I suck less than on Friday!

Bedroom after pics, as promised:

But first, a Before: 

The bed was on the west wall, with the windows on the south (left in this picture), and the bathroom on the north (right)...

And After: 

Looking at the north wall, <3 the new arrangement of art

Moved the [new] bed between the windows on the south wall, taking advantage of the 16x18' room - WAY more space on each side, which allows for a little chair to sit in.  This is just the same Ikea wicker chair I've had for years, acting as a placeholder (and cat bed) until I find a spiffy one on craigslist that I can re-upholster.

Another shot of the "reading corner", with bathroom doors

These aren't the greatest pics - my old camera is still not working all that well, so I took all these with my phone.  At least it's a new phone, and takes better pics than my old one, lol.

outline of old bed placement - WAY more space now!

I don't yet have a decent shot of the sari that I hung over the head of the bed as a sort of canopy - I really love it, but I couldn't get the right light in the room to get a big picture.  You can't see it in this picture, but there's a fluffy plant hanging between the sari and the window, and I plan to hang a second one on the other side, as well as bring in one of my potted trees to put next to that chair. 

because I'm a ding-a-ling

 This is what happens when you don't have a plumb line - you tie a bell to a long strip of ribbon!  Hey, it works: the sari's hung straight. :D

pile of stuff on my dressing table, painted rock a friend made

I still need bedding - you can see in the pics that the box springs are uncovered, and I'm still using the queen-sized comforter from the old bed, hehe.  I also still need to get to work on building the new wooden bed footboard, side boards, and posts to affix to the metal frame.  Work in progress!


Post cat count: 4

Yet to do:

• build the wooden bed parts and install them
• replace the bedding
• repaint the ceiling
• 2 more plants

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Wall Hangings

Home "sick" today with a migraine.  I'm vertical at the moment, though this morning I couldn't stand, and could barely see...so, no driving to work, obviously.  Been asleep most of the day, letting the pain pills do their stuff.  But I'm up for lunch for a bit.  Figured while I was conscious I'd share some pics.

This is the  Kali/Shiva tapestry that Kress bought for us at the renaissance festival last weekend, hemmed and mounted in the bedroom where the sari quilt used to be:

 
The quilt + bookshelf combination was just a bit too much for this wall, but the Kali tapestry is *awesome* here.

A couple of weeks ago I moved the sari quilt out to the living room, where it lives happily ever after:

Three drums, a basket of blankets, a ficus tree, and a violin walk into a bar...

Going back to bed now.  Bye.


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Bedroom Update!

Remember the sari-quilt that I hung on the wall last week? 

I brought a shelf in from the living room over the weekend, slapped a curtain up on it, some candles, and the Buddha statue that had been living in one of my gardens in the backyard (I'd taken the garden down a few weeks ago to re-do it): 

Yay, candles!  

Media storage is a BIG issue in the living room - there's lots of furniture in there, but only so much hidden storage for all the CDs, DVDs, and yes, even old VHS tapes. I could never figure out what to do with all the tapes - they're so big, the cases were all ratty with age and use, we hardly ever watch them (but are keeping them around until we replace them with DVDs), and I couldn't ever figure out what to do with them in there. So they're on this shelf, under the curtain!  Secret storage, tee-hee! 


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I have more updates for you this week, since I finally got around to taking some serious photographs over the weekend.  I'll show you more of the bedroom, my master bathroom, the little things I've been doing in the living room since I painted it last month, the new dining room table, and a bit about that china cabinet I talked about last week, as well.


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A Round Tuit (Bedroom)

First of all, I apologize for being *horrible* at making follow-up posts!  HOW many times have I posted about ideas and things I was going to get around to and then...nothing?

Well, here's one!   Remember this sari-quilt that my friend gave to me a while back?

With the help of some old wooden brackets and some sections of wooden flagpole salvaged for me by another friend from her workplace (thank you!), I hung the quilt on the wall of my bedroom last night:

I'ts just too beautiful NOT to look at every day, but I wouldn't dare put it on my bed where it would be ruined by my cats.  It's almost folded in half - I really wanted both the rectangular center and the overlapping chevron-y/parquet-floor-like pattern of the sari borders to show (and if there are any quilters reading this who know what that's actually called, please comment and let me know so that I can sound like less of a doofus in the future). 

It needs something underneath besides bare wall, though.  There's a long, low bookshelf in the living room that I'm thinking about bringing in.  More on that later. 

<3


(Also, following up on the follow-up thing...hee..I shall endeavor to get you some updated dining room pics over the weekend!) 


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