design rules | DesignLively

Sometimes you’ve got to break a few rules.

There are a lot of rules I tend to ignore. Like “match your purse to your shoes”, “don’t swim right after you eat” and “don’t wear red and pink together”.

However, in some ways, I’m a rule-follower when it comes to decorating. Like, don’t mix and match hardware/appliance finishes. Etc.

But, our old house comes with small bedrooms. Small bedrooms with huge windows and double closets (albeit, awesome) but they take up a lot of wall real estate.

So we had to choose between 2 bad design choices:

1. Putting a bed against a window

2. Having our feet point away from the main door (why do I know these things? Too much Oprah.)

That’s why, after switching from room to room (last summer, we tried out 3 different bedrooms before we picked one) and trying out a few furniture layouts, we….. put our bed in front of a window.

And I love it!

And although I miss the window, we have two other huge windows on the other side of the wall that bring in lots of light.

While I would have liked to put the bed in front of these windows instead, that nice radiator you see below them put the Heisman on that plan.

To help create a “center” I hung a hefty curtain rod, added sheer drapes and a string of metal stars. Someday I’d like to get a shorter and more “open” headboard, but for now we are workin’ with what we’ve got.