Battle of the guest bedrooms.

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

There will be a break in these as I will be away on vacation. Anyone is free to give it a show while I am gone.


#1 the 1934 Guest Bedroom.
The checkerboard finish on the furniture is cork ... Armstrong's and the floor is their Jaspé linoleum.





#2 1956 Bedroom Design.

Comments

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

I prefer the floor and walls in #1, but the style of the decor in #2. Except for the beds - those rectangular slabs are weird pillows.

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

That, and I'm wondering where are the sheets?

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

I'm leaning more toward #2. The arrangement of #1 seems odd and the bed almost looks like it was an afterthought.

Even though #2 almost looks like a motel room, it seems a bit nicer. The pillows are weird, but on the up side, it's got that control panel thingy between the beds. I don't know what it controls, but it'd be great for playing astronaut.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

My God, look at all those switches and dials!

[khh1138.livejournal.com]

"it'd be great for playing astronaut."
I like the way you think!

[memnet.livejournal.com]

Of the two of them, I prefer #2 although the beds really are a bit strange; very Jetsonesque. ;)

[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

The checkerboard furniture in #1 is cool, and I like the floor that looks like carpet but isn't. The floor in #2 looks like the stuff we have in the basement hallway of the 1950s-era library where I work--no thank you! I do like those high windows above the beds. My cats would LOVE those!

[john-holton.livejournal.com]

I've spent too many nights in hotel rooms that look like #2. #1 is no treat, either, but I like it better.

[shortsweetcynic.livejournal.com]

mmmmmm...I think #2. I like how light and airy it is (despite the weird beds). something about #1 just isn't working for me.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the chair you have to scale over just to get out of bed?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, #1 is nice. The round mirror (and desk lamp arc) vs. all the squares. And the colors. And the typewriter.

I'm with cheesygirl on the high windows in #2 for cats, though. Cats vote #2.

[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

Cats vote #2.

Indeed. Although you would have to take those plants down otherwise you'd wake up with a shredded fern and a broken pot on your head at 3 am.

[percysowner.livejournal.com]

I like both of these. I only see one twin bed in number one, but I really like the room. Number two is light and airy, but too mich like a motel room for me. I'd pick number one for a room for only one person.

[donnalee-kiss.livejournal.com]

I felt the same, the motel room look and the den-like floor in #2 is just ugly. The one thing I have to change in the first room is the scary chenille bedding! OMG who would want to even sit on a bed with big balls all over it?! I'd put a nice calm asymmetrical patterned spread on it in cool colors.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I think I like #1 better. I'm just not a big fan of midcentury modern.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

#1. I like a guest bedroom that has a tucked-away sort of bed so it can be used the rest of the time as another sort of room (writing, etc.)

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

#2 is missing Rosie the Robot Maid keeping the place spiffy. Plus I'm getting itchy just imagining laying on those burlap bed coverings.

[laurel-hardy.livejournal.com]

I really like them both, but as usually I'm constitutionally unable to feel comfortable with frilly curtains. Of course these twin beds were known as Hollywood beds thanks to the Hays Code that insisted for morality's sake that adults of the opposite sex never be shown together in the same bed. Even if the characters were married to each other. Cause Puritans have some really strange ideas about sex. But at least the beds got a mention in a great old blues song:

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's true, but I've read that the The Munsters was the first tv show to show a husband and wife sleeping in the same bed.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I choose #1 because it has a typewriter!

Also, I wouldn't want to share a room with someone I wasn't also sharing a bed with, so I like the singleness of the first room.

[ms-hissyfit.livejournal.com]

At first look, I thought #1 would be my choice, mainly because I like the checkered pattern on the chairs. But looking at it longer #1 is just too dark for me, just looking at it makes me feel claustrophobic. And with #2 I just would get rid of the pictures on the wall and choose plain curtains and I would be all set and the night table lamps are fantastic. As a very restless sleeper, I even kind of like the hollywood beds.

[percysowner.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons my marriage survived 27 years was because we had Hollywood beds. We shared a bed for the first year and were totally unable to get a good night's sleep. Going to sleep in separate beds didn't slow us down in non-sleeping areas and made life a lot better.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

I vote #2 because it has a patio!

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

i like the decor on number one, and the clerestory windows on number two!

i know, i know, i gotta be difficult... ;)

[teamrodent.livejournal.com]

The second one, but I wish they would've laid down more rug instead of that breakfast cereal-looking floor covering. :/

I do like some floor coverings IRL, honestly.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

every room in my house is white tile. the kitchen has glossy white, the guest bedroom is matte white, the rest of the house is an uneven offwhite/brown streaked tile that doesn't show dirt very well. (yay!!)

the office...is that fake wood plank stuff. i hate it, he loves it. fine, that's *his* room, LOL!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

#2: much less claustrophobic and cluttered with its big window and patio outside.

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

I like the second one better.