Thanks teacats for the compliments! LOL mr sheldo! I love to paint actually. My Dad is a painter. Anyway...I think this color works really well with your curtains too. My only hesitation is in the amount of light you get. It may be too dark of a color for the lighting??? I love the brown shades though. There are a million of them that would look nice. Here's a quick mockup with your curtains and the paint color is from photoshop instead of Ben Moore this time. Forgive the jagged paint edges. Still learning how to do this on PS.

I tried the bed with two side tables at an angle, but it didn't really work. Something about the distance between the large window and wall, and the width of the bed just didn't work. I could never get the angle to where it felt comfortable to look at. It also left a huge gap in the triangular area between the headboard and walls. It caused the trunk to be just a few feet from the entrance and the pathway from the entrance into the bathroom seemed cramped and awkward. So, it will have to be near where it is now. But I'm intrigued with the suggestion that I could move the bed over to where it was partially under the window. I have been diligently trying to keep it perfectly centered between the small window and the wall, even though that means I don't get a table. Because I thought that was what one should do. I would love to have a bedside table on my side. What you don't see is a foot stool providing storage for my chapstick, water, reading material, and extra pair of socks in case my feet get cold. And shutters??!! For the love of cabbage, people, I absolutely adore shutters, but didn't think they would work in that room. Shutters!! I also found a rug in Pottery barn that combines a version of the warm reds and yellows with the cooler blues and greens. I think this color mix will work, but it needs to be the right shades. http://www.potterybarn.com/products/brant-rug/?pkey=cpersian-style-rug-shop Also, if you will turn with me to p.152 of your January 2011 Pottery Barn catalog that offers Comfortable Style and a whites sale, you will see a photo of pillows at the bottom left of the page. I'm liking these colors and thinking of them with lots of neutrals. I'm warming up to the idea of the cottage look with lots of whites/neutrals, but still not sure about white slipcovers and all the white. It seems like it could look like a bunch of ghosts live here and left their outfits laying around the house. Maybe I need to look at more pictures. Also, on the all white with one color thing...is it one color for the whole house or does each room get a different color? And how would you avoid people from referring to different rooms as the "Red" room or the "Yellow" room or the "Blue" room? Two other questions... Given all the doors, which I am beginning to accept must be painted or replaced (Painting furniture made from hardwoods makes me sad, but I now see that I can't leave them as they are) would some type of wainscoting be too much action for this room? This is my grandmother's iron bed that is in an upstairs guest room. Would it be a candidate for our room, or do I need wood? Or possibly something upholstered? The iron bed does accept a standard mattress, you just have to beat and shoehorn it in there. The footboard is the same, but, of course shorter. It's brass-colored with the paint flaking off and will need to be repainted. Upholstered like this: http://www.potterybarn.com/shop/furniture-upholstery/bedroom-ideas/?cm_type=lnav The third room idea which is also found on p.18-19 in the January PB catalog.

Sorry, but if things aren't to scale, it's hard to know what to say. If resale's not a concern, then use it how you will most benefit from it, but do make sure you do a scale drawing and even mark out the walls on the floor and see how you like it. If extra rooms mean you can have family there, maybe that's the way to go. Unless a master bedroom's a really wonderful place, most people only sleep and dress in there, so if you can make use of that space more creatively, go for it. Walk in closets are nice, though. Two or three-way bathrooms are useful, IMHO.

We prefer neutral colors which allows you to decorate with any color drapes, bedspread, pillows and rugs. Easier to change those than paint the whole room again. I also find them easier to live with for a long time. We had Navajo White before we changed to our current colors. Our bedroom is Kelley Moore Graystone and the other 2 bedrooms are Oyster. Bathrooms are Sandtrap and kitchen/ breakfast room is Leafy Lettuce. You could go with my sister's color palette who lives in southern Florida. A little too colorful for us. Wild Colors