Such a pretty room, has a wonderful serene feel.

I think a crochet style would look nice. I have shams this style on my guest bed, with a coverlet similar to yours:

Etsy has sweet bird prints, example:

How about Queen Bee? :)

So many different ones would look good!

Yes it is. But there's not much I can do about it outside of getting a new bed and it's not a priority at the moment.

I love ALL the pillows! That's a GREAT look!

Are you just tired of it....? I get tired of things...

Bumble, those are nice — what about choosing just one of them?

A friend of mine just put a long pillow on her bed and I love that look. Similar to this pillow from Target

Sure, the headboard is lower than many but the bed is beautiful. I would not load it up with pillows to makeup for headboard height-- but would move the painting over the headboard. i like Jinx' suggesting of a crochet pillow or something with texture that doesn't detract from the beautiful painting and stained glass. They are and should be the focal points!

The room and the bed are very pretty.

Maybe an embroidered pillow to play up the colorful art and stained glass? Rifle Paper Co has a whole bunch of pretty embroidered pillows right now.

https://riflepaperco.com/cream-wildwood-lumbar-embroidered-pillow

https://riflepaperco.com/strawberry-fields-cluster-embroidered-pillow-cream

https://riflepaperco.com/blue-botanical-embroidered-lumbar-pillow

https://riflepaperco.com/cream-wild-rose-embroidered-pillow

Prickly, why’d you have to go and post those! Now I want the first three myself. :D

Me too Jinx!! :D

This is a pretty one from Dillard's too.

https://www.dillards.com/p/southern-living-x-mrs.-southern-social-embroidered-tasseled-rectangular-pillow/514427795

https://www.dillards.com/p/southern-living-x-mrs.-southern-social-embroidered-floral--ogee-square-pillow/514427780

I don't know if I can resist all of these pretty embroidered pillows.

I'm not tired of the look but I recently had someone stay here and it just seemed like a lot of pillows to move and also is a somewhat dated look. Maybe I'm becoming a minimalist, lol never!

I can move the painting over the bed, but of course you do know that means I have to patch the wall and repaint the entire wall but that's what I do

I'll try something like this.

That’s lovely!

I love your guest room, and would be be very happy sleeping there. I think your pillow choice is perfect!

Beautiful, Bumble.

Jinx and Prickly, please provide me with your credit card numbers. Shipping address not necessary.

I love your guest room-it has such a cozy feel. If you move the artwork over the bed you may not feel the need for a pillow.

If you feel that moving the art would actually necessitate repainting, maybe you can put something small over where it is now?

PS You could also try to edit out just a few pillows if not all

I'd put a pillow on there in the cobalt blue and gold like the stained glass and the art to echo the color scheme.

From Etsy

No matter what you do, that is going to be a beautiful and comfortable guest room! I actually liked the original placement of the art - because it's large enough to stand on it's own. And it prevents all the colorful elements from being on the left side of the room (painting + window).
I like the pillowless look; I like the lot's of pillow look, but agree it's a pain for a guest to remove and remake a bed with a bunch of pillows on it. It would look nice with some of the pillows suggested, maybe just one.
With your coverlet/spread, I think having the pillows out from under it and in their own shams would look nice, with no other pillows. Shams with some minimal embroidery or a bit of color or just a nice texture (like the crocheted suggestions or maybe tone on tone embroidery).

I like the art over the bed - looks very nice. I like it a lot better than the overload of non-functional pillows. I might add one of those long, low pillows pictured above that has a little color in it.

The painting looks nice over the bed, but I have a concern. Assuming I am a guest, can i sit up and read in bed without smashing into the painting. And note, I like a couple of pillows propped up behind me when I read. I dont want them to hit the painting either.

The painting is quite high up. And pillows propped up wouldn't come close to touching it.

That's kind of funny local eater because so far I wish I had guests to like to read

Oly!! I was waiting for somebody to tell me they likedthe original placement of the art. It is too late. Many nail holes now.

i love the painting,it is yours?

Yes, and I used to have it in the bathroom but it didn't shine until I moved it in this room with the stained glass window.

I am in love with your before (with all of the pillows). I think just changing out the first long one with the one you were considering would be perfect. I like the art where it was originally.

