The Master Bedroom Project
As we work through our house room by room one goal is always constant- maximizing closet space. Once we finished the Walk-In Closet Project we were able to take the original closet in the Guest Bedroom and open it up instead in the room we use as our Master.
It is hard to tell in these photos, but the pink room is the Master and the green room is the Guest Bedroom. The door you see in the green room was the original closet door. Although it looks like a one-door closet, the closet extended behind the wall quite a bit. We closed up that door and opened it from the other side, into the Master. The original closet in the Master was the same size, so we were left with the wall space to create two double door closets by reconfiguring them a little bit.
Our house isn’t big, but these small improvements helped us maximize the space in both bedrooms we have completed so far.
Once we made the openings larger, we ran out of original molding and also needed to patch up the original floor. Community Forklift is a local store we love that sells salvaged building materials. We found a few pieces of molding and flooring that fit seamlessly and got new doors from Home Depot to finish everything off. The final details were the leather and brass hook and the door knobs (both from Anthropologie) which helped tie in the old and new.
I love gallery walls but often don’t have the money to spend on art. I bought a bunch of gold frames from Target and used an app called iColorama to make these quick and easy abstract designs using photos of ceramics from Guatemala as the base pattern and the brush tools within the app to create a few different shapes.
The only TV we have in the house is the one in our bedroom. It always feels like an eyesore, so one of the ways I have tried to mask it is by wrapping the hanging cables in brass wire. It let me give them a bit of a shape and helped tie into the other brass elements in the room. A few plants, frames, and catch-all dishes brought together all of the neutral shades in the room.
As you may have noticed, a lot of my decor is stuff I’ve picked up along the way during my time in Guatemala. I sent this particular textile to Framebridge, who did an amazing job with a tough, imperfect, vintage textile. The framed textile along with the lamps from TJ Maxx helped bring together the various shades of light green and blue in the room.
To tie in with my mango wood nightstands from Target, we made the radiator cover in the photo below out of mango wood/marble inlay shelves from World Market. For more on how we did it, head over to The Radiator Project! Stay tuned for The Tiebacks Project, where I’ll go into how I turned these green marble coasters into the curtain tie backs you see in the photo above.
