Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
I am stuck, really really stuck on decor for my bedroom. First of all, we are many months if not a year away from finishing my bedroom in this house. It is a very cute bedroom, an attic bedroom with A nice size dormer alcove. I always think attic bedrooms have lots of personality.

So I have lots of time and unlimited budget to do what I want to do. But I have little idea of what I want to do. I’ve already changed several times my idea. Generally, though, the house is a cottage style house so the bedroom would be something that fits with that.


The bed is a full-size bed, but certainly limits new beds frames because most things are queen-size these days. That is OK, I don’t mind that limitation. I would likely get a vintage or antique bed anyway. Platform beds are probably too big to get up in a little staircase of this cottage house.


I’m just musing here not looking for ideas necessarily. I do continue to like that wallpaper Catherine used in her house. I like the pink version of it. But there are lots of wallpapers I could like. Do I use wallpaper at all? Do I wallpaper ceiling and walls? Do I wallpaper just The alcove? I have tons of photos on Pinterest about wallpapered alcove attic bedrooms.
Here's an idea for a cute attic bedroom. It's a picture from my favorite decorating "book" (it's a small book but loaded with beautiful ideas) by Alice Whately: Peaceful Spaces.

I like the sleigh bed and the whitewashed walls and ceiling. I like the floral vintage duvet. When I think of attic bedrooms I also think of bright colors and iron beds.

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Here's another dormer bedroom. This one is a little more "clean" and sophisticated. This one is from a decorating book called Shades of Country by Chippy Irvine, who was a neighbor of mine in Dutchess County, NY, and I actually didn't know until recently that she and her husband, Keith Irvine, were well-renowned designers.

Here, I like the buttercup yellow built-ins and that gorgeous four-poster bed. And the little doggie beds.

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