Having had 4 sons, and one still at home, I can sympathise. I don't fight it like I used to. The other 3 grew up, married and have well kept homes and fussy wives, so I figure I won't drive myself up the wall with no. 4. However...... sometimes it does just get too much, and I don't need a slum room in my home. What we are planning for him as a birthday treat is to do a surpise room make over for him when he's at work. His brothers, SIL's and DH and me.... Someone will video it like a TV show, and we'll have delegated jobs, like "cleaner", "clothing and laundry", "decorator" etc. His girlfriend will be on hand too, so she can handle anything personal like his desk and love notes etc.. we don't want to invade his privacy, but he won't mind her cleaning up his personal paperwork because most of it is from her anyway. Well, we hope to turn an awful job into a few hours of family hysteria and fun, then give him the video of the whole process as part of the gift. We even have DH on hand as the "hardware" expert to put up cork board and do repairs etc.

Ok, here's where I'm at. The Wasabi--not going to paint with it in this room. So, I'm torn between a cream (Affinity yling yling) and the Weimaramer. I was playing with the BM tool early this am before work on my home computer, I will upload some more ideas later. Anybody have the yling yling? hey it rhymes with Yuengling so maybe that's a sign. Would the Weimeramer, (can we call it "W" for short?) be too dark coming from the Baltic Gray foyer? Busybee--if you have any photos of W in real life, can you post it for me to see? While we are at it, any opinions on nightstand color? If I have a black bed, must the side tables be black/dark wood? Would white look too disjointed? Alrighty, thanks for the help and all the feedback. Back to work. Can't wait to get home tonight to play with that software some more and watch Ralph Lauren on Oprah. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I'm considering the Wasabi in the attached bathroom. If I can get it to work and look like it has a reason to be in there.

I tried roof vents, I do know what you're talking about. I destroyed two or three of them trying to get one put in on top of the existing insulation. I ended up ripping out the insulation in the channels and replacing it with R-13, which leaves about 1-1/2" of air between the insulation and the bottom of the roof deck. Holy COW did that make a difference already. I'm used to the house being 77 degrees after a sunny day in the summer and the bedroom being so warm you cannot have even a sheet over you without sweating to death. I got home to find the house at 75 degrees and the bedroom was cool enough to take a nap with a sheet and bedspread on top of me. Here's a picture: http://www.ankylosaur.com/images/housetopfloor.jpg A) The triangular, unheated, space in front of the bedroom. B) the "channels" The top of the 2X6 is the roof decking and the bottom of the 2X6 is where the bedroom's ceiling is nailed. These channels are about 5' long from the storage space to the attic, proper. C) the standard attic (yes, the ceiling of the bedroom has a down slope in the back of the room) D) the bedroom, heated in winter, cooled in summer.

