Learning

The blogs I read have pictures.  This I like.  I would like my blog to have pictures: befores, afters, ideas, swatches, family, whatever.

I also would like my blog to be organized and easily searchable and backtrackable.  So I am writing this to start to get the hang of photos and labels and whatever else presents itself.

Here is our red rug.  We got it from Home Decorators.  I know that it is a taboo store because no one, and I mean no one will acknowledge its existence on a design blog.  But Home Decorators has nice rugs and I got this one.  If I could remember off the top of my head I'd tell you what we paid, because I like when people share prices.  I've noticed that affordable can have quite a broad definition in interior decorating.

The rug is in our office/hangout room/spare bedroom.  Where I am now.  This room has come a long way, but it has a long way to go.  It has tons of storage space which I'd like to organize just so, and also make stylish.

I have a captain's bed in this room, which is really cool for storage.  I have extra linens in three of the drawers, Star Wars toys for my nephews in the fourth, and in the big center cabinet I have exercise equipment and winter quilt storage behind that.

I am thinking, thinking, thinking about a way to make it into a sometime alcove.  Here is my most promising inspiration photo:

The bed is in a corner of the room, therefore open on two sides, so I'd make the framework attached to the ceiling a full rectangle in order to give the appearance of it being one big unit of furniture, like those Asian wedding beds, especially this one:

And the framework will conceal the curtain rods that hold curtains which can be pulled around to enclose the front, or pushed back to the walls.  I also want to add backrests around three sides.  We'll see.