my beach bedroom
This is my bedroom. It didn't always look like this though. When I first bought this house, this room (an addition) was just painted sheet rock. Kinda boring, it was painted a sand color and was carpeted in berber. It worked for the previous owners but not for me. heck, I had just moved to the beach. I wanted my room to feel like an old cape cod, house (just coming from Boston)
See the window? that was an open arch. in fact there were three in a row. I replaced them with these windows from an architectural salvage yard. I didn't scrape them down. I left them as was. The one in the middle is a transom window. The door is 'new' too. It replaced an even larger arch. I wasn't too keen on having no door to my "baththrone". The door is something that I found in the basement of my Boston house. It's probably over 100 years old. I figured nobody would miss it and lugged it out to Cali.
Back to the story of my room. I hired this guy (no. I'm not kidding.L.A. can be good that way):
to come and nail 1x6s on the walls. There was a moment, before it was sprayed white, that it resembled a few cabins I've seen in Tahoe. 70s in a not-good way. I was nervous. but after underwear-guy, painted it I was SO thrilled. It's exactly how I had pictured it in my head. I love it to this day! It makes my heart happy to wake up in. and I really believe, that your bedroom should always have this effect.
underwear-guy is happily married living in honolulu
See the window? that was an open arch. in fact there were three in a row. I replaced them with these windows from an architectural salvage yard. I didn't scrape them down. I left them as was. The one in the middle is a transom window. The door is 'new' too. It replaced an even larger arch. I wasn't too keen on having no door to my "baththrone". The door is something that I found in the basement of my Boston house. It's probably over 100 years old. I figured nobody would miss it and lugged it out to Cali.
Back to the story of my room. I hired this guy (no. I'm not kidding.L.A. can be good that way):
to come and nail 1x6s on the walls. There was a moment, before it was sprayed white, that it resembled a few cabins I've seen in Tahoe. 70s in a not-good way. I was nervous. but after underwear-guy, painted it I was SO thrilled. It's exactly how I had pictured it in my head. I love it to this day! It makes my heart happy to wake up in. and I really believe, that your bedroom should always have this effect.
underwear-guy is happily married living in honolulu
Comments
oh, and the bedroom is lovely as always - the paneling was an excellent plan!