Now that our little man Connor is here, I've started rethinking more areas of our home. Right now Connor sleeps in our bedroom with us. We are planning on transitioning him to the crib in his room soon, but having him in the bedroom with us for now has gotten my mental wheels turning. Babies are messy, and little boys are even messier. And from what I understand, they don't make messes in localized areas, even when advised to do so. Our bedding is beautiful (to me at least), but the giant comforter is not easily washed. It's too large to fit in a washing machine drum, even a front-loading Star Trek-esque one like ours. Which means we're rolling the dice on making an unplanned trip to the laundromat every time we have that baby in the bed with us.
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| He's sleeping... like a BOSS. |
Last spring Steve and I started talking about updating our bedding for temperature reasons anyway- the poly fill of our comforter was nice and toasty in the winter, but much too warm from May through September. And after three years of use, the fill was a bit deflated at the top edge and had sunk down into the lower corners. So we decided to start searching for new bedding. Our requirements were: easy to wash, hypo-allergenic (down fill makes me sneeze and itch), natural fiber (poly fill can make us sweaty), work with our existing sheets and wall color, and not cost an arm and a leg (hello, maternity leave!). We decided we'd look for quilts and see what we came up with. This time around I was also looking for something decidedly less fussy than what we had. Not that I disliked it, but just that our style has evolved since we purchased it and so has our lifestyle. I was hoping to trade elegance for ease.
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| How it was. |
I ended up finding a quilt Steve and I both liked on Target's website. It had good reviews, a trip to my local store confirmed that it was soft and a nice weight, and it was on sale. Bingo.
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And then as long as we were getting a new quilt, we might as well replace the down-alternative blanket we've been using that had grown increasingly lumpy with each wash....
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So now our bedroom looks like this. Please ignore the dust, piles of stuff on our nightstands, and non-matching pillowcases. I have a baby, it's not like I have time to style photos for this blog. Puhleese.
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| The raw edge makes this more modern than your average quilt. |
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| Love the edge on that blanket! |
Which got me thinking. Steve and I love the new quilt and blanket. But now everything else in the room seems too formal. And plain verging on monochrome since there's no loud print on our new quilt. Plus our lamps. They aren't exactly our style (even though we both love Tiffany lamps), they take up so much room on our nightstands, and they're really heavy and fragile! I can just imagine Connor walking in there, grabbing the cord, and knocking himself out with one of those- you know, once he's walking. I mentioned to Steve that I liked the idea of having wall lamps, and he was immediately sold.
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Which got me thinking. If we had wall lamps, we'd be able to actually have some organization in place on our nightstands. And maybe some pretty things, too.
Which got me thinking. We'd have room to hang some art on either side of our beds.
Which got me thinking. We'd be able to introduce more color to the room to add visual interest and warmth.
If you give a mouse a cookie.... She'll end up making a collage on polyvore and wanting to refresh the whole bedroom.
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| Awww yeah! |
Challenge accepted!!
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