Bom Chicka Wah Wah Inspired

I've been thinking, the first room in my new home that I want to decorate is the bedroom. Yes, that's right. The bedroom. Before you get all hubba hubba on me, I'm not trying to sex things up in an effort to inspire baby making, we need no help in that area thank you very much. :) But I do need help when it comes to decorating my bedroom -- it's always the LAST room in the house that I decorate and I really think that is such a shame.



And it's not just me, lots of people save the bedroom for last or worse, they never get around to it so the bedroom is never quite right. I believe that a bedroom should be a sanctuary, a spa-like room where not much happens outside of rest, relaxation, getting dressed, undressed, and lots of cuddling, an occasion breakfast in bed, a little late night reading and of course - plenty of bom chicka wah wah!

Currently, our bedroom is this sort of transitional space, it's an office by day, sometimes an office by night and then it happens to be a place where we sleep. But it's not a zen den, a love cave or a moan zone. It's this sort of boring bedroom with way too much computer equipment (and I hate it!). I don't even like going to bed because of all of the red lights that I see once it's dark, I feel like I have a row of droids watching over me at night!

And my husband hates it too, so we're on the same page there thank goodness. But what to do when you only have two rooms? The only solution was to put his office in the bedroom and mine in the living room. But then you have no separation of work and play. You have no separation of day and night. You have no separation of work week and weekend. It's just groundhog day, every single day, and it's annoying, draining and we are SO OVER IT.

Thankfully, a moving truck will be the magic carpet that we'll ride out of here in less than 6 weeks. And then, well then my friends I shall have a lovely bedroom with only a bed, tables flanked on each side of it, some lamps, a dresser and a closet -- and okay maybe a chair or bench and definitely a nice little radio to play some cd's because there is nothing like listening to Turkish groove sounds after you've taken a lovely fig and olive oil bath and slipped between the sheets as candles flicker on the windowsill.

That's lovely, that's magic, and that romantic sanctuary of a bedroom will soon me mine. No more computers that look like droids staring me down at night. No more humming of hard drives. No more lulling by laptops. We are reclaiming our sleep space which is why the bedroom will be the first room that I'll decorate upon moving in.

This photo shows some wallpaper that I purchased a few years ago that has been waiting for me in the cellar. It's by Cole & Son and is called Cow Parsley. I'm either hanging it or one of two papers from Ferm Living: Fairy Flower or Wilderness in our bedroom. What do you think?

(image: holly becker for haus maus)