Saturday, March 2, 2019

Your bedroom and its' manners

The blessed bedroom.  A place to sleep, read, get intimate, dream, laze around, change clothes in, even for those bad bad girls to watch television in!

I must confess since the IPAD I have been known to spend lazy evenings tucked under my duvet watching a good documentary or surfing the net, but I do try to keep anything but sleeping, reading, intimacy, out of the bedroom.

My bedroom is a deep chocolate brown - with lofty 14 foot ceiling of cement.  The sheer size of it  - allows me to drench it in that syrupy dark molten lava like brown.  This truly created a cocoon feeling which was hard to achieve in a room with such great heights!

Again, as in real estate location location location, with interiors size does matter.  Things my be proportionate.  A huge headboard will require massive bedside tables, and likewise a teensy room will require that the bedside tables adhere to that.  Of course you may break the rules, but there is a literal price to be paid for that, perhaps space, or ease and comfort.





Note how above the colorful headboard is accented by contrasting colors in the color sphere, and so with a mishmash of pillows to balance it all out neither is overpowering, but both play off each other in a great dance of chemistry.  The shelf on the nightstand enables you to quick put away maybe a glass of water you don't want to topple, a book, or  an IPAD, while allowing the upper portion to be easily free of the messiness.  The high lacquer finish lends a bit of an Asian flare, but the orange tones push the envelope a little away from what would have been a classic cherry red Chinese flare.
This is definitely a winning combination.







This is an interesting way of creating storage where none is had, and creating a bit of history and ingenuity.  The aged suitcases are piled one on top of another.  In this case the top one seems to be a big worn and not as 'even' as I would have liked.  To get around this you might consider a piece of marble or hardwood that might be wallpapered or aged to enable you to rest a tumbler without having to worry about it wobbling.  The suitcases allow you to stow away books, or winter apparel, or even some blankets or sheets for guests that you would occasional access.  Notice how that headboard is much taller than the suitcases but , the picture frame above the luggage allows it to creep up so that the cases are not completely dwarfed by the curvy metal headboard.  The aged lamp that looks like on old fashioned hair dryer from the 50's lends a bit of flare and fun.







Frame within a frame is what I'd call the above look.  Turquoise is one of my all tie favourites and here it is tone on tone on the wall (upper and lower wall colors a shade or two off of each other, with the frame surrounding the headboard a punchier Caribbean blue.  Accents in the same tone are abundant, in the tea pot, the blankets, shams books and vases.  This rooms night stand is fairly small but again it is also framed by three shelves that are built into the wall bring the the height of the ensemble right up to the bed frames 'outer frame'.   The book case niche is an interesting touch, allowing you to showcase pretty artifacts, here a clock, some books bound in tones of blue and wicker baskets.  The beauty of a show case like this is that it's easily changeable, season to season without breaking the bank.







Deep blue wingback headboard that is tufted is the focal point here. Although fairly low it still has a dramatic effect due to it's tailoring and color.  The bedside tables are fairly simple with a Chinese flare of edging and pulls in shiny gold, topped by angular golden lamps to match.  The greige tones on the wall, the rug and the nightstands allow a cool soothing feel that still invites you to settle in and enjoy a room without frills but with elegance and style.







Come in glamor, have a seat. Layering in this room is the verb to be used, everything from the rug
atop another rug, to the lamp shades that hide the picture frames just a touch creating yet another layer, to the chairs which are again one more layer against the sleek and elegantly simple night stands.

The shelves on the white lacquered stands allow for mounds of books and memorabilia that's easily accessible, allowing the upper shelf to be a showcase as it evidently is here. The drama is in the footstool, the headboard and matching curtains. The bedspread elegantly quiet is a deep chocolate brown that doesn't compete but invites one to have a long slumber or laze in the sun that is drenching the room







Ooh la la let's talk drama, not only in color but in patterns, shapes and a showcase of a variety of eras.  The french provincial side table challenges the 70's ultra disco look of the silver globes on the bedside lamp, yet it looks like it is perfectly matched.  A lot of this is because it is played off of by an array of colors that carry a punch of their own drama.  The headboard isn't shy about being present in this room, it is loud and makes a statement in a simple black and white hue.  The zigzag pillow cases and bright pink bedspread are no wallflowers either.  All of this is extended into the adjacent room we see a bright green 'chinoiserie' look of wall paper.  Again the bedside table is fairly small given the width and height of the bed, but it doesn't seem to be so small that it goes unnoticed.  Crowned by it's glamorous lamp which elongates the look to almost the top of the headboard you see that it creates the perfect jubilant pairing.









Be still my heart.  This is a great room for a hipster single guy or a gal who likes the rugged country look.  The wallpaper is uniquely made one sheet of book at a time.  As it is pressed into place without have all the edged pasted onto the wall, it looks like a giant book, egging you to read it's pages.

The headboard of deep brown leatherette lends a library feel, as does the expansively large and historic looking trunk with leather trimming.  Again an ideal place to store your added pillows, or things you will want to get to rarely.  The side tables match here, but there is only one lamp which is also unique in the way that it is extended from the wall on an acordian pull, allowing for way more space to be used on the trunks surface.  More space, more books and magazines to hoard and pore over into the night or on a lazy morning over coffee in bed.



Enjoy!









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