Master Bedroom Blessing

Well, it's a COLD snowy day here in Wisconsin. The snow arrived a couple days ago, but the cold is the worst it's been since we moved here: The high for today is expected to reach a whoppin' 1 degree. The low last night was -14 degrees! And they cancelled school, without a snowflake in the forecast--simply on account of the cold. I only remember that happening maybe once, in Ohio, when I was a schoolchild, but they say it happens regularly here in WI.

Right now it is -10, with a windchill of -30, but let's warm things up a bit with pictures from last summer, shall we? You have to squint your eyes a bit to see the green leaves, but they're there!


If you happened to read the post on organizing your blogging, you saw my confession that I occasionally wrote posts ahead, only to lose them in my old drafts, and that's what happened to these photos of our master bedroom.


The reason I took them, though, was to show what a "beyond all that I could ask or imagine" kind of answer to prayer our new house is! We had a number of basic requirements we had to focus on, like number of bedrooms and room for an office for Papa Rooster, but we never thought twice about what kind of a master bedroom we would like. It had to have decent closet space for PR--he has a businessman's wardrobe, both casual and formal, plus lots of priestly garb--but other than that, we didn't care, if everything else about a house was right. It was the least of our concerns.

So what a blessing to get what B13 calls "the nicest room in the whole house." Isn't it lovely? In the second picture you can see the tray ceiling which gives it such a spacious air. I knew immediately that we had to get some kind of seating for that area in front of the bay window, but it had to be small and light. I looked everywhere before settling on this indoor wicker set from Pier One.

Then I was delighted to find a reasonably priced, washable comforter set (at JC Penney's online) that included a bunch of extra pillows and shams, so I could put some of them on the furniture and tie everything together. Perfect for non-crafty me!

We have used this extra little sitting area repeatedly since we moved in, since it's the only room on the main level that you can close off behind a door--perfect for private conversations with friends, counsellees, or one of our teens. I also use it for reading aloud time with Chicklet6 and Bantam3, so we don't bother the two Bantams reading silently on the couches in the living room.

I didn't take any pictures of the other side of the room because it's just two doors--to the master bath and to the walk-in closet--with a dresser in between.

And the master bathroom itself is so much more than we could have imagined! First off, it's truly private, unlike in our old house, where the bathroom was shared by all three bedrooms on the second floor.

And there is a large wooden storage cabinet in it, with plenty of extra room after we put away all our toiletries...so we put all of Papa Rooster's t-shirts, underwear and socks in there, since that's where he dresses. (Such a considerate man, not to wake me up!) I put Great-Aunt Dorothy's coat tree in there too (yes, it's that spacious) and gave him an over-the-door hook for items on hangers, and now he has a full-fledged dressing room in the bathroom. Clothes stay in the bathroom or the closet, and rarely do they dis-grace the bed or sitting area.

And there's something else we've never had before...a jacuzzi bathtub! I've only used it once, when we first moved in, just to see if the jets worked after two years of disuse. Mostly, I'm a shower person.

But I tell ya, since we're holing up today to stay warm...