We bought a wood bedroom set approx 9 years ago and a wrought iron bed at the same time(and an extra antique dresser I picked up along the way). We did not like the look of using the matching bed with the matching wood furniture. The wrought iron bed also felt more "airy" in our room, which at the time, was not esp big. When we ended up with a crib and toddler bed both in it for a while when our kids were small, we were glad we had not gotten the larger sleigh bed after all as it was hard to find space to walk around our less bulky bed, lol. We just extended the bedroom in our current house and gave ourselves a much bigger closet. We are unpacking into it some more tonight (am at work now) so will be seeing if we can ditch one of the dressers from the set and give it to one son who now wants his own room away from his brother. The extra dresser we have is too girly for him with a pretty inlaid pattern in the front, so we would give him one of the matching parts of our set instead. I like having non matching stuff if they flow well, so have no problem breaking up our set. I am hoping to find either a pretty low hope type chest or a bench for the foot of our bed because we have a decent open space for one. If you have classic pieces, they work well with others. In our living room we have 2 dressers, non-matching that work as chests as well as a china cab which matches neither. Most of our furniture was bought or passed down over the years. The only set we really have is our bedroom one and our dining room set. I like how most of our furniture is unique from the others and has character. If I had a larger house, I'd continue to pick up interesting strays forever. I am attached to the ones I have though and will happily keep them for my lifetime, so will have to curb my habit. The problem is I walk into houses that are selling every day and have opportunities to pick up more pieces than most people have. If I see something intriguing and find out they are planning to sell it.....

The colors are great, but you couldn't find something besides a huge clock decor for the wall? Not something I would be very happy paying a "pro" to come up with.

niceidhg... "I just assumed that this IS your “ final” headboard, since it is such a nice bed and because you did not mention anything about the furniture itself. I based my suggestions accordingly. Now, I am curious. Would you please clarify ?" I am just throwing that around.. I might get it in a few years... not now... and who knows, to be honest, by then I could have different bedding or the padded tufted head board would be out of style... it was just a thought.. cause I do like them and I think you can buy JUST a HEADBOARD for between 400 - 900 ... and up Im sure... Tartanmeup.(.I always liked the tufted headboards and they seemed to come out with that RIGHT after I bought the sleigh bed.).. IF i bought a headboard.. it would JUST BE a head board.. I just wondered if it would look odd with a wood frame.. cause I know now a days people do mis-match but I tried to find photos of such a thing on pinterest but didn't see anything.. so maybe its not normal - lol And absolutely its easier to change pillows .. actually its easier to change bedding in the end... but I like what I have and will stick with it ... I ironed it all up cause I hate wrinkled bedding... it looks fresh anyways :) I did buy the lavender pillow covers at the very top.. the very first ones I posted with the bed... because I decided to buy one more euro... so I have 3 in the back... because its a king... I need the 3rd.... And with pillow covers I can always change them up easy enough... so I bought the 2 lavender to put in front of the floral... and I also bought the floral covers too.. I am going to add one of those between the two lavenders.. so I will have 3 pillows in front of the floral that come with the set.. and I will put back the long purple one that comes with the euros... (in the very front) the floral ones who knows when I will get them.. it said between april 30 - may something.. I get the covers (lavender) today... and the inserts tomorrow..

I really would not do the wood accent feature in your house. I think it can limit furniture placement and is not easily reversible without a lot of scraping spackling and sanding. At least with wallpaper, if the wall is properly primed and sized you can remove it down to the wall surface without damaging the wall fairly easily. I also think based upon your other projects that your house is maybe too sophisticated for it. The big place I see it is on flipping TV shows were they are trying to get big impact for very little money and trying to avoid having something "too taste specific" like art or a wallcovering. It's a little low-end in your case, and in general the idea is at it's sell by __ date in my opinion. Still cute in certain place, but not here. If budget is not really a major concern, Phillip Jeffries, Thibaut and Schumacher all make nice wallcoverings including some murals. Phillip Jeffries has a lot of great grasscloths and other natural papers. If you like things a little offbeat, look at Cole and Sons