After crushing finally hanging our wooden skis this weekend, I kept at it. The second project of 2021 will be building a wall in our bedroom. Despite painting our room from sterile white to a few different shades of nice, soft grays, it's still ridiculously bright. It has a lot of windows, which we appreciate. But we're night owls and aren't stoked about waking up at 5am in the morning by the glaring sun. Our solution has always been pretty slick.
That's right. Enter… a clothes rack, pictured above. We draped it with a sheet and wheeled it around our bedroom to block the morning sun. Pro. Oh, worth noting, this photo was taken right before we painted. For some reason, I really didn't document that project. I'm not sure why.
Speaking though of hi-tech solutions like rolling sheets, I'm notoriously lo-fi as well when it comes to designing stuff. Using the word 'notoriously' may be a stretch. Whatever. I swear by an old, trusty notebook I picked up on clearance at Crate & Barrel years ago. In it, I sketched some ideas for The Wall.
What we're going to build is a floating wall, which leaves us with two options for the top:
- Flat
- Angled (that matches the pitch of the ceiling)
After quickly sketching it out, we agreed flat was the way to go. So I started sketching the framing details.
We'll build it from 2x8 lumber so it has some depth to it. It'll have a built-in shelf accented with bare wood. The sides and top will also be bare wood. We'll paint it the same color as the wall behind our bed,
Valspar 4004-2B Ocean Storm.
As ambitious as we were this weekend, we didn't actually build the wall. Yet. Step 2, after the design, was taping off where it'll go so we can start to get a feel for walking around it. Like we did for our upcoming
kitchen island (which, I guess, is technically Project #3).
It'd be cool to pull power to it from the nearby wall. Then we can install lights in the built-in shelf and a wall sconce on the couch side for reading. The catch is that'll require ripping up a sizable portion of the floor. Because of that, I'm not 100% committed. I'll need to dig in a little more to see how doable that is. Well, I'm sure it's doable. To see how easy it is, I should say.
Ripping up the floor and pulling power notwithstanding, this project should be pretty straightforward. Except for the part about getting four panels of 4x8' sheetrock into our bedroom. I'm still working on how to pull that off…
Assuming I figure that out, it'll be awesome not to have to roll around a clothes rack this coming spring when the sun starts shining again in our bedroom.
