I Helped My Parents Give Their Decades-Old Bedroom a Modern New Look
Photo by Kelly Dawson
A simple question started it all. When I entered my parents’ bedroom last summer, I asked them to answer these few words: “What’s going on in here?” They’d probably asked this of my bedroom years ago, long before I realized that a side chair didn’t have to be accessorized with a pile of laundry. But the tables had turned! It’s funny how that happens.
I’m lucky to have the type of parents who always put the needs of their kids ahead of their own. But in the case of their bedroom, their comfort had been kicked down the family priority list for far too long. They hadn’t updated their furniture for decades — I won’t say exactly when, but Duran Duran was still a fixture on the pop charts — and the accessories surrounding them hadn’t moved in ages. The paint was dull, the mattress was lumpy, and the linens were… actually, thankfully, the Parachute linens were new.
