My bedroom furniture is funky and eclectic

My bedroom furniture is funky and eclectic at the moment, which is actually a pretty good description of my life as well.

The dominant piece of furniture in the room is a queen size bed with a brass headboard and foot board.

After too many years of being scrunched up and uncomfortable on small, hard and narrow European beds, I vowed that I would get a soft and comfortable bed as soon as I moved back to the states.

The rest of the furniture in the bedroom is more practical, although definitely not as soft. In the last six months, I have accumulated more than my fair share of bruises on my shins after bumping myself on my glass cube night stand.

I keep telling my husband that the bruises and the night stand could be saved, if we would just invest in a nice night light. Unfortunately, we have not been able to agree on one and we are also still waiting to find the ‘perfect’ dresser that will satisfy the clothes fiend in me and my husband’s practical soul. Read more »

Outside on our deck we have a long wooden table

Outside on our deck we have a long wooden table that we bought from Ikea a few years ago.

When you pull out the extensions it can seat 10 people comfortably. Unfortunately we only have four matching chairs with thin blue cushions so we are always scrambling to get extra chairs around the table when we have people over in the summer.

We were told to “oil” the table the first year to keep it in shape but we never did. Consequently, it’s started to warp and crack.

The biggest problem is the table has a hole in the center to put the umbrella through but sometimes you don’t want the umbrella and if you put a table cloth over the table and forget about the hole in the middle, stuff usually falls through. Read more »

My living room is furnished around the fact that I have two little pug dogs

My living room, as well as my entire one-bedroom apartment, is furnished around the fact that I have two little pug dogs that shed their beige hair a lot!

In order to camophlage this, I have furnished my entire living room in the color beige! Color can be found in the pillows and the wall hangings. In order to read my morning newspaper in comfort, with one pug dog on either side of me, I purchased a large Bergere chair, with a matching ottoman, in beige leather which I found advertised in a newspaper by the well-known department store, Bloomingdale’s.

I had it shipped about 1500 miles. Alongside it there is a metal floor lamp and a small chest made of rattan that I use as a place to put a phone and the coffee cup.

My living room has two sections, each about ten feet long and ten feet wide. One section has the Bergere chair, lamp and chest, along with two beige “easy” chairs. Although the dogs are not allowed on either of these, they are upholstered in a beige cotton material. Read more »