My bedroom is getting closer to being my favorite room in the house. The furniture showed up last weekend, and the mattress was delivered today.

Here’s a picture of what it looked like before. Note the abundance of beige (ceiling, floor, doors, comforter, etc). Hello, my name is Cyndi, and I’m afraid of color.

And, after. It looks like a completely different room.

Unfortunately, the dog kennel has to stay, even though it doesn’t exactly add to the ambiance of the room. It’s the dogs’ favorite place in the house to go hang out, and I don’t think they’d like it if they couldn’t sleep in the same room as us.

There are still a few details to be finished up. Tomorrow, a painter is coming to paint the doors white. (all of the doors in the house are beige - the same as the walls. Weird.) I’m tossing around the idea of painting the window bench seat white too. Someday I’ll upholster a cushion for it. And, you may have noticed that the bed is missing one finial and the crossbars for the canopy. Those were damaged during shipping, and hopefully will be replaced soon. Although, I have to say that I like the bed equally well without the crossbars.

I also need to find some art to hang on the wall above the bed. Stephanie (who also just completed a fabulous bedroom makeover) got me thinking about creating something myself, either by taking a photo of leaves or ferns, or possibly using one that I’ve already taken and photoshopping it a bit. I’ll have to browse my iPhoto library and/or get out the camera and go for a walk this weekend to find some foliage to photograph.

Updated to add details, for those interested:

Paint: Restoration Hardware Silver Sage

Furniture: Durham, Southampton collection

Wall Sconces: Restoration Hardware Library Swing Arm Sconces

Bedding: Restoration Hardware Italian Pintucked Sateen, Eucalyptus (this, I am not as excited about as I thought I would be.  it looks great after 45 minutes of ironing, but after I took it out of the dryer, it was a huge wrinkled lump.  not what I was expecting when the label says ‘touch up with warm iron if needed.’  warm iron, my a$$.  try super hot steam iron with lots of pressure.  darn cotton.)

The sum total of my knitting this weekend was a measly eight rows, because of this:

Necessary to transform our bedroom from this: (note the color swatches on the wall by the window - also, the ceiling is beige too. it’s a lot of beige.)

Hello, and welcome to the land of too much beige

To this:

All in preparation for this, which should be arriving in 2-3 weeks. Also planned for the room are these (next to the bed) and these (on the bed). I’m not going to want to leave my bedroom ever again!