{ The Bedroom }

You may remember way back when I detailed some ideas and inspiration of my vision for the master bedroom here at the cottage. The idea was natural and neutral, minimal colour, white linens contrasting with our dark timber bed and bedside tables with perhaps some burlap or wicker thrown in for some good country style measure. Well here is what I've come up with...so far, I think I might need some more finishing touches but I'm happy :)

Our bed and bedside tables once belonged to Mr M's sister and admittedly I'm not their biggest fan. but I don't hate them either. The bedside lamps I bought at a discount store for $15 each. They are a nice simple shape and are white - not much to dislike there! Our quilt cover is a white and creamy taupe coloured thin stripe, although in these photos that is hard to tell. The underside is a thicker, more nautical stripe which we alternate between. Quilt cover is from Adairs.

 

The cushion is from Etsy seller The Home Centric and I love it. It is made from a lovely linen fabric and is adorned in a scalloped pattern with mother of pearl button-like beads. There are so many other cushions from The Home Centric I want but I am currently on a cushion buying ban!

The 'All You Need Is Love' print is from (Melbournian!) Etsy seller The Love Shop. Again, so many prints I would love from here but I finally settled on a chocolate background and had a matt made for it to go in a frame I already had. The frame used to be black, I gave it a quick white spray paint to tie it in with the white linen and lamps. I did intend to wrap the matt with some linen or burlap fabric, as the colour is not at all what I intended. A project I might still do.

This is 'my side' of the bed - with my beloved Real Living and Country Style magazines neatly stacked. The lovely 'A' and 'Z' wrought iron bookends were a gift from a work friend when I left my job earlier this year. 

  

A stack of interiors and photography books sits on my bedside table. On Mr M's side is a stack of three coffee table books which I was published in as a photography student, Fujifilm's Site Unseen. I love their spines, the repetition and the perfect contrasting colours for our bedroom.

On the opposite wall stands my overhauled wardrobe, lovingly brought back to life with a few coats of paint, some textured wallpaper and new knobs. You can see a glimpse here of the light fixture which I have featured here before - unfortunately it hangs extremely crooked as we shortened the cord. The curtains were existing and since I didn't fancy forking out mega dollars to replace them in a house we don't own (and they are good quality and I actually quite like them) they were the base for my natural and neutral theme. An old industrial fan, a white eiderdown and wicker picnic basket sits atop the wardrobe and an Ikea stool with my riding boots next to it. 

I hope you liked the little tour of where I sleep, to see where some others sleep go here to join in the 'my place and yours' fun.