Home Tour Begins {Our Bedroom}

I am so excited to finally begin our home tour.  However, I am a little apprehensive.  I don’t want you to be disappointed in what you see because I have shown a lot of it already.  But, here goes.  We shall begin the home tour with our master bedroom. 

I absolutely love our bedroom.  It is exactly what I imagined it to be.  Big, warm, cozy, and free of clutter!  The first thing I bought for our new bedroom was our red quilt. I fell in love with it when I saw it.  IT WAS KING SIZED!  I loved the color.  I loved how simple it was.  And, I knew I could decorate around it.    What I found out after I bought it was, I really had a hard time finding things to go with it that I loved.  Slowly but surely, it has come together! 

The  next thing we bought was our bedroom furniture.  After the fire, I told myself that our furniture was not something I was willing to settle on.  I wanted nice furniture that I loved and knew would last forever!  And…A KING SIZED BED!  We ended up getting our furniture from Cramer Custom Creations.  He actually lives in Kansas, but comes to Canton.  I absolutely love our furniture! 

If you remember, I had a really hard time finding lamps and shades that I liked.  I mean, I seriously looked for months for that “something” that stood out to me.  I think I was having a hard time because I didn’t know what color of base would look good.  I found several black lamps, but didn’t think that black would look good with the black furniture.  Anyway, I decided on silver bases from Walmart and burlap shades from Target.  I kept the plastic on the shades and the tags on the lamps for a month.  Maybe it took me getting our burlap bed skirt from Dressings (at Canton) and putting it on the bed, to make me decide that the lamps would look ok.  Once I finally decided I was keeping them and took the tags off, I really fell in love with the way they looked. 

Then, my dilemma was our standard size shams that came with our kind size quilt.  Kind of weird.  I bought several different decorative pillows and ended up taking them all back. I finally came across this pillow at Stein Mart and thought it might look good either on the bed or somewhere else in the house.  I put it on the bed and I really liked the way it looked.  It filled that void between the two shams.  I really thought that I might want 3 Euro burlap pillows on the bed, but I really didn’t want to invest the money in something I couldn’t return.  So, for now, I am happy with our one decorative pillow on the bed.  It’s simple and I kind of like it. 

The view from our bathroom…

There were three different colors of burlap bed skirts.  I went with Tobacco. 

My side of the bed.  I just happened to find this black frame with a burlap matte at Hobby Lobby. I love it!  I am reading Bringing Up Boys by James Dobson right now.  My friend Amy gave it to me for Christmas and I am just getting started.  I am anxious to read more!  The educator in me has that highlighter holding my place.  I just can’t help it. 

Another view.  Entering the bedroom.  From this view, I really don’t have much on the walls.  I just haven’t found that perfect something yet.  I would like to do something over the dresser, but I just don’t know what.  A big mirror?  Shutters?  Vinyl?  Hmm…

There are a few things on the walls though.   I got that matted frame from Good Samaritans for 50 cents and painted it black.  I already had that beige matte in there.  Perfect!  I got the box sign from LaurieAnna’s Vintage Home in Canton.  You can also find it along with many other signs like it here.  I am eyeing a couple more for Hayden’s room.  I just love them!

I am really thinking I would like a chair of some kind in that open space under that Good Samaritans frame between the outside door and closet door.  I saw a black wicker chair with a crème cushion at an antique store recently that was cheap.  I am so kicking myself for not getting it! 

I also recently added this frame I found at Canton.  (What you will soon find out is that I bought 3 more that are different colors and placed them around the house.)  I guess you could say that I LOVE these old ceiling tile frames.   They are about 2 ft x2 ft square. 

Well, there you have it.  Welcome to our bedroom!  I would love to hear any ideas you might have for the wall our bed is on or the wall above the dresser!