What DO You Do With A Wee Tiny Room?

Most of the rooms at That Old House have had
their makeovers in the six years since we moved in.

But a couple of them are still in their as-found state.

Including this one:

My, my.  Ain't that purty?
Especially that dingy old strawberry wallpaper, the shade at a rakish angle,
and the college-dorm plastic drawers as a nightstand.  Stylin'.

The Cell, as Annie has dubbed it, is the first of three
similarly sized rooms on our second floor.
Each is about 12 feet long, and 7 feet wide.

The second of the 3 wee little rooms is our upstairs bathroom.
(Yes, I did go there ... wee room.  Bathroom.  I crack myself up.)

I don't take wide-angled shots of this room, because that would include the ... well ... the potty.
No one needs to see that.

The last of the wee little rooms is Howard's walk-in closet.
I do not have pictures of that.  Do you have closet pics?
I thought not....
 Someday, this third wee little room will be our master bath.

Since this house was built before indoor plumbing, these wee tiny rooms probably

were nurseries, or hired man rooms, or even box rooms, for storage.

Or, maybe, they were simply ... teensy bedrooms.

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The Cell is kind of out-of-sight, out-of mind.
It's at the top of the front stairs, to the right of the little landing, 
up the one step that you can see just at the right edge in this picture:

Since we almost always use the back stairs, which are past that tiny mid-hall step,

and not the front stairs, we really don't see this little room very often.

It's turned into a sort of modern day box room, and that's a shame.  It has potential.

I needed some inspiration.

A couple of weeks ago, I saw this picture, below, online.

I loved it.  And it put me in mind of our own tiny wee room.

I saved it, but forgot to label it with its source.

I apologize.  I'm quite twitchy about stealing intellectual property,

whether that be words or pictures, recipes, whatever ... and I spent

a lot of time today trying to track down this picture.  No luck.

If you know where it is from, please let me know so I can credit it properly.

I thought it was from Better Homes and Gardens, but I cannot find it on their website.

However, there is Houzz.

And Houzz has thousands of pictures of, well, houses.  (Houzzes?)

Inside and out.

Including bedrooms.

Even wee tiny bedrooms.

So I have been cruising Houzz, looking for inspiration for our own wee tiny room.

You can click on any of the following pictures to go to their source, or to their Houzz location.

See anything you like?

This is a little white for my taste, and a tad claustrophobia-inducing.

I wonder... do you squinch in along the side,

or walk onto the bed by climbing over the footboard?

Farmhouse Bedroom by Quakertown Design-Build Firms Sullivan Building & Design Group

Traditional Bedroom

Farmhouse Bedroom by Chatham Architects & Building Designers JAMES DIXON ARCHITECT PC

Eclectic Bedroom by Other Metro Interior Designers & Decorators J+G Deisgn

I have thought often of doing The Cell in toile -- walls and
ceiling -- but as we'll probably be selling That Old House
when Howard retires, I'm not sure that's a wise choice.
But wouldn't it look grand?  It would be like sleeping in a lovely hat box!

Traditional Bedroom by Chicago Interior Designers & Decorators Branca, Inc.

A daybed is very tempting.
But I hate to change the linens on them .... so awkward.

Traditional Bedroom by Covington Design-Build Firms Highland Homes, Inc.

Admitted -- this one caught my eye because of the
dress form; it's very much like Anne's old dress form.
But of course, that one lives with her in D.C. now.

Eclectic Bedroom by Brooklyn Media & Bloggers Lauren Gries

If I were a little girl, I'd so want this!

Traditional Bedroom by New York Interior Designers & Decorators Adrienne Neff Design Services LLC

Dark walls.  I like it.

Eclectic Bedroom by Toronto Home Stagers GHStyleworks

This English room, at 2 meters by 4 meters, is just about
the same size as The Cell.  A little smaller, actually.
Nice end wall treatment.

Contemporary Bedroom by South East Interior Designers & Decorators Furnished by Anna

I'd love to visit this room, below, but not have to clean it.

Some rooms are meant for admiring.

But ... I do love, love, love that bed.

That's a bed I can see in The Cell.  Sometimes bold is it.

Eclectic Bedroom by Dallas Artists & Artisans Grace Designs Dallas

First step: The Walls and Ceiling.

This explains why we have not done this room, and the one next

to it, yet.  Wallpaper stripping.  Worse than root canal.

And we'll keep the eventual sale of this house in mind, as we make our choices.  Because in 5 years or so, Howard will retire, and we'll decide that New Jersey is just too expensive, or too cold, or too far away from one or the other of our children ... and we'll move.

I'd like to go to some enchanted little place like this;

it looks made for grandchildren.

Traditional Exterior by Portland Architects & Building Designers Alan Mascord Design Associates Inc

And convince all the neighborhood kids that I'm a witch.  :-)

Is it cold where you live?  It's in the 20s F here.  Crazy.

Just a week ago we were still growing tomatoes.  Nuts.

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