Day Dream Designing

I felt the urge to design a room tonight and I decided why fight it?  It all started with this rug:

It might help to see it in a room:

I loved this rug so much.  I was inspired by the gray and yellow and white color scheme and it stared me thinking… what a fabulous color scheme for a bedroom.  Yup, a bedroom.  I’m going to run with that thought.

If you are going to design a bedroom you would need a bed, right? I’ve always had a thing for West Elm’s Day Bed:

This may not be quite enough lounging space for the room, so if you’ve got it (the room that is) why not toss in another double duty piece of loungy furniture:

If you don’t have enough room for a full out lay down lounge piece than an upright upholstered chair will do.  I’m digging the vibe this rocker is sending out to me. Anyone else loving it?

Typically when I sit in a rocker I want to be able to rest my feet on something.  There is also always the problem of not having enough space to pile your clothes.  If you’ve filled up the rocker with discarded clothes and you need an additional spot to store your sartorial goods, why not an ottoman… or as I like to call them poofs:

Am I getting too matchy-matchy?  Then let’s try some contrast:

As long as we’re working the contrast we might as well talk about more pattern for the room.  I am a firm believer in layering patterns in a room.  Not that I’ve had the budget to do this yet in my house, but don’t worry, it’s coming:

If you just can’t handle the pattern, then I recommend something a bit more solid in color but still super fun, seriously how is it possible that I don’t own this yet?!?!

At this point you may have clicked on the links or the images and be thinking, what the heck Erin why is almost everything from West Elm.  Well, because they’re awesome and they continually inspire me and they just so happen to be working the whole gray, white, yellow thing.  So here are two more images from West Elm that will work to dress up your window.  The first is for those of you that aren’t afraid to layer patterns:

The second is for the folks that may need to go a bit more low key:

Again for the art… you can go a wee bit shocking but still subdued in terms of color:

Or you can keep rocking the contrast and pattern route:

If you’re are so inclined and you think you can handle a pendant light fixture then you can not go wrong with this little lovey, heck, why not add two over the Day Bed:

For the walls you can go light, medium or dark but no matter what they should at all times be painted gray:

And there you have it.  My bedroom design for the night.  Hopefully someone out there is now inspired to redo their master bedroom… or better yet keep the Day Bed look and redo a guest bedroom.

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