Tuesday, January 1, 2013

If you could have any room in the world become your bedroom from now on, which room would you choose?

This seems like a pointless question, but think of how much time you spend in your bedroom. For some people it might only be while they sleep, but for me it's much longer. My bedroom is my sanctuary. I supposed I get it from my mother. My entire life I have watched my mother sit on her bed. I am the exact same way. My mother isn't much for watching TV and she didn't get along with my dad so she confined herself to her room to do crafty artistic things. And now, here I sit...on my bed writing this. Even when I'm not on the computer, I sit in my room to do everything. I can watch my scary movies that no one else likes, I fold laundry, I read, I even sit on my bed when I eat.

The ideal bedroom for someone like me....I love very eccentric, old, dark, borderline creepy things. I am obsessed with movies so I can only rely on a movie reference for the answer to this question. When I was a teenager I had a bedroom very similar to the older sister's in 10 Things I Hate About you. It was covered in posters, magazine ads, photos, Christmas lights, and stickers. Really too much to take in during one visit.  When I was in college, my room didn't change much. It was a little more streamlined into photos of friends, still Christmas lights, and a couple art posters (Starry Night always the staple). At this moment as a nearly 30 year old woman with a family, my bedroom consists of a large eccentric bed with a ridiculous headboard which I love because the wood is almost black and although it's not, it looks very old. My walls are now covered in my own art, photos of my husband and children and only 2 band posters: The Beatles and Bob Marley. It still seams very immature for a woman my age now that I look at it. I don't really have the money to go out and buy matching, boring items to make my room look ravishing though.

I suppose if I had the house to go with it, I would choose a bedroom out of some Victorian horror film. What first comes to mind is Bram Stoker's Dracula. The bedrooms in that movie were fantastic. Suppose I didn't have movies to go off of though. If I had to describe my perfect bedroom from top to bottom it would be this: Dark, battered wood floors, a wall of nothing but books, the same bed I have now only with gorgeous midnight blue bedding, a dark blue drape covering the ceiling and lights producing a false starry sky, closets to hide the clothes (no dressers), wooden carvings and scrolls on the walls with very dark patina, all of my favorite pictures of my children framed in old frames and edited to look ancient themselves. It would look like a bedroom that someone loved very much and then walked away from and left for time to destroy. I would still need my TV and collection of horror movies, but they would be hidden so as not to ruin the illusion.

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