My dream for the bedroom is to make it feel like a zen-paradise. I recognize that as soon-to-be parents, we are about to be hit with a love-able but crazy tornado for the next 18+ years and this makes me so inspired to be sure we have a clean and simple bedroom (or really retreat?) that feels comfortable and special.
I am far from there - this room still needs a lot of work - but getting curtain rods and curtains (all from Ikea) installed this past weekend was a huge step for the space.
Our bedroom windows face our backyard which means privacy is not really an issue, but I thought adding some super-lightweight white curtains would help define and cozy-up the space. The room had three windows in a row and I choose to add one long curtain rod (in black) above all of them and attach three long curtain panels that extend all the way to the ground.
All the wall brackets that hold the curtain rod are to the right of each window. This means the curtains all pull right to be opened and left whenever I want them closed. The farthest left window bumps up against the corner of the room so I just ran the curtain rod right up against the corner wall. On the right, I extended it out about a foot to allow the curtain room to move right. Because the curtains end up covering the wall between the windows, the illusion is that this is one long window as opposed to three separate ones. That was sort of a happy accident.
The whole room is going to come together from these curtains, I can tell. I am going for a totally neutral (black, white, tan, cream, wood) palette with the only color coming from plants and maybe a large but subtle painted canvas or two. Can't wait to share more.
