Phase II: Master Bedroom.d. (90% complete)

 

Master Bedroom:

Seen here in it's "winter" clothes, is where the magic happens. Bha-ha-ha.

Progress:
Beige has been compromised with strong rich blues.
That creamy forever teal was stitched into pooling draperies, paired with wedding-white sheers (and to enhance privacy further, a scrolled frost was applied to the lower 3/4 of the windows). Blue/White linens, with the addition of wool ikat, snow leopard print, and muppet-blue blankets (the winter clothes). Artwork applied in style. Vintage Farstrup chair with original orange tweed seatcover was the jumping off point for the orange accents.
The man is pleased, blue + orange are his favourite :)

Next Up:
Mirror:
Full-length mirror is a must, which is proposed to be constructed onto the South side of the PAX wardrobe & supporting wall (behind the door). A thick frame with large floor-to-ceiling mirror will obscure the PAX from the side (existing baseboard/trim to be removed). Feng Shui say no-no-no to a mirror across from the bed, but this house has suffered much compromise in it's pokey-old ways to ultimate flow. I'm sure we'll be fine...?

Hairpin Vanity:
I am handcrafting a narrow hairpin-leg vanity: to be situated on the far side of the window to replace the hanging shelf currently used for said vanity. Hotness.

Plaster cast ring for chandelier on ceiling:
Yah... she's glossy & blue, folks! Ha ha... 'twas fun to coat her in slick gawdy paint. LEDs to come... and then she needs one more touch: a cast-plaster moulding under the mounting hardware, and she'll be tip top. Perhaps a sputnuk chandelier in the future...

Bedside lamps & tables:
IKEA is cute (bedside tables), but 2 of them is too much... will source or DIY something else for the non-dresser side of the bed later.
And a must to replace the cheap-o clip-on lights with some hanging lamps of some cool variety... sourcing.

The Sunporch:
It's true, I still have not set foot in this brilliant East-facing porch. A new door (that will not require to be sealed shut!) is on the list of Kijiji hunts. Can't say more about what will need to happen inside until we can get inside!

MCM dresser:
To replace the Ikea MALM one... ya know... something with soul.

Perhaps a few more tweaks & whistles --- but we are happy to finally at long last for-goodness-sake's-already announce the birth of our bouncing blue bedroom! Whee!


Edit: We've added "FINAL" to this post... cuz in retrospect & comparison to the rest of this abode, it's pretty much 96% there :)

Timeline: Master Bedroom

Phase II: Master Bedroom.c. (update)

Master Bedroom:

We're getting ready to show you the whole thing (in it's 90% complete phase). Hang in there, baby. 

Intermission: In da House!

Projects on the-go:
Master Bedroom:
Remaining decor to resemble a living-space. It's kinda like a beige-tainted carpeted cave with AMAZING luxurious flocked velvet pooling teal curtains right now... difficult to sleep in without personal effects smattered about. There's an echo. Seriously.

South West Bedroom:
As a guest-dwelling for the Holiday influx of jet-setter pals, we are rushing to slap this one together! Giddyup.

Kitchen:
Island construction & lighting on the way! One step closer to completion of our hub. Then, we be done Kitchen construction (but not decor, as we're already craftily brewing "Changes: Phase III").

We're in the kitchen... a lot. With Winter break coming up, this is only to increase with cometh of the foodie.

We're enlightened bah humbug folk, who hate don't like appreciate Christmas et al. Perhaps due to the culture of disposable materialism destroying our planet? Or maybe because our birth-family relationships are annoyingly difficult laden with bullying emotional baggage due to us being so exceptionally different from them awesome. But we LOVE anyway, so embarked upon finding ways in expressing our time-off-work-and-school-in-Winter together that did not involve over-consumption of material goods to express familial guilt love. We settled to run parallel the trend, and initiate over-consumption of perishable goods to fill the emotional hole of not being unconditionally supported by our birth-families. It sounds terribly sad... but shed not a tear for us dear sensitive reader... we eat bacon wrapped lobster and drink Starbucks until we are at the speed of hummingbirds... there is no room for sadness.

My OCD (depicted above) in action, creating digital menu's for the gastronomical festivities. We splurge on local delicacies (wild boar-ham, northern pike, farm-eggs, local wines) in tandum with the exotic (like seafood! we are miles + a mountain range away from the ocean), with Starbucks (ode to the culture gods) at the helm.

This will be our third annual celebration, and FIRST in the Kitchen we built together... with an Island. Exiting!

Dining Room:
Oh yeah bitches. Wallpapered and trimmed and painted... yet. This beauty is supposed to be ready for the festivities. Keep fingers crossed.

Later:
Updates and visuals forthcoming.
Until then... here's some random eye candy.

Phase II: Master Bedroom.c. (update)

What happened here?
Ah gawd.. the '80s threw up on our Bedroom.

I am blaming beige.
Yes, that explains everything.

I am sorry.

Progress:
PAX wardrobe and other allen-wrench wonders assembled.

Next Up:
Saving ourselves from beige.

This will be interesting.

Phase II: Master Bedroom.c.

Progress:

Walls and floors ripped & reconfigured, patched, painted, new Low-VOC Eco-carpet. Have a looksee at the difference a coat of paint & carpet can do!

The Elephant:

Yah... I know... BEIGE. WTF? Life is too short for beige. Especially with colour being so sexy.

I admit it. I chickened out. Not worth having a Xanax moment over it, especially with so much going on around here these days... so the man suggested this brilliant piece of wisdom: "We can paint again later". Huzzah! I knew I kept him around for a reason besides his good looks.

Besides... I found this flocked velvety teal fabricgasm. Hot diggity. I promise to love it and cherish it and dress this room in it's luxurious glorious flockity-tealness forever and ever. Nomnomnom.

Later:

Craftsman trims, window treatments, assemblage of furniture, lighting, decor, change everything all over again (haha...), move in! 

Things change, especially with our ideas and design (a more accurate term would be design whiplash). So we are learning that it is necessary to let things go simply for the reason that they are heavy.

Best part: we are getting so damn good at working in flux, it is becoming fun. Hang ten!

Furniture:

We gathered a microbus-load of IKEA (shame spiral pending). 

PAX wardrobe is on the go, and MALM bed pending SKORVA midbeam in the mail this week ("SKORVA" translates from Swedish into "return to the store"). DIYing the heck outta this bedroom!

Fun Times:

There was panic and hilarity for the man and teenager when fitting the King sized mattress up the stairs, PAX-induced fits are still rampant, and kitties HEART cardboard.

Ohyeah... IKEA sent us too much stuff. Yay? Want some PAX cupboards in white? We have four with your name on them. Call me.

News about Sleep:

Still under construction.  

Please send beer.

Phase II: Master Bedroom.b.

Reconstruction:

On our way... subfloor coming along, ceiling joists sistered, bathroom wall framed, electrical routed.

Goal is to be moved in & enjoying the King Size bed by December. Long way to haul yet, plainly. Lack of exuberance in blogposts reflection of lack of sleep. Ugh.

Dreams:

Blue, grey, yellow, purple? Blue AND purple? Yellow AND Purple AND Grey? Still deciding... I feel this will come down to the wire. Oh colour... why you so sexy?

Next Up:

Walls, trim, paint, carpet, furnishing, decor. And oh gawd SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!