jerseygirl: I will take a peek at her designs; thanks for the suggestion newdawn: We have an iron bed and nothing else. We are open to new or used furniture, whichever will help give us the feeling we are after. I really like the chair and ottoman idea and we will have space for one. We went with a rather large closet(large for us!) so that we can keep bedroom furniture and clutter to a minimum. We would rather have our closet in a chaotic state than our bedroom....LOL!

Hi bdilly- Your basic furniture is nice, you don't need to change it. Please paint your walls all one color. The creamy white that you have in their would be just fine. Next, breeze through the bedding sections of store catalogs and hotel brochures, and see which ones make you think, "Oh, I would just love to be on vacation in that room!" Well, that is the feeling you want to recreate in your bedroom! If the rooms you seem to love have all white bedding with thick fluffy comforters and lots of thick white pillows and white curtains, then that's what you get. In the meanwhile, please get rid of the wreath over your bed and the dried flowers on your nightstand. Though when the holidays come, a real pine wreath that smells wonderful would be great. Dried flowers are from the days when fresh flowers were exorbitantly expensive and even a flowering plant was too. These days you can buy a smallish orchid plant that will last for months and then when it dies, you can just buy another. Or buy a few stems of lucky bamboo and put them in a plain glass cylinder. No fake or dried anything, please! You have a large corner on the left side of the window that is perfect for a large live green floor plant such as a kentia palm or an areca palm. For your dresser, if the plant on it is not live, remove it. Do you ever light the candles on the dresser? If not, remove them. If you think you might like to light candles, think about getting some nice slim candlesticks (in a silver tone if you will go with a silver or grey accent color), with tapers. You can remove the plaques with sayings on them, too. You probably can't see them from the bed anyway, and sayings on plaques aren't a "fresh" way to decorate. You can get a vase and cut some branches of something from your garden and put that on your dresser, even if there are no flowers growing yet. If you have the funds, you may want to think about finding a more attractive fan. Don't forego the fan if you need one, but there are many that look attractive. Think about adding some color to the room, and use it in artwork that you hang on the wall, a throw on the bed, possible a rug on the floor, possibly a subtle pattern in a curtain. It can be real color, or some very subtle color such as silver or gray, or two colors together such as silver and light blue, silver and royal blue, grey and royal blue, you get the idea. I saw that you used royal blue pillows in the living room, and curtains which had a grey geometric trellis pattern, that's why I thought of these colors. Here's an example- Your bedroom is actually rather large. You could get a marvelous tufted bench to put at the foot of your bed in any color you like, for example, royal blue velvet. If you want, the tufted bench can open up for storage. Then get a throw for your bed in a in a nubby chenille knit of shades of blue, and then you can get your bedding all in white and a big fluffy comforter. Get three big Euro pillows with white shams, and lots of pillows with white pillowcases. Get white lined blackout curtains. They can be plain white, or white on white pattern or embroidered. Replace your bedside lamps with ones that have more of a curve in their base. Or if royal blue is too bold for you, you could do silver and white together, or gray and white, that is very calm and soothing. Then you can get a throw for the bed that is gray and white, get curtains that are white with a subtle pattern of gray or silver, get lamps with a silvery base, and get a tufted bench of gray velvet. Look at these curtains, aren't these dreamy? https://www.amazon.com/Lambrequin-Casablanca-Metallic-Trellis-Pattern/dp/B00G6PH150 Look at this throw, I don't know what kind of synthetic "mink plush" is, but it sounds like it feels marvelous, and that color is royal for sure! Here's the bench with storage Once you figure out what colors you like, you can get some artwork for the room. Get some large things that really make a statement. For over the bed you want something that is 3/4 the width of the bed, and something to take the place of the roundish three-dimensional thing (although if you felt up to it, you could paint the round thing whatever color you wanted, for example silver, or bluish and keep it). Your art pieces (either 2-dimensional or three-dimensional) can have the color you like and can also incorporate the green of your live plants if you like, because everything goes with green. I love these colors, and one of the picture in your ideabooks showed a painting with blues and greens, so maybe you can look for artwork in this family if it is not too bold for you. If it is in your budget, you can replace the mirror over your dresser with a round mirror in a frame or a starburst mirror. There are many types, pick one that will go with the decor you choose for your room. Here are a few types -

https://www.houzz.com/products/gleam-modern-wallpaper-beige-prvw-vr~63155039      It comes in 5 shades-silver,ivory,gray,purple and beige... Overall the Romosa Line of wallpaper has many interesting patterns to consider, including reclaimed lumber, birch trees, stonewall, bricks&mortar, and others. Enjoy looking. The silver, Ivory, Gray, Beige, tones in this pattern would likely reflect the other tones in the room and one would not get weary of looking at it. But the other patterns may create new ideas not considered before?

Reality - centered desks look great until you add computers to the mix. Then you have the battle of the cords and the back of the monitor between you and the door and the first thing people see when walking into the room. That said, it is exactly how I have my home office set up. I am at my desk 10 hours a day and don't want to be staring at a wall. I am getting an outlet in the floor in my office and another one in my living room to eliminate cords going across the floor to the center of the room.