I'm thinking it would be pretty curtains. My mom thinks bedding. DH doesn't care as long as it's not flowers.

Here's the fabric.

I also found this as a coordinating fabric.

Our bedroom furniture is a dark cherry traditional style that I plan to keep because they are solid wood pieces. I changed the "brass eagle" hardware for some simple silver hardware trying for something less formal feeling.

Here's the furniture.

I want to change the headboard to an upholstered one. DH often watches TV before sleeping and the current headboard is not comfortable to lean against. I love the tufted or nailhead ones.

Carpet is staying and a creamy color called Tapioca. We are not attached to the wall color. The room is a north/east room and the curtains and blinds are almost always closed. Essentially the room has no natural light as you can see in the photos.

How should I use the fabric? Curtains, headboard, bedding? What else should I use with it? I get so hung up on only using colors in the fabric that I can't move forward. I need some direction or guidance.

Our room is pretty blah. My DH talks about moving into the guest room because it is more complete and homey feeling than our room. Help me keep my sweetie in our room!! :)

Then how about some metallic candleholders, maybe mercury glass holders. And maybe different, more crystal or glass lighting to lighten things up. I think the wood is lovely but the stripe feels like a more light/airy look so I think more glass/mirrored surfaces would balance it out.

Look for artwork that includes the rusty reds with the blue and maybe the rusty red in a bed pills or two.

I can't post the pic on this machine, but look at the fabric below or something similar to make window treatments...

I'm having a hard time picturing the stripe as the headboard especially if it was tufted like I prefer. I hadn't thought about the ikat pattern for the headboard. I need to order a sample swatch of it.

annie, that fabric is really pretty but I'm not sure it would appeal to my DH. He's not much on patterns. He thinks curtains should just be solid color.

I definitely plan to change the wall color. It is BM Buxton Blue and I hate it. It feels like an Easter egg.

I do plan to change the lamps and add some different accessories once I get the bedding/curtain/headboard/paint sorted out.

If I do an ivory bedding like in the fabric what do I do for bed-skirt? The same color? I've always been afraid of the bedding blending into the floor with ivory. Does that matter?

I've got some art that might be okay in the space but also leans a little Tuscan. I've never been able to decide where to hang anything in the room. In the corner where the desk chair and bear are, I'd like to add a little slipper chair. Would art go there? Which wall would it go on?

terriks, I would say the fabric is more rusty-red than any color. Here's a closeup of my actual swatch I took with my phone. Hope it helps.

Did you purchase the fabric already? You have a lot of windows, so it might be too much with the stripes. (I assume panels for windows, but the stripe may work of you did a simple valance)

Could you do an upholstered bench at the foot of your bed in the stripe and move the chest elsewhere?

I would do your walls in a creamy color - I just used a BM color called Muslin and it is lovely. Or go the direction of a taupey/gray

Is your husband handy? If so, add some crown moulding. It adds so much to a space.

Last, you could throw an area rug into the mix to add some color.

You have a great base with lovely furniture and a neutral carpet.

I'd make a fat soft cushion for the blanket chest out of the print, with fat welting in the red of the stripe.

I'd hang ceiling-to-floor heavy linen curtain panels in cream out to the sides of your windows, and hang a panel of the print fabric behind the rod that just covers the top trim of the windows (you don't need a Roman shade since you have shades - I wouldn't use a valance in that room - too heavy visually).

I think I've found more coordinating fabric. I love the texture on this one. It looks like it comes in the blue, cream/white and goldish color from the original stripe fabric.

I thought one of them might look good...somewhere.

I hope to keep the cedar chest in the room. I know it's a bit large for the room but if I can't make it work in the room then I'll have to get rid of it. We are maxed out on space. I LOVE the idea of using the print fabric as a cushion with red welting. Seriously that just made my heart speed up.

I don't want to overwhelm myself with all blue. I want to be able to incorporate some of the other colors here and there around the room.

I'm leaning towards the stripe as curtains, new textured fabric as headboard (not sure on color), duvet/shams in print, throw pillows in all fabrics. I'm not sure about the bedskirt if doing it in stripe or pattern would be to much. I thought about doing the bedskirt in the same as the head board but adding a stripe another material(pattern) to it.

I do need full panels for curtains for privacy and sleeping. My neighbors like to leave their lights on at night which shine directly into my bedroom as a result my blinds don't block enough of the light.

I'm really getting excited about putting this room together now that I have some of a direction.

What kind of lamps? Do the night stand lamps need to match the dresser lamp(s)? Does the dresser need two or can I get by with one? DH likes one being there because the ceiling fan light is a hassle to crawl on the bed to pull on.

If you are a person who uses decorative pillows and makes the bed, then that fabric might be pretty as euro shams. Or as a fabric for a small bench.

Ooh, wait, you have a chest at the foot of your bed already. Hmmm, maybe a rectangular cushion for the top of the chest?

Those solid textures are lovely...

I really appreciate all the input so far. I am hoping the samples will come in this week. I really want to start the headboard project since DH hates our current one for leaning against it while watching TV.

I'm not sure it's the colors in the guest room as much as it's the room on a whole being close to completed. This is the guest room before I swapped rooms with the exercise room.

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/decor/msg0816385814947.html?31

I still need to repaint the new room but that's another post.

Oh, and my parents used it as a coffee table my whole youth. It was one of my chores to get the Brass-O out and clean the copper/brass strips.

Nope -- unless it's underneath, and I'm not dumping all the blankets and stuff out to look under there. Guess I'll never know since anyone who could have told me it's story is long gone.

I love the smell of cedar when I open it.