Feeling hot hot hot

I've decided to bounce back from the epic epic epic epic fail that is our house raising to-date, and simply deal with things step by step. The fact that I've had a few weeks to get used to that disastrous news and that the information only came through this week that we can actually raise the house a bit higher and still build underneath probably helps with my positive outlook. Believe me, it's taken weeks to get over the frustration / disappointment / despair!

 
Tom has grand plans to hire some 'stacks' and raise the house the extra bit himself to save spending another $4.5k just to lift it another 300mm (with help from some brawny friends and hydraulic jacks), so hopefully this won't be horribly costly. We shall see! I'm sure you'll hear all about it!

In the meantime, I'm turning my attention to other things. Namely, the master bedroom.

Now that we've got almost all of the painting done in there, with the completion of my cosy ceiling, I've moved on to not only thinking about designing the storage, but about light and heat in there. Thus the 'hot hot hot', get it? So. Here's my plan!

We're planning on placing the bed here:

Naturally, it makes sense to design the lighting (and cooling) around the position of the bed, so we probably won't absolutely commit until we've actually sampled sleeping on the mattress in position there a few nights. But... a girl can dream and plan in advance, right?

A pretty important consequence of slotting the bed in the window space there is that there will be zero space for side tables in their usual position next to one's pillow. We'd have to position them further down the bed in front of the walls. Not exactly practical for things like reading in bed since we'd almost have to lie halfway down the bed in order to actually get benefit from the lamps (OK perhaps it wouldn't be that bad, but it's not ideal).

Plus, putting furniture against the walls beside the bed will make getting into bed a bit awkward.

So this is what I'm thinking...

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Wouldn't two hanging pendants be lovely? And reduce clutter beside the bed, which would be nice. We probably can't hang them from inside the bay window alcove (since it doesn't really have a ceiling, and it would interfere with the look of the windows themselves), but we could at least hang them fairly close to the edges of the bed on either side so we get maximum light from them.

At first I was considering these:

sourced from The Block

Like these from Buyster:

But now I think I'm thinking more along these lines...

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With these available from Mercator:

Or these from Freedom, although they're 2.5 times the price there:

Wouldn't that be pretty?

And I'm thinking it would be really lovely to splurge a bit on a fancy fan like this one to hang directly over the bed:

Then all else we'd really need is a few simple downlights or pendants to light up the wardrobes, and that's it! In our last house we tried really hard to give ourselves options with lighting for rooms by putting fans with lights in the centre of each room and then having four downlights around the edges on a separate switch, so we could choose to have one or the other or both.

But really, that took the lighting a little overboard and we didn't actually need that many options, so I want to go the other direction this time by carefully planning the positioning of lights so we don't need to install a million of them, but splurging a bit more on the fixtures themselves so they really make an impact. Plus we can always light dark corners with floor or table lamps, can't we? And we get to keep those when we move on.

So what do you think? Any suggestions?