Master Bedroom Reveal

This has been a rather long time coming, but I think I can say that our master bedroom is done, for now at least. There are a few things I want to tweak, and I might make some more bedding (with my mad sewing skills - ha!), but here it is...

{View from the living/dining room}

{The door on the left leads to the bathroom, the middle one goes to the walk-in closet
and the one on the right (which you can hardly see) heads back to the living room}

We bought our bedroom furniture about four years ago, with money that my grandparents had saved for me as a child. It was expensive, but it will last years and years (I hope).

{I'm debating adding drapes, but it would be an expensive
endeavor to drill into the concrete - not sure it's worth it}

{The mirror was a $60 Craigslist score}

{My side - I'm reading the new Michelle Moran - love her books!}

{J's side - we were 19 and 20 when that photo was taken!}

I'm a bit of an art lover (albeit a cheap one). The fabric painting over the dresser was a gift that my best friend brought back from a trip to Rwanda, and I bought the two photos from an artist who was selling them on the harbor in Dana Point, CA (near where my in-laws live). The bottom one is somewhere in Laguna Beach (which is where J proposed) and the top one is on Catalina Island (where we honeymooned and took our first family holiday after S arrived).

Hanging over the bed is a painting of Kingsand, Cornwall, a little fishing village where I spent summers with my family growing up. I love this picture - it was hanging in the living room but it looked a bit lost against the greige walls - it's much happier here.

The moth orchid was a Valentine's gift (I think) from J and the other plant is a type of dracaena, which are very good at filtering pollutants from the air according to the NASA Clean Air Study.

{The white thing lurking under the dresser is Richard the Roomba (robot vacuum) -
it's the only place he's safe from our little button pusher}

The painting took a long time, but it was worth every minute. The main wall color ('Rainwashed' by Sherwin Williams) changes with the light and looks green or blue depending on the time of day. The stripes took me a while but they're subtle and fun and they make the room, I think. I'll post more about that little project soon.

I haven't shown you what it looked like before, have I? Well, this was it when we moved in:

And this was it a few weeks ago (when I was testing paint colors):

It's much better now, don't you think?

Sources

• Paint - Sherwin Williams (the main color is 'Rainwashed' and the stripes are a mix of 'Rainwashed' and 'Window Pane')
• Furniture - Pottery Barn Farmhouse collection in 'Antique Honey' stain
• Lamps - Pier 1 Imports
• Duvet cover and shams - Z Gallerie Sophia collection
• Quilt - Target Global Home collection (no longer available)
• Blue pillows - Pottery Barn (only in stores, as far as I know)
• Pink bird pillow - Pier 1 Imports (no longer available)
• Pink and orange pillow - gift from my mother-in-law (brought back from South Africa)
• Baskets (under side tables) - Pottery Barn
• Plate on wall and bowl on dresser - Spanish pottery (brought back from a trip to visit my maternal grandparents, who live there)
• Book box (under orchid) - Z Gallerie
• Vases on dresser - the large one was a Goodwill find, the green one is from 1730 Outlet and the glass bud vase was gift from my paternal grandparents
• Crysanthemum vase (on side table) - Anthropologie
• Coaster and bowl (on side tables) - Anthropologie (coaster, bowl in stores)
• Stone picture frame - Habitat (no longer available)
• Mirror - bought on Craigslist but originally from Pottery Barn

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