I love that my children see beauty in everything. My youngest calls dandelions sunflowers and my eldest thinks skipping a bath is a beautiful thing.
So when it came time to refresh their bedroom because of the move to our new digs – easy peasy, beauty in everything, right? No. Each had insanely strong opinions on not only colour but layout and style (whose kids are these??).
The Ask was to combine orange, black and hot pink. As important was the trundle requirement and not just any chair but THE chair I have read with them in for the last near decade.
Although I could see their colour scheme working with a ton of white to offset the morose Halloween Barbie I originally could see in my minds eye, it felt like the result would be very loud. My design philosophy on bedrooms is simple – keep it quiet. There would have to be compromise.
The trundle idea was brilliant. Sleepovers are a mainstay at our house – especially when we were living just east of nowhere – and I don’t see that changing despite our new 416 address.
And I loved that they associated that chair with such special mummy time – without any prompting. It is a great chair – a LEE Industries buy that was a smart spend, has clean transitional lines and well worth recovering.
The Get was not going to feature black; rather it would be a sort of side show. This is an old Toronto home with smaller bedrooms than our suburban home offered and I just can’t convince myself the space will carry the weight of black the furniture. Linens need to be washable and black fades. It would have to be more like punctuation than the meat of the message.
I haven’t told them this yet. I’ll let you know how it goes.