What is you bedroom like?

When it’s not Christmas and the dumping ground for all the associated detritus, my bedroom is functional and occasionally doubles up as my office.

I have a small en-suite shower room and a small walk-in wardrobe. The room is furnished with a kingsize bed, two bedside cupboards, a tall chest of drawers, a large bookcase and an equally large desk. Until recently I also kept my filing cabinet in there, but that’s now been moved to the actual office.

I have been planning to put a small sofa in front of the bay window for about two years, but keep putting off buying one because the windows are (over) due to be replaced. Now that my husband is permanently working in his office just upstairs from me it would be nice to have a sofa to share our tea-breaks.

Mine is unmentionably cluttered because I'm de-cluttering. I hope that makes sense!

Ours has a king size bed, neutral walls and carpet, dark purple velvet curtains with purple winter bedding, lilac summer bedding. One light oak double wardrobe, one matching chest of drawers, it’s comfortable and functional.

merlotgran

The light fitting is definitely going, Cali ?

Oh, thank goodness.

I thought I may have put both feet in it!
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Our bedroom is long overdue for re-decorating. We can no longer do decorating ourselves. We were about to get it done when Covid started, and haven't wanted anyone in the house ever since. The biggest problem will be to find a decorator who is willing to work round the furniture, as there is nowhere else to put it. ( king size bed, two chests of drawers, filing cabinet, bedside cupboards). We also need a new carpet. The colour scheme starts with the headboard and quilt which are dark duck egg blue. I plan to order new curtains first.
I have converted the little spare room into a study, though it still has a single bed in it. The other bedroom is DH’s study and there is no room in there.

Doesn't that drive you mad?!
It does me.
I'm not up to decorating, but expected to lug a sofa the size of an elephant out of my room and into my 2ft wide hall!

My bedroom is very plain but with a fairly dramatic patchwork quilt in a modern style, in shades of bright green and grey and with matching big quilted cushions on the bed. The pine furniture is well worn and I love it. I’m planning a new quilt to alternate with the one that’s there, so that there is a different look to the room from time to time.

This is ours. It took me 8 years to knit the bedspread ?
The house is a dormer bungalow & 5 years ago we extended through the roof to the right of the photo to make an ensuite and a walk-wardrobe - bliss.

You knit that bedspread? I am very impressed!
Very!

We also need a new carpet.
So do we, Cabbie21 but the thought of emptying everything fills me with dread.
The carpet is not to bad but I think the underlay has gone, it feels rather lumpy.

not too bad

Strippy getting it redecorated in a couple of month.As for my get up and go it wet on Christmas Eve and has not come back yet

Mine's a mess & the only room in the house not to have been decorated since we moved in. (because it's needed replastering all that time & I can paint / paper but my plastering's not good) I like my thick luxurious blackout curtains though & it's our elderly dog's favourite room.

janeainsworth What an amazing, beautiful bedspread.

I splashed out on some lovely wallpaper when we moved in here and kept some ‘80s built in wardrobes, much to everyone’s surprise! The room is light and cozy with crafting stuff in various places! The rest of our house is fairly minimal but this is my space, where I can just be myself . I love it!

Wow! To Janea’s amazing bedspread.

I am very much like you, Henetha. I cant sleep in my bedroom. Gave me the creeps, lot of people died in there, before I moved in. I have a single bed, and calm colours in the tiniest bedroom. 7 x 7. Its warm cosy and I sleep well. The real bedroom is for storage only.

janeainsworth - that bedspread is amazing! A real work of art and family heirloom...will you adopt me please?
Our new house came with charcoal carpet in the sitting room and bedrooms, marble tiles everywhere else. And red. Lots of red. Even in the bedroom. High ceilings. A full-height wall acting as a sort of bedhead, behind which are two walk-in wardrobes. That wall was was red. The previous owner had a hectic geometric bedspread in yellow, blue and green. Three beautiful, full-height windows, double aspect, looking out on to a gorgeous garden and a vine-covered pergola. (she was quite a gardener) No curtains, just off-white, textured roller blinds.
I painted the wall a lovely soft marsh green (colours of the NZ bush), and the other walls remain white. The built-in headboard on the green wall is a honey-coloured rimu timber. A linen bedspread in soft blues, creams and greens, with almost Jacobean birds and foliage, and two Victorian side tables, mahogany, with plants, pewter coloured Prinknash pottery and photographs. No storage needed, because of the wardrobes. White and grey marble tiled ensuite, with built-out/three glass-walled shower, looking directly into a private courtyard. Lots of soft green and fresh white accessories. I love it. Sorry, sounds boastful, but I can't believe it's mine!

FannyCornforth

A complete and utter chaotic mess. Just like everything in my house and life

Hi, Fanny. Me too.

Merlotgran we had almost identical fitted units when we moved in. I worried about them possibly coming loose above the bed. But the storage was useful.

It sounds lovely Boadicea - thank you all for your kind comments about my bedspread.
I got the pattern off the internet & when we were travelling in America, and visiting historic houses, a couple of them had bedspreads in the same leaf pattern.
I’m afraid though Boadicea DD1 has already put her name on it

Like a tip,full of clothes.

2022 WILL be the year I clear it.,

Cabbie21

Our bedroom is long overdue for re-decorating. We can no longer do decorating ourselves. We were about to get it done when Covid started, and haven't wanted anyone in the house ever since. The biggest problem will be to find a decorator who is willing to work round the furniture, as there is nowhere else to put it. ( king size bed, two chests of drawers, filing cabinet, bedside cupboards). We also need a new carpet. The colour scheme starts with the headboard and quilt which are dark duck egg blue. I plan to order new curtains first.
I have converted the little spare room into a study, though it still has a single bed in it. The other bedroom is DH’s study and there is no room in there.

My decorator was happy to work around my furniture or move it himself, I just removed all the bits and bobs and small items. He’s done work for me before, he is a handyman as well but does decorating with his wife, no papering though but willing to replanted cracks or uneven walls. I trust him implicitly and gave him a key to come and go as he needed.

It took him almost three weeks to decorate the complete bungalow - three bedrooms, lounge, study, garden room, kitchen, bathroom, hall and stairs to dormer room.

I think he thought I was mad doing it all at once but I just wanted the mess over with as soon as possible.

Prinknash pottery

We went there once years ago, BoadiceaJones and your post brought back that memory ?
We didn't buy any pottery, perhaps we should have done

Thank you Josieann I’ll have a look at Elephants breath it sounds interesting. Hopefully then I’ll be able to use light coloured curtains and bedding might put a white blind up too.