Yesterday, I finally got to work on the floor in the hallway and bedroom. I’m so glad to finally be working on these rooms, and now that my whole plan is in place for the bedroom, everything has been ordered, and I just need to get the work done, I’m hoping it’ll be smooth sailing to the finish line.
In the meantime, I’m dreaming about my closet and laundry room combo. It’s no secret that of all the rooms on our house, that’s the one I’m the most excited about. I know it probably sounds crazy, but it’s true. I’ve never in my life had a large, organized walk-in closet, and I can’t stop thinking about it, dreaming about it, and planning it. And the best thing? Matt said he has no problem with the painting it PINK! 😀
If you’ll remember, when we bought this house, Matt said I could do pretty much anything I wanted to do to the house. He only had one rule. No pink walls.
I’ve definitely gotten as close to that line as I can without going over it. I put pink curtains in the living room…
I put darker pinkish raspberry curtains in the breakfast room/sitting room…
And I put a settee in a similar color under a huge pink flower in the music room…
In our bathroom, I found a wallpaper mural with just enough pink in it to make me happy while not technically having “pink walls”.
And of course, my studio is loaded with pink cabinets. Technically, this is my room, so if I had wanted to drench the whole thing in pink from top to bottom, he wouldn’t have cared. But I just stuck with the cabinets.
So to date, I’ve stuck with our agreement. We have no pink walls anywhere in our house. There’s plenty of pink elsewhere, but no pink walls. As a side note, Matt is partially color blind, so he can’t even see light pink. When I mentioned something to him about our pink living room curtains, he looked shocked and said, “Those are PINK?” He saw them as light gray. 😀 So pink has to be pretty saturated for him to even see it as pink. He hates hot pink, and I’m okay with that. Hot pink isn’t my favorite, either.
Anyway, all that to say that I very casually floated the idea of painting the closet pink, and he was totally fine with it! He said he’d never be in there anyway, so he didn’t care if it was pink. I could drench the whole thing in pink if I wanted to, and he’d be fine with it.
Oh my goodness. THIS IS MY CHANCE, y’all! 😀 This is it!
Okay, I’m just joking, kind of. I don’t know that I want a Barbie closet, but it really did get my wheels turning. My washer and dryer and navy blue (and this is my current and very gorgeous laundry room in the corner of the sunroom, i.e., the room that will be torn down completely)…
So now I’m leaning towards a combination of pink (or maybe a pinkish coral with a touch of orange in it since our bedroom will have orange in it) on the closet components and walls, the blue washer and dryer, and a wallpaper on the ceiling to pull it all together.
I was looking for pink closet inspiration, and while there’s not a lot out there (imagine that! 😀 ), I did find a few. I don’t know that I’d want mind quite this saturated, but I do love this color. It has that slight touch of orange in it that makes it lean almost coral…
I’ve never used wallpaper on the ceiling before, and this is probably the only chance I’ll ever get. And since closets generally have so much of the walls covered with clothes and other stored items, the ceiling is the perfect place to bring in some multi-colored pattern.
Photo by 6th Ave Homes – Browse closet photos
I also need to find a fun pendant light to hang over my tiny little center island cabinets. There’s a ceiling fan in there right now, which is an absolute must for a bedroom in central Texas. But I don’t need a ceiling fan in a closet/laundry area. So it’ll be fun to choose a little piece of “jewelry” for my closet.
Anyway, it’s fun to dream about, and I can’t wait to get started! Finally being able to work on the closet/laundry area combo will be my reward for staying focused and getting the bedroom done. But at least for now, I can do some dreaming and planning. I need to see if I can find the perfect pink/navy blue or coral/navy blue wallpaper to bring this plan all together for the ceiling.
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.
