Guest Room Update

Last fall we switched our daughter's room and the guest room around. It took me forever to get things to what I consider pretty well finished in the room and even longer to get the whole thing actually cleaned all at one time. :) Despite that, the results are great and I'm so excited to finally be able to show them off.

The bed is pushed up next to the wall just inside the door. I did this because we don't have guests super often and I wanted to make plenty of space for the office portion of the room. The dark gray stripe on the wall was yellow when our daughter used this room. I opted to paint it a dark glossy gray to keep the wall color fairly neutral.

 

I used a small folding plant stand for a side table as there isn't much room between the bed and the doorway.

 

I love me a good artwork wall for a focal point. I had all the pieces on this wall already.

 

 

This shelf was in the room when it was Maddy's. I decided to leave it because it works so well in the space. (For those wondering, yes, I did take it down to repaint the stripe even though I was very tempted to be lazy!)

 

 

Here's the desk and work space. I'm pretty pleased with how this desk looks in the space. This was the desk in my office uptown previously. It fits really nicely in here.

 

 

I found the chair at a local thrift store. It's just the right size for the space, and it swivels. It must have been repainted by someone at some point, but they did a nice job. It's very light gray in color.

 

 

 

 

One of my biggest feats was probably reorganizing the closet! My Hubby cut an extra piece of closet shelf we had lying around and it helped immensely with the storage issues.

 

 

Another piece of furniture formerly from my office. It displays things pretty nicely along with the bookcases made from crates I snagged long ago at a garage sale.

 

 

 

That's pretty much the 360 degree tour of our guest room/office. I just hope I can keep it clean enough to actually work in here on a regular basis. Now, I'm off to drink some tea and edit future posts. Hope you enjoyed the tour!

 

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Coral Madness Project # 3

There will be several Coral Madness Projects coming this week. I'm really pushing to get some of these things done. I would like to finally finish the guest bedroom and move on to the living room.

I've actually had this project done for a long time, I just haven't shared it yet. I bought some bookshelves that were made out of old wooden crates from a friend's garage sale. They had been painted white at some point, but the paint was yellowed and dingy. Before:

Yucky! I spray painted the outside with Heirloom White, but the insides of these babies got color.

I'm not completely satisfied with the styling of these yet, but I've got a good start. I do need these to function as actual bookshelves as well as be cute (I have an addiction to paperbacks that must be stored somewhere). Most of the items I already had with the exception of the two chevron baskets, which I bought at Dollar General for $10.00.

See my other Guest Room Projects Here:
Coral Madness Project #1
Coral Madness Project #2

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More Outdoor Decor

I've been focusing on sprucing up the deck area lately. I found these at a garage sale recently:

They were originally gold plastic. Someone had already painted them white, but I decided they needed some brightening up. I painted them the same lime green I painted my solar chandelier. 

Here they are on my wall. I thought they looked nice on either side of this planter. 

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Metamorphasis Monday; Time To Sparkle Tuesday Linky Party; Trash to Treasure; The Power of Paint Party; Wildly Original Linky Party; Transformation Thursday; What have you redone?; Shabbilicious Friday; Start at Home Paint Party; Funky Junk Interiors' Party Junk. 

To Paint or Not Paint....Part Deux

Remember this post, where I wasn't sure how to refinish the top of this table? Well, I finally decided. I admit, it doesn't look that much different than before.

The top certainly looks darker. I ended up using a nice darker stain.

I repainted the base an off white color similar to what it was already, distressed it and antiqued it.

I just love these brass claw feet!

I tried and tried to sand out this ring on the top. I couldn't get it out and decided to stain over it anyway.

At first, I was really disappointed with how dark the stain became with a finish on it. But now, I think it gives it character. What do you think?

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Garage Sale Finds

This last weekend was city-wide garage sales. I didn't get to many, as it was my birthday (a momentous one and leave it at that!) :) However, I did score a few finds I thought I would share with you.

From left to right...a drawer made from an old wooden Fels-Naptha soap box!, a white and red tin, and small wood box. I have plans for most of this already. I want to hang the drawer on the wall in my laundry area in the basement (which needs some serious makeover love this winter!) for a shelf. The tin goes perfectly in my kitchen. The small wood box I haven't decided yet. I'm thinking about either hanging that one on the wall as a mini shelf or using it to organize stuff on my desk at my office.

On a different note, I apologize for missing last Wednesday's What Should I Do With It? I will be posting what I did with that fabulous tray and a new project tomorrow! Come back to check it out.

Have you found any great garage sale finds lately?

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