Category Archives: Bedroom
Someone Else’s House: Amazing Attic Remodel (part 2 of 2)
Yesterday I left you right here, with the change in the living room of this attic remodel, if you missed that you can click here to read about it.
So let’s pick it up from here… click here to read the rest of the story…
A Little Getaway at a Gorgeous Victorian B&B
We recently were given an amazingly generous gift package from our son and daughter-in-law to a B&B in Stillwater, MN at The Rivertown Inn.
(This is the ‘wallpaper’ in the dining room… They had an artist somehow photocopy or reproduce a painting onto large canvases and then hung that canvas on the wall like wallpaper, and then embellish it by hand with paint. It looks amazing in person, like a huge oil painting on the walls!)
A little about the history of Stillwater, the oldest town in Minnesota, it is a picturesque town sitting on the St. Croix River across from Wisconsin and absolutely filled with Victorian homes and mansions, amazing shops with tons of choices for antiquing. It’s for sure a destination town and well worth the trip.
And the place we stayed, The Rivertown Inn, was over the top in opulence and décor! The amazing attention to detail with no expense spared for this antique B&B is remarkable. High end finishes throughout, both inside and outside… click here to read the rest of the story…
Someone Else’s House: Bungalow Master Bedroom
The other day I introduced you to a very sweet, young couple that has bought their first home in a vintage neighborhood full of charming bungalows. I showed you the pair of unmatched dressers and how she cleverly painted and papered them into a coordinated set. (If you missed that dresser re-do post, click here to see it)
So let’s take a look at the whole bedroom today, with before, during and after pics…
Well to start with, when they bought this house just a couple months ago, the bedroom looked like this: (minus the previous owner’s furniture)
It doesn’t look too bad, that is if you like lots of green stripes… they were a bit overwhelming, so off came the paper… be prepared it gets worse: click here to read the rest of the story…
Someone Else’s House… Making 2 Vintage Dressers a Set!
A young couple that I know, recently bought a crafstman style bungalow in a lovely neighborhood full of similar styled homes all from the 1910’s and 20’s. This is the first of hopefully many posts I’ll be sharing with you of the amazing transformation this house has experienced since this hard-working, talented, creative and all around wonderful couple has purchased it just a few months ago!
Today I’m starting with a pair of dressers. This pair of dressers, like the young couple that own them, are each from their individual families. The taller dresser, is the husband’s from when he was a boy and before that belonged to his dad from when he was young. Likewise for the other dresser, it was the wife’s from when she was a little girl, but now they’re together.
In the picture you can see the grainy ‘before’ pic… yep, one of the dressers came into this family orange, the other was a white-ish color.
But now that they’re together, it was time to coordinate them. So… click here to read the rest of the story…
Master Bedroom, Pottery Barn Linens, Just Not a Messy Bed
I’ve been sort of delaying getting the master bedroom revealed on this blog. Mostly because I’ve really been struggling with making the pictures look as good as the room looks in real life. For some reason, I can’t get a good angle with the bed, either it looks huge, or it looks messy. And then this week I got the Pottery Barn catalogue in the mail and the bedroom pic, that by the way, looked great… of course, had bed linens that were slightly messy.
Source: Pottery Barn
Doesn’t that bed above from Pottery Barn look great? Yeah, I tried to embrace the ‘messy’ bed look. I wasn’t happy with that picture either. And the toile printed linens I have, even came from Pottery Barn. (maybe I just lack the guts to pull that messy look off, Ha! after all, what if you thought that since I posted pics of my bed messy, you thought that was how I normally kept it? Gasp!)
So instead I tried to get the same angle and closeness of the bed as Pottery Barn did… Read More of the Story…
Window Treatments in the Master Bedroom, How I Accomplished Form and Function
All of the windows in ‘Our House’ are treated according to what the privacy and light control needs (function) are for each space, as well as treated for the aesthetic quality (form). In most cases it’s difficult to accomplish all those needs with only one treatment per window. Usually, I have a treatment for the privacy and light control, and a separate treatment for the ‘look’.
In the master bedroom, the Hunter Douglas plantation shutters on the windows are on read more…
Quick Project: DIY Personalized Pillow
Yesterday, my 7 year old granddaughter was finishing up a couple day stay with me, and as we were taking a break from the heat outdoors, to do a little work on the dollhouse furniture, she expanded the craft-time to ask me to sew a pillow for her with her name on it.
She loves that I sew, and always thinks up projects for me to sew for her when we go downstairs to the sewing area… Plus she really wants to learn to sew too, which I would love to teach her, so it’s a win-win situation.
Being the genius-creative little girl that she is, her wheels start turning just by looking at the pile of ‘stuff’ in my craft closet, so what started out as a little pillow for the dollhouse bed, was a fun transition for her into a personalized pillow. READ ON…
Little Brick Cottage: Complete Home Tour of Before & After
In case you missed it, we recently bought and restored a late 1800’s brick house, which I refer to as ‘The Little Brick Cottage’. We don’t live in the cottage, but bought it to restore it and help preserve a little history in the cute town we live in NW Wisconsin, in hopes of someday selling it, but for now renting it to a wonderful family that appreciates the property as much as I do.
Even though I’ve taken you through this project post by post, and it’s now completed, I thought it would be fun to see a complete home tour of each room in a single post, to read more about projects from each room, just click on the highlighted room’s name to see all the posts about that particular room.
So here goes the complete tour READ ON…
Our House… A Little Change in the Master Bedroom
So far, the closest to revealing the master bedroom at ‘Our House’ is when I showed you the master bathroom.
The master bedroom has the same painted finish on the wood wall, ceiling, and trim as the master bathroom, so to bring in some wood tones in the furniture is a nice contrast to all the painted pieces.
Here is the shelf that was in the bedroom before this weekend’s yard sale ‘buy’…
It is a vintage bamboo shelf that my mother-in-law gave me when I was first married. It works here ok, but not great. I love the piece, but would like to find a new spot for it, maybe in the piano room…
anyway, here is the new, well, old-antique piece… READ ON…
Our House… Drastically Change a Lamp from Super Traditional to Fun!
As I was looking around the house to move a lamp into the West bedroom where I recently moved the twin beds, I found one that would be a good size, however it was soooooo boring.
Here’s a shot of the completed room. The fabric I put behind the antique windows to create the ‘headboards’ was my color scheme inspiration for the lamp. READ ON…
