Yesterday morning, I was determined that I was going to use my new favorite fabric on my desk chair in the studio. This is the fabric I’m talking about — this amazing velvet stripe from Kovi Fabrics.
But then I had lunch with my mom yesterday. 😀 Our lunches last for four hours, so we have plenty of time to talk about a lot of topics. If I’m in the middle of a design decision, that will always come up at some point. And as I was sharing my idea of using that fabric on the desk chair, I thought to myself (and shared out loud) that it kind of felt like a mistake to use such an incredible fabric on a chair in my studio. After all, I’m hoping that I’ll eventually have three new rooms to decorate (a family room, laundry room, and master bedroom), and that fabric seems more fitting to use in a prominent place in one of those room.
At first, I thought about using it on an ottoman or a chair in the family room. Then I thought that if I go through with the plan to turn our front living room into a dining room (after the addition is built), that fabric would be beautiful on dining chairs. I could do two captains chairs in that fabric, with coordinating fabric on the others. Or I could use it in the breakfast room (when I turn that room back into a breakfast room). The possibilities are endless.
And then last night, as I was standing at the vanity in our bathroom, slathering my face with castor oil 😀 and getting ready for bed, I was admiring the reflection of the beautiful mural behind the bathtub in the mirror. That bathroom has been finished for about 18 months now, and I still love to stare at that mural.
Then it dawned on me. Those colors! Look at those colors! They are the perfect complement to the colors in that gorgeous fabric!
It’s not a perfect match, but it doesn’t need to be. I’m not planning on using it in the bathroom. But what about our future bedroom?! Wouldn’t this be an amazing fabric to use as a jumping off point for our future bedroom?
I couldn’t get the idea out of my mind, so I got up early this morning and started dreaming about the possibilities. And then I started doing a little mock up to see what I could quickly come up with. My thoughts immediately went to using the fabric on an upholstered headboard, and possibly even a whole upholstered bed. And I’ve been dreaming of having a bedroom with teal walls (because, of course I have). So with those two details in place, I started filling in the details, and about 45 minutes later, this is what I had…
I borrowed some cream linen draperies from Pottery Barn, some natural wood bedside tables from Home Depot, some lamps from Lamps Plus, an olive tree from Amazon, a rug from Ruggable, and a camelback upholstered bed from The Inside. This was the very first time I’ve given any thought at all to what our bedroom might look like, and it’s the very first time I’ve put any ideas together. So this might just be a first very rough draft, and what what I end up with when we finally do have a bedroom might be drastically different from this. But what I’m about 99.9% sure about is that that amazing fabric needs to be used in a prominent place in our future bedroom.
So I’m going to save this fabric for a much more prominent and special place in the future. But I’m also not going to go with a green chair in the studio. I just wasn’t thrilled with any of the green fabrics, and quite honestly, once I saw the greens, I realized that I wasn’t really excited about the idea of a green desk chair at all. But my mom and I came up with a pretty great alternative. I’m going to go ahead and order new fabric, and I’ll share those details once I start on that project.
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.
