Making Sweet Music Part 2

As promised here is part 2 of the saga of the music room (although it is still not nearly finished, it is slowly cooking in its own juices). For a design scheme, I decided that a music room, and especially a music room for quasi-self confessed hipsters such as ourselves, screamed out for retro mid century decor. I have always loved bold colours and do not shy away from the bright whatsoever. I have also always loved orange (my father is a ginger haired handsome devil) however being the pale skinned raven that I am, I figured that since I can't wear orange, I can always force my walls to wear it and like it!

Then I thought, what better foil to orange than my favourite neutral, grey, and since we just happened to already own a very comfy chaise lounger and chair in dove grey, throw in a few orange filing cabinets from my university days and a pop of navy from a Pier 1 castaway armoir we found and voila, a colour palette was born!



You can see from the inspiration shot above that when I said orange, I meant Orange (with a capital O, if you didn't get that). I also have desperately wanted to incorporate wallpaper into a room since we moved in, and since my husband (and everyone else I have ever talked to) nixed my idea to wallpaper the risers of my stairs, I thought, why not wallpaper the backs of the open shelving flanking the closet, like in this pic:



However, I wanted to use some of that bright orange to play up my colour scheme. Something more like this:




I would also take that cleaned lined teak armchair in a second!

Eventually after some searching for the perfect orange, retro wallpaper I found this lovely pattern from The Wallpaper Company and I thought to myself, 'oh yes, you will do quite nicely':

The grey was a perfect match to the furniture, the orange was called 'radiant orange' (so you know it had to be good) and the pattern was definitely retro. I then decided that since our plan was to essentially plaster the walls with framed silk screened music posters from concerts we have been to, then the rest of the paint should be as neutral as possible. In that vein, I pulled the ecru colour from the background of the wallpaper to paint the rest of the room. Here is the room as it currently stands (in horrible disarray and general messiness):

I feel that the ecru is too...ummm....ecru-y? I think it looks like drywall mixed with ceiling primer (I think that because when we painted it you couldn't tell which drywall had been painted and which had not and you definitely couldn't differentiate between the ceiling and the walls!). I'm thinking of going in a lighter grey feel to still keep it neutral but add at least sum'in!

Anyway, beside the hideous mess in this room, I will point out that the bright orange is only on the closet frame:

And a vintage credenza with......wait for it.....a built-in record player! Oh yeah!

We stole/took from his junk pile this particular piece from my husband's grandfather. A spray of bright orange, and it looks like a million 1960's bucks! (which, if you calculate inflation, probably equals 75 cents today). We have already built in the necessary wiring to mount a tv above this bad boy like in this pic:



So there you have it. The music room in progress. Can't wait to play a session of Rockband down there soon!