Lightening Up For Spring...

I wish I had taken a before picture.. I have some but who knows where!  We redid our bedroom a couple of summer ago. Went from medium teal walls with peach, rose, light blue, and green florals .. very "cool"tones.. to very warm ones.. olive green walls, gold comforter (not metallic or bright), floral shams that in shades of terra cotta and gold and greens., dark terra cotta rose shams.... very warm and a bit autumny.  We love it!

But we like to be a bit seasonal.. lighten up for spring and summer.. so last year we changed out the shams and used gold ones and cream ones. It helped. But this year we went a bit farther!

Recently my mother got rid of a king size bed she had in a spare bedroom. The linens on it were bought a year ago.  I loved them at the time. Still do. They have been sitting on the bed in my daughter's room (daughter moved out) for months.  Well this morning as we were changing sheets, my husband grabbed the comforter and put it on the bed. It is, like most comforters, reversible.  One side is floral.. we started with that. Too much.. too girlie. The other side is a stripe.  It worked.. then we added the shams that match it.. used the floral side for those, just enough floral but not too much. We added our cream shams that we use in summer along with the cream matelasse to drape across the end of the bed.  Kept our green throw pillows and terra cotta wedge pillow... same dust ruffle and curtains.. and voila!  We have a "new" room.. a bit lighter in color.. springy... fresh... we like it... now we just have to get use to it! LOL!