Guest Room Reveal

Our guest room has been done for a couple of weeks now. It has even had it's very first residents. I was so happy to even have an extra room to hold guests. Then I was even more excited when it became a possibility to redo the room into it's very own special and beautiful space.

I hemmed and hawed forever about exactly what to do with this room. My choice in how to redo the room finally came down to one major thing-WHAT DO I ALREADY HAVE? Basically what can I do to make the room cute by mixing what I already had and what I could find that was affordable.

Everything fell in to place when I decided to use this homemade quilt that Hubby and I got 10 years ago as a wedding present.

Then we found the black iron bed frame at IKEA. $149 people!!! I got all the rest of the bedding at The Mart. Really if you can overlook that you are actually at The Mart, it is one of the cheapest places to buy things for home decorating. Especially if you can think outside the box.

I had the black and white pillows from a previous couch. Then I just bought some fabric that I thought looked vintagey and farmhouse fresh, and I made some extra throw pillows.

I can't go without adding some plates to a wall. I know it is a sickness. Alas, I love how it looks so there will probably always be plates on my walls.

The curtains are two white flat sheets hemmed and hung on a simple white curtain rod.

I gathered up a lamp and clock we already had. Added the simple white teapot that I found at Ross. I spray painted an old TV stand a sunny yellow and turned it into a nightstand. I wasn't super thrilled with the paint coverage on the top so I used some scraps and sewed a tiny cloth covering for the top.

I added one simple frame that we had to the wall. Painted yet again another plate...that we had and hung that up. Then We hung up a mirror, again that we already had.

I am just about in love with this room.

Seriously, it is nicer than any or our master bedrooms have EVER been.

I could seriously just walk in this room and stare at it all day. Love. Love. Love.

Blame the Fumes of Paint

So I hadn't intended to be MIA this week. I had great intentions of picking up my posting since all the holidays are done. FALSE!

I had forgotten about my never ending list of things to do AND that painting several rooms was at the top of those list. Oh and I guess I kind of forgot that I am 7 months pregnant, slow and highly incapacitated. 

SO my plan for taping off a room and painting it's entirety in a simple day was foiled as I waddled up and down a ladder and then collapsed on the couch after one coat...not to get up the rest of that day.

So yeah, my intention of having Middle and Littlest new room ready and looking similar to how it did in our old house...you know like this...remember with fondness with me...

Did NOT happen...well it still looks a little like this...paint stuff out and about...

Rollers wrapped in plastic wrap (a handy dandy little trick that keeps you from having to wash your brush out in between coats...keeps the paint brush in usable condition).

I will say at least I did finally finishing painting yesterday...so this went away.

Due to painting I have been lacking in the ability to get my self presentable. Decided to keep it real and share with you how utterly fantastic I have looked for the last couple of days...

Yeah, I know watch out hot pregnant moms everywhere!

At least the tape is off and the painting is done.

I also managed to face-lift these run of the mill curtains from The Mart. I will share that later when the room is done.

I did accomplish a lot, but I still have to...

put the outlet plates back on

hang up pictures

hang curtain rod and curtains

arrange the bedding and get the bottom bunk ready for Littlest's move

and I have a little sewing project to do using this fabric...

Hmmm...will I finish? We will see. Since I was SO close to being done and all, my body decided to go and get a cold. Foiled again!

It will all get done...my nesting instinct will make sure of that! That is what I keep telling myself anyway!