I'm interested in how that bed frame was constructed. Any ideas?

that's so funny--my first thought also was about the bedframe.

The bed frame is beautiful. The room is hideous. Grandma on crack.

I think this kind of look is much more difficult to pull off than staunch minimalism and like this room. I also have a feeling that the paint is richer IRL.

maybe i'm wrong, but i think it is just two twin-sized metal cots pushed together.

You think the paint color looks like Grandma? Is your grandma Betsey Johnson?

I think Wary Meyers does it better: http://www.warymeyers.com/warymeyers.p.html
(particularly the guest room, it's amazing!)

I think it gets points just for having no big-box store items.

I think it's great when someone isn't afraid to show their personality through decorating.
Minimalism of the sort that is all beige and white screams I am scared of color and I just want to play it safe.
It may be "clean",sleek and elegant, but it can show cowardess too.

I like the patterns; I'm not quite loving the placement of the shelving, but the padding on the walls could be better if it had something to "hem" the top edge, like a chair rail or something.

Agreed, Curtis. I love pattern on pattern, but find it hard to do without having it look a little too hippie-ish for my taste.

It looks unbelievably snuggly in there.

You people are really anti-grandma, aren't you?

i think the wonderful thing about the paint color (80's mauve?) is that in conjunction with all the other hues, I am persuaded to like it, when had I seen it by itself, I would have doubted that as even a possibility. I love it when design choices can convince me to enjoy something i've hated my whole life.

Not my style, but if the whole shebang were rendered in monochrome, we'd be praising it for its minimalism. Which makes this an excellent lesson---teaching us how color and pattern make all the difference in the world.

And if you needed to cover up bad walls with low investment dollars and labor, how would you do it?

All I can think about is that stuff overhanging the edge of the shelf over the bed crashing down in the middle of the night. And the padding reminds me of crib bumpers. This room is such a hideous mish-mash of colors, patterns, mismatched and oddly placed objects, all assembled to make sure that not one single thing complements anything else. Probably the most depressing thing I've seen on AT.

Hippie-grandma on crack, but in a good way. It made quite a statement for a teensy room. I think the padded walls are a unique touch to take the boxy feel out of it. Makes me think Red Riding Hood lives here. The wall paint color I would change but I don't know what to. Fun.

I think it does look a tad grandma-ish, but that also is what makes it so unbelievably cozy looking. While I wouldn't want quiet so MUCH color in my bedroom, at the same time, a part of me wants to curl up in that bad with a good book. Using 2 cots as a bed frame is such a different idea too...

Not sure I like this room too much, but I definitely think I would like the person who lives there.

The bedroom looks like a richly padded jewelry box (very comfortable). As for the bed, just get a weathered trunk to put in front to draw the eyes away. I give it 3 thumbs up!

Thanks for sharing.

And for those who may not share my opinion -- no, I am not color blind or pattern challenged. I think it takes creativity to use an old idea and make it new.

The room seems to have Indian colors to me, not "Grandma" colors. Other cultures aren't as demure as Europeans when it comes to color. I think it looks very expressive and warm. In fact, I'm betting if the same room had a bunch of Ikea crap in it and minimalist design, people would be praising the color as a bold and lively component rather than criticizing it as too old-fashioned.

I agree with others about the bed frame being two cots pushed together. It's the sort of thing minimalists probably would never think of. :-p

To each his own. Thanks for sharing and it's great that AT has the cojones to put this out for all to see. One persons nightmare is another's sweet dream.

I like it. It's warm, cozy and creative. Not my color exactly, I would choose something in a bit different shade. But generally - a brave move that works fine for this small box-like space.

Definitely not "grandma" as you minimalists suddenly turn to when a pattern offends you. It's more Indian with general "ethnic" throw in in my opinion and hardly "grandma".

I love Grandma.

I still don't understand how this looks like anybody's grandma. Both of MY grandmas had MCM, because they decorated their houses in that era. When I see a spare modernist room, I half expect to see someone with a beehive hairdo and cigarette heading out to Bingo.

I am the epitome of Grandma when it comes to design, and this is not Grandma. I like it as far as the bohemian throw-ins, but I wouldn't design the room for myself. The person who sleeps there would always be welcome for dinner, though. ;)

You are right on Antonine! Wary Meyers' living room might just be my favorite room ever.

Some of you would call ME "grandma" as far as age goes, and I like glocal contemporary, minimalism with a zen/international touch. Some classic mid-century modern thrown in. (not this)

My OWN parents and grandparents never had enough money to have an identifiable "style". But none of them decorated with what some of you call "granny" tendencies.

So I'd suggest the shorthand is understandable but kind of stereotyped and incorrect. Not that I care -- I get what you mean when you use the term.

As for the bright color, pattern on pattern concept, it can be done well (although I couldn't live with it) and it can be done badly, and I'd place this room toward but not at the end of the "well done" spectrum. Wary Meyers is closer to the perfect end, and maybe part of the difference is the mindfulness of scale. This room has too many small bits, both patterns and items, scattered too evenly. It would work better, I think, if things were grouped more to make a number of small things read as one larger grouping, and to leave more plain color to offset the busyness.

for being twin cots that just fit in there together, it's uneasy to get in or outta bed with those narrow spaces between the frame and the walls. nice for a picture of some whimsical guestroom, but not really comfy.

If you are going to go for pattern you might as well look at the great traditional designes and do it right.

My psuedo-aunt has a house that I think could be called 'grandma'ish and it is no where near the style of that room. There is way too much color in my opinion to have that title. Well the stereotyped grandma title that is.

note to self - NEVER post pics of the house to AT!

Now, see, y'all have proved the point underlying my "anti-grandma" comment: the stereotype of a "grandma" style is age-ist and sexist and frankly, just plain incorrect. There might - dare I say it - even be a few grandmas *reading Apartment Therapy*. Shocking, right? I know grandmas ranging in age from 45 to 95, and they don't have one single unifying style. It's a really lazy way to describe a style, and an insulting one to boot.

"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s"
Actually this bedroom look comes from the French magazine Marie-Claire Maison (I think 1 or 2 years ago) and the related article & pictures are available on their website: http://www.marieclairemaison.com/,une-mini-chambre-pleine-d-astuces,200110,227.asp
Voilà !