The Nest: Bedroom

Next up on the Nest Tour is the bedroom.

We were fortunate enough to have a pre-painted bedroom when we moved in.  Grey!  My favorite color.  Well, one of them anyway.

We're still (technically) newlyweds, and appropriately we have less than a lot of furniture.  As a result, our bedroom is fairly spartan.  I'm digging it.  Of course the largest piece in the room is the lovely bed which always features our favorite wedding gift- our custom made quilt (in our wedding colors).  We nixed having side tables since they looked to cluttered, and instead went with a little charging station and a small set of overhead shelving from IKEA.  There is no overhead light in the room, so I installed the two bendable lamps onto the shelving.  They make a really nice glow at night when aimed at the wall. 

Across from the bed is the other piece of furniture in the room, the dresser.  You can see the jewelry hangers I made above the dresser.  To the left is our lovely walk-in closet (the largest closet I have personally ever owned).  It stores pretty much everything at the moment.  



I'd love to play up the grey on walls, eventually working in a Grey/Yellow/black/teal-green color pallet.  Here's the to-do decorating list:

-make or buy window treatments for the THREE huge windows
-make a large canvas rug
-replace the heavy wooden dresser with a smaller, vintage fixer-upper
-expand the shelving
-make or buy duvet cover/sheets in updated color scheme
-install light kit on ceiling fan
-install second charging station
-put up framed art

Next up on the tour: the bathroom.

The Curious Case of Changing Colors

The fireplace was disagreeable. Unlikeable. Ugly. Especially after covering the walls with lovely shades of blue and green, the dark red tiles that had never been updated stuck out like dreadlocks at the Republican National Convention.

They had to go.

Seeing as the nest is rented… replacing, painting, re-grouting, or removing were not on the books. Fortunately, the use of removable adhesive vinyl is not taboo according to the rental agreement.

6 hours and 27 sheets of 12"x6" white sticky vinyl later.... it was 'bye bye barf' and 'hello, lovely'.

Look Ma, I'm a Real Adult Now.

Hey folks.
After a month long break, I have returned!

Tay and I came back from the honeymoon (more on that in a future post) and immediately began settling in. Wow what a task that was. Fortunately for us, Tay has great (!) intern friends here at Southeast Christian, where he’s interning. They really pulled through for us- coming all way into town ( a good 20 minutes) at 11 at night and staying till 1:30 am to get everything in the apartment. Thanks you guys! It was also quite the task unpacking. It took a good week and a half to get everything off of the floor and out of boxes. It’s been a little refreshing playing housewife for the past three weeks- making lunch, cleaning, unpacking, painting. I like nesting, go figure. I have several projects going presently:
-cleaning up Louisville’s most over painted bathroom. Pictures to come.
-recovering a junked (and awesome) loveseat. Pictures to come.
-organizing the tiny kitchen. IKEA to the rescue
-finding a job. Oi Vey.

There you have it. Life in a nutshell. Keep checking in for nesting updates.