Gorgeous bedroom and furnature!
Says a lot coming from me, as I genrally don't pay much attention to, or form opinions of such things!

interesting....

very pretty exotic set up you have there. :3

nice ^^

Pretty sweet setup you have

What a room! Puts my daybed to shame!

Wow what an amazing room. I thought this was in a hotel or something.

NICE headboard!

I had a bed very similar. Handed down from my grandfather when I was about the same age. I handed it down to my niece when I was about 21 and going off to be a road bum. ;3

Okay, that's a bedroom that is right up my alley.

Bedrooms should never be boring!

Nice setup.

New mattresses from time to time?

I like the stuffed tiger but the rest is too Victorian/opulent for my tastes.

Opulent is my middle name. That panel above the bed? It's jeweled. You just can't see in in the picture.

You probably wouldn't feel comfortable in my bedroom with shelves of 1/18 cars and model airplanes staring down at you while you try to fall asleep.

That's...very much what I imagined your quarters might look like. I'd be most curious to learn the stories of your attendant great cats, should you ever care to share them.

We too are believers in "the place where one spends a third of one's life should be nothing short of delightful." This picture was taken early after moving in -- the far wall's now occupied by the shelves where Ming sleeps, watching over us, and the left window is now a doorway into our lounge/my wife's craft room -- but it will at least provide a sense of scale and majesty, I hope. Egyptian linen, though the suede coverlet has since been replaced with a lighter and more Florida-friendly solution.

You8 even have the tiger. All that cloth would kill me.

You had that bed for 51 years? Damn. It's pretty good-looking!

And it was old when I got it. It's over a century now!

And still in pretty good shape too, from the looks of it. :3

It's had two complete makeover. The Antiques Roadshow tells you not to do that, but.... *shrug*

Antiques Roadshow always automatically assume that fixing an antique makes it completely worthless. They don't know a damn thing about antiques nowadays.

Now I know where you get your awesomely artistic and fantastic ideas for bedroom scenes of any sort of oppulence :D

That is BEAUTIFUL! Just looking at that room feels relaxing :)

Wow! Beautiful to say the least. Certainly looks cozy. :)

How's it feel being older than 90% of the people here? That being, most of the people here are like 14-24 year sold.

How does it feel to be 59? Not that much different from 29, except slower. And I need to be here. To remind the younger generation that they did not invent the world. They did not invent furry, either. It was born around 1985, when I was in my thirties. I am one of its parents.

Yes ma'am, I sure will.

My goodness, your room is really frilly and all... Like a Victorian Imperialist's vision of a Persian princess's boudoir. :) I helf expect a genie to come do the dusting.

Are maned tigers common where you live...?

Are tigers common where I am? Well Peep-peep would be happy to apply for the job...

So that's the bed all your cats crowd into!

What a great room! :)

Nice woodwork on that bed. Is it an heirloom? How much work goes in cleaning all those drapes?

I'm actually thinking of making a canopy bed from actual lumber rather than those fiberboard dingies.

The bed came from the Charles Addams estate. THAT Charles Addams. (New Yorker cartoonist; creator of the cartoons that eventually evolved into the Addams Family.) It was a MAGNIFICENT house, with closets big enough to be dorm rooms and a spiral staircase to the attic. It was part of a complex WAY out in the countryside that included a more modern Tudor-style home (where the owners lived) and an Italian restaurant. My parents used to shop for antiques out there before antique prices went through the roof.

Then, about thirty years ago, the complex was plagued by a series of fires. First the restaurant went, then the Tudor home, and finally the old Addams house. All this took place over an 18 month period and was determined to be arson, though who set the fires and why I don't know. It was probably some insurance thing, but I can't say that for sure.

Wow! That bed has some history to it. You know of a site with photo's of the place? I love to see those.

Did you see the original tv series? I got 'em on dvd last year and loved it. And I figured out why the Teletubbies are so creepy, in the Adamses greenhouse there stands a bust of the Adamses uncles, a teletubbies bust! I kid you not!!!

As to heirlooms we have an old alcove bed with beautifully carved posts that my father saved in the 70's from a bonfire and painstakingly restored to its former glory by removing the layers of old paint which also obscured some of the finer details, treating it against woodworm and re-sappig the wood. Slept in the thing my entire childhood. At the moment it stand in my aunts guest room.

Now that I think of it there is an Adams style house here in Mechelen - http://maps.google.be/maps?vector=1
Should the link not work try looking for this in Google maps "33 Berkenhofstraat, Mechelen, Vlaams Gewest, België" It on the opposite side of the street though.

It's an antique bed from the Addams house? Did you ever get strange vibes sleeping in it? :)

I think a lot of people would find your authentic Addams bed extremely cool... especially Goths!

Strange vibes... No not once. And now I think I may have slept in it longer than anyone else. It's the next occupant who's apt to get strange vibes --Mine.

Now that's creepy... >.>

Ooooooooooo

How do you keep your cats from climbing/shredding the fabric on the walls?

They've never tried. I guess they're lazy. And they're not kittens anymore. The youngest is 6.

I find it amazing that that bed came from one talented cartoonist to another.

Anyway, good fancy bedroom. Like the others said, I can undertstand how you get the ispration for your art and "Xanadu" comics.

Fantastic! I love the peacock on the ceiling; is it embroidery or applique?

Both. With sequins yet.

It's a lovely piece! And I adore that antique bedframe. The one I have in my room's probably 60 or 70 years old but that one's way nicer than mine, lol.

i see were you get your inspiration from, very nice room for a tent