As quickly as I end my walk-in closet, I’m going to begin on the bed room and the lobby. I’ll be engaged on these two areas concurrently since a lot of what must be achieved in considered one of these areas will carry by to the opposite space, just like the wainscoting and the grasscloth. So I’ll be treating it as all one area.
The lobby won’t solely be an entrance into our bed room, with all one cohesive look, however it should even be an extension of my closet. I’ve been requested extra instances that I can depend if I’ll be placing a full-length mirror and/or a chair or bench in my closet. I didn’t make room for both of these issues within the closet as a result of I didn’t wish to hand over wall area or cupboard space. My plan nearly from be the start was to place these issues within the lobby.
In order a reminder, that is what our bed room suite lobby appears like proper now…
And that is the wall the place I plan to include a full-length mirror. So when getting into the bed room suite, the mirror might be entrance and heart. Nicely, not fairly heart, however you already know what I imply. It’ll be proper there, so it’ll be one of many first issues seen when getting into the bed room suite.
After which on this wall, I plan to place an upholstered bench that I can use if I want to sit down down and placed on my sneakers.
I nonetheless haven’t found out the small print of that upholstered bench. I’m unsure if I need it to be inbuilt or a movable bench. And whereas I do need the highest to be upholstered, I don’t assume it could actually have a full skirt on it just like the ottomans which might be in our entryway.
And the rationale for that’s as a result of I must put a passthrough on this wall for Felicity. So it’ll be small and low within the backside nook of this wall.
Which means she’ll want to have the ability to go below the upholstered bench, and a full skirt would ultimately get soiled together with her rubbing in opposition to it on a regular basis. However I need her to have the ability to come and go as she pleases as a result of we’ll be sleeping with the bed room doorways closed every night time, and Felicity sleeps on me each night time. She often leaves and comes again a minimum of as soon as each night time (and I sleep proper by it). She wouldn’t be happy in any respect if she’s both locked in or locked out of our room at night time.
So I must give you a design for the upholstered bench that may sort of cover that little passthrough gap and permit her to go below the bench with out rubbing up in opposition to material every time. That makes me assume both a separate, movable bench with a brief skirt or a built-in bench with an upholstered high could be the 2 choices that will work for that objective.
Anyway, one other element I’ve been desirous about is the mirror. Till the previous few days, I had been planning on utilizing the mirror that I made for the visitor bed room. You’ll be able to see it to the proper of the door on this photograph…
In fact, I wouldn’t need it to be yellow, so I had deliberate on gold leafing the body. However I’ve determined to not use that mirror in any case.
These of you who’ve adopted alongside on my initiatives for years now most likely know full nicely that I generally tend to gravitate in the direction of sure issues — flowers, stripes, and so on. However you’ve most likely additionally seen that I gravitate in the direction of particular shapes as nicely. I nearly all the time select squares and rectangles over circles, ovals, and freeform designs.
I believe that comes from my want for issues to look exact and orderly, and it’s a lot simpler to make rectangles and squares match collectively in an orderly vogue than it’s to make circles, ovals, and freeform designs match collectively. However a home stuffed with nothing however squares and rectangles can begin to look too inflexible. These circles and ovals and freeform designs add softness. So I actually assume I must discover a mirror that has a minimum of some kind of curves to it, particularly since it should go in an space with wainscoting on the partitions, which can add much more rectangles to the rooms.
There actually aren’t that many choices for an individual like me who desires one thing with curves however doesn’t essentially like filigree accents. If these filigree accents had been my model, I’d have so many extra choices to select from. However I simply don’t assume something with a filigree design would work nicely in our home. In order that leaves me with these restricted choices that I’ve discovered.
I might do a easy arched high. I actually like this one with the understated gold body. This one is from Wayfair (affiliate hyperlink).
However I additionally like this one with the broader body. The body on this one sort of provides a extra trendy look to it. This one is also from Wayfair (affiliate hyperlink).
This one would additionally work completely. I like how the design on the underside is just like the design I plan to make use of for our headboard. This mirror is from Amazon (affiliate hyperlink). The form of this one might be my favourite, however my solely concern is the scale. The widest I’ve discovered on this design is 24″, and I hoped for one thing a minimum of 30″ large. I’m afraid a 24″-wide mirror may look too small on that wall.
So these are actually the one three choices I’ve discovered to date. Like I mentioned, it’s slim pickings once you rule out something with a filigree design. In an ideal world the place I might all the time get my method, this mirror would are available a full-length measurement in a width of a minimum of 30 inches. Nevertheless it doesn’t. It is a tiny mirror, however I like that it’s totally different. I like totally different. This small mirror is from Amazon (affiliate hyperlink).
So I’m going to maintain wanting, however I do know for certain that I received’t be utilizing the mirror that I have already got. I want one thing with curves, however nothing with a filigree design. It’s troublesome to search out one thing distinctive inside these parameters.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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