Studio Progress – The Mural Wall Is Finished!!

This morning (sure, this morning!) I completed up the ultimate factor on my punch checklist for the mural wall. It’s FINISHED!! This has been a protracted course of, and I’m hoping that the opposite zones within the room don’t take this lengthy. So let me present you the way it turned out…

This wall turned out fairly completely different from what I had initially imagined. My unique plan included higher cupboards on every finish and desk areas below the home windows, which might have given me fewer decrease cupboards.

However when the mural went up, I made a decision that I wished as a lot of it to indicate as attainable. So the thought of overlaying up a lot of every finish with higher cupboards not appealed to me.

After which I made a decision that having two desk areas on this wall didn’t make sense, both. I’ve one other space within the room that’s particularly for a desk, and when engaged on tasks, I usually like to face. Plus, having extra space for storing is a a lot larger precedence for me than having a number of desk areas within the room. So I made a decision to remove the desk areas and put cupboards alongside your complete wall.

The top end result has far exceeded my expectations, however it took some trial and error to get right here. I had initially designed this floral wallpaper in a a lot smaller print, and it regarded actually darkish and busy to me. Right here’s a very good view of it on this photograph I took manner again once I was on the point of paint the ground.

So I made a decision to attempt once more on the wallpaper. The second time round, I made the flowers 4 occasions the unique measurement, and my mother helped me to loosen up a few of the flowers that had been showing like darkish blobs within the unique wallpaper. The ultimate result’s so good for me, and I couldn’t think about something extra “me“!

The cupboards are IKEA Sektion cupboards, and I ordered them with the Veddinge doorways and drawer fronts. After which I sanded them, added trim to them, painted them, after which added gold leaf accents. I lastly received my pink cupboards! The colour is Tuberose from Sherwin Williams, however I had it colour matched in Behr Premium Plus paint.

Nonetheless lacking from this wall are the window shades, however they received’t be right here for an additional ten days. I ordered my favourite cordless bamboo shades in a Rustic Walnut colour (affiliate hyperlink), that are the identical shades I utilized in our grasp rest room and residential fitness center. They’ll customized lower them to the precise measurement you want in your home windows, and the standard is nice.

I wasn’t so certain about that middle wall sconce, and I’m nonetheless not 100% certain that it’ll make the ultimate lower once I end the entire room. However I made a decision to maintain it for now. I hold forgetting to get mild bulbs, so as soon as I get bulbs in these lights and see how effectively they mild up this work area, I’ll make my ultimate resolution on the sconce.

I made a decision to wire all three lights on the identical swap with a dimmer. The swap is simply above the desktop within the wall space slightly below the wall sconce. Do you see it? I feel I did a reasonably good job at disguising it! 😀

Right here’s a more in-depth view. Are you able to see the swap now?

I constructed the countertop out of laminate flooring. It was the most cost effective manner I might give you to get a 20-foot countertop. It ended up costing round $300, which I believed was a tremendous worth for a countertop that size. You possibly can see how I made it right here.

However be forewarned that the countertop mission destroyed my pores and skin for about six weeks. So for those who’re going to make your personal laminate flooring countertop, please learn this primary. I don’t know that anybody else would react the identical manner I did, but when I can assist anybody else keep away from the weeks of distress that I skilled, I hope to take action.

I do love how the countertop turned out, although! And now that the entire holes have been lower in it, and the entire mud has been cleaned up, it doesn’t have an effect on me anymore. I’m pondering the flooring has one thing like fiberglass in it, and that’s what my pores and skin reacted to. However all is effectively now, and I can get pleasure from my completed countertop.

I completely love having all of this storage, and I can’t imagine this was my first time utilizing IKEA Sektion cupboards. I’m a real IKEA cupboard convert now!

This center cupboard with the six shallow drawers is my absolute favourite. I feel this may actually come in useful in a studio.

And I like this one with the hidden drawer inside a drawer as effectively.

When it’s closed, it appears to be like like a giant drawer similar to the opposite two.

And eventually, I added 4 countertop grommet shops for comfort. Every of them is plugged into an in-cabinet outlet.

So I’ve handy entry to shops and USB ports proper on the countertop.

I’m so excited to have this wall performed! I’ve gone within the studio numerous occasions to simply stare at it. 😀