Say hello to our primary bedroom. It’s very much a work in progress and is full of placeholders…

I’ll eventually put black grasscloth wallpaper on the back wall but while waiting for my wallpaper fund to grow, I spent $30 for a gallon of paint. The color is not actually black, but a very mirky dark gray – Behr Stealth Jet – and I love it.

The wonky headboard situation is part of an unfinished bed project. The original plan was to buy one of those danish modern floating frames with built in nightstands on the headboard. But I’ve been a total craigslist loser in that department. My husband decided to build something similar instead. He quickly built this unsightly platform to get the mattress off the floor. It will eventually have nice tapered legs instead of 2 x 4’s, a frame all the way around the platform, and a pretty headboard with built in tables. Impatience got the best of me while waiting on his schedule to open up for woodworking projects so I took to craigslist to find a temporary fix. I found it in this $25 Danish Modern cane headboard, above. Awesome price. Beautiful piece. Wrong size. It’s a king. And its been tampered with (legs chopped off). And, worst of all, our giant marshmallow mattress totally obscures it’s goodness. I do love it though and am now considering somehow incorporating it into the final design. In summary, I have no idea what I’m doing. The only thing that I’m sure of is that the bed needs to be lowered because it looks ridiculous and I love benches at the foot of beds.

My husband made this desk! I love it but we are considering moving it to his office and getting something a little more dainty and dark in here, though I do love the mix of wood colors in here. Usually I’m not a big fan of having an office space in the bedroom, but this works for us right now. My husband sometimes needs a quiet place to work at home and our children are still young enough where I don’t want a computer in the middle of the house. Plus, our kitchen has a built in desk area that handles our day-to-day clutter (mail, shopping lists, homework, etc.) so this space stays relatively clean.

One of my favorite things about the room is its access to the backyard. It would be even nicer if it was a sliding door, but this will do. I want to put some type of simple, modern french door here to let in some light and open up the view to the back. This dresser is a vintage Heywood Wakefield number.

Those are vintage Danish sconces and the wire brass tables are from Target.

The carpet ugh. The whole house, minus the kitchen and bathrooms, was carpeted when we bought it. It was older carpet that had never really seen a lot of use in the bedrooms and living room. We’ve never really lived with carpet before and I’ve never been a fan. The thought of dog hair and whatever else hiding in carpet grosses me out. But, aside from the dog hair issues, I am understanding the appeal. It’s cozy feeling and nice with kids. We are putting in hardwood flooring almost everywhere, but we’ve decided to keep it in the family room and my husband is pushing for it in the bedrooms (partly or mostly, I suspect, to avoid more hardwood installation!). I am so strongly against that. So, I’m not sure what the future holds for these floors. I do know that I did such a shoddy job taping off/painting the baseboards in here since I was 100% positive they would be ripped out by now. Bad move.

There’s been a revolving door of art over that dresser, but I think I’ve settled on one of my own abstract watercolors for now. The dresser is vintage Lane.

There’s a cute little pocket door that closes off the closet/dressing area (that also leads to the bathroom). It is hardly ever closed. But when it is, it just sits there being all 70’s dingy yellow (just like the closet doors you can see when the pocket door is open). It needs to be painted. That makes the paint choice seem obviously one of two things: obviously just paint it white or obviously go crazy with some brilliant color or design. But it’s not obvious which one.

The view from beyond that pocket door from that dressing area place that we don’t quite know what to call. More on that next time. Thanks for reading!