ONE ROOM CHALLENGE WEEK 1 - GUEST BEDROOM

Hello! And welcome back to the circus! I mean..eerrm..my blog! Thats right, I am participating in the guest portion of the One Room Challenge Spring 2017! WOOOOOO!!! Cue the "poppin bottles"!

If you don't know what the One Room Challenge is (have you been living under a rock?), here's a quick recap: Blogger Extraordinaire Linda from +Calling it Home came up with the concept of challenging designers to transform a room in their home, or a clients, or whoever, over a course of 6 weeks, documenting the process with a post every Wednesday, and allowing others to play along and link up as guests every Thursday, keeping us all obsessed. We're like the zombies from the walking dead, but instead of wanting to eat your brain, we just want to see your fabric choices, and paint, and your room makeover, and cheer you on as we follow along! Woooo! Obviously, my husband is super excited. He's actually having surgery today (he picked the date, also-send up a prayer please) which is a little...convenient...since hes my electrician/painter/hanger/mover/whatever, and will be unable to be my slave do anything what so fucking ever, for another 8 weeks...but I digress. Luckily, he knows I cant paint for absolute shit (Im heavy handed and cant color within the lines :)), and has already done that part for me (I love you so hard!). Hallelujeeerr! Thank you hubby!! Moving on.... the room I'll be transforming is our 2nd bedroom. Its pretty small, but pretty big for NYC standards.Would be the perfect size for a nursery, and probably will be later on but for now, its basically like The Room of Requirement from Harry Potter. I just throw shit in there when I need to- lamps, art, Treadmill, you get the drift. It serves no purpose other than storage. Nobody really hangs out there but the cats, thats their chill room. And that's changing because A) Its a waste of space, and B) My BFF since childhood is coming from Australia and staying with us for 1 month, and she cant really sleep on the floor....so guest room it is! Honestly, I've just been looking for an excuse to hook that room up. I feel like if its prettier, maybe I'll even wanna use the treadmill in there for more than just a closet for my coats. Emphasis on the maybe. Its really a win-win. Here is the before, its bad..really bad (don't judge me too harshly)

Now that the ugly has been shown... lets look at some pretty inspiration:

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Good shit, right? Inspiration is all Kelly Wearstler, Summer Thornton, Ariane Bartosh and Lilly Bunn. At the moment, I'm heavily into geometric shapes- anything involving squares, overlapping circles, octagons, stripes, diamonds, organic hand draw patterns and so on. Complementing and contrasting pops of colors; chartreuse, lilac, salmon, citron, emerald, with black and white. Natural fibers; grasscloth, jute, shag, fur. Animal patterns; leopard, zebra, tiger. Stone; marble, travertine, malachite, selenite, amethyst. Mixed metals; brass, chrome, iron, rose gold. All types of glass and crystal, lucite, murano, camer and such. Basically, I'm into some expensive shit. The Hermes of design. Burkin bag type. But I'm on a Louis Vuitton budget. Regardless, even with my few bucks, I'm gonna make it happen but my way. As always, I want a hint of whimsy and quirk. Something fun and modern and bright, but cool and glam. Otherwise, It wouldn't really be me. And I firmly believe in rooms being you. So far, the walls have already been painted Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace, with the absolute whim decision of a lilac ceiling. Whim decision being all because of Rihanna for Paper Magazine. Behold the genius:

RIRI gives me LIIIIIIIFEEEE!!! Again, the contrasting and complementing colors, the textures- tweed, lace, denim, fur. Its everything I'm obsessed with right now. I also love that its high fashion in the fucking bodega. Its so NY. All we're missing is the cat, meoww. And I totally don't have a fabric that can link to the lilac ceiling but I don't care. Its that good, and I'm so happy I did it. I went with Benjamin Moore "Misty Lilac" and it is EVERYTHING. 

I made 2 boards for the room- Board 1 is a bit more me; more color, pattern, abstract art, fun and girly. 

Board 2 is very little color, more focused on the elements. The furnishings take center stage, that rug in all its goodness, that chandy..Im in loooove

Its really more of what I'm envisioning, but unsure if I can make it happen within my budget. I have everything but this rug ($$$), the small marble table, and that Kelly Wearstler graffito, which I want to somehow incorporate. I'm toying with the idea of DIY-ing it; maybe painting it on the walls, or perhaps a rug, or ceiling. Not sure yet. Also thinking of that Arteriors Tassel Lamp that I've loved for-fucking-ever. I mean..its a big fucking tassel..there must be a way to DIY it, right? Hopefully. Anyway, that's where I am right now. Sorry, not sorry for the novel, but a girl had too much to say. As usual. I'm actually exhausted from writing it. My bad. Check me out next week for 1 acronym, 2 words:  BAF (Bomb as fuck) BRASS DAYBED. Nuff said.

-Nancy


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