I LOVE THIS CLOCK!!!!!!!!!

Got it at the Salvador Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain.  Coolest art museum ever.

Could NOT leave without one.  End of story.

It ain't modernism, but here is a finished room.

Well, it is about as finished as it will get while I live here, anyway.  Of the 5 small bedrooms in this house, this is one of the teeny-tiny bedrooms.  It has been a real challenge to figure out how to get ample sleeping space into these rooms and still retain some other function, given that we don't have permanent residents for any of them other than the master bedroom.  

Starting out, the room was a nearly literal blank canvas - beige carpet, off-white walls, ugly ring fluorescent ceiling light, and a nasty traverse rod with off-white curtains.  Nowhere to go but up.

Goal number one was to fit in some bookcases to house some of our increasingly anachronistic books, and still have guest(s) sleeping quarters.  And goal number two was to make it blend some modern and some traditional, since the bookcases, side cabinet and chairs are traditional-to-antique.  

I chose this dusty green paint just because it is one of my favorite colors, and I had not used it anywhere else in the house.  The exciting bargain for this room was finding these curtains at Bed Bath & Beyond on clearance for $15/panel.  These determined the rest of the color scheme, which is gold with a bit of orange.  I got the double rod and rings at

 BB&B also, and re-used sheers I had taken down from another room.

I found the daybed frame online.  It struck me as the perfect transitional style between modern and antique.  The bedspread is from Linen Source, also online.  I like the swirls - much more modern than the traditional floral patterns you usually find on this type of spread.  I had to rip off the back of the bed skirt and sew it onto the end that would usually be the pillow-end of a twin bed.  

Underneath this daybed is a trundle, so two people can sleep in this room.  People without cat allergies.

I wedged the daybed between the two crappy bookcases from Office Depot.  They look decent this way, so it is not completely apparent what pieces of shit they really are.  I am so tired of buying "assembly-needed" things that look good in the store, but when you start assembling them you realize the

 materials are only slightly better than very dense cardboard.

I pulled out some of my framed stuff from my old house, which was really traditional style, especially compared to this house.  I think they work okay here.  

This pendant 

lamp is from Lowe's, and replaces a white Chinese paper globe that was hanging on a cord.  

The mirror is one I got from a friend when I was still in high school and her family was moving 

to Taiwan.  Long ago I stripped the black paint from the frame and found this lovely paint underneath.  I touched up the gold part with some craft paint.  

 

The rest of the room is other old furniture we had on hand, including this cool clock from my in-laws.  When I need to soak up some calm, this is a good room to get some.