MASTER BEDROOM

The house has two equal size bedrooms with baths upstairs but one includes a fireplace so we claimed it as the master bedroom. This room originally served as an office with two built in desks and shelving, all were salvaged for use in other rooms as we finished the lower level. The paneling in this room was not of the same high grade as in the living room so there was no question about painting it. The fireplace brick was also painted during the renovation process.

The only picture I can find of the room as it was during our first ownership features my very first "computer," a Texas Instrument/ TV arrangement located in the far left corner of the room next to the fireplace. The carpet and walls were soft shades of orange and the bedspread, drapes and cornices were all the same floral salmon colored print. We built the padded cornices from 1x1 wood and cardboard. They are now recovered but still in use as you see in the latest photo

The white carpet and white painted walls were here when we repurchased the house. The IKEA bed took half a day to put together, figuring out the arrangement of slats with International instructions that were only simple drawings. The frame itself was a steal at $199 plus mattress and slats. The whole thing came to $550... then I saw an ad for a very similar bed that was $1300 for just the bedframe, which would only accommodate mattresses in the same price range. IKEA has been a real find for us at a time when we're trying to redo this house 'on the cheap!'

The rocker was handmade by Tennessee Amish. I bought it in a friend's gallery in Port Gibson, MS. Looks like the vines might be the same wild grape vines that we have to deal with on our lot. The vine fragment over the fireplace (a temporary placement) is from the wisteria we had to cut out of several trees. I'd introduced it 20 years ago in trained tree form, but it had taken over the area in our absence. Haven't decided on bedding yet, but there will be no curtains.