How much of the furniture in the room is your style and how much of it is "it's my first apartment and it's furnished from my parents' basement"? I have an eclectic sense of style, but I find myself drawn to unique pieces that have a bit of a story. The blue dresser is my favorite piece, it has a ton of character. However I don't want to stick with all the same style in the room, I don't like matching things. I also like contemporary modern things, pretty much anything that makes you thing where did you find that? The small dresser/night stand has been in my family for years, so I want to make it work. I'm not opposed to upcycling it, but I'm not sure how I'd go about it. And the chair I don't care too much about either way. What activities do you want to do in the room? Sleeping, obviously. But getting dressed? Surfing the net? Yoga? Reading--in bed or a comfy chair? Make-up or hair styling? I don't spend that much time in the bedroom. I guess this is the part where I add that my boyfriend also lives here but has no design opinion whatsoever. So I do want to try and define a space for both of us. I hung the skirt on the wall to try and bring the orange reds and pinks around the room, but I have since taken it down. We usually play video games on the ps3, or watch a movie and go to sleep. I'll take my clothes and bring them to the bathroom where I get ready, so I don't really use it for much. I do read in bed. The reason I have a chair is because we dont have a tv in our living room, so company will come into the bedroom to play video games and whatnot. In my living room, I have my computer for movies and tv, etc. What are the colors, paint and bedding you have chosen? Are they what's in the room now, or will you be changing all of them? The colors I like are pretty much in the room now. I like the mustard yellow gold in the rug (and have considered painting it with a white stripe or chevron?) The robin's egg and the grey, and the red orange are probably my favorite colors. I feel like there is alot of wood, and it is overwhelming. What does the headboard you are planning to make look like? I plan on painting a brick panel from lowe's matte white and hanging it from floor to ceiling behind the bed to bring the white from the ceiling down and the white from the bedding up, and breaking up the dark grey a little bit. That's next weekend's project. But that makes me wonder if using pallets to rest my mattress on would clash woods, or if I should paint them (white/black?) or what I should be putting my bed up on? I also wanted to hang some kind of art on top of the brick headboard. Another concern is the floor to ceiling expanse would make the bed itself look even smaller. A couple cool things about the brick panel is that It only needs a few nails to hold it up, I can take it from apartment to apartment and I can upholster it if I get bored. I also think it would add texture. What's your budget like? I have pretty much an open budget, I'd like to save up for a few things, but I like crafting and DIY too much to go buy a showroom set up for my bedroom. I want to put as much of myself into it as I can.

I think the addition of the stripe might not be approved by DS. I think it might take it that one step beyond looking pulled together and looking "decorated". But I will let him choose when he returns next week. He hasn't seen the room finished. Even though he chose the individual elements and has seen the room painted, he hasn't seen everything in the room. I offered photos but he wants to be surprised. That's why I haven't ironed the duvet yet, just in case he hates it in person. I went to the fabric store today to pick up some options. I found a gray linen that is very close to the background color of the drapes and would work the best if I added stripes. I also picked up a heavy matelasse type of fabric per a couple suggestions above. This one is the wall color and has a little circle theme. Yeah I know....i'm supposed to be moving away from that but I think it could be a contender as it's rather subtle. I picked up one other that I'm not sure how to explain but I don't really like. I also purchased a 1/2 yard of charcoal silk to use to make cording for the pillows and decided to see how that would work so I'm attaching photos for your thoughts. charcoal silk...I like the contrast with everything else and since I am using it to edge the throw pillows made out of the circle fabric, it would tie in. Unfortunately, they are rather stingy with their samples and have a minimum 1/2 yard purchase requirement... I couldn't find anything heavy except the circle fabric. The linen is rather "stiff" though and would hold a box pleat really well.

Gardenwebber, that is SUCH a good point about "entertaining in their rooms". Here's a thought about your floorplan: have the kids take the back two bedrooms. Move your son to the smaller bedroom, the girls in the room with the closet. Take that wall that you guys put up and turn it into the bunk beds in separate rooms. This will give you a lot more useable floor space. Swing your youngest daughter's bed against the far wall and you will maximize the floor space there. Your son can have the lower bunk bed in his own room next door. That leaves the bedroom directly across from yours as a playroom. That also makes your own bedroom further away from the kids beds. The bunk beds are just drywalled with the mattress only on them. We have always had a rule that our kids cannot have a computer, video games or tv in their bedroom until they are 18. I do not want that stuff cluttering my downstairs living room. An upstairs space for this is the best solution. We built our current home knowing that we were going to have teens in them someday and to give them space separate from ours. Think about this solution. My husband would be happy to talk you and your husband thru the details if it is something you would be interested in. P.S. my 17y.o.'s boyfriend is coming for christmas for 17 days and there is no way in hell that she will be "entertaining" him in her bedroom!!!!!!!!!!!! Sherry

I'm going back and forth on adding in some small streaks of the green and bits of silver. Here's what I'm thinking as of now: 1) Base coat - Color match to the beige/light gray in the pillow that comes with set (see picture of forest green comforter I added above.) 2) Add a FEW streaks ("strie"- the vertical lines), of the green and light gray (or whatever the "beige/light gray" pillow color is). I would add maybe 1 streak of each every 7 - 8 inches. I probably wouldn't even be using a teaspoon of each color for the entire wall. I doubt it would even show in the pictures, but when one is in the room, they would see a very subtle lines of the green and light gray. And if I even change the comforter, I could just paint over the green and light gray streaks. 3) Add the metallic paint (something light and "pearly") as the final coat on the headboard wall. 4) Paint the rest of the walls in the base coat (the beige/ light gray color matched from the pillow.) I really like the "drama" of the forest green comforter against the light walls. I also love that large gold metallic vase in @Molly 's picture. Thinking of doing something like that in a pewter. Now just have to find a massive vase that doesn't cost $300+ dollars.