Coastal Inspired Master Bedroom

Happy Tuesday Sweet Friends,

Hope this finds your week going well.

September 1st!!!  Ahhh.....

Can you believe it??  I am in a lil bit

in shock...........I have to say..... but

starting to get in the mood for Fall

now that I know it really is

 September already!!

Our Monday started out rather

different this week, our A/C went

out and I mean down for the count

out.....but have to say it was time

and better to have it happen now

so we don't have to worry about

it once hubby retires, if he ever

does!!  lol

However, it was 98 degrees out 

to be exact, so pretty warm in

 here unless I was sitting under a

 fan doing nothing,  so was a great

opportunity to have a really long 

chat with our daughter Dee since

she was off from work and then

 watch some TV............lol

It actually hasn't been too bad 

thanks to the rain, overcast skies 

and good ol' Fans. The A/C Co.

 actually brought us a portable

 A/C unit for our bedroom this

 morning, thank goodness, as it is 

sunny and hotter today, so we are

 sitting in our newly coastal styled

 bedroom and pretending to be in

 a tropical resort hotel.  lol 

 Might as well have a lil fun with

 it, right??........ cause the party will

 be over tomorrow we think....as we 

should be getting our new A/C then.

Also rearranged our family room

furniture last Friday as the first

step toward decorating for Fall,

and put up a shower curtain Dee

 gave me, that I have been saving

 for Fall in our guest bath.

  Both look great, so am starting

 to get my Fall groove on.......lol

Guess I had better get on with

telling you about how I decided

to go postal , I mean, coastal!!

It all got started with these new

double gourd lamps you see in

these pictures.  One of the last

times my daughter was here she

 was admiring the pretty wood

 lamps I had that my mother had 

given us as a housewarming gift

 over 38 years ago.  As you can

imagine after having them so

long a change sounded wonder-

ful to me,  so I asked Dee if she

would like to have them since

I would like to get some new

ones anyway. Much to my de-

light she said yes,  so before

we went to Asheville in July,

 I ordered the gourd lamps in

 cream, when I really liked the

 blue ones best (because some

 times I am too practical for my

 own good), then they came and

I didn't like the cream at all, as

they just blended into the walls

and wanted to kick myself cause

they went off sale and I am now

thinking great, Dumbo, You

should have gotten the blue 

ones to begin with!!   So we

went ahead and took the wood

ones up to her, and she put drum

shades on them, and they look

 fabulous with her white formica

 bedroom furniture. Meanwhile

I was looking for lamps online

and wasn't finding anything

I really liked as well, then just

the day before we came home

up pops these blue lamps again

on sale from Penneys at the

same price as before,  so I

ordered them right away

and got them just a few days

after we got home, and we

really love the look, and then

I was thinking about doing

the living room or family 

room with a few coastal

touches and then thought

these lamps are the perfect

color for a coastal look....

So began the new look with my

night stand.

I have a throw that matches my bed

 quilt, so decided to flip both over, to

 the striped side which looks more 

coastal to me, anyway. Have these

lil starfish tags I bought in the $1

section at Target a few years back,

so straight pinned one to the pillow

for my rocking chair.

Reversed bed quilt with reversed
 pillow sham and a few pillows with
 beachy words.

With posterized affect

Corner table  by our love seat 
where we like to read..............
Decided to use some palmetto
palms from the yard.

and my cute lil ocean bird and
 fish bowl and shell

Here is the final tweaking for
 my night stand. Absolutely 
love these lil starfish dishes
Dee and Jerry gave me.

Hubbies night stand.

As I was tweaking I had a blue

 scarf left over that I typically use 

with my coastal decorating, so 

decided to use the throw that was

on the rocking chair on the head

board and put the scarf on the 

chair.

We both liked the look,  but it didn't
last long, as it fell underneath the bed
 the first night we slept with it there, 
so much for that great idea!!  lol
Course, I could probably find a way
 to make it stay there if was really 
motivated,  which I am not!!  lol

With Photo copy affect

This is the finally look on the bed.

Since I was no longer using the 

coastal things in the guest

 bedroom, I swiped another

couple of pillows and signs,

and liked it much better!

So that was a final tweak.  lol

 with colored pencil affect

with posterized affect

The only $$ spent on this room

were for the lamps, everything

else I already had.

Well, this is the end of Part 1,
there will be a Part 2 and maybe
Part 3 and 4 to come......


Thanks for coming by and
hope you enjoyed your visit.


Love, Hugs and
Coastal Blessings,
Nellie


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