bedroom – The Beehive

November 6, 2009

It’s Curtains for You

I recently posted pictures of our freshly repainted bedroom. The overwhelming consensus among the people who commented (all three of them) was that the curtains suck and they’ve got to go. Which I don’t disagree with. They came with the house and I want something new and not ugly. I just put them back up because I don’t have that something new yet. But it was pointed out that we don’t really need curtains. So here is the room, sans curtains.

Better? Still doesn’t exactly have a finished look, but I have some thoughts. You know, for when we have money to buy all kinds of new furniture.

My first idea is not really furniture at all. I’d like to put some decorative molding above the bed. I was thinking of creating a 3×3 grid of squares made of half round molding, painted either Silver Tradition, or white.

As for curtains, I’m not sure we really need anything on the two small windows, but I thought this might look nice on the big windows. I need to check it out in person to see if the color goes with the accent wall, which is what I was trying to pull from. There are also some coordinating items that I might consider, like a throw or some decorative pillows.

If that isn’t enough Scandinavian decor for you, I’m also thinking about replacing our dressers and nightstands with these (in black-brown). Two next to each other just happens to be about the same length as the space from the side of the bed to each wall. So I think we should each get two. That will give us each six drawers for clothes, which should be plenty of space to replace the two mismatched dressers we have now across the room. Plus they are about the right height for a nightstand, so they will do double duty if we put lamps and our alarm clocks on the top. And speaking of lamps, I thought it might be a good idea to lean a mirror against the wall behind each lamp. I’ve noticed that since we painted the wall dark, the light from the bedside lamps seems to get sucked up and it feels very dark. The mirrors will reflect the light out and make it brighter.

So, since we won’t be needing the two old dressers anymore, what should we do with that space? I’d like to put two comfy chairs (gasp! the comfy chair! can you name that tv show?), a small table, a floor lamp, and an ottoman to create a little sitting area we can use for reading.

Haven’t really thought about art at all, but there is plenty of wall space for that. Maybe a Fathead of the Colorado Avalanche logo? They don’t have one of Patrick Roy. Or not.

November 3, 2009

Mastering the Master Bedroom

After three days of painting, I finally finished the master bedroom. I carried the colors from the master bathroom into the bedroom, with Behr’s Silver Tradition on the walls and Soft Denim on the ceiling. When it came to the bathroom, I differentiated the the small water closet from the bathroom as a whole by adding some horizontal stripes (check them out in this post). I wanted to similarly differentiate the bedroom. So here’s a peek from the bathroom.

I added an accent wall. It’s Behr’s Provence. Digression: I bought a quart of the stuff in an eggshell finish, which the guy at HD assured me would be enough for the one wall. I wasn’t. So I had to go back for a second can. The two cans were totally different textures. The first was watery. It seemed strange to me because other Behr paint I have used has been pretty thick. I assumed it was because the color was so much darker than what I have generally used, and the dark pigment affects the consistency of the paint. The second can, however, was the thickness I was used to. What’s the deal? Luckily, I couldn’t tell the difference when they were applied. So here is the rest of the room.

I’m not quite sold on the accent wall at this point. Don’t get me wrong, I like the whole bedroom/bathroom combination much more than before. And it’s not just getting rid of the lime green — the white walls in the bedroom had a lot of poorly-camouflaged Spackle-filled holes, and it was pretty clear the room hadn’t been painted since the house was built (a fact further evidenced by the way the walls sucked up the new paint). But I love love love the bathroom and I really don’t feel that strongly about the bedroom. Maybe it’s because the dark color against the light color makes it much easier to see that my edges are not perfectly straight. Or maybe we just need to update the curtains (the new paint only serves to highlight that the ones that came with the house are Awful with a capital A) and furniture and get some art on the walls. In any event, we’ll be living with it for a while and we’ll see how it grows on us.

September 14, 2009September 14, 2009

Fit for a California King

As I mentioned in my last post, we’ve been sleeping on a tiny, hand-me-down bed since we got married. Here is a look at our little bed in our big master bedroom. As you can see, we haven’t done much in terms of decorating the place. The curtains were graciously left for us by the seller.

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Here you see more of those fab curtains, and our mismatched dressers.

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And finally a sneak peak at the master bath. Through the doorway, you can see the mirrored doors of Steve’s closet (mine is on the other side). And if you look close, you can see the bathtub reflected in it. Yes, that is fluorescent green paint.

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The new bed we purchased over Labor Day weekend was delivered on Saturday. Saturday morning, I stripped the old bed so they could take it away when delivering the new bed. The delivery window was from 12-4, and I expected to be waiting around until 3:45 or so at least. But amazingly, they were at the door at 12:01, hauled away the old bed, set up the new bed, and were gone again by 12:15. These guys were pros.

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It still has “new mattress smell.” We let it air out with the windows open and the fan on until just before we went to sleep. By then we were tired, so we made the bed a bit hastily. It was like sleeping in a bed from a nice hotel, all plush and cozy.

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