Pipe Problems
I just purchased a great home, with an attic with a lot of potential. The attic has a large room, that I plan to use for a den, but also has this small room currently used as a guest bedroom. It needs new light fixtures, paint, etc, but I'm not sure how to work around or incorporate this large, bent pipe into the room. Removing it is not an option right now...I have big plans for the rest of the space, but since attic rooms can be so cozy would appreciate any ideas to finish out this room!
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Paint your stained trim white and paint different parts of the room in the colors of the bedding.
Carolyn Albert-Kincl, ASID
Would it work to remove the nightstand and built in that space some shelves creating an illusion that the pipe provides the support for them?
If this works, playing with paint and decorating the bedroom is the easy and fun part.
Or, using this idea you could paint the plumbing pipe shelf as well as the existing pipe in a color of your choice to give the bedroom a modern, warm and more inviting feeling.
A guest room needs good lighting, a bedside table and a chair to sit down in. The bones of the room are great with the paneling and built in bookshelf. To finish it off, find a great fabric as the inspiration to make a couple of shams (how about something in green and white with lemons as long as we have to make lemonade), and then draw on a color for the wall paint, keeping the wall tone and the main spread a light neutral, like they both are, if you need to change them for the inspiration fabric. Or to reverse that, find a print or two that marry your wall color and bedspread but bring some pattern in . Then paint the brown trim and bookshelf white to remove the brown lines that catch the eye and bisect the space. Find a comfortable upholstered chair in a size appropriate to the corner where the little bench is. Consider using one of the patterns to or perhaps a ticking stripe on an ivory background to upholster or slipcover. For example, if the green wall color stays, consider a green ticking stripe on the chair.
I can't tell if the lighting is spot lighting from the ceiling for uplighting from the buddhas (?) on the ledge. It looks well lit but consider two wall mounted lamps, one on the left as a reading lamp by the chair and one on the right to serve as a bedside lamp. If you mount on the wall or ledge above it, they can be pushed up out of the way so they don't bang someone's head in bed or getting in/out of the chair. Just be careful to install at same high and distance from center if possible to provide some symmetry.
The center section above the window is a bit quirky due to the molding rising above the ledge line. Consider removing the two buddhas and putting one tall vertical print above the window, maybe a black/white print of a local landmark in a white mat and a black frame. If you do and the chair has a wood frame and legs, paint them black as well and if your print for the shams has a bit of black in it, you've spread it around.
For the bedside table, you need something that isn't wedged in too tight as you still need to change sheets and you don't want to be fighting the table. See Jenny Komeda's Little Green Notebook blog post at http://littlegreennotebook.blogspot.com/2013/02/bavarian-forest-walls-and-wall-mounted.html for a simple inexpensive wall mounted table that would fit in the narrow space. Her approach of mounting sideways might work well for you Paint it white and put a wall mounted lamp above it.
Finally, it's time to address the pipe. You need every square inch of space to squeeze past it and into bed. How about some paintable bead board wall paper? Wrap the long sections of pipe between the joints with it and paint it and the joints with glossy white trim paint. Since bead board has vertical segments, it should bend around the pipe pretty well and will give it a quirky finished look you can run all the way up. Hopefully that gives you the lemonade you need .