Friday's Inspiration

I love this bedroom, unfortunately I don't know the designer or the source. I love the colors black and yellow together. I also love a canopy bed, it reminds me of when I was a little girl in my 1970's gilded canopy bed with the baby blue polyester canopy! I like the mix of patterns and stripes and how it all works to make the room inviting and comfortable.

The Color Purple

The color purple is supposed to represent royalty, romance and it's been said that it helps spark creativity. They may or may not be true what I can attest to is that lots of teenage girls like the color! Here are some examples of purple done right in the bedroom.


(photo from House Beautiful)


(photo from southern accents, another magazine that has closed its door)


(photo from Google image)

Do you think you have to be a teenage girl to have a purple room?

Master Bedroom

When we originally moved into the house our bedroom was downstairs but we decided we would move upstairs into the loft area because the room was much bigger. This is the room before we did anything. Its your basic beige empty room.



At the time I used paint and furniture that we already owned and did a quick makeover. The room was nice but not functional. There is only a very small closet that doesn't even begin to work for just my clothes. We lived with this room for a few years but then decided to make the room more functional and I also decided to go outside of "my box" and try to design a room that I normally would not of done.



Here's what the room looked like as it started to come together. I did keep brown in the room because virtually everyone of my rooms has brown in it and I like the house to have a flow to it. Stay tuned tomorrow to see the finish result!

Put Your Ideas In Front of You

Before I do a room re-do I cut out items that I think would look good in the room and tack them to a cork board. Having a picture in my head can sometimes be very different then what it actually is when I see it with my own two eyes laid out in front of me! Once I have everything clipped out I wait a few days and then look over it again, and its usually then where I edit by taking away or adding something to the room.

Don't forget to measure your room and the furniture going in the room. I usually just lay the room out on graph paper and takes barely anytime at all.

Stay tune for tomorrow where I post how the room turned out.