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Minimalist black and ivory. Well insulated and soundproofed. Blackout curtains and good lighting for when I'm working in there.

I don't have my fish tank in it any more, I got rid of it when all the fish living in it, died

On the windowsill of my window, there are four alocasia plants standing. I won two of them in a contest (I actually won three but one of them "died" during the transport) and the additional two are their seedlings. I love my alocasias I also have a mother-in-law's tongue plant I also won in a contest but I'm not so fond of it as I'm fond of my cute alocasias.

It's currently lit by a salt lamp. I like the orange glow of salt lamps.

I've got the flag of The Fatherland pinned up over top of my bed.

I have a few hundred cars in here.

nobody wants to know about my room, lol and I don't even want to think about it sometimes either. I mean we do wash our sheets and pillow cases, but we have never washed the blanket and its been some years ago we got it, its juust we have to take it to a laundry mat with bigger washers than our apartment provides, or maybe we could do a blanket only load but we're worried its too big for those washers. So we just always put off getting it washed.

It's a bit messy at the moment. I need to clean up. My coffee table is very busy with my CB radio, an oil diffuser with lots of bottles of essential oil, my Labour membership card, phone and meds.

Just an ordinary room in a mid 18th centuary cottage with its usual beam in the ceiling and 18th centuary door with its old two stepped deep windowsill looking out over a large green field. Can't quite see the sea from here though it is not that far, as a footpath heads down to a semi secluded three mile stretch of beach. Find more than six people down there at any one time in the height of summef and it is crowded! Takes about 20 minutes walk to get there following the side of an interesting river on the way down. The river disects the beach, as there are a further few miles of beach the other side of the river, but these other few miles have easy access for tourists so lots of people go to that one, and the beaches the other side of the castle in the next larger village along.

But my bedroom. What can I say? could almost fit three double beds at a push so lots of room for trains if I built a layout in here. The plaster on the walls is not flat like modern houses are, but rather has been there for many years and is plastered with age related imperfections, just like the stones that make up the walls! The stones themselves are large and heavy. They are so heavy that my brother and I could not lift a smaller one that sits outside and he is strong, so whoever built these old houses must have used some sort of wooden crane and hoist, maybe using horses and pulleys to hoist the stones up? Yet they fit so well together in their various shapes and sizes from large to even larger! I have noticed that the outer portions of the stones do have a slight dampness to them when we get winter storms which is only noticable surrounding the window as the paint slightly changes colour just at this area but slightly further into the windowsill on the insides and the stone remains dry. Was told it takes about a years heat to warm up the stones and the house stays warm and has a cooling effect in the summer. Why these old cottages are preferred over modern houses which tend to be way too warm in the summer, and in the cold winters, once these stones pick up the background heat, the heating system can be turned down as whilst the background heat from the stones is not quite enough to keep us warm, nothing is going to freeze! (It takes around a year of not being lived in without heating before these stones cool down to that level! Why when they rebuild a shell of an old stone cottage to be made into a lovely uouse again, it takes about a year of heating the house before the walls warm up!)
What else can I say about my bedroom? Has a small square chendelieur in the middle. (Which despite it being small, I occasionally hit into it with my head! About a third of the room has a slope wither the roof comes down. If I was into building and I knocked a doorway through the wall, I would come out into the cottages secret attic rooms which have a drop down ladder to access them from the other side of the cottage. Cottage has a maze of ooms. Come to think of it, there is an attic above two thirds of this room I have never seen! Previous owners say they think it is boarded out like the two other attic rooms are which could easily turn into a large train room or another bedroom!
The stairs to upstairs kind of almost reminds me of a castle the way they go up straight but then curve off left or right while the wall dips back to help make the turn. Apparantly a few of these cottages were built like that, as were a fair few castles. My Mums bedroom which is smaller and L shaped though still large enough for a double bed and wardrobes. She has three large double wardrobes in there, two of which fit perfectly into the one part of the L. I love the door latch. My bedroom door is old with an old style door handle and lock, but hers is the older latch type one comes across with garden gates, though this is old! The lever goes into a carved out wooden slot of wood on the inside. One can see if she has a light on through the gaps in the door which is kinda similar to my bedroom as none of these old cottages had perfectly flat floors or doorframes! The doors themselves may not be flat or square! But they close and the work as they have done for the last few hundred years, and no one will change them because they just work! Those long hinges will be there for another hundred years if they don't wear through and I can't see that happening for years and years and years!
Is hard to imagine living in a new modern house how boring it would seem to have perfectly flat walls with 90° corners, perfectly flat lightweight doors and perfectly flat ceilings! The only real downside (Though I can see why it was done) is the modern replacement windows used all open outwards and are hinged from the top. I am used to sideways opening windows where one can catch the sea breezes with them like where we used to live. Though these that open at the bottom and are hinged at the top mean one can open them and not get rain coming in. Is just I miss the side opening windows!

Sounds idyllic MG!

It's FINALLY painted (except for the closet) after 10+ years of agonizing over colours.

Do I like the colour?

Hmm.
Yes but it keeps changing undertones so it's hard to find curtains.
That's my next dilemma.
I've tried five sets but keep needing to return them.

My decor is lovely thanks to MR and Pottery Barn.

In need of fixing it's windows.

The screen needs cleaning, hinges needs repairing, glasses needs replacement...

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There are shelves everywhere filled with tiny stuffed animals and figurines that I've collected over the years. They used to all have names but I've forgotten some of them. I also have a huge plastic ax hanging on the wall for no particular reason. The floor is covered in baskets of clean laundry I will probably never put away. I also have a fan constantly running because otherwise the room is always warmer than the rest of the house and then I can't sleep.