The image in the postcard Animaterra sent me is here:

http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?startat=/getposter.asp&APNum=375652&CID=CD1BDA9642BB4D2C899F86054820F667&PPID=1&Search=&f=t&FindID=0&P=1&PP=5&sortby=PD&c=c&page=1

... and apparently the Swedish sensibilities of my great-grandparents, who my sister and I visited several times in our childhoods, are mirrored in many aspects of the room I am renting. The colors as printed on the card are paler, more translucent... more like our room's colors. But if you mouse over the picture shown, you can see echoes of many of the furnishings the Mudcat Dorm had-- now the rentable room Hardi and I use, summers, to escape the heat.

Our room is similarly plank-floored, tucked under a sloping roof with a flat center portion, a window at the far end of the room, and white-walled, enclosing pale shades of yellow and turqouise/teal.

As in the postcard, none of the furniture quite matches, but goes together.... in the card there is a hanging curtain as a room divider that I have thought for years needed to curtain off the double-bed-corner-- it used to be and is now, again, the space where a couple might want privacy from others sleeping in the room's single beds. I have several potential hangings to put there, and half of the hardware already on hand. If I can find some wood under the ceiling to put it up, I think I will hang one and drape/tie it back to the wall to set off that corner-- our room is much larger than the one pictured in the postcard.

The postcard shows a border our room lacks, which is very much like a border I had planned to put up and haven't gotten to, this year.

The postcard shows children.... the Ducks once stayed up there (I think it was on their way to or from Getaway). Taking the littler Ducks' ages at the time, and looking at the kids in the card, the total ceiling height is close to what is pictured....a tad lower but similarly proportioned as to the height of the short walls, the angle of the ceiling's slope, the total ceiling height... our room I think is a bit wider. A lot of attic rooms have this shape. But few have the height we have on the short walls-- a good 4+ feet, and then a gentle slope that gives good working height thruout the room. In this building we have that height not because it is tucked under the eaves, but the room was built to be a true second floor (it once slept seasonal farmworkers or a farmhand's whole family, dorm-style.) This is not "wasted" space under the eaves that was knee-walled to make very low storage hatches-- those are real outside walls there; the room has the full width of the addition that houses it.

:~) The room had wallpaper, too, before the fire. Now it's fresh white paint and several faux windows (curtained) to give the illusion of more light.

~Susan