I would stay with you in that room until you kicked me out!

Edit to add... I am in love with your bed! It is absolutely beautiful.

Yes, I've decided to keep the cousin it pillow on the bed as the only pillow other than the sleeping pillows.

Would you believe just taking a few pillows off? The bed has caused me to rearrange so many things in the house! So I wanted to keep cousin it and I thought I would try it on the sofa but it doesn't work with the sheepskin on the chair behind the sofa and I really love cousin it. I bought it last year from Pottery Barn and it wasn't the cheapest pillow in the world either.

I think the bed is pretty too and with my before pillows it was lost.

Bumble, beautiful!

No guests yet? My phone number _____

I’m guessing that old timey bed was originally for a simple mattress, and not the tall boxed spring and mattress set of recent times. We had a cherry bed custom made and we i structed the maker to give us a taller, higher headboard because I was having a custom angled bed made (so mattress at head of bed is higher, obscuring a lot of the headboard.

The furniture maker stated that it wouldnt look right when/if we returned tge bed to the customary horzonal position (which we could do by repositioning some frame pieces. But I was going to keep the bed at a 10 to 12 degree slope. And I am paying for it. He relented, but darn if when the bed was delivered and assembled, the headboard was the customary dimensons. I was not feeling well in those days and had no energy to return the bed and fiddle around. Jeepers. We were both right. And as far as aesthics go, any bed sloped at 12 degrees is bound to grab more attention than a low appearing headboard.

Your artwork is beautiful and looks very nice over the bed !

Seeing your bedspread for some reason reminds me of how my mother used to make her bed...more like the picture. She'd whack her arm lengthwise on the pillow and fold it in half so it'd actually make more like a roll and put the seam edge between the mattress and headboard, then tuck the bedspread under and around it. Something like this:

I have a bedspread on my bed and I sometimes do it that way.

I like the new arrangement of the painting and no pillows.

I'm dying to know what "cousin it" means.

Lol

Annie, it sure does feel like all things old new again. I never would have thought I'd go back to the old fashioned way of making the bed.

Bumble, hee hee. I was reading "cousin" as a verb.

I think the cover over the pillows is a much more outdated look than shams/pillows. The trick is to not use too many plllows. i love a long pillow in front of shams. i never see boudoir pillows around here.

Tina, this is probably where I go off in my own direction!

I have always loved this look but haven't done it before. I feel tired of pillows.

I think the cover over the pillows is a much more outdated look than shams/pillows.

I see it used sort of ironically; it could come back but I doubt it because it requires a bedspread and most still seem to prefer duvets and "big hair" bed.

The trick is to not use too many pillows.

I think that is true.

Love this meme:

https://www.boredpanda.com/husband-doesnt-know-what-to-do-with-extra-pillows/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

I much prefer no pillow. It evokes sweet-smelling spring flowers, blowing, gauzy curtains…and my youth.

I think Bumble should do it like Jim (Mtn’s link) — every day, something different, and post it here. :D

Pillows or not, The thought of no top sheet is absolutely undoable for me.

There was a show o awhile back with Ed Begley Jr and his wife about how they went green. He always referred to bed pillows as a govt make work project....put them on the bed in the a.m...take them off at night...put them on the bed in the a.m.... Nothing useful is accomplished, just a lot of work. Like filling in the hole you just dug so you can dig it again.

I love the old fashioned, comfy vibe of the bed with the spread covering the pillows. It says homey to me the way no other bedclothes arrangement does, regardless of how fancy and lovely it may be. I think you need one more colorful element at the foot of the bed or on a chair, perhaps a crocheted afghan or a small quilt laid across it. But if you did nothing more this is a lovely room that exudes quiet restfulness, and looks clean and inviting as only a spare look can do.

I love your old bed. The painting is so pretty. No pillows or one simple (tone on tone) pillow is what I would do. Does the bed have a low profile box? If not, and you want more headboard to show, you could switch it out.

Kswl, cough cough, I have bought at least 3 different throws to casually drape on the end of this bed. Christmas, spring summer and fall, ok, 4, late winter. I don't love this bed but it's what i have so for now it stays. The box profile doesn't change.