Home Decor, part2: Master Bedroom

Ok, the 2nd room on our tour is the master bedroom. We took the smaller of the two upstairs bedrooms because it had an attached bath and we needed to use the bigger bedroom for the nursery. You'll notice we don't have any pictures hung up yet. We're just glad we finally got things unpacked and reasonably organized.

This was the bedroom before we moved in. It was used as a den, rather than a bedroom.


View from hallway into bedroom. We chose a pretty neutral paint color - some sort of soft taupe. Notice the sliding glass doors leading to the screened porch (yay!) and the pack n' play that is used to separate the babies when needed for naptime and bedtime (boo - maybe someday we can get rid of the PNP and put a bench at the end of the bed or something). Having the porch means that the bedroom is rather dim, but it is totally worth it to have a screened porch right off of our bedroom. Someday maybe we'll be able to drink our morning coffee out there...


Because of the way the bedroom is configured, with one wall being all closet and another wall having sliding glass doors, the only spot for Jason's dresser was in one of the closets.


Unfortunately, this means that Jason and I have to share a closet for our hanging clothes. "Thankfully," once I moved all the clothes that don't fit me to a downstairs closet, there was plenty of room for Jason's clothes (sigh). We even have to share a shoe rack - the horror!


View from bed toward dresser and door to bathroom. The dresser isn't centered on the wall because of the way the door to the hall (at left) opens into the room. It's a tight fit when the door is open.


View from doorway to sliding glass doors that open to screened porch. There used to be ugly vertical blinds over these doors. We either want to leave them uncovered, or get some curtains that can be pulled back when we don't need to cover the windows. There are enough trees in our yard that I don't think we need to worry about people seeing in the windows, but I'm thinking it might get cold in the winter with all that exposed glass. Plus it's hard to get babies to sleep in there when the room is bright.


You'll have to wait awhile to see pictures of the master bath, since it's going to have its "before" look for quite awhile. We want to wait to paint and decorate it until we have the funds & time to update the fixtures. Right now it's a mix of green 70s tile, tan sponge painted walls, and just plain ugly medicine cabinet and vanity.