Seems to me that after almost 20 years, you have earned a new bedroom set for yourself, one in which you can take pleasure every day. Why buy something new for the guest room that no one will see but twice a year, and even then won't care about because it is your house, not theirs.

Your indecision is because you feel guilty about replacing your perfectly good set - but you aren't throwing it out, woman, you are just repurposing.

Go for it. And don't you just love Walter E. Smithe stores? I was all set to interview with them when I got my current job, and this job was more secure as far as income, etc. But now that things may be upended, I am thinking about applying again. They were very understanding when I cancelled my interview, and said if it didn't work out, they would be happy to meet me.

perhaps, a blessing in disguise...without all matchy matchy, you have a wonderful opportunity to expand your design senses and have fun at the same time. not just creating a guest hotel room, but a true expression of yourself and your family home for your guests...

just saying... :) for me, i'd keep what i had if it was working and i liked it :)

I am with you on that. We agonize over the choices because we know that we won't replace any time soon. Get yourself a new bedroom set and repurpose the old one. Don't spend money on the guest room, spend it on yourself. You deserve it. Guest are lucky we let them stay at our house. If they get too comfortable they might stay. Insert "adult children" in there too..

Personally and no offense meant, I don't like matchy, matchy bedroom sets anymore. Since yours is 20 years old, it's time for a new direction right?

Yes, get yourself the new bedroom set!I agree with the other posters. Why spend money in the guest room? I just love the looks of that first headboard. Very clean lines. Maybe you could use some of the furniture from your room for the children.

Everything can be sold (craigslist) or donated away, and it sounds as if you have some financial flexibility. I would suggest you ask yourself, if I didn't already have what I do, what decision(s) would I make?

When we're feeling pulled in multiple directions, we need to get back in touch with what we really wanted to do in the first place, before we got either tied to one option by what we have, or seduced by something that we saw and liked but isn't really what we were after.

So, what is your actual objective? Which constraints are real (eg, size of the room, budget), and which are distractions (the bedding)? Are you letting the sunk cost of a $50 bedding set drive you to spending maybe $1000 or more on furniture that isn't what you were actually shopping for (ie furniture for your master bedroom)?

This stuff that won't fit your mattress isn't the only bedroom furniture in the world. Go shopping again :-)

KarinL

All good advice. I just wasn't ready to shop for a new master bedroom set since we have plans to redo our masterbath and likely will recarpet etc the master bedroom but not right away. I bought a very nice quality set and it has stood the test of time.

@LES917: I am in love with Walter E Smithe. Haven't been there in years. I really walked around saying I like that and that and that. My husband went too and appreciated being able to see and sit and touch and feel which we hadn't been able to do with a decorator. Turned out the man who helped us with the store general manager and senior designer. You get special treatment when you show up at 10am on a Monday morning. The store was ours.

@karinl: yes, it isn't a matter of the money really this time it is what to do, and do ONCE.

I think I am just tired of looking at the guest room waiting for me to finish it. It's been painted and crown molding installed since April.

I will admit I prefer the bedroom pieces to match. Nowerdays even within the same collection there are variations in pieces. I don't want to spend time coordinating things from this or that collection. I am old school I guess (even at 41!).

Here's a real time update: my husband and I discussed this and he said if I had mentioned I was in the market for a new master set it would make sense to replace ours at this time, but it wasn't on our radar screen. He said it doesn't make sense to him to move our bed, two nightstands, linen chest, tall boy dresser, and triple dresser and mirror to a guest room which will never ever need that amount of storage. And to replace it all in our master would be way way more expensive than if we just bought a few pieces for a guest room. Oh well.

If the room can easily hold a queen sized bed, I'd go for it, only because I regretted many times over not replacing our full size in our previous guest room with a queen bed. I never found what I really wanted in full size bedding and the queen size was much more comfortable for guests. You can always sell the bedding on Ebay or CL if you don't have another use for it.

I have Durham furniture in my son's room and am really happy with the quality. It will be around for many years.

You can always do the Master Bedroom after you do the bath and the carpet, right ;)

I think Karin really nailed it. You are putting $50-100 worth of bedding up against much bigger money on furniture. Now, even just a few years ago, I would have done the same. Once it was bought, it was bought. I made it work. But it sounds from reading you that having the nice furniture and having it all match, is pretty important to you. As akrnhsnc said, having a queen bed gives you a lot more flexibility if the room has room. And queen size bedding is much more available in nice patterns than full.

I like the bed you showed.

And don't think about it as 'throwing out the mattress & bedding'. Put it on Craigslist. Put it on Ebay. Price it really well so that someone in need can take advantage of your mistake. It's called recycling.

Red

Update:

I am buying the queen mattress and bed.

The designer called me today. Starting Friday Walter E Smith is having a sale. $500 off any purchase of $1500 or more, plus 10% off if I pay check or credit card. I figure for $500 I can get another mattress set in queen. My own queen set is 17 years old so maybe I'll swap for a new one.

Yeah :) decisions are good :) LOL...hope it exceeds your expectations!

Now, that's a good plan. You get a nice new set for yourselves........and after 17 years, it's time. Your old set goes in the Guest room and looks great with a new bed. Perfect!

Red