Bedroom Update (& Future Plans)

I cannot believe it is only been a week since the Sunroom Reveal… feels like a month! On Wednesday I was honored to have my sunroom featured on one of my favorite blogs, House of Turquoise. That lead to an email from a very, very big website which I'll be on next month… more to come on that 🙂

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Just a quick rewind on my slipcover project for those of you wondering…

This was the chair I started with:

I picked up around $80 worth of fabric at JoAnn's (on sale), one of those soft tape measurers, and some stitch witchery. I genuinely had no game plan for this… I just brought it home and began tracing out the shapes. Plenty of it was guesswork since there are curves in the chair, but miraculously, it worked out somehow.

I was very lucky with the fabric I chose (without even realizing it beforehand). First of all, it has a bit of stretch to it, which is genuinely helpful because it is forgiving. Secondly, the fabric has stripes in it (spaced about an inch apart) which made it particularly easy to cut straight and also make the seams straight. Really, I could not have picked a better fabric.

Here is the one and only in progress shot:

This was late at night… after about 8 hours. I ran out of fabric, so the next day I went back to finish and it took another 1-2 hours.

My advice to anyone attempting this… use this fabric. Or something with stripes in it. Make sure it has a bit of stretch to it. Wash and dry it first. Plan on spending many many hours.

In the end, it was definitely worth it, but I am certainly not jumping at the chance to do it again.

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Our master bedroom wall has looked like this for a long time:

It was fine for a while, but I just felt that it was a bit sparse and needed something more substantial.

So I hung some 16×20″ city maps:

These cities represent some of my favorite places/trips I have taken. They are shown in the 'taupe' color, and can be found and purchased at my shop.

Susie approves.

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The completion of the sunroom marks the last room in our house to be renovated. I went way back to January 2011 and found this To-Do list I had written up about all of the projects that needed to be completed in the house. When this list was written, we had been living here for around two months and had already installed the hardwood floors, smoothed the popcorn ceiling, and painted.

Here is what I had planned…

I updated and edited the list, and now it looks like this:

Green: Completed
Black: Not sure if we want to do it anymore
Black + Crossed out: Not going to do it
Red: Need to do

Can you tell where I have used my 'Afusu' font to add in the new items?

As you can see… we are getting close to being done. Crazy, right? I can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Just to help clarify what's going on in my head right now… the recessed lighting in the office is next up on the to-do list, purely out of necessity. It is quite difficult to run an art business when you cannot clearly see the colors you are printing. This one is long overdue.

While Brad is installing them, I am trying to convince him to do the living room and master bedroom at the same time. The Florida heat is here and it is only going to get worse up there in the attic. We will see how that goes.

My next most pressing issue is our master closet. I mean, look at this…

It is horribly inefficient and a waste of such a large space. I would love to drop in a ready to build closet system, but we have a challenge on our hands: angled walls. Spending 20k on custom closets is not worth it to us, so I'll have to figure out a solution in the near future. Any ideas?

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If you are wondering what else there is to look forward to from this blog…. well, all I can say is thank goodness for Pinterest. I am sure I'll be finding plenty of new inspiration and projects to keep me busy until we find our next house. And if you are wondering when that will be… well, not for a while.

I have a hard time staying in one place (this is actually the longest I have been in any single residence since living with my parents before college), and Brad and I have both been thinking about our next home. Turns out I need two years of tax returns to prove my income (self employed), so we cannot even start the process until next April. Realistically though, that is a good thing, because by that time we will have saved up a lot for a house we genuinely want.

Thank you to those of you who have made it this far! Here is to one more year of this little Florida home of ours…