The Varied Stages of My Bedroom

A while back I posted this about the remodeling/redecoration of the room I shared with my middle older sister (that does make sense if you think about it), after posting several things about the remodel. On the first of January of this year, we stopped sharing a room, which saw me moving into one of the two guest rooms. Except for nine months spent at a rental house, in 2009-2011, this is the first time I've had my own room. While I loved sharing a room and I definitely recommend it, I very, very much enjoy living alone (haha - I'd actually hate to live completely alone, but a room of one's own has its perks).
When we first moved into this house, it was decided that while my sister and I would continue to share a room, we could each decorate one of the guest rooms and be in charge of keeping it clean, and etc. We called them our "havens" because the idea was that we could go there if we needed our own space. It has become even more of a haven now that is is my room. To avoid confusion, I shall continue to refer to this room as my haven in this post.
My haven has gone through very many stages of decoration and rearranging, as furniture is stored there or moved elsewhere and I have change my mind. In hopes that this progression may be interesting to some, I here provide a look at it.

To start way, way back:

This was late March 2010, when we had first bought our house. The room above (with my tiny pink crocs, and and a motor cycle poster) is our bedroom. Below, my haven:

 (Taken from the hallway)

Complete with weird blue curtains on only one window, and disgusting carpet.

A year later shows my haven looking much nicer — clean carpet, blue walls — but the mattress is still on the floor and has a twin-sized quilt. Obviously I was also not as tidy then. And is that a sheet serving as a curtain?

The pictures below are of our bedroom in January 2012. A royal mess, perhaps, but decorated with some taste.  Multicolors (and clutter) ruled the day.

 This picture below was taken about the same time. Mattress still without a headboard of any sort, but things are arranged a little neater, and there are actual bedclothes and curtains (plus a dying plant beneath the window).

And my very... unique form of a closet doors.

Between now and then I am sadly picture lacking. But you can see my haven live in October 2012 by watching the video here, which displays my lovely medievalish headboard and my closet curtains. (I also had a four-poster at one point...). It does not show the desk I acquired about the same time, but as I still use it you will see it shortly.

Late in 2012 we got rid of the desks and acquired a loveseat.

So as to not duplicate photos I shall say that in summer 2013 we repainted and drastically repopulated our room (furniture-wise), and you can see that here: http://thepenofawdur.blogspot.com/2013/10/our-beautiful-room.html

About a year ago I got a new headboard, because although the other one was very medieval-ish, as I said, it didn't actually fit the bed (it was only leaning against the wall) and would have required too much work to fit it. When I decided to movie into the room last fall, I moved the desk from against the wall with the door (where my bookshelf is currently) to beneath the window, and put the chest at the foot of the bed so I could store things in it and not have to constantly take plants off.

To the pictures:

Looking in from the hallway...

...and looking back at the door. You may remember the white peacock (Gertrude) from our other room.

If you read my bookshelf tag you'll notice I have a new bookcase. Although it doesn't match the rest of my furniture so well it fits nicely in the corner. And apparently we've had it in the family for twenty or so years, which is cool.

Featuring another piece of furniture which has been in the family for years — the little rose stool (which again, doesn't really match the rest of my furniture, as it is white and the other three things are dark wood stain, but who cares? I like it). On the desk you can see my large seashell disk with random things in it, my vase/pen cup, a random bust that my mother snuck into my room for fun, and my plant. My book plant has actually survived and not died like the other plants I've had before. (If the planter inspires you to go be crafty and make one, I'll say that tutorials were difficult to find, and this was the best I saw. )

I'm making this extra large so you can see my NIECE. And can you spot the pegasus?

Over in the corner there is a J.W. Waterhouse painting you may recognize, plus a random bust my mother found.

I have a trunk at the foot of my bed, and since I moved into my haven I keep clothes in it. It's very Anne-of-Green-Gables-type romantic and it's thrilling. (Plus another Waterhouse over the bed.)

And because I am a would-be citizen of the United Kingdom:

Cheers!

