MY MASTER BEDROOM COPY CAT Re-Do! FINALLY- HERE IT IS!

Grab your coffee-
This is a long post.

 I LOVE it when the old boy

goes out of town for a bit.

I can move mountains when I am alone.

I can also move beds and other furniture!

So-our bedroom has been the same 
for a long time.

Rather bland.

Nice enough but

it just kind of happened.
I used what I had..

But- As I was going through the

Ballard Catalog a couple of weeks ago

I spied this bedroom and it was my 

INSPIRATION to DO SOMETHING.

So-I almost pushed MyHero out of the house 

to go to his seminar so I could get started.

I had been sewing and stashing stuff 
in my closet

for several days.
I am going to take you WAY BACK 
to when we moved in.
Our bedroom now was the old family room.
We blew out the wall to the right which gave us access to the old garage.
We took part of the garage for our bedroom.
On the other side of the new wall we created
you will find a hall, 
MyHero's office and the laundry room.
Most of you will remember that we made a tri-level
into a functioning two story.
The windows here were all moved to the new garage addition.
Sorry for the grainy old photos-
it was a disposable camera.

When you look at current pictures
that  far window will be in the place
of the small window to the left of our bed.
On the opposite end of that room 
is a fireplace and that
became a small sitting room/study...
which I will show another time.

Here is a little after/before:
Isn't THAT confusing?
This is how it has looked for about 8 or 9 years.
To the right is the entrance to the master bathroom.

I still love the rose painting and though you

 can't tell it here the colors in the painting 
 are not good with this wall color.
I have shuffled that off to another room.

So---What did I do?

Here's the materials I started with~

I wanted to use some toile I had and it was the perfect shade of blue.

See that cording?

Well, it is the STIFFEST cording I have ever worked with.

I bet I broke at least a dozen needles 
because even the EDGE 
where you were supposed to stitch it was 

HARD and stiff.

I might or might not have said a 
couple of naughty words to myself
every time I broke another needle.

After I sewed my little heart out
and had shoved MyHero out the door,

 I stripped the bed and started layering.
It is such a dreary day I had to turn the lamps on.

I can see my pillows are a little wonky here...

I should have done a bit of fluffing before pictures, huh?
Oh, well- you know me-
Keeping it real here.

I painted an old bench that I had and placed it 

at the end of the bed.

The rug is one I had stored for years.

My husband picked it out and it is one he loves.

Aubusson rugs are not my favorite 
but the color is perfect.

While I would love to have a 
hardwood floor in here

it is a poured cement floor -
done to level the 
old family room/garage transition.

New lamps:

Another peek with lamps in place.:

MyHero loves the soft blue color.
It is my early Christmst present to him.
The mirror is a gift from my son.
And he came and hung it for me.
There is 1/8" clearance top and bottom....whew-that was close!

 I hung this sweet little bird on it.
He has just a touch of the same soft blue I used throughout!

The white roses came from MyHero
what has HE been up to, I wonder?
and the vase was made by my friend, Jan,
 that I don't see often enough.

Here is the old ugly dark brown,
 scarred up piece I painted
with Annie Sloan paint.
It holds the TV set and videos.
I need to redrill the holes so the
 handles aren't on there wonky.
I'll get right on that!
This is a soft aqua-ish blue-but-
 the color doesn't come up right.

And- in the corner -this holds some of  the extra pillows at night
Also painted with AS paint and recovered the seat.

Here is the view from MyHero's pillow.
It looks at the cove formed by the bay.
See what I mean about it being a dreary day?

This is the view looking straight out at night.
That is the moon shining off the ice on the bay.

SO-Their you have it!
Side-by-Side
Ballards Design and My CopyCat Redo

Whew!
I'll be off eating bon-bons, 
watching soap operas and
sipping white wine the rest of the day.

uh-huh

IF you believe that- I have some personal stocks
you might want to invest in.
Trust me (or not)~