The Dressing Room

I've always wanted

A Butler's Pantry

A Back Staircase

A Fireplace in the Master Bedroom

Linderhof has the latter

A fireplace in the Master Bedroom

But the master bedroom also came with

a large closet

with a regular size window

And not one door but French doors.

Much too nice to be shut away

This little room

Plus it has a wall of built ins

Cupboards above

and 9 drawers below

six huge drawers

and three smaller ones

Ten years or so ago I painted the cabinets black

And did decorative painting on the doors

The walls I painted dark green

It was definitely a green phase at Linderhof

a dark green phase

It's not a large room

There is enough room for my dressing table and chair

To the right is rods where I hang my clothes

And then tees and jeans and such

are in the drawers

The cabinets hold photo albums

for the cupboards are very deep

And they hold a lot!

The light fixture is a 1920's fixture

from ebay

much prettier than the ulitarian fixture that was there!

But after 10 years or so I got tired of the green

I got tired of the black

I felt as if the walls were closing in!

And besides, rooms need to be refreshed after 10 years.

Things get a little "tired"!

So last week I painted

Out with the black and decorative painting

In with a soft white

BM White Dove

They look, perhaps, as they did when they were first built

The walls were lightened as well

BM Old Country

A light beigey color with a touch of pink

But not enough pink that the room seems pink

The pictures to the left of the dressing table

are of Canterbury

The first one is of the cathedral itself

The second two are of the Cathedral Gate

that leads into the Cathedral close

Next to the Gate is a hotel

That's been there for centuries

The Cathedral Gate Hotel

Not the whole hotel

But enough

For one of those front windows

in that old hotel

was the room I spent three days in

When a friend and I traveled to England and Canterbury

years ago.

The pictures make me smile

For they are a reminder of another great trip to England

with a very dear friend

And three magical days that we spent in Canterbury

I like the lighter look of the dressing room

in relationship to the Master Bedroom

The whole room seems lighter now that the dark green 

is but a memory.

The Dressing Room is one of my favorite spaces

at Linderhof

A space that I never "wanted"

But rather a space that I "inherited"

And I'm glad that Linderhof came with the amazing dressing room!

I'm joining:

Boogleboard Cottage for Masterpiece Monday

Katie at Creatively Living for Monday Funday Party

Susan at Between Naps On the Porch for Met Monday

Cindty at Dwellings-Heart of Your Home for Amaze Me Monday

Jenna at Rain On a Tin Roof for Give Me The Goods Monday