When we were visiting KK and Kelly and Henry this summer, I fell in love with their gray walls. I’d always thought of gray as kindof modern and stark (=the opposite of me), but their home seemed so calm and cozy. I realized colonial homes have gray, too, it’s all in what kind of gray. So I figured I’d do something totally different than I ever have and asked for all the bedrooms to be painted gray. This is the first time the girls have had a room that wasn’t Tommy’s first. The nursery was primary colors, and even when I switched out Tommy’s red curtains for the girls’ purple ones, it still felt fundamentally like a neutral zone. Even when we first moved to TO, Tommy and Elizabeth had a his-and-hers bedroom, so this is our first chance to go girlie with a blank slate. Of course the girls wanted to have pink, pink, pink!
Note the pink curtains and how high they are mounted. I read that putting curtains up at the ceilings gives the illusion that the room is taller. It’s definitely true in here. But apparently only rich people have that figured out, because I couldn’t find pink curtains in a long enough length for under $60-80/panel. So I we bought cheap ikea white curtains and rit dye and we dyed them. Still can’t believe it actually worked! The girls loooove them.
Note the ballerina art by Aunt Jennifer! I couldn’t find the right color of mat when I did a hurried trip to JoAnns before the move, so I painted the cream one that came with the frame with the kids’ watercolors. It looks very DIY, but I think it works. They, of course, were super duper happy about the pink.
Because of the big windows with the beautiful view, there is a dearth of wall space in this room. They have two bookshelves and a dollhouse crammed in at the end of the bed. You can see the door to the guest/playroom out in the hall.
One of Grandpa’s best presents to me was helping me figure out how to best use this space to store lots of little girl clothes. We got the closet organization stuff from Ikea, then he installed the bins for Susie’s clothes and the lower bar for Janie’s dresses (so she can actually reach them herself!).
We’re really hoping that having plenty of floor space for the huge dress-up bin and the whole shelf of extra little bins will give no excuse for mess all over the floor. We’re hoping.
I told Tommy he really needs to finish putting away his random boxes of junk, so if he does that soon, we’ll post pictures of his room next!
That gray is gorgeous! And love your DIY curtains!! 🙂
Why did the interior designer not pick that kind of gray for the rest of the house?
Em,
The house is coming together and I can see you have been very ingenious in putting color schemes in spaces where you had some challenges.. Good Job!
The view is so gorgeous and I hope calming to the past few months…
Terri
Yes, gray is so calming! Of course we don’t have a beautiful mountain and ocean view to bring additional calm ;), but gray is such a wonderful color and helps bring out other colors! Love what you’re doing with the house!