I have a love affair with the color blue. The more bright and nearly electric-like, the better. When I was a kid (probably around 10 or so), my dad built a room in the basement for me. He asked me what color I wanted the walls. I'm sure my parents expected pink or some other fluffy bunny color, but no, I wanted electric blue. I think my mom was not in favor, but my dad argued on my behalf that a girl should have what a girl wants.

When Aaron and I bought our house, I took pictures of every room.


This is our bedroom when we bought the house.


This is our bedroom now. Eventually, the nightstand will go and be replaced by something else, or at least moved over next to the bed. Right now we have a rickety old ceiling fan that shakes and wobbles and makes me scared it's going to fall down. We are going to replace it and then we won't need the monster fan at the foot of the bed. There is a book on the left side of the picture, laying on the floor next to the bed. That's Calvin and Hobbes, volume two. Aaron reads it to me sometimes before we go to sleep. It took us over a year to get through volume one, so I have high hopes of lasting entertainment for the next year and a half or so. The glow-in-the-dark star hanging from the ceiling is my way of creating a pull for the light. The light switch is BEHIND the door when you open the door, which is exceedingly annoying. We leave the switch flipped up and we pull the star to get lights.

The white spot on the wall is where Sammi and Nate got into the paint cans and poured paint all over Sammi and the floor, then left perfect brown foot prints on the carpet all the way to the bathroom as well as a perfect Sammi hand print on the wall. I'm keeping that sucker on the wall and framing it in some color of paint. No, I'm not kidding.


This is the other side of our bedroom when we bought the house.


And after. Eventually I'll be redoing the closet to the point that we will have no dressers at all. So that will move out of this area, and in its place I want to put a rack for hanging used-once suits or other clothing items we plan to rewear, so that they don't get wrinkled laying on the floor or use up my chair space. I am also crocheting an afghan that is the color of the walls that will be over that chair for when I want to read in the winter. Last, I need to put a floor lamp in that corner.

Once I get a sewing machine, I want to create curtains for all the windows that are the brown color with a matching blue lace over the top.

Apparently our closet was too hard to get a picture of, but it was the same color scheme with absolutely nothing on the walls.


When you stand at the door and look in. Aaron built that shelf for me and there is a closet rod smack dab in the center of it for hanging clothes. Right now all of our blankets are on the floor, but I want to build a blanket box/window seat that will stretch along the left wall (from this picture). Then those blankets will go in that box, which will double as a cushioned place to lay down, read a book, and look out the window. Or a place to sit to try on shoes, etc. Under the clothes will be an open-faced shelving unit with baskets of clothes. On the shelf housing the closet rod will be more baskets of clothes.


This is the wall you see on the right side of the above picture. The two (originally shoe holders) wall containers are housing my socks and other delicates. Between them are hooks for jewelry and a ribbon which I've put my earrings on. Smack dab in that middle area there will be a long and tall mirror to see what we're wearing and how it looks. A last check before we walk out the door to go to work, if you will. On either side of the mirror will be hooks for belts. This utilized that space the best way I could think of, beacuse it lies flat against the wall which is good because the doorway is nearly flat against that wall, and we didn't want anything we'd bump into when we walked into the closet. (Also, I have no expensive jewelry or earrings, so don't get excited.)


Here's the doorway and wall leading back into the bedroom. There is a dresser there which will eventually go to make space for more open faced shelves with baskets of clothes. Also, the blanket box will stretch all along the base of the floor and wrap around. (In this picture, the window is on your right.) On top of that dresser is my prized coca-cola lite bottle that I brought home from Germany. :D

So, now you've had a tour of Aaron and I's bedroom and how we've changed it and plan to change it more since we bought our house a year and a half ago.

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