Today, I made a couple slight improvements to my bedroom. I hung up one of my Kurt Halsey postcard prints and set up a new dresser from Ikea.

My bedroom is the slowest of all the rooms in my apartment to have improvements made to it, mostly because I don’t spend much time there, so it’s never very high up on the to-do list. But the new dresser was a necessity (my closet was way too full), so while I was making changes anyway, I decided a new piece of art would help things very much.

Of course, there’s still that big, glaring empty space above the bed that I don’t know what to do with. (I can’t seem to jive with hanging things above my head because of a fear they will fall on me while I sleep. This may have something to do with the fact that my parents hung a poster behind glass above my bed when I was 5 years old, and it fell and broke! Fortunately, I wasn’t there when it happened, but I think I’ve become convinced that anything hanging above my head will fall down on me.)

The dresser, at least, looks good, although I have a laundry list of complaints. 1, the plastic panels let you see the clothes inside the drawers way too clearly, 2, the handles are kinda bleh, 3, my cats like it on top of the dresser way too much! Well, that last one isn’t really the dresser’s fault. As for the other things, I’m thinking of putting in some sort of insert into the drawers behind the plastic panels. I googled around and saw some people put fabric or patterned paper behind it, but I think it has a tendency to look busy, since the plastic has ridging on it. Not sure what I’ll do.

As for the handles, I’m already scheming to replace them with something either colorful (like these) or something vintage-looking (like these). I’m leaning towards the second one.