Life just seems to have gotten busier and busier lately, so there hasn’t been a whole lotta renovatin’ goin’ on in the master bedroom.
That being said, this is what looked like just a mere month ago…
…and here’s a shot of that same wall, today…
(still gotta work on the closet doors and install crown & baseboard molding around the rest of the room)
So we have made some progress in there!
The curtains are from Ikea. They’re called Lenda, and they were just $24.99 for the pair. You can’t see it ’cause I didn’t take a close-up pic, but they’ve got a really neat little embroidered, vertical stripe detail in them. (I’ll have to remember to snap a pic of it next time.)
The white panels closest to the windows were ones I already owned, and the double rod came from Wal-mart. ($37.69, on sale from $44.69) We’ve never done the whole “double rod thing” before- but since we only have one window to dress in here, we decided to get wild and crazy this time.
The shades are from Bed, Bath & Beyonce Beyond and they were just $9.99 on clearance.
The antique nightstands are from our friend Mary at Urban Farmgirl, and we absolutely love them! Kev’s is already outfitted with some snazzy little knobs…
…but we’ve still gotta get some for mine…
And then we’ll have to really start thinkin’ about what we’re gonna do for a headboard/bed. And let me tell ya, we are re-he-heally excited about the thought of sleeping on something other than a mattress on the floor. It’s been almost three years now, and now that the room is finally coming together, I couldn’t resist having a little fun “imagining” for a minute today…
We’ve been collecting all of our bedding elements over the past couple years, and some of it has been neatly folded and stacked on a shelf in my closet, just waiting for a nice, comfy bed to cover. I can. not. wait to pull it all out and finally use it!
All the colorful, stripe-y, quilt-y stuff is from Pottery Barn’s “Clearlake” collection…
The shams are reversible, and I’m cuckoo for cocoa puffs about both sides…
My Mom also got us PB’s Matine Toile quilt and shams for our birthday’s this year…
…so it’ll be fun to switch things up throughout the year.
But enough about the bedding- we’ve got a bed to build or buy! (Or find at a flea market or on Craigslist!)
You helped us choose our wall color (Hip hip hooray for Sherwin Williams “Blue Hubbard”!), so the next big question we’ve got for ya is: what color/finish would you go with on the headboard/bed?
White?
Something natural/textural/woven?
Something metal?
A medium-toned wood?
A dark-toned wood?
Something else?
We’ve got a couple of ideas that we’re leaning towards- but ya know we always like to hear what our friends are thinkin’ too!
HOORAY! Finally a space for you two. I bet it will feel like staying overnight in a resort when you’re all done 🙂 Mater bedroom makeovers are just about the best thing for your sanity (and marriage) every once in awhile!
chippy white painted headboard or the seagrass!! 🙂 Love your shirt. I so need that.
It’s looking good! As for the bed – Something textural or metal or maybe a wooden bed with vintage ceiling tile inserts. Whatever you choose, I’m sure it will be awesome!
Love your new photos–you two are so adorable!
The bedroom is looking so good!
I think you should build a bed from ana-white.com. She has some really cool plans for beds!!
I agree ana white has great ideas! I would love to see what you guys can do with her designs!
That is EXACTLY what I was getting on here to say!!! One of the ones from her Farmhouse collection would rock the space… with a distressed finish.
Beat me to it! LOVE her designs and would love to see what you guys could do with it. ALSO, I would like to request that you add a widget where people can donate via paypal…to your project fund. We all LOVE what you do on here and I, personally, would love to “pay you back” in some small way by donating to keep the inspiration coming and help you get a proper bed STAT! 🙂 DO IT!
Jenn,
I thought the same thing for getting them an AC for those agonizing summer months in Alabama! I guess if it’s to happen, it will have to be one of us to set it up…they’re too sweet!!! 🙂
Because everything in the room is square and boxy, I would make the headboard fluid and shapely, queenly: scrolling up to a high point, and I would make it an offshoot of white/pink/blue (the palest of pales), with a border of some sort that pulls lots of colors together, sort of like a rag rug effect. I love your eye! Can’t WAIT to see what you come up with.
It looks so good! For the bed I’d definitely go with either white or natural/textural/woven! Can’t wait to see your progress and eventually the finished room! 🙂
Metal! I love metal beds and i can’t wait to get my own 🙂
Love the bed selections and the curtains. The room is really coming along.
The one bed that I think would work the best for us and not collect so much crap under the bed would be the one with the basket cubbies, where is that one from to get a better idea of how to make it?
Thanks!
The one in the photo is from Pottery Barn, but you can learn how to build it yourself at Ana-White.com!
🙂
Natural, texture, woven just screams Layla & Kevin! Awesome job so far. Can’t wait to see the finished room. So, get er done. lol.
XoXo
PS.. LOVE, your about me page, beautiful pictures!
xoxo
Love what you have done so far! I say either a metal or medium toned wood headboard. 🙂
Woven or metal. Love the room.
