- Name:
- Julie
- Location:
- Indianapolis, IN
- Division:
- United States
- What do you love about your bedroom?:
- Cheerful calm. I also love the mementos in the room, like the vestment cabinet I found in my best friend’s garage and the curiosities on the wall above our headboard. The tiny gallery includes a campaign button from my husband’s father’s father and a spool of thread from my mother’s mother. I found the fresh take on the Union Jack in England, and I made the custom silhouette pillows of Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth with acrylic paint, butcher paper, and a little imagination. All together, and it feels like a breath of fresh air.
- What are your tips for creating a beautiful, healthy and organized bedroom?
- Leave room to breathe! De-decorate and de-clutter to give your mind and soul a respite. And because you’ve pared down, you surround yourself with your favorite things – belongings that feel most like a warm hug, both literally and figuratively.
- 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?
- In this multitasking world, it’s lovely to have a bedroom that is just that – a room for our bed. It’s not an office or a movie theatre. It’s a place where my husband and I rest and reconnect, and where our little girl comes to snuggle on weekend mornings.
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Very smart to set up the framed pieces right next to the window so the bed could be centered beneath it. It's as if the window is a piece of art.
omg...I love your little retreat. So glad I didn't skip this post...so many ideas for our bedroom. Great job.
I enjoyed the Queen Elizabeth and Winston Churchill pillows.
that one cabinet in the corner is sooooooo nice
The wall color is fabulous, too! Highlights the warm woods spectacularly.
I like this room. Just not a fan of the paint color. Blends too much with the wood.
I really like how you evened out an odd shaped window for above the bed. That was a pretty clever idea!
the prettiest and the most tasteful room of all. i love everything about it.
Utterly beautiful, utterly original. Your furniture is extraordinary. The vestment cabinet is superb (and the painting of the cathedral interior beside it - my jaw literally dropped). You do not even give a mention to the chests of drawers at the foot of your bed; it looks like one huge piece of furniture, though I guess it isn't - but looks so solid, so complete, built to weather centuries of use, with each generation just choosing their own variations on your curiosities gallery and lively bedding. This room is a real success.
"de-decorate" ~ great concept ~ heard it here first!
I also liked the way you made the window and art into one piece behind the headboard. Makes me want to remember this trick if I ever need it - though I'd likely do it with a long curtain rod - with a floor-length curtain as a backdrop behind the whole headboard, which could be drawn completely to one side of the rod when I wanted to let in light from the window.
Finding dressers that exactly fit into the edge of your footboard is also a really nice touch. I'll have to remember that if I ever have a bedroom wide enough to place dressers (or anything) at the foot of the bed.
The vestments cabinet is a nice size, though anything formerly used for vestments, and with an IHS with an intertwined cross on it, would never work for me - I still have nightmares with nuns chasing me sometimes, decades after the torture of catholic school.
Love this room! I like the idea of de-decorate and de-clutter. Clever.
The lemon sculpture is strangely awesome. Love it.
Nice work Julie! Great sense of style!
I love the cheerful wash of colors - it's bright and cheerful, but calm at the same time. It is a definite DeColores joyful retreat!
voting for the yellow paint - stunning =)
love it!