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Our bedroom is still a work in progress, but our plan is to go mainly for texture in the necessary materials (window coverings, bedding etc) with a very bare minimum of ornamentation or even color contrast. So far I am finding it very tranquil and relaxing. I think this is a great way to do a bedroom. It's easy to add something if you think the room really needs it --why not experiment with 'going bare' for a while?

This is my dream bedroom. Looking at this photo makes me realize that my own bedroom is way too cluttered, despite my attempts to make it tranquil. I need to cut out even more stuff.

I love that the tables in the photo don't match the bed in any way, yet they look perfect!

I definitely prefer a minimal bedroom. My bedroom is for sleeping, and anything that doesn't help me do that goes somewhere else, or at least out of sight. (Except, regrettably, that vile alarm clock...)

A bedroom without a tv is like a kitchen without a fridge.

this bedroom is perfect.

I think the spare look works well here because there is so much visual information in the bricks. Also, the frame of the bed factors in as part of the decor. I'm not sure this same look would work without the brick wall. It looks great, but I'm not sure it'd be easy to repeat without a patterned wall background.

i agree orchid64... while this is really nice... if the walls were plain i think it would really be lacking something... but i think if you were without brick walls a beautifull wallpapered wall would be nice as well.

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that none of the lamps match? It must be a pet peeve of mine..

I couldn't disagree more, wild-er. We have a very nice 32" LCD television in the front room, but the bedroom is just for reading, sleeping, talking, and one other thing ;-)

Both Obama and I were hoping for this post. The textiles in this room need work though.

our bedroom is the last room we are getting to after we moved into our new home four years ago. it hasn't much in it but the bed, a chair, a small tv, and a dresser. besides some art on the walls, i find there's not much more we need.

why have those posts and beams and not hang up curtains or screens?

anybody know where to find that bedspread? i recently saw it in domino's feature on architect elizabeth roberts (november issue, the holiday guide, starts on page 106). it's a modern twist on the classic chenille hobnail bedspreads with fringe, and i can't find it anywhere.

This would be very nice - if you sawed off the entire top of that bed... It's horrible. I don't understand the idea of sleeping inside a cube.

Anyone know where that bed is from? Or a similar one?

One of the best bedrooms I've seen yet. Most of the rooms I see are filled with WAY TOO MUCH STUFF. I don't like over the top rooms that most decorators do today. I like simplicity, calm and solid colors.

I think the gloss paint on the ceiling is a superb touch.

This bedroom is perfect. Our bedroom is also white on white with an iron bed and white sheer curtains. A blank, calming slate.

I can imagine approaching my husband with the suggestion that we "go mainly for texture in the necessary materials...with a very bare minimum of ornamentation or even color contrast". Ha.

You are fortunate to be able to have this conversation.

Does anyone know where the bedspread in this photo can be found? It's lovely.

Love it except for the bed. I don't want to sleep in a cube either.

The bedspread is actually from ballard home; however, when I called them I was told it is no longer available.

I think it's easy to go clean-slate... when your clean slate involves a beautiful brick wall.

i like the bed box sans curtains or whatever.

i agree that wall is such a feature that you don't want to overwhelm with too many other details.

"What about stripping the room of almost all adornment, as shown here?"

I'm about to do the opposite - after having a plain white bedroom with very little adornment for the last couple of years I've decided its jsut too much like sleeping in a cell and I need to soften it up more - I'm currently in the process of choosing paint colours and accessories to give it a more comforting feeling

I don't think the brick wall is a necessary element. It certainly does look nice. On a plain gray wall about the same color, or against a white room, but maybe oomph up the curtains to a simple soft color/gray for a similar balance.

I happen to like the bed frame, the way it helps out in the picture. There is something softened to the hard edge about the taper. It is just right. I think leaving off the "ceiling" would be less happy. I don't think it would look as nice as a poster bed.

That said, I had always wanted a "canopy" bed (not so much anymore) since I was five and got a little sister instead, and mostly don't understand a piece of bed furniture sticking up into the air without hanging shit off it. Otherwise, leave it low. I think covering this up would ruin the design, and still I like the shape of this bed, but part of me also considers it ridiculous. Empty frames, empty curtain rods, a coatrack with nothing on it, a lamp with no shade (unless you're still looking for the right shade).

KTG -- I agree. The canopy bed with the canopy had multiple purposes when it was created -- to keep rodent droppings off a bed that was under a thatched roof, for privacy, to keep the cold out, etc. The big cube with nothing attached to it? I don't get it.

^ agree with this

love the brickwork wall tho, v industrial :)