This old house's guestroom

When our youngest got his own apartment, we gave him the 'antique' bed he'd had for most of his life.  After about six months I decided we really needed a spare bed for the occassional sleep-over guest.  Our house was built in the 1940's and therefore a bit...odd.  It has been transformed many times through the years..a room added on here..a breezeway transformed into a room..various and sundry additions.  The thing is that the builders didn't much care if the new floor to the new room was even with the floor in the old room it adjoined.  So, when you go from the living room to the kitchen, there's an inch step up..when you go from the kitchen to the dining room, there's a six inch step down...and when you go from the dining room to Mr. Man's mancave, there are two and 1/2 steps down.  Thus, we've labeled that room our downstairs room. : )

ANYway, the living room is very long and narrow..it's about 14 by 30.  The dining room is 16 by 20 and the mancave is 18 by 24.  Fairly large rooms.  But, the bedrooms are tiny, the one pictured above is the smallest of the three.  So, I couldn't fit a large bed in this room.  We found this bed at Rooms To Go.   I'm thinking that not many of you will like the color of the bed because when I bought it, at least three salespeople said, "Is that the color you want? It comes in different colors."  YES, green is my favorite color and I just love this bed.  I'm not sure the colors in the picture do it justice because the wall isn't really as yellow as it shows there and the curtains are a little bit lighter blue with swirls of light green throughout.  The coverlet/quilt and sham are from Overstock.com, my first purchase from them.  It's good quality and the stripes you see are patterned fabric that has been sewn in gathers to make the ruffled lines across it, giving it a kind of shabby chic or country look I guess.  So, I can change colors of curtains, walls and not have a problem with matching it.  I just love it.  We can also get a trundle for the bed if we choose to at some point.

Anyway, just sharing that bit of unimportant information with y'all tonight. Don't know why. LOL. This old house is a little crazy, thus it matches us well!  But, we love it most of the time...even when we had to buy the new central heat and air unit...and the new windows all the way around...and put insulation where there was none..and when we had to paint it..and even when the roof leaked.   I guess we know what it's like to get old.  Old houses like old people need TLC from time to time.