Adding Character To A Small Narrow Room

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10 years ago

last modified: 10 years ago

Particularly like its bones with moldings and ceiling

Light fixture is OTT cool.

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MtnRdRedux

10 years ago

last modified: 10 years ago

Love the color --- so Provence.. and the coffered ceiling, The light looks like Remains.

We also have a room about that size, but it has transom windows all along the two long walls. It reminds me of a railroad car in a way. It is all the way to one end of the house, and has its own half bath attached (PO used it as a home gym).

One of my fondest memories is when the house was being gutted/renovated/expanded, we spent our first overnight at the house (still living in our old house). All five of us slept on the floor, on an amalgam of air mattresses and window seat and daybed cushions from the house that ended up being wall to wall mattress in the little room. We told stories in the dark, and there was a lovely snow falling one could see looking up through the windows, with tree silhouettes as a backdrop.

Today is has (wait for it) off white walls and trim, and a wool sisal wall to wall. : ) It is the quietest and warmest coziest little room in the house. It has an old daybed in it that had no other home. Lying on the day bed are lovely views from the transom, or from a big round window in the adjoining PR. The kids go there to practice music (so we call it the "music room"). Or sometimes they go there for, as my youngest called it, " a piece of quiet" when they are home sick. We have a guest room but sometimes a guest who is single will opt to stay here.

Hmm, maybe I should snazz it up a little when I am done with my MBR lift.

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Sueb20
10 years ago
Oh, that's adorable. I like a lot about it, except the rug seems too small and I think the lamp next to the bed, in addition to the sconces, seems like overkill. I can't tell exactly what is going on with that overhead fixture, either. But I like how everything -- trim, ceiling, etc. -- is painted all one color. Love the bed. And the sconces.

We have a similar-size room in our house, except it's all windows on 3 sides. It is my office...maybe I should push a bed up against one end and work from the bed!
LynnNM
10 years ago
I love it! To me, it looks like a guest room in some northern cottage or cabin. Beautiful. The wall color, moldings, ceiling, rug, art, brass bed . . . ahhh! The light fixture is wonderful and now I want one! Love the beautiful practicality of the 2 wall-mounted brass lamps for reading, the narrow lamp table and the trunk doing double duty as a coffee table of sorts and for extra storage. My only concern is that with the bed being literally surrounded on three sides by windows, there are no window coverings.
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Fori
10 years ago
But Lynn, you need all the possible star light in there so you don't trip on the trunk in the middle of the night.
Errant_gw
10 years ago
Which I would be sure to do!
Kathie738 P
10 years ago
You always find the most interesting rooms..the ceiling fixture is like nothing I've ever seen before.
writersblock (9b/10a)
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
Like the room, but ick to the light. It appears to be a very old operating room light.
LynnNM
10 years ago
It sounds lovely, Mtn!

Fori: ROFL!
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10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
Here's the Cape Cod cottage the room above is from
ID by Ken Fulk

http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/house-interiors/news/g2581/house-tour-ken-fulk/
powermuffin
10 years ago
Beautiful home with tons of character - love it!
bossyvossy
10 years ago
me like
jakabedy
10 years ago
I really like it. A lot of the older homes in our area have strange little rooms like this. Now, if I can ever actually afford one of those older homes, I have a plan for how to deal with the little room!
blfenton
10 years ago
With that ceiling and those windows, this room can't lose. I want this room as my reading room.
Holly- Kay
10 years ago
I love it! Character plus, and the windows are TDF!!!
daisychain Zn3b
10 years ago
Did I read that wrong or do they describe it as "the library"? I would curl up there with a book and never leave (except to get some ice-cream), but I don't see a single book in that room.
sis2two
10 years ago
Just love it!
MtnRdRedux
10 years ago
My little room is one of the favorite in the house. I often comment to DH that the pleasure of human scale cozy rooms seem to be lost on McMansion builders. But they are part of the reason I love old homes.,