Corners of My Home: Master Bedroom

Today I'm showing some corners of our bedroom.

I have worked and worried over this post, I don't know why, it just wouldn't come together. But I'm going to just put it out there...and let you look.

The cool porcelain doorknobs. None of our woodwork has been refinished and is in original condition, showing 112 years of use.

This vertical lock goes up into the door casing to hold the french doors closed from the inside. I love the designs on the hardware.

You see, my house is so imperfect, that I'm sometimes baffled that anyone would care what the rooms in this old place look like, that you'd actually like seeing corners of my home.

The hinges on the doors are all ornate and original to the home.

Our bedroom doors, just off the living room. Our room was once a parlor.

You enter it through a set of double french doors. This bedroom is now a master suite: but was once a formal parlor with a long narrow closet under the stairs; and it also had its own door leading out to our front porch.

We had to close that door off during a remodel because it was quite breezy...the house had settled and a lot of air came into the room through that old crooked entry door.

We remodeled and cut a door through the closet wall and made an entry to an already-existing bathroom. (Then we added this bathroom.)

Here again, we had to order a bed that would "go with" our old dressers...since it's so hard to find a new bed made of new wood to match anything to do with an unmatched pair of antique dressers. This is a "garden gate" bed that we ordered after I saw a picture of it in a magazine.

Like I told you, none of our old dressers exactly match, I just try to put dressers together that are the same wood tone.

This was my dear grandpa's dresser, given to my mom and then she in turn gave it to me. It was painted at one time and Mr. Farmhouse refinished it. It's a big, bulky and plain dresser and I love it.

The mirror here is from a stash of old treasures my father-in-law left in our first little house we bought from him. He didn't want it and I have treasured it and used it in every home we've had.

This is the closet under the steps that we cut a door through the back wall to make an access to the small bathroom. Here you can see the shower curtain I made and a curtain on the immediate right here disguises a set of shelving in the closet that extends from the floor all the way to the ceiling.

Here's our little television cabinet: an old dresser! The drawers hold all the dvd's!

The bathroom has none of the original woodwork to the house, so we "made do". I did add an old shelf under the window that was made of found architectural salvage woodwork, and I love it. I had a towel bar cut to fit exactly the space under the little shelf so it looks sort of like it belongs.

To give this bathroom a feel of "old" I also added an old mirror instead of a new one, in tones that match the shelf under the window.

This bath is so tiny, the pedestal sink gives the feeling of more space instead of a boxed-in sink. Having no cabinet storage makes for a creative solution for towels and toiletries...

I always keep this old egg basket for magazines or catalogs for browsing...

This shower curtain was made using an extra set of king-sized sheets from Target that matched my bed set...I still have the fitted sheet left that I can use for other projects as needed.

Mr. Farmhouse kindly helped me add all the grommets that the shower rings fit into...we laid the whole thing out on the deck one sunny afternoon and pounded them all in.

My sister gave me the idea of ditching the usual toilet brush holder in favor of something found in the gardening department of a major chain...I love that, so that's the only reason I have for sharing this photo with you: you may like her idea, too!

This little piece of cork on a frame came from the Pottery Barn outlet and Mr. Farmhouse installed these little cabinet knobs on it for me to hang my necklaces from...isn't he clever?

This old kitchen cabinet was put to work to hold the towels and toiletries, so they're hidden. There is glass in the door, but I installed fabric behind the glass to hide the everyday "clutter"....

Thanks for stopping by...

Enjoy this late winter day and the sunshine it has brought!