Show Us Your Life!

I can’t believe it’s Friday already, this week really seemed to fly by. It’s nearly the end of September already? Crazy!

I can’t think of what to write about today, so I thought I would join in with the ‘Show Us Your Life’ party going on over at Kelly’s Korner. I don’t really know Kelly, haven’t read her blog before I don’t think (which I will now that I’ve found it!) but Melissa and Kristen both posted about this today on their blogs,  and I thought ‘why not’. It’s always fun to see inside someone's home, don’t ya think.

This week Kelly has asked us to share our master bedrooms. I’ve shown a few pictures of this room before as and when I’ve done some decorating in there, but here’s a look at it all from beginning to now (having just added something new in the past couple of weeks which I hadn’t blogged about yet.

We moved in to this house about 4 years ago. It was newly built and all the walls were a builders ‘white’! This is how the bedroom (above) looked that first day. Very bare, very basic. You can see I have the mirror for the dresser propped up against the wall there!

It’s hard getting a full picture of our master bedroom because of the angle of the door, you either have to aim straight at the bed, or turn to the left to see the rest of the room. Above is the rest of the room. The dresser sits against the wall on the left, the french doors lead out to the balcony. There is a ton of sitting room at the bottom of the bed. It’s still my aim to get either a chair or small sofa there one day. Ideally I’d even like to remove the dresser and put in a fireplace, with a tv above it! But I don’t know if/when that will happen.

Well I finally got around to painting our room about a year later. . .  I bought new bedding when I did too, so it changed from burgandy and greens to gold and terracotta.

Here you can see the main wall color. It’s Laura Ashley Gold #4 The bedding is from Kohl’s.

This is the bottom half of the room. You can see the new curtains I hung. These were a perfect style so we could still open the door to the balcony. And you can see the contrast color I used on that wall, the color is called ‘baked clay’ by Waverly Home. Still had pictures to hang.

Here’s the top of the room again, with some pictures and candle sconces hung. And that’s how the room has stayed for the past couple of years, until recently. . . .  I added one more thing (for now – is a room ever finished?!)

Can you see what it is?

  I love it!

So, here’s how our cozy retreat looks right now. I added more pillows to the bed, but these are actually taken from the game room, so I will be looking for some newer ones for here.

A closer look, and the room looking a little lighter with the blinds open.

The bottom of the room isn’t looking as complete. . . .

 

I took away the silk flowers that were on the dresser to use in another room, so I would like to find something else to put there. Right now it’s got one lonely candlestick and two photos – pretty sad looking to be honest. 

Well, I hope you enjoyed the little tour and before and after pics. Hop on over to Kelly’s blog and take a wander around some other lovely rooms.

 

Denise