Just my cup of tea! - Very cozy indeed. Enjoy your new space.

When I want to get "away" can I come to your house?

You must be so proud. The room is everything+. It should be in a magazine or rate my space.

Great job!

It's fabulous!

Tell me there's no other seating in the room -- That it's a ONE-PERSON space!

I'd love a place like that for reading. But, your's is so gorgeous, I don't think I'd get a lot of reading done, I'd probably just be gazing lovingly around the room. Great job, Congratulations!

demifloyd, I love those two unique lamps you have in that cozy room and the beautiful picture frames and the textures and colors. What a wonderful get away from it all room.

Your room is so beautiful and looks so peaceful and relaxing.

Cameron

Tres charmant -- and yes! just MY cup of tea too! Gorgeous room!

Not quite my kind of look, but I totally get it! It is bee-yoo-tee-ful!

And what a great concept. I am reading Susanka's books and hoping to apply some of her ideas to my next place. Good for you for seeing through the more minimalist Susanka Style and applying her concepts to your own yummy style.

Very pretty!!

What a lovely sitting room! Please tell us the story behind your cornice.

Demifloyd, that is a wonderful space to claim and decorate to your liking. You have great taste but I am like Oceana, I want to know the "provenance" of the wonderful cornice.

How gorgeous, as you can see we are all swooning.....

for your bookcase, I would dedicate one shelf for books, magazines, etc..

one shelf for the bose of course, cd's

one shelf for a tray, very special glasses and your limoncello bottle, a crystal ice bucket perhaps , 6 interesting bottles of water (I've seen designer water bottles that are red glass, I'll try and look up the brand), a glass container with mini biscottis,

another shelf could have a pretty basket and nail things, creams, files, etc..
and other accoutrements needed for body care, a folded up throw or pashmina, a pair of cashmere socks

another shelf could have special things you like to look at, your favorite glittery evening purse, silk scarf, strands of pearls, silver baby mug, whatever, I would make it luxe items, fancy cup and saucer maybe

I see 5 shelves in your bookcase; they could be crammed with all things mattering to you and essentials to use in that room.

I would also put a silk moiré covered large bulletin board and put favorite photos on it, notes, souvenir stubs, poems, whatever..... get special tacks to be used only on it. Some boards have criss crossed ribbon to insert things into.

A room of her own; I have a book titled just that, it's amazing.

Congratulations on another beautiful room. I love the fabrics and patterns you chose! Enjoy!

Thanks for the nice posts--I'm pleased many of you like the little room.

mildredpots--yes, you can visit!

sweeby--there is only one small desk chair I found at an antique shop, just next to the bookcase. I plan to use it to stack books, magazines, place a bonzai plant on the stack of books and store my needlepoint box underneath it. So it's basically just the daybed for seating.
I don't expect too much company up there, but with a retired DH around I can see the need for a little privacy now and then when chatting with a friend!

Oceanna--originally I had planned to take my old dance costumes (circa l962-l965), some ties of DH's that he wore when we dated, sentimental clothing, and make a patchwork valance, mixed with scraps from the various upholstery fabrics here in the house. They just didn't work together and it looked like I was using leftover fabric.

The paisley fabric is one I found over two years ago and fell in love with--I had planned to use it as a table skirt in my living room but decided to buy a mirrored end table so didn't go with a covered table. So when the scraps/old clothing idea didn't come together, I decided I wanted that velvet paisley fabric. I mentioned to the interior designer that orders my window treatments that I wanted an unusual cornice board--something rich--like a Victorian train car. I was thinking of asking my DH to attempt to make one for me. But the designer told me he knew of a vendor had just come into the store a few months back with these intricate designs and he knew I would love them. Once he showed me the catalog I knew that was it. We went through old scraps of fabrics I had and took the two colors from those and decided to go with stripes. Basically, you custom design your cornice board and the man makes it like you want. I wish I were handy enough to do something like that myself!

mitchdesi, thank you so much for being kind enough to take the time to give so much thought to my bookcase dilemma and to share those ideas. The little cream colored canister already has biscotti--great minds and all! I actually printed up your post and took it to town with me--I can't find cashmere socks here so I'm ordering some--what a great idea! I haven't had any in years and hadn't thought about new ones but what a luxurious addition to the experience of getting away. I did find a beautiful red bottle of water (Ty Nant) and particularly liked the idea of an assortment of bottles--also purchased small bottles of Asti Spumante, my favorite. Everything else I already have here so I will get it all together and see what happens.

I will post photos hopefully in a week or so when I get more done in that room. Again, thanks for your kind comments and I appreciate the ideas!

Demi, I absolutely love it, but i've always loved things that were a little over the top, and unique. Makes me want to create a little get-a-way space in my new house, but that would be silly since i'll be living by myself. I might try the cornice idea for the bedroom i'll be doing for my GD, the little girl's room I call it. Great idea!!