My bedroom is very small, but I’ve managed to stuff it with a lot of furniture

My bedroom is very small, but I’ve managed to stuff it with a lot of furniture.

I have a huge desk from K-Mart. Sure it’s not the classiest place in the world to be buying furniture for the long term, but it was what I could afford at the time. It’s gigantic.

I love it. I wanted a desk I felt like I could live in, and this is definitely it. It was all kinds of special compartments and tons of room for everything I need to store.

I recently got a dresser from IKEA, it also is a little bit too big for the room but I love it. It’s black, but there was a wrong color piece of work included so there’s a regular wood colored stripe that runs along the bottom.

I don’t really care though, because the doors open and close very easily and I finally am storing my clothes somewhere instead of just putting them on the floor.

I also got these really cool mirrors from Ikea in an S shape. There are two of them side by side. They’re a great alternative to a traditional full-length mirror.

Finally there’s the actual bed itself. It’s queen-sized, which again is just a little bit too big for the room. I guess that’s my running decorating theme, but that’s how I wanted it. Read more »

My bedroom is a lovely mix of furniture styles

My bedroom is a lovely mix of styles I like to call “rural poor”. It isn’t so much one set style as it is trying to make the best of the hand me downs that have been given to us or that we’ve found.

Our bed does not have a frame, rather it is a full sized box spring and mattress on the floor. These were gotten from an overflow that the local Habitat For Humanity group had. They’d received them from a local hotel and sanitized them.

They couldn’t use them, but were giving them away. We took one. We’ve got a very tiny, beat up, wooden dresser from my mother in law. The dark stain on it is flaking and rubbing away, and although it isn’t pretty, it serves it’s purpose, and one day I will re-finish it or paint it.

I’m very much a do-it-yourself kind of person, and I’d love the challenge. I just don’t want to paint or re-finish it in winter! Next on the list of items is a large steamer trunk. This is a relic from my short lived attempt at living in the dormitories at a local college.

It’s black with brass findings, and looks very much like a throw-back to the Victorian era. I believe it’s the only piece of furniture in the bedroom that was bought new. Read more »