More on the master

In anticipation of our new mattress coming (2 more days!!), I have been thinking more about the potential of our master bedroom.

Before, with the seller's furniture:

After playing around with some ideas, here is my current vision for what the bedroom might become:

A breakdown of the items:

West Elm quilt

West Elm sham

West Elm euro sham

West Elm striped sheet set

West Elm throw pillow

West Elm throw pillow

Bassett Chatham poster bed (black)

Bassett Chatham dresser (black)

Bassett Chatham night stands (black)

Crate & Barrel sconces

West Elm owls

Pottery Barn mercury glass candleholders

Urban Outfitters tree

Pottery Barn casual cotton drapes (same as our dining room)

One of my favorite ideas to add more to this room is inspired by Centsational Girl. On the back wall (behind the bed), I would love to do this paint treatment similar to hers.

I'm looking forward to hearing Chad's thoughts, and figuring out when we will be able to accomplish all this. At least I feel like we have a direction! For now, all I need is a free Saturday to drive the 2.5 hours to West Elm and check out the bedding!

The King

We did it. We went out last weekend to look at king-size mattresses, something Chad has wanted to do for a very long time. We would have done this long ago if we had the room, but decided to wait until we had a house. So we went to look, and what happened?

Of course, we found something we both loved, and we purchased it. It's a Simmons BeautyRest. It will be delivered on Saturday, and we can't wait!

Uh oh. We don't have any king bedding. No king sheets! Nothing!!

For now, all we really need are some plain sheets. The queen quilt will do for a while. I don't want to rush on finding bedding.

The bedding will set the tone for the rest of the room. Right now, it is a blank canvas. A big, beige box (with a big beige master bathroom attached). So I suppose the bedding will also set the tone for the bathroom.

Here is our bedroom (with the seller's furniture):
COMING SOON

I posted recently about some bedding ideas. While I love the solid blue Tuck-Stitch quilt from West Elm, there has to be some movement and pattern. And they just so happen to have it pictured on the website along with the Winter Pine bedding set, and I love it.

Chad is a very outdoorsy kind of guy, and most of our home will be decorated with a subtle nature theme (the leaf plates in the dining room, the bird statues in the living room, etc.). And this bedding fits the bill. However, I don't want a duvet. So I'm looking at the solid quilt with some Winter Pine shams.

I still like the idea of the white and gray sheets with black furniture. And we can paint the walls, but we're still stuck with beige carpet (which we're not willing to change).

Part of me wonders if I'm so drawn to this bedding because of the red wall in the photo? I love how it looks together – but I just don't think we can handle red in our bedroom...

Cover me

We have no window coverings on our master bedroom windows. Chad just realized this today...after living in our house for over 1 month. I found this amusing.

It was especially noticeable tonight because of the soccer game, and the bright lights that we could see through the trees. We back up to a natural wooded/marshy area, so the lack of window coverings hasn't been a big deal so far. At the very least we'd like to keep the light out from the workout center on the other side of the trees.

I'm thinking blackout curtains. But I don't particularly want to spend money on curtains before we know what we are [eventually] going to do with the bedroom. I just like to have a plan.

The first plan of attack for the room is that we'll eventually buy a king bed. The only question is when. And whenever this happens, a king bed is going to mean new bedding; eventually new furniture; and maybe the current beige walls will get a fresh coat of paint. Until then, I'm not too keen on a premature curtain search. In response to this, my wonderful husband encouraged me to "look" for bedding.

Here are some of my ideas for bedding:

We live in the south and like quilts. No thick comforters or heavy duvets for us. And there are just not as many options out there for quilts. So at the moment, I'm really digging the second option (blue quilt) with the white/gray sheet sets.  

And potential bedroom furniture:

Pottery Barn – Hudson Bed

Bassett – Aspen Grove Arched Panel Bed

Bassett – Chatham Panel Bed

The third bed also comes in black.

As for the curtains, I was given the idea to put sheets up in the interim. That may be what we'll have to do, since it will be a little while before we can conquer the bedroom!