I didn’t get any work done yesterday because I almost never have a chance to make any progress on projects on Wednesdays. As y’all know by now, Wednesdays are my “family and friends” day. But I have a whole uninterrupted workday ahead of me, and my goal is to make as much progress as possible on the bedroom trim. In the meantime, I’ve been revisiting my plans for the studio bathroom, which will be our one and only guest bedroom for an unknown period of time between when I turn the current guest bathroom in the foyer into a storage closet and when we get our addition built with the new guest bathroom.
A couple of weeks ago, I shared that I was going to calm things down a bit in the studio bathroom since it was going to be our interim guest bathroom. While I’m fine with lots of color and wild patterns, I didn’t really want to subject guests to that. I mean, let’s face it, the original pattern I did was fine for me and fun to look at in pictures, but it could be a bit overwhelming and dizzying for a lot of people.
And I think the same is true for the wallpaper that I had designed for the walls before the whole detour over the last year when I planned to turn the bathroom in to a walk-through pantry. I never got that wallpaper installed, but it would have looked something like this.
Again, that would have been fine if the bathroom were just for me. But I think it’s too much for a guest bathroom.
So I suggested that I would just paint the upper walls the same green as the walls in the back entry, paint the wainscoting white, and pretty much be done with it. But several people pushed back on that idea and said (I’ll paraphrase) that just because it’s a guest bathroom, that doesn’t mean that I have to completely strip my personality and my love of color out of the room.
I start every single morning, seven days a week, sitting at my desk in my studio.
And from that view, I can see into the studio bathroom. And over the last couple of weeks, as I’ve sat at my desk and looked into that bathroom, I’ve considered that input more and more. And I think it’s true. While I don’t want the bathroom to be dizzying, overpowering, or seizure-inducing for guests, I think it can be more “me” than what I had originally planned. And I think I can do something that is more in keeping with the overall look of the studio.
Just as a reminder, the bathroom sits right behind this door in the back entry of the studio. And once the bathroom is finished and looks nice, I’ll probably won’t keep the door closed when the bathroom isn’t in use.
So I have now decided to have my floral wallpaper printed smaller (actual repeated wallpaper instead of the larger mural size that’s on the studio wall) and use that on the upper walls in the bathroom. I still haven’t decided on the wainscoting color. I did two mockups to test out two colors, and then I left one of them white. You’ll have to ignore the reflection in the mirror, but here’s what it might looks like with green wainscoting. I’d use the same green that’s in the back entry of the studio.
The other obvious option would be to use the same pink that’s on the studio cabinets (Sherwin Williams Tuberose) on the wainscoting. That would really tie the two sides of the room together, but I fear that it may be too much pink since I have a whole lot of pink cabinets in the studio.
And then the third option would be to leave it white.
Right now, I’m really leaning towards the green. I don’t think I need more pink in the studio, and I love that the green would tie in nicely with the back entry walls. So that’s the direction I’m going to head with this bathroom. And I’m actually really glad that some of you pushed back on my plan a couple of weeks ago. After all, this won’t be our guest bathroom forever. At some point, it’ll go back to being just a studio bathroom, and I’ll pretty much be the only person who uses it. So I think it’s okay if it’s a little more “me” than what I had planned a couple of weeks ago.
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