Elegant Grey Bedroom Inspiration

I love this Thom Filicia designed elegant grey bedroom.  Love it, love it!

I am using this as the inspiration room for Steve's bedroom at his new house.  If you know me, you know how I love a new project and this one has me excited. It will go slowly starting with this paint color.  The paint color is Ralph Lauren Palais Royale, which unfortunately they don't exactly carry at Home Depot anymore.  However, when I went to my local HD they were able to pull up the old info on it and I got a gallon of pseudo-Palais Royale. Happiness.  Paint makes such a big difference so I can't wait for Steve to get this paint on the wall so that we can see how it looks.  I found a great white four poster bed at Ikea, but who knows if Steve will go for it. 

Next Book Club Choice- The Help

The Help is the next book for our book club.  I devoured 400+ page book in two days.  I lost track of all time reading this book.  So, you could say I would recommend it.  It's the story of three women in Mississippi in 1962.  One of these women is the newly graduated privileged daughter of cotton plantation owners and the other two women are "the help".  These women work for the friends of the privileged young woman.  The women's lives intertwine while the civil rights movement is slowly making inroads in Mississippi.  Two black women and one young white girl bucking the system as it is and coming into their own as freer women.  Compelling stuff.  I found myself at times really angry at what was going on during this time period in the South and also, it left me with the question, "What would I have done had I been alive in the South in the 60s?"