les, my post disappeared that I wrote to reply to you and it has been 20 minutes so I will reply again. If you were in person at my home and was in my bedroom, you would agree that the set up I have now is optimum for my bedroom furniture and viewing of my TV and being able to turn on the lamps with the light switch since both lamp switches around the bed are affected by the light switch on the wall when one enters my bedroom. The most important reason for the Armoire with the TV to be by the windows closest to the wall entering the bedroom is because the cable outlet is on that wall behind the double dresser. I like my TV to be catty corner to be able to see the TV when I am folding laundry on my bed standing up. I like to watch HGTV for decorating ideas and a few TV shows I enjoy like Grey's Anatomy. To have a long cord wrap around my room would not be good for when I vacuum and it would make my TV even slower in switching TV channels and turning on. I love my new Toshiba LCD TV Panel but it is slow. Next, I like being able to switch on both lamps when I am doing laundry at night by switching on the light switch. That light switch on the wall when I enter the room controls the light switches on the sides of my bed the way it is now. I had to put in an extension type of cord (using a surge protector that has a long cord) to the wall behind the chest of drawers for my clock radio to be plugged into to prevent it from being turned on and off accidentally. I also like facing the door when I sleep for safety reasons in case I hear noise and want to see who it is. Finally, I like the way a bedroom looks when I walk in the room and the bed is on the wall I am looking at. I do wish my bedroom was two feet wider and three feet longer but I am lucky it is not smaller so at least I was able to figure out how to get all that furniture in my bedroom in a light color to not overwhelm the bedroom. I also think the triangle cathedral ceiling and the wall windows opens of the room some despite it not being too big for a master bedroom. I think the size of the pieces of the Durham Furniture look nice in my bedroom. I loved the Stanley Furniture bedroom set I had for a week but the pieces were big for my bedroom I can see now and I only could fit a night stand in that corner to put a TV on which allowed me no room for a VCR or eventually a DVD player. If my bedroom was bigger, I would have liked a chair next to my dresser by the light switch to put clothes on for setting up what I am wearing the next day. Since I do not have the room, I put a clear tiny hook over my door for this purpose and it is working out fine. Thanks for admiring my new furniture again. Do you like the Ivory Cream shades on my Satin Brass Lamps? Remember I used to have mismatched lamps there with one table lamp in a brass and ivory finish with a white lamp shade that was very old and the gold plated material was chipping and one floor lamp silver with a white and cream lamp shade. You can check out the link under the Stanley furniture since I still have those pics available for the public to see. I had wanted crystal lamps but I saw these lamps on sale at JCPenney and thought they looked so pretty and had thought the ivory lamps shades would be a white ivory and not a very yellow ivory. I do love the satin brass finish on the lamps a lot but do you think crystal lamps would look nicer? les, my post disappeared that I wrote to reply to you and it has been 20 minutes so I will reply again. If you were in person at my home and was in my bedroom, you would agree that the set up I have now is optimum for my bedroom furniture and viewing of my TV and being able to turn on the lamps with the light switch since both lamp switches around the bed are affected by the light switch on the wall when one enters my bedroom. The most important reason for the Armoire with the TV to be by the windows closest to the wall entering the bedroom is because the cable outlet is on that wall behind the double dresser. I like my TV to be catty corner to be able to see the TV when I am folding laundry on my bed standing up. I like to watch HGTV for decorating ideas and a few TV shows I enjoy like Grey's Anatomy. To have a long cord wrap around my room would not be good for when I vaccuum and it would make my TV even slower in switching TV channels and turning on. I love my new Toshiba LCD TV Panel but it is slow. Next, I like being able to switch on both lamps when I am doing laundry at night by switching on the light switch. That light switch on the wall when I enter the room controls the light switches on the sides of my bed the way it is now. I had to plut in an extension type of cord (using a surger protector that has a long cord) to the wall behind the chest of drawers for my clock radio to be plugged into to prevent it from being turned on and off accidentally. I also like facing the door when I sleep for safety reasons in case I hear noise and want to see who it is. Finally, I like the way a bedroom looks when I walk in the room and the bed is on the wall I am looking at. I do wish my bedroom was two feet wider and three feet longer but I am lucky it is not smaller so at least I was able to figure out how to get all that furniture in my bedroom in a light color to not overwhelm the bedroom. I also think the triangle cathedral ceiling and the wall windows opens of the room some despite it not beign too big for a master bedroom. I think the size of the pieces of the Durham Furniture look nice in my bedroom. I loved the Stanley Furniture bedroom set I had for a week but the pieces were big for my bedroom I can see now and I only could fit a night stand in that corner to put a TV on which allowed me no room for a VCR or eventually a DVD player. If my bedroom was bigger, I would have liked a chair next to my dresser by the light switch to put clothes on for setting up what I am wearing the next day. Since I do not have the room, I put a clear tiny hook over my door for this purpose and it is working out fine. Thanks for admiring my new furniture again. Do you like the Ivory Cream shades on my Satin Brass Lamps? Remember I used to have mismatched lamps there with one table lamp in a brass and ivory finish with a white lamp shade that was very old and the gold plated material was chipping and one floor lamp silver with a white and cream lamp shade. You can check out the link under the Stanely furniture since I still have those pics available for the public to see. I had wanted crystal lamps but I saw these lamps on sale at JCPenney and thought they looked so pretty and had thought the ivory lamps shades would be a white ivory and not a very yellow ivory. I do love the satin brass finish on the lamps a lot but do you think crystal lamps would look nicer?