When we were first married, I found this beautiful bedding set that I absolutely fell in love with. I can't remember its name at the moment, and I've had absolutely no luck finding it on the internet. Here is a picture of it in our old bedroom:
Goodness, I can't remember our room ever being that clean. Granted, the house was on the market at the time, but :whistle: I'd take that over our current disaster area, to be sure!
We still have the same furniture, and the same general color scheme. Life with three dogs, as we had at the time, was not friendly to our comforter, however. Sadly, it was taken off our bed, and retired to the closet...eventually retired for good </3
Our bedroom, at present, is a nightmare. It's a mess. There is a wide assortment of wires, cables, and electronics that belong to My Love sort of haphazardly piled near his side of the bed. I have bags and stacks of random papers, all waiting to either be sorted...to be put into a place of belonging yet to be determined...to be shredded...or, honestly, just taking up space.
My Love really really really likes darkness. Our home is very dark in general, as we don't have many windows. I love our home, but that's definitely something I'll consider more should we move in the future -- I love windows. Anyway, I didn't take into account my husband's love of darkness when we chose the paint color for our room, which is quite a bit darker than that in the picture above, and lends itself to make the whole room feel darker. It's a beautiful color, don't get me wrong -- I picked it for a reason -- but, after two years, I've decided that I'd like to change it to something lighter.
So, if I had unlimited time, resources, and energy (which, I suppose, is a resource, but you know what I mean), here's what I'd do to the room (which is not pictured):
- I would beg my friend's dad to help me refinish our furniture. My Love, while he is a wonderful man, has a problem with using coasters. This problem is that he forgets to use them. So, our nightstands are water damaged, and need to be lightly sanded and probably refinished/resealed. The bed, which I love, was a craigslist find. It matches our furniture perfectly, but was slightly damaged when we purchased it -- really, just minimal scratches in the wood from a dog, presumably. If we're going to refinish the nightstands, we might as well refinish the head and foot boards, right? My grandpa already did some impressive magic on the headboard in particular, as I was a COMPLETE fool right after we purchased the thing, and stubbornly insisted on trying to assemble the thing myself. Stupid girl. I lost control of it, and it fell, landing on part of the sideboard, and split. He patched it together beautifully, and you can't even tell where I damaged it.
- I would repaint the room. I have a little leftover color from our formal dining room at our old house. It's a bright, but somehow subtle, or almost neutral, green. I want to paint a swath of the wall to see if I like it before we move forward, but I'd imagine it'd be just about perfect. It isn't exact, but I think it's similar to Valspar's Crocodile Smile:
I'm thinking possibly something even a little lighter but, like I said, I'll have to see what it looks like on the wall. I don't know for sure how My Love feels about a green bedroom. Should he object, for any reason, I'd choose a neutral color -- something soft and light, though I'm not entirely sure what.
- I would get a new bedding set. I found this absolutely delicious bedding online, and cannot wait until My Love and I have our emergency fund properly built up (yep, we're working on our Dave Ramsey), so that I can start saving for it (bet you can guess what my Christmas and birthday money are going toward)! I'm posting the link for the actual comforter set but, based on the customer reviews (specifically regarding issues washing it), I think I'd actually want the duvet cover set. But, isn't it absolutely divine?!?!?
I love the splash of color, the beautiful pattern, and how it's pretty without being super feminine. I also love how it has a similar blue to what we previously had, which means that the previously color coordinated items we already have will bring in pops of color, to the new decor. I do think, however, that I would get white sheets. I really love this set from Target, because it's lacy :)
- I would keep our current window curtains. They're a simple, beautiful, rumpled type of fabric, in a similar color (if the pictures can be trusted) blue as the bedding.
- I think I would keep our current lamps. I really love them - they're a sort of sturdy metal, and I spray painted them silver. I usually use the swirls on the base to hang my jewelry on -- quite handy to have on the nightstand. I am only slightly tempted to get the lamps that are mounted on the wall, similar to those you typically see in hotels. It'd be nice to have the additional space on the nightstand. But, as I said, I really like our lamps, so I'll probably keep them. Plus, not getting new ones will save money, hooray!
- I'd at least like to get our ceiling fan "fixed." I suppose it's not really broken, but it's slightly unbalanced. I bought those little weights that adhere to the fan blades and are supposed to help -- hopefully they will.
- As nice as all of these decorative aspects are, the most important thing I want to change about our room is organization! I want to sift through all of our clothes, and condense my wardrobe to a select few (probably new-to-me) mix-and-match items. Some of this will have to wait until post-baby, and (ideally) post-baby body! But, I want to get all of our winter clothes back into the under the bed storage bags I procured for them - that will open up a lot of closet space.
Ultimately, I want our room to be a safe haven. Someplace relaxing, and inviting. Ein gedi, if you will -- I heard that term used once to describe what your room should be like -- an oasis from the world. I've always loved that imagery.
Here's hoping I can get my act together soon, get our room/house organized, and get to the fun decorating part!!!
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