When it comes to decorating I always have a multitude of projects and ideas going on at once. I wish I could stay more focused on one area or ‘vignette’ and give it all my attention but I just find that so hard to do when you have such limited resources (time & money). It all comes together eventually right?
Despite keeping keeping myself so busy, I think I’ve managed to stay on task with our guest room. I can almost comfortably say that its finished. Naturally since I feel so good about it – it turns out we’re going to be moving! Exclamation point. That’s about all I can say about it at this point. My heart goes out of rhythm when I think about it too much. Woe is us. I’m excited and so so nervous at the same time.
The natural light in here is lovely. The curtains are thrifted and randomly ended up being the inspiration for the room.
Old tiny TV I had hopes of upgrading eventually.
The furniture came from various yard sales & Ikea. The TV sits on a sewing machine cabinet, it still has the machine and my mom promises to teach me how to use it. I’m sure I could figure it out but I don’t want to accidentally break anything. I have an unfortunate habit of doing that sometimes when I try to be crafty. The vintage train case has all my sewing notions in it. My new (ugly) sewing machine is in the closet in this room. I got the candles and knobs for the old dresser at Anthropologie.
I had to retake this picture with my phone to get the owl cookie jar on the top of the shelf. I love an owl and had to include him.
I used Benjamin Moore’s Ben paint on the walls in a flat finish color matched to Martha Stewart’s Natural Twine. The bed linens came from Target.
The bed was in terrible shape before I painted it – I have before pictures somewhere. I used Martha Stewart’s Ladybug in a semi-gloss. I have to say I didn’t love the paint. It was very water-y and I wish I had used Behr or Benjamin Moore. I tried to save both end tables but hours of sanding and boxes of TSP just didn’t do it. I finally painted them both with a random Valspar sample from Lowe’s.
I love how it turned out! We’ve spent the night in here once and have had one official guest over so far. I hope to squeeze in a few more visits before we have to leave. I’m gonna miss it so much!
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