I've been thinking about a bedroom makeover lately. Now, I'm one of these people who has a room which is less than pristine: clothes all over the place, every book I read in the last year stacked on the floor; you get the picture. Since I have the luxury of a spare room AND a delightful purpose-built sewing space, I could easily move most of my clothes and stuff to the spare room and have a more targeted approach to what lives in the bedroom.
It started when I was browsing eBay, and checked out the seller who sold me the fab atomic fabric I made my loungeroom curtains from.
It looks so fabulously 1940's boudoir. I showed it to Kitty and somehow we decided it would look marvellous as an upholstered bed head (and I already have some vintage bed jackets to wear with it!) I have a big old original brass bed (black and silver, no brass and white for me thanks!) that does somewhat dominate my small (4x3.6m) room. I have had it for 15 years or so, and parting with it now wouldn't pain me too much.
Surfing on the web showed me all sorts of ways that people had upholstered their bed heads, including using some IKEA frames as the basis. Here's one (I did the bounce test for sturdiness) which seems like a good basis for covering: Heimdal
So I'm contemplating. I haven't bought the fabric yet (oh Australian dollar, how I wish you were back at last year's levels!).I also looked at what upholstery stuff I have in the stash to see if anything is suitable. These ones are possibles:
First two are gen-u-ine vintage fabrics
Second two are repro Hawaiian barkcloths, bought when GJ fabrics always seemed to have some in stock (I have two frocks from other ones bought there):
Thoughts anyone? I know they aren't as spifftacular as the feathery one, but the great advantage is that I already possess them (says the lady who bought 17m of material yesterday)
I've also got a strange desire to get some Queen Anne stuff bits such a dressing table and bedside tables (in white). When I confessed this to Kitty, she did point out that was a very fifties look. So now I have half an eye out for such things...
But I love the feathery one!
ReplyDeleteOK. If you don't want to spend a big chunk of Kev's cheque on it, I vote for the vintage stripey one. Maybe with the other vintage one made into some scatter cushions for the bed.
I love the one on the bottom left. It's got a sort of feathery bit in it and I really like the colours. You could add some really nice accessories to the boudoir in those colours. Have you seen the Coffee Date Dress on Burdastyle? It would look great in one of these fabrics. I downloaded it yesterday and cut it out a small vintagey floral last night. Not that you need another project, but if you have the fabric already ...
ReplyDeleteI was right with you up until I read about the white furniture...
ReplyDeleteSHABBY CHIC ALERT!
It may be time for an intervention...
Carol, that Coffee Date dress is lovely! Sometimes I find Burdastyles a bit... overly detailed... but this is delightful.
ReplyDeleteLivebird, I know what you mean. But these wouldn't be shabby chic! Honest! I'll have a leopardskin seat to go with them! Or something like that!