Awhile back we decided to paint our bedroom and give it a spruce up. Initially I planned on a gray and yellow color theme .... BUT then I realized that I can NEVER keep to a minimalist theme of any kind. I like color way too much and everything I own and love is pretty much in bright happy colors.
So, yellow and gray turned into anything goes! Like usual.
We found this cotton quilt at Marshalls and I fell in love with it. The mister is so dang sweet he just lets me have my decorating way without putting up a fuss. Then we got in silk chindi rugs at moxie and I had to have one of those (all of those colors = awesome).
My favorite vintage suitcase mirrored the flowers in the quilt and then in a stroke of luck we found just the right curtain panels at Ikea with similar mod floral motif. And while at Ikea we also picked up the birch blinds for the windows.
The two chest of drawers were picked up at an estate sale about 3 years ago and were a grayish drab brown color. We obviously painted them a marigold and I love them much more now. I wish I could say that they were filled with clothes but instead can reveal that they are filled to maximum capacity with vintage books and ephemera. Waiting for future projects. The red and blue floral is one of my favorite vintage paintings. I've had it for about 10 years. It has lived in various rooms of the house and will probably move a few more times as the spirit moves me.
The jewelry holder is just a lamp base that I painted after realizing it had been sitting in our basement for about 14 years waiting to get re-wired. It used to be dull gold. You can transform just about anything with some paint!
You can probably tell that we don't like a lot of pillows on the bed. We are just weird like that. The first thing I do when traveling is take all of the pillows off the hotel bed and pile them up and put a note on them saying please do not put back on the bed. Too much clutter for me. They look good in theory ... put really just get in my way. On the subject of pillows ... my man and I are totally addicted to Tempurpedic pillows. Best 120 dollars each (Yikes) we've ever spent. I wouldn't have believed it until I tried it but always had big problems with neck pain and now none!
So the room is pretty much complete. We are still looking for a matched pair of danish modern bedside tables and a low Danish modern credenza/dresser for the wall not shown in these photos that will actually hold clothing. Right now all clothing is stored in a dresser inside of the closet and we each have our own closet since we live in a big ol house and it's just the two of us. We got rid of the tv we had in here (I won that battle) and I can say I don't miss it at all.
Thanks for letting me share my photos. Have a happy week! mm







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