Main Bedroom Refresh: Purple and Moody for the One Room Challenge
From Blah and To Dark and Moody
For the Spring 2022: One Room Challenge I will be refreshing my main bedroom. Bringing it from blah and plan to dark and moody.
It’s that time again for the Apartment Therapy One room Challenge, better known as the ORC! This time around I’m finally getting away from the kitchen I revamped back in the Fall 2021 ORC. I did not do all my blog posts and only did Week 1 , Week 2 and skipped straight to Week 8 from that challenge but I am determined to get it right this time around.

Phase 1: The Closet
This time we are going into the Main Bedroom, the theme is Purple and Moody and I want to move a way from the lighter purple in the current room. When I first bought this house the main bedroom was the first room I renovated, it was awful. The previous owners left me with a heavy termite infestation that they had not disclosed but it was VERY apparent in the Main bedroom closet. We are talking about termite frass if you looked at the single closet rod or shelf wrong.

As a result the closet was completely revamped to a custom Container store Avera closet system to stylishly redo the closet. I will outline the experience in another post but I will say I’m glad I got the closet at the time I did because the prices have changed.
The configuration of the closet May change a little bit in the future but it is a stretch goal if I can swing it. Nevertheless, there is a pain point and I wonder if you can see it in the image below?
The small wall in-between!! I would like to remove that wall and make it one big opening! That is one of the first phases of the project. Now, you may go “that wall is there so the closet doors have something to attach to”. You’d be right! The next part of this revamp is to changes the closet door hardware to allow multifold doors. There are a couple configurations to choose from.
The last part of the closet door makeover is to make the doors fit. I wan to be be economical and make the doors out of the bifold doors I already have, cover them up with wood slats and call it a day. I will add a smaller panel (~8in each) to one of the sets to make up the 16in wall space I’ll be getting rid of. If all else fails I can try doing something similar to what you see below.
Check out my Pinterest Idea Board for the Slat doors
Phase 2: The Room Color
The next change that is important to me is the bedroom color. I love purple, purple purple purple. When I was first choosing the colors, I chose wha tI saw as “safe” purple colors. I wasn’t thinking of my self, when choosing, but of what other people might think of the shade of purple. I went with a light lavender and a deep purple. Neither were fully right.
The biggest blow is that when I first chose the colors, the woman at the paint counter thought I was painting a little girls bedroom!! I was embarrassed to say this at the time but now I fully own up tot it and see where she was coming from. The goal now is to make the purple, more grown up. Naturally, my thought is to make it less bright and more of a dark deep purple. I’m so happy that I’ve found so many cool designer accounts on instagram to help me see the different options you can go with color…and even wallpaper!
This time around I asked my instagram community, what color they liked best on the bedroom wall. On the wall most chose Amethyst purple, but on the ceiling everything looked date and people chose Eminent Purple. Both are Sherwin Williams colors from Lowes. Ultimately I went With the post popular initial choice, Amethyst Glass HGSW2411. We are painting the ceiling and the wall this color!!! I can’t wait!

Some may ask…since I’m painting the ceiling…is that too much purple? Maybe. Therefore to offset this a bit I want to make the wall opposite the closet a Wallpapered wall with this beautiful mustard wallpaper from Walls Republic Almond Blossom Floral . This bedroom is going to be epic!
Phase 3: The Accessories
The bedroom has a couple things I’d like to move around. I’l move the bed, but then it leaves me with limited options for nightstands because of the windows. My goal is to build some simple rectangular mitered nightstands to hold my current lights. and some small items. My problem is that things tend to get cluttered, so the theory is the less space I have to clutter the better.



That is my plan so far. If you got to the end of this, thank you for reading! Follow along for the next 8 weeks as I try to make this a reality!
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I love the look of the multiform door examples!
As someone with a purple bedroom as well, I’m totally perplexed by the lack of love for purple! I’m excited to see you really embrace it by painting the ceiling as well. Best of luck!
Thank you Kathryn!! I’m glad I found out it was an option though I have to buy directly from the manufacturer.
I’m so excited Felicia! I already have all my paint!