8 Neutral Rooms Making Me Double Think My Bedroom Design
Project 365, Day 28
You may not know this about me, but I love color. Ha, got you. OF COURSE, YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT ME. Hi, have you seen my dining room, my sofa, and my upcoming bedroom design moodboard? Now that I’ve sufficiently spammed you with links, let me get into what today is about.
Yesterday’s post was heavy. So I’m lightening the mood here (and my heart) with some design. I’m so versatile. As you may know, I’ve been on the hunt for the perfect peachy-pinky-fleshy wall color for said bedroom. This weekend, I finally rounded out all the hues I wanted to sample and got them up on the wall to test. I’m VERY close to deciding, which will really help to accelerate the design of the space. Yay! Can’t wait to share that process with you. However, I’ve been staring at blushes and apricots (paint tones, not fruit or cosmetics) for months now, I need a little bit of a palate cleanser. Well, and a palette cleanser.
One look at the rooms I’ve bookmarked on Instagram lately, and you’d swear I was about to do a 180 into neutral town. I’ve thought about it. A serene, tranquil bedroom is very tempting, but I’m still tinkering with the design. No decisions have been fully ironed out. But this thing happens to me—does it happen to you?—where I go blind to color and it means nothing to me anymore. Like when you say a word over and over again and all of a sudden something like “shoe” can very well mean “tomato” for all you know. That’s how I currently feel about the peaches up on my wall. I can’t see the forest for the trees. Am I too focused on paint and not enough on the whole vision?
Anyhow, I’m going easy on my writing today and sharing some very beautiful, very neutral rooms that have caught my eye recently, if only to go through the exercise of appreciating them for what they are, and then bidding them adieu. Let’s take a look.
Maybe it’s the architecture of the humble finishes, but this bedroom feels so calm and simple and wonderful. I wouldn’t mind waking up here, napping here, spending all day here…in bed.
That first photo. Wow what a simple, pared back room, but it looks like how it feels to let go of a breath you’ve been holding in your chest for hours/days, you know, if that could look like something.
The painting here certainly adds a dash of color my eye is drawn to, but even without it, I love this. Wood tones with a peppering of black and warm neutrals never fails.
The caption here is FAR more important than the room, of course, but my heart has pounded for Erin Hiemstra’s home since I saw her first share it last year (I think). Not a lick of color, yet so perfect.
Good…ness!!! The architecture, the flooring, the…everything.
Allison typically does rooms with layers and layers of color, which is how I started following her to begin with, but I adore this. The side tables and planter aren’t exactly neutral, but the white-wood-black combo strikes again!
Well, well, well, what do we have here? MORE WHITE, WOOD, BLACK. My eyes are at such peace looking at this.
Look, I wouldn’t be upset if this is where I woke up every morning and tucked myself to sleep every night, okay? Oh no…what’s happening?
Here’s another look at them all together? I can feel my blood pressure lowering, can you?
But well…I’d be lying to myself if I didn’t admit that the following doesn’t shake me to life:
And this…
Both of these rooms are by one of my favorite designers, Dabito of the website Old Brand New (this is the bedroom reveal and this is the living room). He just has such a way with color, and every time I see one of his rooms, my eyes pop out of my head and I have to roll my tongue back into my mouth. Surely, that kind of reaction says something?
Anyhow, I’m not ready to decide. I’ll continue to stare at my paint samples on the wall, walk by them multiple times a day where I pet the one I like the most so far, and whisper “I think you’re it” with a little tap, tap, tap on the painted square.
Stay tuned.
See you tomorrow, friends.