Mural: Our Bedroom
I’m my own biggest target market—at least, I definitely am when it comes to residential murals. This bedroom mural is now the fourth official mural in our home (two in my office, one in my husband’s office, and one in our fireplace). And I feel like a literal broken record because I come to this place each time a new mural is done - I feel so full, but I can’t fully describe what that full feeling is. Is it joy? Is it peace? Is it pride? Is it some sort of combo meal of feelings? What is it that I’m really trying to share? Why do murals hype me up? And how do I get everyone else to be just as excited about their own living/working/existing space?
So, I thought I’d share the quickest story about how paint has turned my least favorite room into my favorite.
Our bedroom is a room we truly just sleep in. And because we’re so rarely in there, I haven’t found the energy to want to “design it.” Every so often, I’ll get a kick in the butt to do something to it; we put shiplap up on two walls, have tried new furniture here and there, and rearranged the sh*t out of it…but inspiration just hadn’t hit me. I feel like, more often than not, I hear people say you should want your bedroom to feel like a sanctuary. But that concept hasn’t necessarily hit my brain, and I think that’s because the rest of our home feels like a sanctuary. So I’ve been coming to a place of “let’s just make this a space I want to hang out in.” And earlier this month when my husband went away on a work trip, I decided I had the motivation to change the energy of the room.
The room already had a deep rainforest green and mustard yellow color palette. I really liked the combo, but I needed more. I needed more hits of warm accents, and honestly, a few other green tones felt like they could be a nice way to pull in some depth. So, with my green and yellow cards in hand, I sought to find a few more tones to complement and bring everything together. As a nature-loving Taurus, I wanted our bedroom to have organic and botanical inspiration. I did my best to keep things from getting too feminine, but flowers still needed to have their moment (my husband’s allergies are the worst, so the deal is I get as many fake flowers as I want - including painting them on the walls). And to keep things from getting too overwhelming, I kept these murals as more of accent features than a full accent wall. I really liked the idea of having these two fun layouts for visual interest and then keeping the rest of the room for a gallery wall and other furniture pieces. You know, negative space is just as powerful as filled space.
a little before & after
I know it’s wild to say that paint can change your mood and relationship to a space. But it seriously can. Thank goodness I listened to my gut - because now our bedroom is one of my favorite places in the house. It makes me happy, it’s calming, and it reminds me life is too short not to play around, wonder, and wander. I actually find myself on the bed, doing some work here and there (and yes, I know that’s its own habit to be worked out, but the fact I’m even going in that bedroom now at all is a huge deal, lol!).
Is your living space giving you inspiration to live? Maybe we should change that…
Forever painting all the walls,