Our Beautiful Room

I wanted to share some [poor] pictures of our bedroom. It's really coming together; I've mentioned a few of the things we've added already, but I'll say again. Our room was ugly yellow, with a white bunkbed, two mismatched-somewhat-unattractive bedside tables, three white shelves and a tall white dresser. And it was always messy. And there were random things that didn't go with the rest of the room, like butterfly wall decals (though they were quite pretty) and two blue coat-hook-board-thingies.
Now-
It is a lovely pale blue. We have two black iron twin beds. We have this lovely between-the-bed-side-table-windowseat-dresser-thing, and a cream colored desk and a hutch, and three prints and three birdcages on the walls. I suppose I'll just have to put pictures so it makes sense–

Stepping into our room

The two prints above the right bed (mine)

The left bed (my sisters)

Our desk and hutch

Close-up of the cool french cloth in the back of the hutch

Gertrude, the shrewish-looking peacock on the wall between our bedroom door and our closet door.

And Miss Mirab, the cat (duh). :)

Love,

A black nose

Not black all over. Just a little grayish. And black on the inside, oddly enough.
So – contrary to what my previous post about our bedroom remodeling says, we actually painted our bedroom a lovely blue gray. Very pale. Very gentle and calming. I think it's perfect.
And our white iron beds – well, we found them (in the form of a blue bed and a gray one), and today we are painting them. We decided on black instead of white. So that, people, is why the inside of my nose is black. And why my feet are grayish.
I helped spray paint the headboard of one bed, and I stepped out of the little booth my dad made by hanging plastic sheets. I stepped out because the heavy smell of the paint was noxious. My nose felt as though there was still a paint cloud hanging around it. I touched my nose – and my finger had black spots on it.
Even now, an hour later, black stuff comes out of my nose. :) Ah, well.
Live long and prosper!

Busyness

Well, we've been quite busy here in Minas Galen/Green Acres/Green Gardens. Pardon me, inside joke which only my sister will get. :)
My mother is in a play – a musical, in fact – let's not be secretive, it's Ragtime! It's a splendid, extremely dramatic, 35-scene (and singing [note: mute the sound in this song from 5 minutes 44 seconds (4:44) to 5 min 57 sec (5:57) ] in nearly every single scene ), 50+ member cast.  This is the last weekend of the show. Tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday. For the last two months, "everything is Ragtime" (to be grammatically correct, that would be 'everything has been Ragtime' but I wanted to quote).
And next Wednesday, we depart for a journey of extreme length (5 hour drive there and back) which shall whisk me away for some time (not that it shall be noticed, since I don't blog very regularly). We'll be exploring the city and seeing my dear cousin (and aunt and uncle) for a week.
I wish I had more to say – it doesn't sound so busy, but between redoing our room and my dad's work schedule and my mom's play schedule, the last few weeks have been crazy.
Speaking of redoing our room, I have a picture to show. It's a rather blurry, dark picture because I am not a photographer.

You see, we had a shelving system attached to the wall. Every little dot is a hole in the wall. The brown patches are where the drywall is showing because it peeled all the paint and the paper off the wall. But even though it's extremely ugly, it is also good, because it means that tomorrow we paint! Blue, beautiful blue.

Fare thee well!

I'm Excited!

Guess what? My sister and I are... *drumroll*....  redoing our room! I'm really excited about it. It will be a sort of shabby chic/french country theme, rather than messy/dirty/splotches of random color/no-theme-at-all. After three years in this house, we decided to redo our room. We're painting our [dirty] yellow walls a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very pale pink (like, almost white), selling our bunk bed and instead getting two white iron twin beds, selling our dresser (and possibly getting a vintage desk with a hutch on it), and where two mismatched bedside tables used to be, we have...

THIS!

It is soooo pretty (even in my small, dark picture). It is a window seat and a bedside table. (You can see the corner of our twin-over-full bunk bed on the left). We will put our beds on either side of it. I just love this.
Anyways, just thought I'd share what made my day yesterday. Hope all your weekends (and weeks) are full of blessings.