Bedroom Dreaming

I have a dream.  Well, a girl's got to have dreams.

And a girl's got to have a dream place to dream.  Like this.

This is where I'm dreaming currently.  Nothing like my dreaming room of my dreams.  So this room's having a makeover.

It started with a lumpy mattress.

I discovered it when sitting on the edge of the bed at 3am one morning, feeling very nauseous and with heart palpitations.  I had eaten late (for me) as the meal finished about 9pm.  And perhaps as distraction from the nausea, I started feeling along the mattress, found many lumps and decided in those wee hours that I needed a new mattress.  Just that, a new mattress.

And it ended with me buying a new memory foam/spring mattress, a whizzy bed, a new carpet and several pots of paint.  And I don't think my bedroom shopping spree ends there either ...

So let's go straight to the bed, for I am excited!  It will be delivered in March.  The headboard is a charcoal tweed.  A welcome change from my rattly old brass headboard.

It has some cunning trickery hidden in its headboard.  Press a button and the bed flips back to reveal a huge storage cave.  This is where all my out of season stuff can be stored.  In one place.  Easy access at the push of a button.  At the push of a button!! - can you feel my excitement?  Can you tell that I'm still finding it totally incredulous?  

It is the bed of dreams.  My dreams.  My pensioner dreams.

So how come I bought a bed when I didn't know I needed or wanted one?  Well, as I mooched around the shop after buying a very comfy mattress, I looked at beds.  As one does.  Does anyone come away with just the mattress?

I'd tried lifting a mattress on a bed with a similar storage arrangement, but manually.  I had to psyche myself up to lifting it, akin to a weightlifter's pre-lift routine and even then I could juuuusssst about lift it, and that was without the added weight of a full complement of bedding. 

The salesman saw my struggle.  Come over here, he said and led me to the push-button bed.  Well!!  I was immediately sold.  I needed that flippy mattress innovation in my life.

Honestly, they should be marketing this as the pensioners' dream bed because it really is designed for oldies like me, surely?  A lady of a certain age who's fearful of cracking an osteo-ed back bone or giving herself a hernia.

So, let's summarise what I've done here.

1. Lumpy mattress led me to buy a replacement.

2. I then bought a whizzy push-button bed with mega storage.  But it didn't stop there.

3. In an instant I knew that flashy bed would be dragged down by my old cream carpet which has suffered the effects of clumsy add-ons (building work), nose bleeds (TP), hair balls (Bertie) and coffee accidents (me and TP).  My carpet steamer has done a great job  on the stains, but I know where they are.  So I ordered a new carpet.

4. I then looked critically at my tired bedroom and decided it needed tarting up a bit too.  So I bought paint.

It was pure ha'peth of tar the whole way through this shopping journey.  You know, don't spoil the ship for a ha'peth of tar?  At each stage I knew that the side would be let down if didn't bring everything up to the standard of my new whizzy bed.

And it all started with nausea after a late-for-me dinner.

Meals out with friends can prove soooo expensive. 

But it doesn't stop with the paint does it?

There are accessories to consider too.

I searched around the shop, snapping at accessory ideas.

I created a rudimentary mood board.  The carpet is in the bottom right corner.  It's name is Icing Sugar - how sweet is that?!

Scroll on a few weeks.  The bed wall has now been painted in readiness for carpet lay day.

And I've spent idle time collecting inspo (all photos from Pinterest).

Panelling (probably 3D effect wallpaper) seems to be a trend.

I like the idea of a classy frame, just a frame, no picture.  I have a similar one .

And I've been in love with the colour combo of black/ivory/gold like forever so I'm drawn to variations on this colour scheme.

I like a grouping of three pictures, though my cottage bedroom ceiling is low so the pictures would need to be smaller than these monsters.

I like the drama and crispness of this room, though I don't think I could ever sleep comfortably knowing a gigantic mirror was hanging a few inches above my head - surely this is a health and safety nightmare?

Nightstands will be a challenge.

Even this seemingly slimline nightstand won't fit in the room's  narrow non-standard gap.  But I have an idea.

I like the look of one long pic running parallel with the bedhead.

But back to my dream.

My dream is to be woken up to this Valentine's Day breakfast and preferably in this bedroom!

Hope you enjoy your dream Valentine's Day next week, my  lovelies!

Join me in a few week's time for the bedroom reveal!

A la perchoine,

Mary x.

Cr: Inspo mood photos, Pinterest