- Name:
- Courtney
- Location:
- Brooklyn, NY
- Division:
- United States
- What do you love about your bedroom?:
- Everything. I love my/our master bedroom both as a grown-up retreat/sanctuary AND as family-central and our kidsâ favorite place to be. The room gets great light throughout the day (for which Iâm eternally grateful, dark bedrooms are tough), gazes out on brownstones and treetops, retains its original marble mantel, deep moldings and parquet floors and is wrapped in soothing blue. Its primary elements hail from travels, family, Craigslist/auction and my now-shuttered antique store. A wooly Beni Ouarain carpet anchors the room (and is a soft play+stretch surface), block-printed curtains from Jaipur frame windows, bedâs a king-size Pierce Martin 4-poster (Craigslist), Cameroonian chiefâs headdress over the bed, white linen sheets and duvet and a couch! The walls host a shifting collection of art and photos. Crazily, I prefer our room to hotel rooms - save for its not having an en suite bathroom or turn-down service...
- What are your tips for creating a beautiful, healthy and organized bedroom?
- For bedroom beauty: decorate with what you adore and want near. You spend a chunk of time in the bedroom, much of it just gazing, so gaze on good stuff. Textures too - itâs your space to revel in textures and be barefoot. \LOrganizationally, we're blessed with a great walk-in closet but I also mounted BIG hooks everywhere so bathrobes, wear-again clothes, and dry-cleaner-bound pieces are off the bed/floor. We each have dressers, I have dressing table for more spread-space and my collection of figures wears/holds my jewelry. Bed-side, small side tables with drawers (yay!) corral reading glasses, notepads, earplugs out of site. I work to keep my reading piles in check and switch-out as new ones migrate in.
- In modern homes, bedrooms have become more than just a place to sleep; they can be a retreat, a home office, a library, a relaxation zone. What are some ways you make the most of your bedroom?
- With its comfy, me-length couch and coffee table (a Korean chest), books and magazines bedside and stacked all around, notepads and pens ready to capture any fleeting idea (all best ideas hatched in bedrooms), radio on WQXR (classical - NPR and hard news is for elsewhere in the house) and king-size 4-poster bed so boat-like we can make like Swiss-family-Robinson, it really is the center of our universe.
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Classy!
Stunning!
there are only two photos that give the sense of the layout and look of the room. the other three photo, while beautiful, merely show close ups of small details (the lighting, the art, the pillows, etc.). in the description you've noted you're 'blessed' with walk-in closets and have mounted big hooks on the wall to keep things off the floor - so, show it off! where are the photos of those features?
Ooooh! Courtney, can you share that beautiful blue paint color? This bedroom really is fabulous!
Beautiful... other than that mannequin, form, statue, anatomical model thingy by the window. That would freak me the heck out and I would be convinced it comes alive at night and watches me when I sleep. haha.
Lovely. Please please share the paint color, its beautiful.
gorgeous! one of my favorites so far
Yes, I'd also love to know the paint color!
This is my favorite so far - I could live there.
Really nice.
The paint color looks a whole lot like this: http://www.farrow-ball.com/light-blue/colours/fcp-product/100022
(I too am tiring of the close-up photos of tchotchkes that seem to be increasingly frequent on AT. It seems to be a conscious effort by the site admins rather than something that can be pinned on the homeowners.)
Thanks everyone!
And in answer to:
jennysilentg and diny - the paint is Farrow+Ball Skylight
RumAGoGo - can totally see how the figure might be creepy for some but it's a sentimental favorite with the loveliest face (not at all scary). It's a santos figure from the Philippines and I dress it for holidays...
LauraMason - good point on the photos - sorry not to have captured the hooks - which are on the door and along the walls leading to the closet. The closet itself is really not part of the actual room, and more functional than pretty, so didn't warrant a picture (I thought).
Thanks again!
Courtney
This looks very cosy and comfortable, feminine, but not too twee. That colour is very soothing, similar to Fired Earth's Bone White.
I want a couch at the end of my bed. Seems luxurious esp since I am never comfortable sitting up in our bed. Nice!
Not sure about the purple thing above the bed,but the rest is gorgeous!
Nice room bones, but waaaay over pillowed.
Really gorgeous - loving the lamp!
Restrained and yet personal and warm.
Nice.
So light and airy :) I'm not usually a fan of canopy beds, or spindals, or anything, but I love the frame above!
Really lovely. Love the color and the canopy bed. It would be even nicer if there weren't so many pillows. Too busy, and looks like there's no room to actually sit on the couch.
If this were my bedroom, I'd prefer it to hotels as well!
You have a beautiful space to work with, and you've done a great job with it. Like johncb, I think everything looks gorgeous except the purple pom-pom (or whatever it is) over the bed, though I like the instinct to add something a little unexpected in this otherwise extremely tasteful room.
Hi Courts- love the bedroom! I have been searching for a wall color for a year and you have found a winner, me thinks. The patchwork look I have going is getting to be quite déclassé. Would you ever meet me in the city for lunch if I came up on the train- missing you so much these days whilst reading your blog. Love to you and your family. Louise
What a beautiful and soothing space. I love the F & B paint color and textiles -- especially the window treatment. Great job -- this is one of the very best entries posted. Thanks for sharing -- the look is inspirational.
LOVE!! This bedroom is absolutely stunning...love everything about it.
Stunning. Simply stunning.
Wow, can't believe this room is so popular. It is beyond busy...less is more.
Hi! If you're still around answering questions, could you share the artist name for the painting that's propped up on the dresser?
Oh, not propped up, just hanging low over the dresser. I so wish we could edit comments. :(
fizzfizz - Absolutely still answering questions, thanks for asking : )
The landscape painting above the dresser (hung low, it's true - it's my husband's tall dresser and wanted to be sure I could see it as well) is by an amazing woman named Joellyn Duesberry (http://www.joellynduesberry.com/index/), a friend of my mother's who sometimes painted at our house.
Thanks for all the comments so far and bring on more questions!
best, Courtney
This room is really gorgeous, I love every bit of it, except the purple pom pom jars a bit. I know its the same colour family. I would love a room like this, Nirvana. Its totally elegant and fresh.