Meet Our New Master Bedroom and Bathroom

Hope you're enjoying the house tour this week. If house tours aren't your thing...hold on! Regular programming resuming soon! :) 

Today I thought I'd show you our master bedroom. I think it's the perfect size. When we lived in Kokomo, we had an ENORMOUS master bedroom. I didn't dislike it in any way, but I always thought it could have been a little smaller to allow that square footage to go into another room. Then at WillowBridge, the master was so very small. It fit our bed and side tables and that was it. No room for a dresser or anything else at all. It was completely adequate, because really all we needed to do was sleep, so I wasn't upset about it, but it was definitely a small room!

I feel like the master here is the perfect middle ground between the two. It's big enough to very comfortably hold all our bedroom furniture - plus a couple of extra things we needed to put somewhere, but we weren't sure where. 

Here are a couple of pictures of the room on the day we closed. It was a beautiful blank slate.

We are very excited to have carpet under our toes again in our bedroom. It's just extra warm and cozy in cooler weather, right?

Here's the view from the door. I don't think we purchased a single new thing for this room (except the bedside lamps) but the layout of using this collection of furniture together is new. This bed was new to us when we moved to WillowBridge. (We always had a king bed, but we couldn't fit that in the bedroom at WillowBridge, so we downsized to a queen there, and this was the bed we got for that space. We still love it. Kept all the same bedding and everything!

Here's a closer view of the bed. We try to keep all our wedding decor in this space. It seems sacred to us to be reminded of that beautiful day and the promises we made.

We love those beautiful bedside lamps! Ryan chose them, and he did so well. They're actually touch lamps with three levels of brightness, which makes them perfect for a bedroom. (In the evenings, we usually turn them on low to give some ambience to the room and they're perfect.) Prior to this, we had some blue and white striped lamps beside our bed, but on this move, I decided those were a better fit for our living room, so we moved them out there. 

Here is the space across from our bed. (It's one of Braeya's main two napping spaces, so you'll notice she's deep in sleep in this photo. Our bedroom is her bedroom. She loves it in there. You can almost always find her on our bed, under our bed, or on this chair.)

Let me tell you about this space! You might notice the chair is actually the extra section of our couch! I mentioned during the living room tour that in order to fit the couch in our living room without making it seem crowded, we needed to take out a piece of the sectional. So we put it right here, and I love it. My aloe plant is there beside it, and I also have a basket with my Bible study books/colored pencils/other supplies on the other side. In part, it masks the fact that the chair doesn't have regular sides. 

The table is the sofa table we used as our desk at WillowBridge. This is what the stools match - but we're using those at the breakfast bar. This keeps the TV up high enough to be seen from bed, and we love how it matches the bed, too! 

The white canvas on the wall was a wedding gift from my friend Kari (hi, Kari!!) and the wooden picture beside it was my gift from Ryan on our 5th wedding anniversary. The monogram above the TV was a gift from Lynne Ford shortly after we got married, and the other photo of us was one we purchased from a church directory photo shoot. It has the verse from Micah reminding us to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God. Down on the floor is our foot washing pitcher that we used on our wedding day. It has deep, long-standing significance to our relationship! And you might see my empty cloche on the table. I am hunting the perfect thing to put inside.

This is the other wall in our room. I only have one thing hanging on it so far, but I love this little corner and all the heritage represented in the pieces shown here!

Our master bathroom is fairly simple, but I'll show you! :) This is absolutely the biggest master bathroom we've ever had (either of us!) and we love it. Plenty of space to get ready, a walk-in shower, and a walk-in closet, too!

The shower is fairly standard, but we did put this little barrel next to it. It stores extra toilet paper within reach, but it also gives us a place to put clothes or extra towels when needed!

There is only one sink, but we actually prefer that! So we each have ample counter space to get ready at the same time if we need to! The only change I would have made to this room would have been adding an extra plug to the left of the mirror. The only outlet is on the far right, so when I have to plug in a hairdryer or anything - it drags across Ryan's space. It's so rare that we get ready at the same time, though, that it's not a big deal. 

A photo from the closet - to show a little bit of decor. 

And then from the door...to show the other end!

It's a perfectly sized little suite for us, and we feel so thankful to have it just the way it is.