Moving on up

*taps microphone*  Anyone still out there?

Last week was our one year anniversary of moving out here. Last year on March 13th I took my kids and five suitcases and moved to California (read about it here, here,  here, here, and here).  If you read the posts from last year you'll see that they are largely angsty and "omg I am moooooving and I feel scared."

So, since we hate stability and all that crap, we are moving again!

No, actually, I really want some stability and all that crap.  I want to put down roots, make permanent friends, stay in one place for more than 365 days, and never have to box up all our stuff again.

So we bought a house.  I'm boxing up my stuff for the last time (I won't say never again, but I hope to stay here for a long, long time).  We close on the house in mid-April, assuming that the Horoscope of Doom and its prediction of real estate deals that fall apart does not come true.  We'll have about two weeks to paint the sea of pinky swine-like beige that is currently all over the inside of the house, and then we'll move at the end of April.  (Insert angst and "omg I am moving and I am scared again" here.)

Obviously I'm not doing much in the way of decorating the current house, but stick around for a few weeks and I'll have a whole new house to put together.  On an extremely limited budget.  Should be fun :-)

I will ask for your help with a decorating dilemna.  The new master bedroom is bright and airy with a corner window seat.

The two walls with the corner window seat are the only two walls that will fit our king size bed.  (Apparently I didn't take a picture of the fourth wall, but the third and fourth walls have doors to the bathroom and hallway that will not allow for a king bed.)  You might notice that on either wall, the bed will be partially in front of the window.  This presents a few problems.

Here's a poorly photoshopped picture of my current bedroom imposed upon the new bedroom to illustrate.  Clearly this illustration is not to scale, but the only way that the headboard would fit on either wall is if the bed is shoved up against the far wall, leaving the person who sleeps on that side (me) no room to get out of bed.

First problem: our headboard hangs on the wall by D-rings mounted on either end of the headboard.  Since wherever we put the bed will be partially blocking the window, there is no way to safely mount the headboard.  Currently the headboard is not attached to the bedframe, although I suppose we could rig something up with 2-x4s or something.  (Arg, if only I hadn't sold this bed.)

Two, the nightstands are too big to put in front of the window.

Three, how does one decorate over the headboard-less bed that is located off-center and partially in front of a window???  I can't find any images of a layout even remotely similar; in most images the bed is directly under a window, not to the side.

 Hanging curtains wider over the window in such a way so as to trick the eye into thinking the bed is centered (like I did here) isn't really an option.


I am inclined to put the bed on this wall in the picture above--the dimly lit wall to the right of the entry door--because if I put the bed on the wall straight ahead (see the brightly lit picture), there will be a narrow corridor between the bed and the entrance to the bathroom.

I may end up just skipping the headboard.  This makes me sad.

I could put the bed in the corner, angled out into the room, either cattycorner in the window or cattycorner to the far right corner....but I kind of hate the bed-on-an-angle look.  Plus then I have no space for bedside tables.  Also, while the room is not tiny, an angled bed is not the most efficient use of space.

I am stumped.  And will probably hire a designer in a year or two to figure out what to do with this room but that's not in the budget in the moment.

Ideas?  Buying new furniture is not an option at this time, although I'm open to ideas (like a free-standing upholstered bed frame) for the future.