My Home Tour - The Guest Room

After teasing you for over a week, I am finally giving you the tour of our guest room. These are the before pictures.

 Not a bad color, but just not what I had in mind. 

There were several holes that needed patching in the walls. 

That gave me another reason to re-paint.

What was I thinking?! That little ikea dresser just does not fit!

Before I show you the after pictures, I have to explain. As the mother of two boys (and the only female in our home), I am careful to keep my decorating from being too flowery, frilly, and – well – girlie. But, after a week of sleeping in the guest room because everyone had the flu except me (you know Mom's can't afford to be sick!), I decided to throw my femininity into just this one room. I told Pretty Handsome Guy that it was the one room that I needed to be girlie! He knew better than to protest. I guess he figured it was better if I got it out of my system in just this one space.

So, here she is, all gloriously girlified:

Fresh roses, I wish you had smell-o-vision. Freshly cut roses, displayed in a recycled jelly jar.

Detail of doorknob from the nightstand made from a curbside door and picket fence.

 Better view of the nightstand. The lamp is from Goodwill.

 The center pillow was a sack of birdseed that I ordered from here. 

Then I washed it and stuffed it with stuffing and just re-tied the top.

The patchwork rose pillow was purchased in a gift shop during our visit here.

 The painting over the bed was painted by the very talented, Shari MacFarlane
(who also happens to be my Mom)

The bed frame was rescued from the curb when we lived in Charlottesville, VA. The side rails were broken, but I found sturdy new ones at a rummage sale the very next week! 

I sanded the rails down and stained them to match the headboard and footboard.

You can just barely see this piece of art from the previous picture. I purchased this little painting from a gallery in Asheville, NC on my first getaway weekend after having kids. The artist signed it Cap Man 2005. It is painted on a salvage floor board. 

I just love it and the Jimi Hendrix quote.

Spray painted floral vases and a peek at my birthday gift from a dear friend. 

It was her grandmother's hand towel! 

She was the recipient of this present for her birthday a few years ago.

Daisy, the rescued chair and an adorable kidney shaped desk. I think it fell off a pick up truck because it was busted up and upside down on the side of the road.

The desk matched the style of my bed perfectly! 

I glued the broken pieces, and re-stained it. Then added a ribbon and bead pull.

Salvage windows. The larger one was a gift from a friend and fellow blogger. I cut mat board to fit in each individual pane and then used double stick tape to mount family photos on the boards. Then pressed the boards in the back of the window and hot glued around the edges.

 Close up of chipped salvage window. I painted one coat of flat white paint on top of the window and then used packing tape to peel off some of the paint.

Sweet smelling soaps in a bowl. Pitcher and silver tray from Goodwill.

Top view of the upholstered bench.

Can you believe it? The bench was also a curbside find!

This concludes my guest room tour. Stay tuned in the coming weeks. I will be posting more before and after rooms on my home tour. Thanks for visiting.

You can also view some other blogger's amazing Before and After renovations at the CSI Project competition: