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If you follow maxwell's advice, your bedroom would look like Grandma's country cottage if Grandma were a gay account executive living in Murray Hill.

Love the bed. Totally reminds me of a room Peter Dunham did in the HG showhouse in Southampton summer 2005. Im trying to include a linK to a (not great) pic of the room:


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Hi Jason,

I'm no help with the bedding, but I'd love to see some really modern, or graphic prints around that bed. I think the juxtaposition would be great with such a dark classic piece. Like Maxwell said, bold patterns would be wonderful, so I think bold art flanking the bed would compliment it without being crazy matchy, or even modern side tables would look nice and less uniform. Happy decorating!

The December issue of Elle Decor (UK edition) has an article on Sir Terence Conran and his son Jasper, which has photo you may want to use for inspiration. Jasper has a Jacobean four-poster bed which bears some similarlity to yours. He has combined it with a bright ble bed cover, a base of white pillows (and probably sheets) with rusty red & gold print pillow cases ( a rich paisley print would give you the same colours and feel, but it is not a paisley). He has a rather innocuous side table (not as pedigreed as the bed), with a twisted lamp-base, and a blue pitcher with a dahlia that matches the colour of the pillows. Check it out.

I'd paint everything. It's a little too ye-olde-inn to me, but the barleytwist bed is awesomely proportioned. Think about painting it a bright color. Imagine what David Hicks would do with it ... a high-gloss red would be fantastic, with red-and-white mattress ticking curtains, red-and-white check bedspread, and white walls.

Austerity would combine well with the bed as well. Here's an example with a similar bed

http://www.jpmoser.com/casamigueletes.html

Sorry! bright ble= bright blue, cobalt blue actually. Looks awesome!

As with Jasper Conran, my instinct is for some contrast. He proves that primary colours (a primary blue) ARE the way to go.

i can see maxwell' suggestion of muted neutrals with white making it pop, giving the bed a 21st century updating. modern and traditional. for night tables, i have always like mismatched, a small dresser on one side and a night stand on the other or no furniture on the other side. please do not paint his bed it is a beautiful wood.

FYI wood and not painting it ... when will people realize (Mother, are you listening?) that just because something's made of wood doesn't meant it's quality. I once had a dining room paneled with arguably the ugliest quarter-sawn oak on the planet -- bad oak stained dark to make it look like mahogany. This may have been a great idea in 1910, when my apartment bldg was built, but it was ghastly by early 2003. So I had it stripped to the bone and then (hold on) expertly painted the most ravishing high-gloss Chinese red ... It was amazing, practically like lacquer. And unlike the previous dark wood, badly stained, the red actually made one happy while dining -- and made a dramatic backdrop for dinner party decorations, etc. So if you think painting your bed might actually be a good idea, then go ahead. It's your bed, it's your taste.