spikeluv84 reblogged your photoset and added:
When did the headboard get smaller and the shelf get lowered?
(You make me kind of wish I'd put more of my original commentary in the post instead of the tags.)
You can achieve the same effect (headboard and shelf look lower) by raising the height of the mattress. You can actually see that the bedside table in the 10.12 pictures is about level with the top of the mattress too.
(Which, when you think about it, raising the top of the mattress is a lot easier than lowering a giant concrete shelf, and chopping off legs of the headboard, the bedside table, and anything else that looks relatively shorter as a result.)
Now, there might be some extradiegetic reason in shooting, and this is pure speculation based on what's happened in canon, but, if I died in a bed I'd probably want a new mattress before I started sleeping on it again too.
The blanket and sheets look exactly the same, but like defilerwyrm pointed out, the MoL probably have a bulk set of the same bedclothes.
linatami reblogged your photoset and added:
interesting how dean is constantly moving stuff in his room - his weapons, his books, lamps even whole furniture like the famous second nightstand. even his own ‘preferred’ bedside shifts: middle, right, left, middle, right. Dean is certainly not (yet) ‘settled’!
Open for interpretation
I'd argue that moving things around is a sign of being settled, though. If you don't plan to live somewhere for a while, or if the place feels temporary/not yours, why would you bother moving stuff around? You're just going to pack it up (what little belongs to you at least) and move it to a new place anyway. But a space that's yours? You move your things around. It's a sign of living in the place and using it.
(I'm also probably biased because I like to move my furniture and my things around on a regular basis. It's an exercise in organization: by moving the things I have control over physically outside of my brain, it's like, a meditative process that helps me put things inside my brain in order. Dean's very tactile, it would not surprise me if he's got a similar reason for moving stuff around.)