Time for some curtains for the master bedroom

Last week I showed you the state of our master bedroom.  Remember our trendy paper blinds?  How could you forget?  Just in case you did forget, here's a little reminder:

It's not like it's horrible - it just still needs some love.  I'm a big fan, no, HUGE fan of sewing your own curtains.  For me, there are some benefits that outweigh purchasing drapery panels from a store.

1.  You get the EXACT fabric you want.  No more telling yourself what the store has will be just fine.  No more talking yourself into loving them.  When you find the RIGHT fabric, you just know and it's love.
2. You get the EXACT length you want.  Funny how not all windows are made the same size.  When you sew your own curtains, YOU decide how long the panels are.
3.  You get the SATISFACTION of knowing you've created something lovely for your home.
4.  You can COORDINATE other fabrics however you want.  You are no longer TIED to what's in stock at the store or online.
5.  You can LEARN a new skill.  Sewing curtain panels is not brain science.  Or is that rocket surgery?  Whatever.  It's pretty much stitching straight lines on a machine and then doing a little bit of ironing.

So, all that being said, I've been looking at fabric for curtains for the master bedroom, here are the fabric choices I've got pinned to my bedroom wall.

My plan, at the moment, is to do valances in the bedroom with some sort of natural fiber blinds that can be pulled up and hidden behind the valances during the day.  Remember I said I wanted natural light?  Well I'm sticking to that story.

Below are the fabric choices I'm currently considering.  I like them all for various reasons and when looking at the picture above, I think any of them would look good.

What's your favorite of the three fabrics?  I'm still on the fence about them and not leaning any particular way at this point.

Our master bedroom

I have a design principal I like to share with others and that is when decorating your home, begin with the first place YOU enter your house on a regular basis.  That means, whatever room or space you enter from the outside (like maybe a mud room off the garage, or perhaps your laundry room, etc.).  When you get home each day, whether from taking kids to and from school, or coming home from work, you want whatever room you walk into to make you feel at peace or at the bare minimum, happy to be home.  More on this at a later time.

I have a second theory.  Ready?

I believe that most people ignore their master bedroom when it comes to decorating.  Shocker, right?!  Maybe not.  It's a room guests rarely enter so most of us think this:  "I'll get around to it eventually.  I'll buy a cute bedding set and it will be good enough."  I'm guilty of this, are you?

When Aaron and I designed our floorplan, we designed the master bedroom to be full of light and have an overall sense of peace and calm.  Historically, we don't spend much time in our bedroom (obviously outside of the normal 6-8 hours of sleep we get), so when beginning to decorate, I wanted to make the space feel comfortable and inviting.

Here is what the room looks like without any fluff - and yes, I'm posting pictures of windows covered with paper blinds.  Aaron bought the gray ones and somehow they are different colors - different dye lots I guess.

There is nothing wrong with the way the bedroom looks - it's just lacking love.  But we are still in the process of piecing things together to complete our room.  The chair will be replaced at some point with something slightly less bulky and more stylish, but for now, it's what we have and it will have to do.

Here is a picture where I added a few pieces of decor onto the bedside tables, and as little as they are it makes a big difference is the mood of the room.

There is a little color added with the aqua vase and the bird planter, and the vintage book bundles.  Here are the bedside tables up close.

And then here is a couple shots of my bedding which I love but is totally not practical.

So that is the current state of our master bedroom, it will change over time, of course as all things do.  But for now, I'm happy with the way it looks.