The inspiration for our bedroom at The Lake House is my favorite painting, Panthers by Jiang Tiefeng:



I don't have a lot of posessions that mean something big to me, but this does. Because it's one of the first presents Ken gave me. You know that question that goes, "If your house was on fire, what is the one thing that you'd grab after the kids and the pets?" I'd grab my Jiang.

So, we've decided to do our bedroom in red, black and white. It's hard to tell in the Jiang but the red is actually VERY red and intense. It's not as orangey red as it seems on my laptop and there's no pink in the painting (like on my laptop, too).

The furniture will all be black with very simple lines. We're looking now for two modern, sleek low black dressers to sit beside each other on a long wall and the wall behind it will be a deep red. I intend to take the Jiang with me to the paint store!

We found a bed that Ken and I both love at Sleep Country when we went to buy mattresses last weekend. It's called Jakarta and it's a contemporary slightly-Asian styled black wood platform bed:



This isn't my picture of the bed and it's not the bedding we want. But it's the bed. Our mattresses will sit higher than that and not show as much of the headboard because of it, but...it still looked good in the store.

This is the other inspiration for our room and the reason I really want red walls. Actually, as I write this I'm thinking I'd like mostly red walls with one brilliant white accent wall. I love the contrast of the red, black and white, and I want these words in our house:



That's all we know, so far about that room.