Welcome to my new master bathroom – it’s modern with a (strangely) heavy dose of traditional, and a lot of…

It’s shocking how long we can live with a disgusting bathroom. It’s like dating someone who is TERRIBLE for you and everyone knows it, but he’s not the kinda guy who will just let you dump him easily, so you keep putting it off and putting it off in hopes that it somehow will get easier and besides, maybe it’s not all that bad. You learn to ignore the horribleness and focus on things like how he lets you control the remote on tuesday nights.

What happens when you go too far with color and pattern? What if you forget to use restraint? You get the room above – where everything in it is awesome, but collectively its a competitive, brain distorting, conversation-stalling mess.

With the baby quickly on the way, things are changing around the house. It’s insanity, actually. New baby, means new (additional) nursery, which means no guest room but Brian’s parents are coming for 6 weeks so that’s not really an option if we can help it. We decided to convert our old studio space which was downstairs and not being used into a new guest suite. Things are almost finished, thank goodness. In a perfect world I would reuse some pieces from the old guest room but stylistically I wanted things to change a lot. My new plan included a dark linen bed (click through to see what we did to ours to make it work)