another room tour

here's our bedroom. it's my favorite room, maybe because it feels so comfy and soothing. like my own little sanctuary.

  it's a hodge-podge of hand-me-down furtniture, heirlooms, estate sales, and thirft store finds.

the bed was my grandmother's great aunt and uncles. the chair was one i bought at a thrift store and painted and recovered. the three prints in the wall are art nouveau that i scored at a estate sale. i'm a big fan of art deco and art nouveau period things.

pardon the crookedness of the pics. when you have lots of kids in a small house all the pictures tend to hand crooked on the walls.

the ivy on the back of the house just about covers our bedroom and bathroom windows and makes the room feel extra cool in the summer.

the door to our little bathroom. we put in pocket doors when we did the work in the bathrooms recently. and that's the collection of books by my side of the bed that i'm currently working my way through.

and every room in my house has plants. because i'm a plant lover.

our bathroom is really tiny, but i love it. it has a shower stall that you can't see in the pic. the tile is a green and the walls are a very pale shade of gray.

 those are roses from our awsome neighbor, Clay's rose bush.

the view from the toilet. you can sit there are admire the dust floating in the air.

theses pics don't include the other end of the room and the 60's era french provincial dresser and vanity that were a hand me down from my aunt Sharon. at first i thought we'd use them in Margaret's room, but i grew to like the funkiness of the set. it is painted with green and yellow flowers and sort of just tied together the whole cottage look of the bedroom.

i asked Brian if the femininity of our room bothered him, and he said not in the least. he didn't figure it was too feminine since it has a hook with baseball caps, a collection of boots, and a beer poster on the wall. hehe.

the color of the room is called celery sprig, and doesn't show up as much in the pictures as in real life. some adjustments i want to make in the near future is to paint the bed (probably white) and to paint the frame on the picture above the bed (a brushed up silver).

so that's our room.