Bedroom

DIY Challenge: Give Your Closet Doors a Makeover – Ideas and Design Tips

If you think about it, your closet doors take up a lot of ‘visual space’ in your bedroom. This means that the style and design of them really impacts the style of the space. And it doesn’t take much to completely change the look and feel of them. Here is a list of DIY closet door ideas.

The 2 main ways to change the look of your closet doors are to:

Change the color
Add some depth

Adding depth. This is the easiest and most effective way to give your closet doors a makeover. And you’ll see in the DIY pictures below, that this is done mostly by adding trim/molding and new handles.

Doing A Simple Paint Job

This is the easiest DIY of them all. Give the closet doors a simple paint job, but use painters tape to create ‘faux trim’. By Gemma from The Sweetest Digs.

Sticking On Decorative Decal

What a simple way to add a decorative touch to mirrored closet doors. Roxanne from the Honeycomb Home used the services of Overlays to create a custom fit laminate that she stuck onto her daughters closet doors.

Adding Depth

Adding Embossed Wallpaper

Fawn showcased this DIY makeover on Remodelaholic where she used a $3.62 roll of paintable vinyl wall paper from Lowes. Also adding trim around the wallpaper for a more finished look.

Adding a Touch of Lux

New brass hinges + IKEA handles spray painted gold + inexpensive panel molding. For the step by step guide on how to create these DIY closet doors, check out Kris from Driven by Decor.

Giving a Kids Closet a Makeover

Here is another closet makeover from Kris at Driven by Décor. This time she is in her daughter’s room. This makeover would also be ideal for a home office, pantry doors, closet doors near the front door – anywhere a bulletin board could come in handy.

The DIY Faux Barn Door Makeover

What was surprising about this DIY project by Monica from East Coast Creative is that she was able to use the same closet doors. 8 pine planks, 2 handles, and s a sharpie is what it took to create the DIY barn doors.

Repurposing a Ceiling Crown Medallion for a Closet Door

Here are 2 DIY closet door projects that use crown medallions to add some glamour to plain and boring closet doors.

Jennifer, from Dimples and Tangles, combined ceiling medallions and crystal door handles to create her closet door makeover.

And here is another example of a ceiling medallion being used to spruce up some closet doors. This time the medallion is a little more decorative, and the repainted doors add an elegant pop of color to the room. Found on Pop Sugar.

Replacing The Doors

I saved this one to last, since it takes the most effort, and requires replacing the doors. That is unless you have the swing out doors in the first place vs the bi fold ones. Traci from Beneath My Heart bought 2 $20 hollow core doors, and then added the wooden frame and slats to create her DIY barn doors.

Check out these posts for more ideas and pictures:

March 26, 2016 in Bedroom, DIY

Style Guide: Pink Bedroom Ideas and Designs

There are 3 ways your can go about designing a pink bedroom. Choosing which option to go with will come down to: how much pink do you want? Here are the 3 pink bedroom ideas and options to choose from:

The All White Bedroom
The Feature Wall
Surrounded by Pink

1. The All White Bedroom

This design option is for those who want to subtly decorate their bedroom pink, but don’t want it to be overwhelming.

To do this, you’ll have your walls painted white. It could also be another neutral color like off white, cream, grey, or even black.

Having all of your walls painted a neutral color like white, creates a blank canvas of a bedroom. Now you can decorate the space with pink bedroom pieces, and they will really stand out and style the space.

Use the focal pieces in the bedroom to decorate the space pink. This includes the bed. You could go with a pink bed frame, or just go with a normal one (say wooden) and buy really nice pink bed sheets. A white bedroom with pink bedsheets – bam you’ve got yourself a pink bedroom.

Other focal points in the bedroom that can be pink include:

Curtains
The headboard
Closet doors (DIY Challenge: Give Your Closet Doors a Makeover)
Any furniture pieces you’d want in your bedroom
How about the bedroom door?

Blue and pink would be a good combination for a bedroom, if you wanted to add in another color. Blue walls with pink decor would be the way to go.

2. The Feature Wall

The second option is to use create a feature wall in the bedroom. This is when you paint all of the walls a neutral color, let’s say white, and then have 1 wall painted pink.

This one wall will really stand out since all of the other walls are the same color. In the bedroom the feature wall will be the one behind the headboard.

You can also add pink decor pieces, and pink focal points (bed sheets, curtains (all the things listed in option 1)).

3. Surrounded by Pink

This one is for the brave and bold. That is to paint all of the walls pink. Even the ceiling could be painted pink too.

You can break up all of this pink by having white crown molding. Or neutral colored curtains and bed sheets.

The Shade

The shade of pink you use will also impact the feel and style of the room. Hot pink for a more bright and bold bedroom, while a light pink, pastel even, will create a more vintage look.

For other bedroom color schemes, have a look at these posts:

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March 25, 2016 in Bedroom, Color Palettes

Style Guide: Black and Gold Bedroom Ideas

Black and gold. Now that is a classy combination for a bedroom color palette. It can be a bit tough trying to figure out which parts of the bedroom to make black and which parts to make gold without overdoing it. There is the mood board above that shows different interior designs, and here is a quick list of some black and gold bedroom ideas to help get you started.

If you keep to a black and white color palette in the bedroom, then all you’ll need is just 1 gold statement piece that will stand out and style the room. You could always do more though.

This 1 golden piece could any of these decorating ideas:

A painting over the bed just like in bedroom (1)
A gold bed sheet set (2) (3)
A chandelier or a pendant lamp, like the chandelier in picture (4)
A bedside lamp (5)
A gold bedroom decor piece such as a sculpture
Or a golden piece of furniture such as a stool

A golden frame on a black wall really stands out. To keep to the strict color palette for your room, you’ll want to go with a black and white painting (6) or picture in the frame. Hanging up a colorful piece will take away from the glamorous black and gold bedroom color scheme. Or you could just put up a decorative frame with nothing in it just like in bedrooms (7) (8).

Have a look at these posts for more ideas:

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March 25, 2016 in Bedroom, Color Palettes

Style Guide: Blue Bedroom Ideas and Designs

The pictures in the mood board go from dark blue to light blue. Each color creates a very different feeling in the room.

Before we get to the blue bedroom ideas and design tips in this post, remember to always test paint colors before painting the whole room. Test a sample of the paint color on a small section of your wall or on a piece of canvas. Since the color you see on the screen will be different in real life.

The Elegance of a Dark Blue Bedroom

A bedroom with a dark blue color palette, like the navy blue bedroom in picture (1), creates a more romantic, intimate, cozy, and luxurious bedroom.

A Little Bit of Green

The bedroom in picture (4) is more of a dark turquoise color, creating the most luxurious looking bedroom out of the bunch.

Going Bright and Light

A light shade of blue, a more pastel paint color, creates the feeling of a more spacious and brighter bedroom. Which you can see in the light blue bedroom in picture (5).

Also take note of the bedroom design in picture (6). How only one wall, the one behind the bed, is painted blue while the rest are in white. This creates a more toned down blue style in the bedroom. You could even go with all white walls and decorate the space with blue bedroom decor pieces, and blue furniture. You could use blue bed sheets, blue curtains, or even a blue painting hanging over the headboard to style the room blue.

3 Decorating Tips

Break up all a blue painted wall with neutral colored curtains (2)
Wainscoting and crown molding is another way to break up a flat wall and add some depth to it
Adding texture is another way to add depth and a subtle design element to a wall – just like the bedroom in picture (3). This can be done using a sponge (Textured Wall Painting Ideas: From Faux Wood to Linen Effects).

Have a look at these posts for more ideas:

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