I just built the first one for my own bedroom. Still needs to be painted, but we love it!! We were also mattress-on-the-floor people for about the same amount of time. Since I built the PB-style base, my hubby’s back pain has gone away.
You can see my progress here:
http://blog.addicted2decorating.com/2010/10/peek-at-my-bedroom-progress.html
With your new nail gun, building something like that will be a breeze.
Looks good. I’m curious as to why you don’t sleep in the guest bedroom instead of on a mattress on the floor? Seems like the most obvious thing to do. 😉 Love the nightstands.
Oh that’s simple. There’s a FULL-SIZED bed in there!!!
I think Jessica meant why don’t you sleep in the full-sized bed in the guest bedroom. A bed is always better than a mattress on the floor. Be your own guest! Can’t wait to see your finished bedroom. Love it so far.
Hey Rita!
Well, my response is the same on this one actually: because it’s a FULL-SIZED bed! 🙂 Not only would we not be able to get comfortable all night long- but my joints would probably be completely locked up by morning. That bed is definitely meant for one guest!
Layla
Beautiful room! Dark wood bed would a lovely contrast.
How bout rubbed black?!
Wow! I can’t decide which looks better – the walls or the floor. Great transformation! I like an antique-y iron bed or a headboard made of old shutters. Our bedroom is the least “finished” room in the house – hopefully we’ll get there soon. Can’t wait to see what you guys decide! 🙂
This is looking so good! What progress you two have made 🙂
Im really loving the wood headboard in front of the window (as yours will be).
But I know this, whatever you two choose, it will rock!
Love looking at your posts, keep em coming…
Becky C
me too.
Hmm. I’m thinking a darkish metal. It would tie in w/the curtain rods and provide a little contrast (don’t decorators say that it “grounds the room”), but the small metal frame would still be airy enough for the open feel you have going in there, while dark wood might be too heavy for the room. I’m sure what ever you choose will be gorg. but that’s my 2 cents, since you asked. Love how it is coming together!
I think slipcovered. I have a Pottery Barn slipcovered headboard in the guest room and it is super cozy. We have two metal beds and I would never buy one again. So uncomfortable when you are trying to read in bed. Even with pillows behind your back the bars jab through or the pillow falls through the cracks. Your progress looks so good!
Totally agree with Lynda – had that uncomfortable experience while staying in a beautiful guest bedroom visiting family. You can do it for a couple of nights, but for every night, comfort is necessary!
I’m sure that any bed you choose will be great. Since I love my metal bed, I would lean towards a metal bed. The way my headboard is designed, it’s comfortable (with several pillows) to lean against!
I know whatever you two decide will be great. I’m with you on being excited about having a real bed — we’ve been “transitioning” from Colorado to the PNW for a year and a half now, traveling back and forth for the first year. We finally bought a fixer upper right on the beach, but until it’s habitable we are camped out in a postage stamp sized apartment over a market in China Town! We have a fold out sofa in the living room, and a mattress on the floor in the bedroom! This summer our youngest was home from college, and we were all crammed in here together (with a 75 pound dog and a cat). All of our stuff is in storage, and I’m dying to nest again! (and use a dresser with drawers, and not a stack of milk crates)
Your bedroom is going to be fabulous — can’t wait to see how you finish it up!
Congrats on the return of skivvie-dom… and I love the bedding, colors, and the nightstands. And call me crazy, but I like the idea of a bed with a wood finish! Maybe because my 90 year old Mother has just given me 4 HUGE pieces of antique wood furniture and made me swear on the bible that I won’t paint it!
I’ve never commented on here before, but I am HUGE fan! I hope this link works, I’m not the “savyest” on this sorta thing. http://stacyclaireboyd.blogspot.com/2009/10/cute-diy-headboards.html
& http://funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot.com/2009/11/bedroom-makeover-part-3-reveal.html
You have made excellent progress! I’m so excited to see what’s next. As far as the bed goes, I don’t really have any great ideas but I think it’d be really cool if you made something yourselves.
I’m a lover of most things white, but I think your room needs a bed with some texture! So, I love your second picture. Though the honey and dark-colored ones would look great too. 🙂 Good luck!
Woven (seagrass?) or something like that gorgeous medium-toned sleigh bed to ground the room.
Please go for something natural and textural so I can be super duper jealous!
I say metal. A great vintage-y metal bed would look fabulous with the walls and colors and bedding. I did my daughter’s room last year in white and cream and pale turquoise and found a great antique iron bed, which I painted cream. I LOVE it. More than she does, actually.
I say metal also… maybe like tin. Something with a fun design punched into it maybe, since it looks like your bed will be in front of the window… maybe light could shine through a punched-out pattern in the headboard??
Either tin… or something else that lets the light come through it. I don’t know of any that you can buy… but since you and Kevin can make just about anything, I bet you could make something like that?! 🙂
I hear you on things getting busier and busier though. I’m pretty convinced that with the time change there are now 23 hours in a day. 😉 Have fun finishing up your master bedroom!
