Guest Room Make-over

Some friends are coming into town this weekend so that means time to give the guest room a make-over. Using some finds from my recent thrifty excursions. I took what I all ready had and merged it with old things that I gave some new life.

Here are the Before shots

To start, the room had a standard queen sized blow up bed with charcoal gray bed cover (which I recently purchased). A small side table consisting of two box shelves staked one on top of the other. For wall art, old place mats from IKEA dressed up the wall in a square pattern. A simple chair with a green china town place mat pillow* sat in the corner. And burnt orange curtains flank the window. The curtains were hung with twisted rope (because I ran out of curtain rods)... very Texas. 

The room as a whole was just okay. Needed a bit of sprucing up and a few more things on the walls.  So I got creative with some of my recent thrift store finds.

I used the big rustic frames I had found and created a headboard/wall decoration. I stapled pieces of rope to the back of the frame in a patterned X arrangement. Looks kind of like old barn doors. Again.... very Texas.

On the right side of the bed I created a little shadow box display with some old vintage bud vases, a big silver vase, and a beautiful fresh Gerber Daisy.

I added a dark brown rug to the floor next to the bed to help warm up the space.

The room needed some storage and a bit more interest, so on the opposite wall I put a small shelf and some artwork. The shelf was a thrift store find. It was originally yellow with palm trees on it, but I painted it cream and blue. The artwork consist of similarly colored frames containing sofa prints I painted by hand.   

And here are my After shots

(the cutest part of the guest room)

*green china town place mat pillow: I made this pillow several years ago. I found the green place mat in the China town neighborhood of San Francisco. It had a front layer and a back layer so it was perfect for a pillow. All I did was rip the seam out in one area of the bottom left, stuff it with pillow fluff, and sewed it back up by hand. Easiest pillow ever! Gotta keep your eye out for place mats with two layers of fabric.

"We can confidently and joyfully look forward to actually becoming all that God has in mind for us to be."

Romans 5:2

Dresser Re-do

This dresser has' seen it all. It has resided in numerous bedrooms throughout my family and now lives in our little Texas bedroom as our one piece of standing storage. It had some loose slats (which we nailed down) and pieces chipped off the fronts of the drawers (which I sanded down). Needless to say, it needed a re-do. 

Here is the before:

I removed all the hardware and transported it outside underneath the car port to give it a scrub down and begin the make-over process.

Next I fired up the new electric sander and gave it a once over the entire surface.

For the color I chose a soft crystal blue (which is the accent color in our bedroom.) I used Behr Premium Plus Ultra paint in the color "ozone." This particular brand is my favorite for furniture because it contains primer and paint in one. As far as I'm concerned that means fewer coats, and therefore less time spent. It was looking great after one coat, but I touched it up in a few spots with a second go over. 

I let it dry completely (which only took about 20 minutes in this 100 degree heat), reattached the hardware, and viola!!!!

It looks even better in the bedroom!!

"Your unfailing love is better than life itself; how I praise You!" 

Psalm 63:3