Choose Your Own Adventure: The Readers Redecorate!

Okay so I just went ahead and named it myself....but I still need a fun little logo for the series!  Anyone?

Let's recap stage one for those who are just joining us:

The room.

The jumping off point.

And the readers' majority choice for the curtain rod.

YAY!!!  I'm super happy with your first choice.  After today's selection, I'll get everything up and photographed before moving on.

Let's talk about GRASSCLOTH.  Oh how I've craved some delicious textured wallpaper in my home.  I originally wanted to put some grasscloth in my master bedroom, and though it is by no means a large master, it is still much larger than my teensy guest bedroom.  And grasscloth ain't cheap.  So in the interest of frugality, but still getting to partake in the dreamy design element, I'm going for it in the smaller room.

Look at these beauties.

Oh I just think grasscloth adds such warmth, interest and depth to a room, don't you?  Love love, couldn't love more, so excited.  

So here it is.  I ordered several samples of arrowroot paper by Phillip Jeffries through Decorator's Best. I found this source on Little Green Notebook, in one of Jenny's assistant's Copy Cat Design series.  It was actually a copy cat of that last room there, and the Hyacinth color is one of your choices!

Hyacinth

Tantalizing Teal

The teal is actually labeled a 'jute grasscloth' as opposed to the arrowroot in Hyacinth...but the textures could not be more exactly the same to this novice eye (finger?) so we are calling them both grasscloth.

I first chose hyacinth and another color and threw the teal and a few more in the sample basket just to give myself a few options...so I was really surprised when the teal arrived and it was DREAMY.  

TEAL

HYACINTH

 

Together...

I'm so shocked that each one is a virtual match to a color in the bird.  Can't go wrong!

The photos aren't overly representative of the real color, the website photos above are closer than what my camera captured.  

My only reservation with the teal (and it is only slight) is that it is definitely richer and darker than the hyacinth.  And the room is kind of dark.  It only has one west facing window.

But again, it's a small reservation...I think both would look WONDERFUL!  I kind of like the purple of the hyacinth because I don't have anything else like it in my home.  And I have quite a bit of blue.  But teal is not exactly the same as blue...and again, it is rich and dreamy and bold.

I will be over the moon with either choice, I think either will look fantastic.  So what's your choice?

And don't forget!  You always have the 3rd option of NEITHER.  Should you choose to start an uprising in the comments, you must pose your alternative choice and rally other commenters to reply with their agreement.

Challenge me, get enough write-in votes, and I'll blindly do your bidding.

Let's do this!!

Grasscloth Wallpaper