Inspiration Friday No.13 ~ Master Bedroom

  A few years ago we purchased a "grown-up" master bedroom set.  It's pretty but it's big, painted black, and very traditional.  Even with the adult-like furniture, I have failed miserably on creating a relaxing and inviting master.  It's more like clothes, shoes, and dust bunnies everywhere.

  One issue I have is that I'm not sure which bedroom we should be in.  Currently we are in the 15 x 17 ft. room (the 4th bedroom) at the back of the house that is more private and has more natural light but is lacking one closet and a bathroom.  The idea when we moved into this house was to add a master bathroom off of the this room (see map below), creating a true master suite... but we need new windows and a roof in the next few years, so that $35,000 master bathroom addition isn't happening anytime soon!

  The traditional master is smaller, darker and I kind of hate that room.  The bathroom is horrific...we're talking yellow tile, peeling wallpaper, and the vanity is missing a drawer.... oh and the floor is stick on tile!!!  I HATE that bathroom.   So I don't know what to do.  For one, if we did move back into the "master bedroom," our furniture doesn't all fit without us having to suck it in and squeeze around, so we will have to lose the chest of drawers.  It's dark, like depressing dark and then again, the bathroom.  Hate that bathroom, oh did I say that already?!

  Anyway, onto the pretty stuff.  If I could have a master it would look something like one of these...

Southern Living 

All other images via Coastal Living 

I am not in love with this head board and twin beds (cute for a guest room) 

but the overall colors are pretty.

I am kinda loving the upholstered headboard look that is so popular right now.  I've actually thought of throwing some batting and fabric over our current headboard and see what I get.  Not sure about the nailhead trim, never played with that before!

A small, intimate sitting area would be awesome... and a nice little escape from the kids!! :)

I will never be able to have this size bathroom in the master (swooning over the tub)...

 Matthew Millman photography via www.craveorcreate.blogspot.com

...but maybe I could have something that looks like this...

Sarah Richardson

More pictures from Coastal Living that I am loving right now...

With this aqua door, it's like you would just come home everyday singing "Oh happy day, oh happy day"!!!

Yeah, I think I could live here!  

Happy Friday!  I hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend!

~  Kim :)

Inspiration Friday No.2 ~ Bathrooms

  My mother-in-law has asked me to help her decorate her powder room.  At first I was terrified of the idea, I mean I've only helped pick out a paint color for a friend before!  I've never been given full reign over a room.  But when I started thinking about it, I thought it might actually be fun!

  In my opinion a powder room is the one place in your home that you can really take a chance and make a statement.  This is a good place to start if you want to try a bold paint color or wallpaper.  It's not something that you would have to look at every second of the day and it says to your guests "this is me, this is my personality".  I started looking online for some inspiration and these are some of the pictures that caught my eye.

Hazardous Design via Rambling Renovators

The bold wallpaper is just enough with the wainscoting.

Attic Magazine

I love every.single.elment in this bathroom.  The vanity, the mirror, the tile... love it all.

Thibaut via decorhappy

Beautiful wallpaper and I'm a sucker for painted bamboo.

decorpad

This wallpaper isn't bright but it definitely makes a statement.

Martha O'Hara Interiors

The elements in this room like the vanity and hardwood floor make this more of a traditional style powder room.

House Beautiful

That vanity is to die for!!  Amazing.

Centsational Girl

I love the modern touches that were added to make this bathroom standout.

Niche Interiors

This wallpaper would be way too much in any other room but because of the small space it looks so cool.

Southern Living

Adding mirrors takes what would be a plain vanity and makes it just sooo glamorous.

House and Home

The modern vessel bowl and the more traditional vanity work together beautifully.  I also love the group of artwork.  Why not have your favorite things displayed beautifully, even if it's in the bathroom?

Happy Friday everyone!!

Get to the fun stuff already

  Now that the whole old house-new house thing has been established, it's onto the fun part... the inside of the house!  We have been working non-stop doing our DIY handiwork on the house since we walked in the front door.  It's our thing, it's what we love to do.

**disclaimer** We love doing projects around our house, but we are notorious for never quite finishing a project completely.  We are both guilty of it.  So instead of pointing out every flaw that I see in every picture and everything that isn't done yet, I will just say that we get to about 90% finished and then we move onto something else.  I chalk this up to DIY A.A.D.D (do it yourself adult attention deficit disorder). 

Here are some before and after pictures of the main bathroom:

~  Kim :)