Once you have your kitchen/dining/living room great room decorated, you can’t just stop there, right? In older homes, where the floor plan is divided up into smaller rooms, it is almost expected that every room can be radically different. In an open floor plan, everything has to flow more or less. The bedrooms, even though divided by a door, are usually no exception. Many times, you find yourself taking a chair from the bedroom and bringing it in the living room for additional company.
One day, my aunt-in-law came over and liked the concept of being able to mix and match the furniture. She took it to a little different level than I would have. She suggested we take the bedroom furniture and put it in the living room, as the bedroom would make a much cozier setting for tea and a tete-a-tete in the winter. “We aren’t Ma and Pa Ingalls with a woodburning stove in the living room,” I said.
Metal Beds can go with about any decor. Watch the color. If the rest of the house tends to have brass, or nickel fixtures and hardware, or if you have a wrought iron look going on in the kitchen, it may dictate which bed you choose for the guest room. The Hillsdale Furniture has a variety to choose from, and bar stools to match. Having matching barstools may have convinced aunt-in-law that her decorating ideas were justified.
There is a website called Home-and-Bedroom.com that you can pick out your headboard and sometimes other case pieces online. What are case pieces? They are wooden pieces like nightstands, and end tables. The Fashion Bed Group has even more metal and wooden frames to pick from from the traditional to the contemporary. Since you don’t have to sit on a bed frame to determine if it is comfortable, something like that can be ordered with confidence online. For those that hesitate on the concept, you would have no problem ordering from a catalog, right? Just think of it is a catalog with far more selection than what’s in print.
| 3.4 |
