Quick help needed! Paint, wallpaper, shelving weirdness.
I am doing some remodeling and this niche was built into the wall of a bedroom. A queen sized bed will fit right inside this niche and there will be sconces as you can see. There are recessed shelves built on either side of the bed (with electrical outlets/switches) and the backing of the shelves has the same grasscloth as the main back wall. I'm sorry the lighting is so bad in this photo, but the grasscloth colors, trim of the shelves and the wall colors all blend very nicely. My dilemma is this. Now that I look at this, it is weird to me the way the wallpaper goes up to the top of the niche and the shelving doesn't. I wish I had asked that the shelves be built to go all the way up. Does anyone have any ideas about how this could be fixed to look better? Again, don't worry about the paint color, that part actually looks good in person. I swear this was going to be good in my head :-(
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2 years agoHere's another photo showing both sides. The top of the mattress will come up to about the height of the bottom shelf. The headboard height is just above the second shelf. Maybe I should mention that the headboard is padded in a wheat colored fabric. Does that alter anything?
twilcox
2 years agoI'm not living in the house right now as it is under re-construction...all my furniture is in storage. This bedroom is a tiny piece of a much larger remodel. I could take another picture tomorrow but inside of the niche below where you can see is just painted the wall color (since it will be hidden by the bed). Here's a "before" the paint and wallpaper pic.
PROBeth H. :
2 years agoI was trying to find a bunch of examples that match what you're doing.
Here's what I found.This is close to your shelf design. notice how there is no trim. keep the brown inner shelves, but remove the trimwork casing. (or, just paint it the wall color)
similar paper, but the niche is done in white
kind of what you have. (no paper
no shelving, but I liked the crown trim and the style of the pendant
no shelving on the recessed portion, but I like how the did the trim panel work around the bed
almost same paper shown here w/white trimwork. I like the crisp white and the other elements
since you were concerned about the shelf not going all the way up, what if you did the trim in something wider to eat up the space?
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