A good mother deserves a room of her own and sometimes it takes a mother to give it.

Mary and I first worked together about 3 years ago.  She was a patient of a dentist whose office I designed. She first hired me to sort through and utilize some inherited pieces. Soon after, she and her husband decided to retire to North Caroline, so we staged her home for the real estate market.  We have stayed in touch through her daughter who also became my client.

Well, Mary is a very wonderful mother.  And her other daughter, now a mother herself, is equally devoted to her three young children.  Three young ones who, as small children tend to do, have taken over the house.  And Mary, having been though this, understands how important a little grownup space can be.  So while the whole family is at Disney, Mary and her husband have snuck back to Virginia and into her daughter’s house.  They are spending the week creating a little haven in the master bedroom as a surprise.  A space without toys.  It is going to be just like television.

A master bedroom should be a haven, but in reality it rarely is.  Confessionally, my own also serves as an office.  Hardly Relaxing.  The pictures at the beginning of this post are from the Inn at Little Washington.  I am not saying that your room need be so outrageous, but you can get the idea.