I like the sound of a mini-reunion. Especially if it involves desert!. Hello everyone : ) nwduck, you are just beginning your season, while here today is the grand final of Aussie Rules Football. Though I'm not a fan, it seems the whole country has come to a grinding halt today. haha The big excitement of today's game, is that an 'underdog' team is playing. They haven't got into the finals in about eighteen years or something. :)

Paint the wooden furniture white, paint the metal bed frame a bright color, like the color of the throw on your bed. Hang the mirror across from the bed sideways on the wall instead on sitting it on the dresser. Get a blank canvas and use the paint you'll use on the bed frame and the wooden pieces to draw eccentrically circles, add a 2nd color, such as purple or fuchsia to the piece. You can add accessories from colors 1 & 2, and glass and silver accessories around. as for you "reading lamp" hang it lower on the bed turned up to add interest to your new art piece. Shift to reading from a lamp that is glass or silver on the small nightstand.

thankyou housson! yes im thinking of a medium brown (see piks) but not sure if its going to make the room look smaller or just be nice and cosy like im visualizing? yes i was thinking about doing the white boarding on the ceiling (think this is what you mean by clapboards?) will just make it even more 'country' tell me which of the piks you like.... P.S. my fiance is not too sure about the blue roof in the first one haha

Follow the above suggestions of white curtain over wardrobe, replace bedside lamps with the taller white shades (I love the rope design given!) and change over big black cushion to white, and lower the three pictures 10 cm to fit inside the wall space given by the door frames. Make sure the doors are painted white as well as trim. Then put red lamps either side of TV - changing them to battery candles instead of electric. Change the TV antenna to one where the antenna is hidden behind a photo frame (buy from Dick Smiths I think). The whole section under the mantle and window sill including the floor brick ledge, needs to painted white gloss. Around the 'fire place' there needs a better fitting out with a wide white gloss wooden trim and inside needs work to be white at the back. Have blind same as on long windows - alternately have blind white material and put white sheers in front over long windows. Replace the two baskets to a lower wide basket with one big pot plant that leaves a 200cm gap in height from top of 'fire place'. Maybe the baskets could be further along in the corner on the brick ledge and floor under the window and have a small pot plant or vase of fresh flowers above on ledge. Hang a large red patterned fabric on the wall behind the ladder (starting slightly higher than the door frame and finishing slightly above skirting). Preferably move the electrical point to behind the dressing table or place a basket in front or can the mobile phone go on the bedside table and keep electrical point for vacuuming? Place a heavy, wide white and pale blue striped, cloth over box at end of bed or have upholstered. Finally, have a white background picture - maybe a beach scene - which includes pale blue and a touch of red or pink, above bed. Having silver wall sconces on silver edged oval mirrors either side of picture (centered over end of bed), would be wonderful as they would tie in your style of furniture. Keep the modern white shaded rope based lamps as well. I hope this helps. Best wishes.