Timing is everything, and that applies to design too. About a year ago, in April, I revealed my first makeover, to be precise, my bedroom. I moved to my place a few months ago and was very excited to have the opportunity to design my room from scratch as soon as I moved. It felt like the perfect timing.
I was absolutely in love with (and still did) how the space turned out. I’ve acquired some incredible furniture from the article (Sick storage bed, Coolest floating headboard,and My dream dresser), plus enough fabric to completely cover my walls, then a few. It was amazing! But even in the room you love, life in a space for a year and two months tends to reveal some things. That is, how I’m wrong I had a small room in my bedroom.
I think I’m lucky enough to live in a two bedroom apartment. When I moved from my last location, “more livable space” was high on my wish list. I had a garage before and it was great, but very dangerous. It doesn’t mean that something could harm me (except for rats, wet/collapsing walls, broken/exposed pipes…well, that could have been a bit dangerous). But it’s surprisingly easy to fill it with extra space, especially if you have a variety that is detached from everyday life (garage). thing. And for me, it’s extremely dangerous. (Later this week, EM will jump into her own evaluations thinginitially urged me to take a closer look at mine, so be sure to check it out when it’s live! )
When I had my garage, I was doing a variety of freelance creative jobs, flipping furniture and selling vintage decorations on the Facebook market. Having a workshop space is ideal and is necessary for how I made a living. But soon, I started working for EM, and I no longer needed that garage space. Still, somehow I was convinced that most of the things that lived inside were still there.
A few unfinished projects, cans painted left (controversial) cans, a huge collection of vintage products (and more) came with me to a new location. When it’s time to choose which room to serve as my bedroom and the other as my “studio”, it makes more sense to me to load my mountain piles into larger spaces. I move forward a little and I can barely walk inside. The studio I imagined acquired its new name, Doom Room, at a record time. All my extras die and as soon as I close the door it disappears and I don’t mind. No system, all mess.
And when Chaos lives next door, even the most dreamy bedroom of the most dreams will begin to suffocate you. A year later in my beautiful room, I began to feel the walls close. both space. My storage bed is very functional, but I don’t have the drawers open only if all the dresser drawers are closed. Then there’s my clothes closet – the true catalyst for switch-ups. Once you cut another romper, I promise that the wooden stick will snap. I literally have to clench my t-shirt and fist every day to get back behind closed doors. And I’m tired of it! I’m tired of crossing the narrow passageways of my small room carved into my large, beautiful bed. Tired of the mountains of the things next to me, filling my room with increasing fate every second. You’re tired of the overall lack of breathing chambers, accidental injuries and the invasive wall of clothes.
Caitlin’s closet Confidential was awakening something inside me. EM’s recent prop/carriage house ratings have influenced me. Stumbling multiple times in both of my rooms has driven me crazy enough to require change. Sometimes you really need to empty everything, take stock, trim all the fat, just what you need to return Really It’s important to you, and with caution (and a little cutthroat mentality), try not to add your daredest thing To something. Then we repeat step and repeat every few years as consumerism holds us in chokeholds.
That’s my plan! This is my official Moto kickoff. 2. Reevaluation. And my first step is to purge. My neighborhood is having a garage sale this weekend. It’s the perfect opportunity (hell yes, deadline) to determine what is worth taking up space in my life and in my home. Then it’s another small room challenge. This time we’ll be looking at a guest room/office that can be used and inspired by it. I want to live in a comfortable space! My biggest priority is to have a bedroom where I can actually walk around, and have plenty of space to respect the pieces I love so much.
There are no solid design plans for either space. Certainly the concept of planning. What I know for the sake of the fact is that all of the key elements of my first Moto design will live on. I don’t say goodbye to my bedroom furniture, I just move on. When I say, I’m not exaggerating: these are some of the best pieces I’ve ever owned and look as good as the day I got it. Headboards, storage beds, dressers – they live in really big rooms. It also does not touch the fabric on the walls of small rooms. This hasn’t been upset since the day I installed it (1 year ago! Just liquid starch, buckets, paint rollers!). I’m not going to delete it anytime soon. But it’s totally renter friendly, and I morning Ready to take it down, I can reuse the fabric elsewhere (shameless DIY post plug)!
I can’t actually design the space without adding a little DIY mojo to the mix. Wall fabric is the foundation of a small room, so choosing pieces that work well in your existing atmosphere should be a fun challenge. However, the DIY elements for my new bedroom have not yet been decided. One of the big brain ideas is stencils. I’ve been on many boarding my eyesight recently, and it’s constantly depicted in vintage magazine images of stenciled, incredible flowers on walls (or ceilings). It’s not necessarily renter friendly, but I am a friendly renter and I can draw it whenever I leave.
However, I want to play with the color stain trends I’ve seen everywhere recently, and I might need to test it out with my old work that can use refresh (my garage workshop mentality never dies). It’s a beautiful etaguerre I’ve used in the bathroom (and really love) and I think it’ll help me more in my new big bedroom. What’s even better, if the wood is dirty… Burgundy? Or is it a denim blue? I don’t know! But I would like to try it. So, one day, look for that DIY.
That’s all for now. I hope the growl comes first, hopefully followed by clarity and a ton of fundamental vision. I will continue to post you while I move the needle. Eventually everything. Until then…
From the heart,
Gretch
Opening Image Credits: Photo Caitlyn Green | From: Gretchen’s first Moto publication: The small bedroom comes alive with the perfect piece of articles (and wall fabric??)
Source: Emily Henderson – stylebyemilyhenderson.com
