Plus, it doubles as a “nightstand” if you want to use it as an extra spot for a guest to sleep (it’s an actual twin-sized mattress in there covered with Schumacher’s Olympic fabric…Arlyn can attest because it’s where she slept-very comfortably she says-during the open house event this summer). We made sure to build in some shelving to make this the ultimate reading nook (you need a place to set a drink, maybe glasses…other books). If you have a nook like this to work with, I say treat it like you would a powder room…have some fun, take some risks, it’s just a tiny little corner. Altogether, it’s sweet but not saccharine. I do very much love this soft blue paper by Sandberg mixed with the striped and graphic Schumacher fabric from the throw pillows. Never leave a project without plastering some tree trunks up on a wall somewhere. I think maybe a tree wallpaper or mural should be my calling card. Perfect for impromptu naps, as a reading/coloring corner, or a place to hide nooked into a corner talking to boys late at night (you know, for the teenagers…or grown women). Wanna see one of our favorite little details in this whole house? This was originally going to be a closet, but then we thought WAIT THIS SHOULD BE A BUILT IN DAYBED.
The traverse rod (their flat fascia wood traverse rod, to be exact) paired with their light filtering “Sheriff” fabric in the steel colorway make for a really easy-open situation so no one ever has to tug forcibly to get rings over humps in the rod. In line with the whole “family-friendly” idea were these custom draperies and rods we had made through Decorview.
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Oh, and that Maxwell sofa from Interior Define is SOOO deep and comfy, which is great for lounging and extended movie watching.
A striped rug from Dash & Albert is subtle but adds a nice graphic punch (as does the black and white pillow on the armchair) and the throw pillows and blanket bring that bright but comfy pop with some earth tones (and of course, lots and lots of wood, because I can’t help myself and every room benefits from the warmth of wood). And because we didn’t want it to be too cave-like (which wouldn’t have been the worst thing, frankly), we designed a “feature ceiling” to draw the eye up and add in that little bit of “funky special” that was on the checklist.īecause I envisioned this being used as a family space, I wanted the color palette and textiles to be playful and not as serious as they were upstairs. You know I love a bold wall color, so we brought the same shade from the powder room upstairs down here ( Sherwin-Williams’ Waterloo) because it looked so, so good streaked with natural light. Tall order, but I feel good about where we landed and how we got there. We really wanted the vibe to feel casual yet sophisticated yet a little funky and special. It could have been one big closet (like in the floor plan), but we built-in a daybed nook on the right half, leaving the left half open to be used however the new owner wanted (for staging, we put in a games cabinet for board games and other fun family things). The space above the mechanical/storage room is actually a little different, where we landed. It ended up being 36 feet long by 15 feet wide, and the French doors open up to the backyard so it can feel really indoor/outdoor (you know, when it’s not raining in Portland). We shifted the smaller bedroom down into the storage area (and where we also built out a laundry room area and moved the stairs), so that we could open that whole area up to be a kick-butt media room and wet bar. Unless the new owners were somehow going to be an Amazon distribution center, it just didn’t make sense. The home already had a pretty sizable garage, so a GIANT storage area (the bottom half of this floor plan) was itching, nay, crying out to be repurposed. This whole bottom floor felt like a bit of a waste when we got our hands on it. So, I thought it would be best just to show you this baby in a “look at this eye candy” way and walk you through the room. Wait, no…backwards? Because this is a beauty queen, not a beaver, so whatever the opposite of that would be. It would be like putting eyelash extensions and a matte red lip on a beaver and passing it off as a beauty queen.
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Sure, there are takeaways here for anyone who has even 1/4 of the space (color palettes, how to slice up the areas, etc.) but I know this is a pretty aspirational room, and I didn’t want to sell it as anything but that. We really thought about how to present this lady, trying to figure out how to make its reveal “editorial” but something about saying “how to design the ultimate entertaining space that’s as large as some people’s apartments” just didn’t feel right. Welcome to the Portland project’s party central…the ground floor media room.
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