I had planned on putting a lot of energy into decorating our bedroom this year, but the move completely upended those plans. Not only because of how it occupied my time and energy, but also for how it sucked up our money. I can’t build the bedframe I plan on until I get the right size mattress, which of course costs a whole lot more money than what I have lying around. So since I couldn’t do the full bedroom makeover from start to finish, I’ve had to content myself with one step at a time – painting the walls the right color (unlike the last house), a lucky Craigslist find, reorganizing the trinkets in the house to bring some in here, buying one piece of artwork at a time, and making over some cheap lamps.
I really love a masculine design, so I wanted our bedroom to have a lot of that influence. Dark colors, minimal decor, and traditionally masculine fabrics, like suiting.
Finding the fabric was the hard part. Once I found a suiting material that showed up against the black wall, then I just had to make a bias tape. I cut the fabric to the dimensions called for by my bias tape maker – 1″ of fabric to make 1/2″ bias tape, and sewed the edges together to make one long piece. Then I fed it through the bias tape maker and ironed it.
I ripped off the fabric that edged the lampshade, and then hotglued my bias tape in it’s place, folding the edges over where they met to keep things neat.
It’s such a simple change that I debated even blogging about it, but I think it adds a whole lot to the look. What used to be a bargain basement lamp from a big box store is now custom and a perfect fit for my masculine inspired bedroom.
I think I might be much more creative if I had a bias tape maker… 🙂
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