THE WOOD ROOM

I’m so excited to be sharing another new home space with you, the wood room! The wood room? What? We decided to name our rooms because it makes the rooms feel more special. Honestly though we were also getting a little confused… we have a lot of rooms so we’re naming them. As we spend time planning and getting to know our new rooms, names just naturally come to us and so the wood room was born.

Unlike the rest of our house luckily this space didn’t need much work. Just a little drywall repair, a new light, a fresh coat of paint, and furniture. Since our Colorado buyers bought our furniture we’ve pretty much started from square one. I can’t complain though… I love furniture shopping and decorating new spaces!

My biggest challenge though has been trying find furniture that could be quickly delivered. Since 2021 everything seems to be on backorder. We’re currently staying in the wood room until our master is done (that’s going to be a while) but that’s ok, I really love this room we’re staying in. With it’s own private wooden staircase, angled ceiling, wide plank pine floors, and skylights it has a playful yet cozy vibe to it.

I’ve never been a fan of placing beds in front of windows, but with the layout of the room we had no choice. To balance the window behind the bed I decided to add curtains, but I didn’t want the space to feel heavy so I went with a gauzy sheer curtain from Amazon and I love it! I washed them first to give them more of a relaxed casual look. I went with a French return double curtain rod so I could get the curtains as wide as possible for balance. I love how it turned out! It gives the room the perfect amount of softness and balances the wall behind the bed.

We went with our same ceiling fan cage light that we had in Colorado. Yep, it’s that awesome, this fan has nice clean lines and really puts out some air.

We did manage to leave Colorado with a few small furniture items, but I do mean small. A coat rack, this trunk, and a twin headboard. I despise night time throw pillow clutter, and if you do too I recommend adding a trunk or large baskets to your room to hold it all at night. I just can’t pile my pillows on the floor, I like to wake up to a clean non-cluttered space!

I really do love this space, it’s so cozy! On a clear night I can look out the skylights and see the moon and the stars right from my bed. I’m a little bit obsessed with electric fireplaces and I spend a lot of time looking for perfect ones online. We love real working fireplaces but due to chimney codes we have restrictions, but so far I’m impressed with the advances they’ve made, the 3D flames look very realistic.

Our floor heaters are currently turned off because they make a clicking noise at night that wakes me up but this electric fireplace keeps us toasty warm at night and the soft glow provides a nice nightlight for us too.

Besides electric fireplaces my other current obsession is USB lamps! We live in a charging world now, and not only are these lamps convenient for that, they also help reduce clutter. A total win! Loving the rug too, it adds great texture to the room.

I love the warm wood tones throughout the room and especially the wide pine hardwoods! Benjamin Moore Palladian Blue has been a longtime favorite of mine, it was the color of our Texas bedroom and I found it so soothing. So again we went with Palladian Blue mixed in with Benjamin Moore Cloud Cover that flows up the stairwell from the lower den.

A quirky thing about Palladian Blue is how different it photographs. It’s blue but sometimes it looks green. Every wall looks slightly different with the light. It’s something that used to annoy me while taking and editing our home photographs, once upon a time I would try to color correct it. Not anymore, now I just go with it. I let Palladian Blue do it’s thang. Scroll back! Every photo except the before photo is Palladiun Blue being its unpredictable adorable true self.

It was an easy space to transform and now it’s perfect, and I’m happy I get to share it with you. I’ll be happy when our master bedroom is done but I think I’ll always long for my wood room! Speaking of named rooms, we have our next guest room in the works and yes it has a name but I can’t share it just yet. Stay tuned!