I’m back with the reveal of our master bedroom. What can I say, things work a bit slowly around here. You can see part 1 and part 2.

You can see most of the room in this picture: the bed, rug, and the blue paint. What you can’t see is the lonely brown wall. Next to the bed on the left side of the picture is the night stand and a milk crate filled with books/magazines/journal for me. I also have a spot light hanging from the bed side for when I want to do some reading/knitting in bed. On the right side is an ottoman that stores extra candles.

Here’s the other side of the room, with both wall colors. The doors on the very left are to the bathroom. And the one in the center goes to the hallway. (Please excuse my vacuum peeking out from the hallway.) The double doors is the Hubster’s closet (he doesn’t get much space).

And to have more storage for our clothes and my jewelry (I have A LOT!) we got this humongous wardrobe from Ikea. I didn’t realize how big it was until we put it together. I just hope that in the future if we move, it fits where we go. Right now its about an inch from the ceiling. I also want to put curtains in front of it so you can’t see the clothes. But for now this shall do. Right next to it is our floor lamp that was a wedding gift. It provides just the right amount of light and is controlled by a switch near the door.

This is at the foot of the bed, it hold a lot of stuff fro us. It is actually a wall shelf that I decided not to put on the wall. The two bowls are used to keep his and her keys. Baskets for other items. (Please ignore the “Mudd” shoebox there, it’s our first aid kit.) There are two black (Ikea) boxes, one for the Hubster and one for me, that keeps our important papers that we need for the month such as bills. We compete for whose box will be on top, making them more important.

The duvet cover is from West Elm and the rest of the set is a “bed-in-a-bag” from Bed Bath and Beyond that I had bought with a huge discount a couple years back. I love the duvet cover; doesn’t it look inviting?! Oh, I also got a “summer comforter” from Ikea to switch out after winter is FINALLY over.

I leave you with a picture of our Vikings that sit at the foot of the bed. Aren’t they cute?

All in all, I’m pretty happy with the turn out. It is functional and pretty. So what do you think of it? Anything you suggest changing?

-ASH

It was New Years day and we were trying to figure out what to do that day. I realized that the Hubster’s classes would start in a couple weeks and suggested we paint our room this weekend. And with that our new years day plan was set. Of course we didn’t start immediately.

After some lounging around we decided to hit the store. Yes, Home Depot was open. As we go there (7:30 pm, I told you we lounged around) I looked at the store hours and realized we had 30 minutes to get all our necessities!! Yikes! Lucky for us, I had made a list of all the things wee needed to do our first paint job. However the unlucky part was we didn’t have a set color in mind. We knew what we didn’t want and kind of what we did but nothing in particular.

See those two color samples on our wall? We didn’t want them, rather something in between.

As we went up and down the paint aisles I figured that at least we can prep the room with tape and such that night and get the paint in the morning the next day. Yup, that was the logical thing to do. But the laws of the universe kicked in to gear and gave me the brilliant idea of hurriedly picking two colors, get them made, and be the last one out of the store. I’m sorry Home Depot workers, i was THAT person. I also had a feeling that this decision was going to bite me later, but hey, now we had our paint and paint supplies!

Back at home, we got busy taping the walls off. The plan was to paint the wall you see in the picture above blue and the rest a brown shade.

Room is ready to paint. 

We painted our blue accent wall that night as well. The next day was scheduled for the rest of the room. The blue color was looking great .. I did well!!

The next day I was all excited and got up early to start on the rest of the painting. I finished the first brown wall and it was time to go to a family birthday lunch. I looked and looked and tried to like the brown. I just didn’t. In fact I could not see it go up on the other two walls at all.

The quick color decision cost me an ugly wall. But it was on to plan B. It didn’t look AS bad by itself; just the fact of three walls looking like this was not going to happen. At least not on my watch. We went back and got more blue and painted the other two walls the same blue color.  I compromised 1. the brown was going to stay 2. the “accent” wall was no longer the accent wall 3. at least we don’t look like we’re in a fish tank (with all four walls blue).

In the end, I like how it turned out with plan B.

What do you think? Plan B look good or should we have stuck with plan A? Stay tuned for the final reveal.

- ASH

I recently got married (3 months ago). Yaay! I also have a house that I can decorate. Yaay again! I haven’t had the chance to actually do anything with the house, but the time has come. Over a few posts I am going to record my design and implementation process on the master bedroom we share as a couple.

As we settle in together, I’m rearranging and redecorating. My first challenge will be our room. The room is 15′x13′ with a tray ceiling and 8′ walls. So what’s the problem right? Well, the way the room is laid out, I only have two walls that I can work with. The other two are full of doors to either the bathroom, hallway, or closets. Yup, that’s right, we are lucky to have two closets. (Naturally, I get the bigger one. )

I’ve had the house for a year and 6 months now and have had an Ikea Malm bed (black-brown color). I also had a dresser which was over flowing and just wasn’t cutting it anymore. It has been replaced with a Ikea Pax wardrobe, as of a few weeks ago!

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I also wanted a storage bench so that I could sit next to a window and relax. I got the Ikea Effektiv Wall Unit that works out great for us.

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So there you have it. That’s what we’ve accumulated so far. Next is painting. The color choices are hard to decide on. Stay tuned for the updates on our room!

- ASH