I love the metal headboards just like the one you have pictured, in front of the window. Or maybe even painted metal, but lightness of the open iron headboard won’t take anything away from your gorgeous window!
I just have one more idea I promise… maybe you could hang something (like stained glass.. or clear frosted looking glass for example) in front of the window as a sort of “fake headboard”… and just use a low headboard below that?! I’m not really sure how to pull any of these ideas off in real life though. It’s sort of like architecture school… designing buildings that cannot possibly stand up to gravity’s test, but it is fun to dream!
Since you guys absolutely have the skills, I am suggesting that you build the Farmhouse Bed (http://ana-white.com/category/plans/plancollections/farmhouse-beds) from Ana White’s site. It’s kind of chunky and you could paint or stain it. (I just read over some of the other comments and see lots of others are suggesting the same thing!)
First, I love the “dork” shirt….where’d you get it?
Now, about the bed. If it was mine, I would go for something dark and natural/woven. You need to break up all the lightness of the room and I think a nice big, dark, comfy bed would be inviting. I love the bed with the baskets under it, but I had a friend with a similar style and she said they don’t stay comfortable for long. It’s more of a spare bedroom kind of bed. Metal, I wouldn’t do EVER!! Metal creaks after a while and nothing worse to me then a creaky bed!!!
You’ve heard of Ana White – Knock-off Wood right?! She’s got plans to build almost all of the beds you have listed above!!!! It is amazing what people have done and inspiring. Go to http://www.ana-white.com. Warning – you’ll be there for hours!!!!
Something with texture in the same tones as the curtains would be nice
Your bedroom is really coming together~ wow, quite a difference from before to after!! I honestly don’t have an opinion of a headboard…I have never had one, not since I was a little girl, I had a great white caned antique one that I would kill to have now!! I’ve always just had my mattress on a metal frame. I would love to have a headboard made out of an old door or something….
can’t wait to see more!!
~michelle~
Metal or medium wood is the way I would go. I LOVE metal beds in a crisp, country room. Med. wood, that would look awesome too!
My own style is iron beds all the way (this is my current bed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/annabelvita/4878428221/in/photostream/ (ignore horrid clutter, I’ve moved house since then) and here is the white iron and brass one at my mother’s house http://www.flickr.com/photos/annabelvita/5020360032/ )
For your bedroom I think something like the white one in the picture could be great. I think with the wooden walls it could look like an amazing built in, almost boat like. I’d love that. You could distress it to be just like the bedside tables.
So, when you are imagining this room completed does it include a child cuddled up between you?! 🙂
The room looks fantastic so far. I’m not seeing the stripes in the curtains even when I go to the site and enlarge. I must be going blind. Deciding on a bed is a challenge with so many beautiful options. I’d just ask my friend Layla’s opinion.
Your Friend,
Deborah
The whole bedroom is looking great — especially the wall! I think a white bed would set off your bed linens the best. But honestly, almost any of the choices would work!
What a lovely start to your master bedroom! Based on your room thus far, I would definitely go with natural/textural/woven for the headboard. Whatever you choose, have fun shopping for it!
I love the first bed with the baskets underneath, but I REALLY love the woven headboard. Looking forward to seeing the final reveal.
I love that first bed, too! Thanks for the lead on a build-it-yourself option.
I’d vote a medium-toned wood. There’s white in the wall and the bedside chests, so I’d shy from white because the headboard would disappear. The woven option is about the same color as a medium wood, but I feel the texture is too much given the patchwork of some of the bedding options. I don’t think metal would provide the grounding the bedding needs, and dark wood, for me, would be too harsh a contrast.
If you wanted more texture maybe barn board or driftwood?
I have a simple black metal bed we bought almost 20 years ago and, although my decorating style has changed pretty drastically over those years (think country to modern), it’s one of the pieces in my house I still love every time I see it. There’s something timeless about it. But, I know whatever you choose will look fantastic. Love those side tables.
How southern and how cute that you’ve made a pallet on the floor!
I’m voting for something dark for the bed. You need some contrast. Either a dark iron bed or a dark stained headboard. The bedding is lovely.
Suzanne
I love the room so far and cannot wait to see your bed all “dressed up”!! I’d go with the seagrass headboard.
What can I say… Beautiful!!! 🙂
White. The bedding and shades will add the warmth the room needs. White will let the bedding (you love) shout. Awesome. Thanks for all the tips (nail gun) and tricks (re-use things thu-out my home). You rock.
Your bedroom is going to be gorgeous when finished! It already looks quite smashing!
I love seagrass—-and cats do too! Don’t know if you have one. I think a white wood farmhouse bed (like the one @ Pottery Barn) would look great!
I think seagrass would really look good next to your blinds. I love the twin ones you used for the Mess Hall. I absolutely dig your shirt. I am a self proclaimed dork and am proud of it.