homemaking with loojie

Friday, November 09, 2007

add a bookshelf

I originally thought I'd put this bookshelf in the living room, but I like it in the bedroom.

Labels: bedroom, bookshelf

Thursday, November 08, 2007

and here's the bedroom

The rug works! I love the bed linens!! And the rocking chair...will do for now.

Labels: bed, bedding, bedroom, rug

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

bedroom rug

Random rug found on the Internet...which magically coordinates with my quite-complicated bedroom set!?

Could I be this lucky?

Labels: bedroom, rug

Thursday, October 18, 2007

murphy bed no more

Sarah's sleeping on the murphy bed now...and I've got a real one:

Bedskirt is on back order. And it still needs a rug. But the headboard and nightstand ROCK.

Labels: bed, bedding, bedroom

Saturday, October 06, 2007

final answers: bed and bedding

I finally settled on a bed frame and linens for my bed. No more red-on-red bedding for me -- I'm a grownup now. So to speak.

Here's the bed. It will come with a matching nightstand (not pictured).

And after exhaustive searching, I found the perfect bedding design -- green and purple, carpet-esque and plaid, all of my contradictory tastes gloriously unified by a better designer than I (Mr. Ralph Lauren):

It's called "Rutherford Park." There is actually a Rutherford Park in Victoria, Australia. Maybe they pair plaid with rug designs there.

Labels: bed, bedding, bedroom

Sunday, August 26, 2007

a Persian rug on sale in Woodley Park

I found this rug at Silk Road's going-out-of-business sale and quite liked it, but I fear it's too busy for either my living room or my bedroom...

Labels: bedroom, living room, rug

Friday, August 24, 2007

Ideas from a Pacific Northwest B&B

Mirrors hanging on ribbons -- too Pottery Barn, circa 2004?

A neat use of Early American stencils -- ferns in two neutral shades of green around the bathtub. I really liked this effect, although I'd do weeping willows.

Labels: bathroom, bedroom, decor, paint

Monday, July 30, 2007

Bed linens

I love these weeping-willow-esque Marimekko bed linens, but fear that I can't use them on my bed (unless they make an extra-deep queen fitted sheet).

Also, consider that I have a black cat. Who sheds. Copiously. And loves to sleep on my bed.

Labels: bedroom, linens