Decorating Advice please!

[wagnfun]

My sister has offered us her brand newish rod iron bed w/ footboard that I LOVE. The problem is that the bed we have now matches our nightstands and has no footboard. Question #1) how bad will it the wood night stands look with the rod iron bed (they are currently unpainted and I have no problem painting or staining them) and #2) since the kids have a habit of kind of gliding (jumping) onto my bed after entering the room, how many will hurt themselves on the footboard?

 

Can one mix rod iron & wood? Pictures or ideas welcomed!! Dh told me I could do whatever I wanted to the very much needed update in our bedroom and I have no idea where to start!

 

Thanks in advance!

[JFSinIL]

1. no more jumping on parent's bed! No so good for the mattress, anyway.

 

2. It is your bedroom. Aside form family, who would see it? Have whatever furniture you like - if staining the nightstands pleases you, do so. Or paint a boldish, contrasting accent color to the rest of the room.

 

This advice from a person who still has her pine dresser and hutch from age 11 in the bedroom, along with a bed that rests on the simple metal frame that came with the mattresses 14 years ago (no headboard or foot board), nightstands from the neighbor's garage sale, and a computer desk from Ikea...and a bookshelf from Ikea, too. So take any advice from me with a grain of salt. ;)

[unsinkable]

I love iron and wood!

 

Isn't there a trend against matchy-matchy decorating? (That's what dd and I call it)

 

As an aside...I looked quickly at your name and thought it was a shout out to that 80s band WangChung!

 

"Everybody have fun tonight! Everybody WangChung tonight!"

 

:lol:

[Harriet Vane]

I am also not a big fan of matchy-matchy.

 

I would have to see pictures to offer a more definite opinion, but I would say take the bed if you love it and see how you can get everything to work nicely together.