One Room Challenge - Primary Bedroom Cottage Makeover Design Plan
/Are you ready for the next journey here at The Simply Distressed? Come with me as I transform our primary bedroom into a cozy cottage dream to fit into our 1929 cozy cottage home.
Over the next seven weeks, I will be transforming our primary bedroom into our little cozy cottage dream. It’s time to take our room off the back burner and bring it front and center.
After years of thinking about it and not planning correctly, I finally registered myself to participate in the One Room Challenge. I tend to take years to try new things and then make a rash decision last minute {hence why I am joining in the second week}.
If you are not familiar with the One Room Challenge, it is a bi-annual event where you can join in our transforming a room and then you share your progress weekly. See more here!
I will be giving weekly updates here on the blog and sharing more day to day details over on Instagram.
The Before
Our Primary bedroom has been the catch-all since we moved in. We added some faux shiplap to the back wall and a few years later, the windows, but other than that, it has been filled with overfilled things from the rest of the house. We get a new living room rug? The old one comes in out room. Don’t have a place for the bench? We move it in our room.
I’ve been slowly adding pieces that I feel are meant to be in here. The rug, although are old family room rug, is the one I wanted in here for years. The bench really does work at the end of our bed. Our bed frame will stay forever!
Our room is also the last room to still have “mistakes” from previous owners. Half painted doors, wonky pocket door tracks, broken attic acccess. It’s time to get those fixed!
The Plan
We live in a 1929 Cottage Tudor home and I want our bedroom to reflect that with cozy cottage vibes. Simple, yet cozy and classic. I will be smoothing out the orange peel walls, adding tongue & groove to the ceiling, new flooring, bringing outdated things back to life and adding in all the cottage decor {with even a little bit of color}.
Taking Sherwin Williams Alabaster, Accessible Beige and Dried Thyme and bringing pairing them together to bring it all to life. The walls will be white {Alabaster}, the doors + trim will be Accessible Beige and the ceiling will be green {Dried Thyme}. A neutral warmth is what I am going for. We live in a naturally dark home and always thought everything needed to be white to brighten it up, but I am learning that that is not the case.
The final thing will be new floors 🤞🏼. I’m crossing my fingers because I am pretty sure there will be some intense manual labor to remove the glued down bamboo that is under the current lvp, so we will see if I am able to make that timeline. Also, I know new floors should probably be the first thing I should do, but hey, I like to do things backwards most the time. 🤷🏼♀️
The one thing that will not happen this go around will be the brick wall behind our bed. At this time, it is not in the budget, but I’ve still included it with my vision because I am 100% sure that it will happen one day. It will be the final touch that will make it full cozy cottage. For now the faux shiplap is going to stay. If I were to remove it, it would reveal more orange peel walls that would have to be smoothed out. For now, it stays. But can’t you just picture how good the brick will look?
I’ve linked everything I could from the mood board and that will I will be using in our bedroom makeover. Click the image to take you to the product!
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Getting Started
I’ve already started smoothing out the orange peel walls. In pictures, especially from a distance, it is not noticeable. But in person, it is night and day! I’ve been slowly doing that throughout our house over the past year. You can read more about that process here.
I’m so excited about this one and can’t wait to have the bedroom I’ve been dreaming of! I hope you will follow along as I transform this space over the upcoming weeks. You can see all the participants posts here. Until next week, my friend. Make it a great one!
