Questioning My Choices On Bedroom Details – Drapery Trim And Headboard Fabric

So let’s speak by way of a number of particulars about this bed room. Yesterday, the trim for the draperies arrived, so I introduced all the things into the room to get a have a look at it.

First, there’s the hen material that I plan to make use of on the headboard (I believe — that’s one of many issues I’m questioning). On prime of that, you possibly can see the orange/coral material that I plan to make use of on the welt wire across the upholstered headboard. And on prime of that, you possibly can see the precise grasscloth wallpaper, which is a bit darker and richer in coloration than the present wall coloration. After which on the left is the material material and the trim that got here in yesterday.

My first impression after I noticed the trim was that it was fantastic. It’ll do. I imply, if you purchase low cost trim as a substitute of the $50-per-yard trim, you get what you pay for. It’s fairly. It’s a bit brighter than what I hoped for. However it’ll do.

However then I by accident flipped it over in order that the bottom confirmed, and I beloved it a lot extra. On the again, the dominant coloration is the orange, and the accent coloration is the creamy white. I believe that appears so significantly better.

Right here’s an up shut view of the trim on the fitting aspect. You may see that the background is sort of a satin end. It’s sort of shiny. I’m simply typically not into shiny finishes.

However right here’s the bottom. I LOVE how that appears. It’s a lot bolder, which I like. It’s not shiny, which I REALLY like. So I’m going to make use of the trim with the bottom displaying as a substitute of the entrance, as I had initially deliberate.

However I nonetheless suppose it’s only a contact too vibrant. All of it — the orange and the white — appear a little bit too vibrant for the remainder of the gadgets within the room. So I believe I’m going to attempt to do one thing to tone it down ever so barely. I don’t need it to be fully uninteresting and darkish. I simply need to do one thing to knock down that brightness only a slight bit. The one factor I can consider is to tea stain it with a really weak tea. I’m fairly positive it’s been over a decade since I’ve tea stained material, however fortunately, I’ve six further yards of this trim that I can mess around with. If there’s a special method to remove a few of the brightness that you recognize of, apart from tea staining, let me know and I’ll take a look at out that technique as nicely.

The following factor I’ve been questioning about is the headboard. Let’s return to this mockup I’ve proven y’all a thousand occasions within the current weeks. And you may see that my unique plan was to make use of that hen material on the precise headbaord.

For instance, right here’s our mattress from our earlier bed room…

Have a look at how a lot of the headboard is roofed up. Now think about that headboard being upholstered with my fairly hen material, and you’ll see that almost all of it will be hidden. It might make extra sense to place the gorgeous material on the large pillows, proper?

So now that I’m prepared to really make the headboard (that’s the subsequent venture on my listing), I’m second-guessing. After all, an alternative choice could be to go a lot larger with the headboard. As a substitute of doing the rectangle form with the curved corners that I had selected, I might really go larger/taller with it. I might really return to the form that’s pictured within the mockup above. That may permit extra of the headboard to indicate even with massive pillows in entrance of it. That’s what I did method again in our condominium bed room. That bed room had a patterned material on the headboard, however as a result of it was a really tall headboard, the patterned material nonetheless confirmed even with the large pillows in entrance.

After all, now that I’m prepared to really make the headboard, I’m second-guessing myself. 😀 It’s simply what I do.

So the choices are:

1. Hold the headboard shorter and rectangle with the curved corners, however cowl it in a stable material. That may permit room above the headboard for paintings, after which I might use the hen material on the precise bedding — two massive pillows in opposition to the headboard and presumably a cover cowl; or,
2. Hold the hen material on the headboard, however go together with a taller, curvier form so that it’ll nonetheless present even with two massive pillows resting in opposition to it.