ceilings upstairs were only six feet high. Because the space was only about 600 square feet and the ceilings were so low, we initially decided to make the entire upstairs area (really just a bedroom and a landing) our daughter’s space.

We painted the walls a pale pink, painted the floors a striped pattern, made over her baby dresser, updated those 1980s gold can lights, and added colorful pops of ROYGBIV to accommodate our then-4 year old daughter’s taste and we cozied into the only other bedroom in the house, downstairs:

Unfortunately, the only photo I have of this room comes from a low quality Instagram story I’d posted in December 2019 because in March 2020, this happened:

When a tornado ripped through our neighborhood in Nashville, we were among the lucky ones. We were saved the trauma of living through the event because we were out of town. When we got back home, our house was still standing, unlike so many of the homes around us. You can read more about the devastation on our community here.

The trees in the image above, from the real estate listing, came down on the house. Additionally, the old coal chimney (12 feet tall) fell onto the roof and created a six foot-wide hole. Since tornados usually accompany rain, our bedroom (where you see the window on the right side of the house) had flooded and was determined to be a total loss.

Once everything was cleared off the house, it was pretty clear we’d need to *at the very least* rebuild the entire roof structure of the house. That would mean gutting the entire upstairs and half the downstairs in order to replace all that was damaged.

As you can see in the above photo, the entire back of the house was unfinished attic space upstairs. We’d always talked about creating a dormer that would raise the height of that area and allow for a third bedroom and second bathroom upstairs. Since we knew we’d already have the crew onsite and would be purchasing all new materials to rebuild the roof anyway, it felt wasteful to put off the dormer plans any longer. If we waited to add the dormer until we were ready, in five years or so, we’d be demolishing and throwing away perfectly good – and nearly brand new – materials.

My suspicions that it would be easier, more ecologically sound, and more cost-effective to add the dormer at this stage were confirmed by a representative from our local historic review board a few days later. Our home lays within historic guidelines so any exterior changes to the structure must be approved by the commission before we can begin building.

The historic commission agreed that as long as we kept the same foundational footprint of the home, we would be able to add an additional two feet of height to the roof ridge (the tallest part of the roof’s structure) and extend the dormer out the back of the house as far as two feet off the original roofline.

Within two weeks, I was turning in our new house plans for approval by our Historic Zoning Commission and local Building Codes Departments and had secured a general contractor to oversee the entire project.

The image above is the first draft of the new floor plan for the upstairs, starting at where the existing finished space ended. Using the ridge raise and dormer method, we were able to squeeze in a small bedroom, a big bathroom, a new hallway, and an office for Christine in just 600 square feet!

Everything you see outlined above had previously been unfinished attic space.

In the image above, you can see how impactful adding that additional two feet to the height of the roof really was for this home. Inside, this allowed us to vault the ceilings to take advantage of all that new height and allow for better flow of light through the home.

From this view, you can see the original roofline ends where the dark brown wood ends on the exterior wall. All the lighter lumber shows how the new dormer addition gave us additional living space with an increased ceiling height.

The difference between the floor color shows where walls were previously in place, separating the bedroom from the staircase landing. Here’s the original view of that landing before the tornado:

And, for reference, the new look of that landing with additional square footage and ceiling height added during the rebuild:

The original staircase and railing was not moved so you can reference the differences in ceiling height and overall space available between each image. Directly behind that black wall is Christine’s office. The hallway leads to the bedroom and bathroom we added.

There’s our daughter modeling this new portion of the house. Just beyond that door is the new Principal Suite that includes our bedroom, bathroom, and a closet.

This is the space we’re going to be finishing for the Spring 2021 One Room Challenge.

For more explanation on what the One Room Challenge is and how to join (there’s still time!), you can read this blog post from back in 2018 in which I answered some FAQs from followers on Instagram.

To see all the spaces that are going to be transformed during this event, head over to the ORC Blog for a list with images and links to each space.

WHAT TO EXPECT OVER THE NEXT 8 WEEKS

This is the sixth time I’ve entered a space into the One Room Challenge.

So far, only one of those spaces has remained incomplete by the end of that season’s challenge. That’s right. This room.

For a full list of each space I’ve completed with before + after photos, click here.

For the past 4 years, I’ve gotten the One Room Challenge process down to an art form. Each week, I’ll be diving into a new topic to show you how you can use these concepts and ideas in your own spaces. There will be a lot of little peeks into the space but you won’t see the whole project come together until the final reveal on Week Eight.

Like every ORC before this one, you can anticipate a lot of custom furniture ideas:

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Some fun with paint, wallpaper, and decorative moulding:

Lots of easy DIY tutorials to teach and encourage you:

Little vignettes to inspire you:

And lots of opportunities for me to take photos of myself looking far too pleased with myself:

The One Room Challenge is the most fun I have at work every year. I get to come together with fellow designers and home professionals who understand how frustrating and embarrassing it is to work in the business and somehow still have an unfinished home. I get to commiserate over foam shortages and brainstorm solutions with friends who live thousands of miles away.

That fun shows through in our work. So please go check out the other designers and give the ones who inspire you a follow. Once again, you can see the full list of participating designers here.

I’ll be back next week with more photo updates on the space and a gameplan for how we’re going to finish this suite in six short weeks! Until then, stay safe and sane.

xoxo
Teri

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