Surprise! I'm back! With a home tour.
We're slowly going room-by-room updating and styling to our tastes. During the home tour, I hope to show you what we've completed so far and will update the blog as we make small changes from here.
We're slowly going room-by-room updating and styling to our tastes. During the home tour, I hope to show you what we've completed so far and will update the blog as we make small changes from here.
I have selected the guest bedroom first for the home tour because it is the most completed room. It also stays the cleanest (none of us go in there). :)
So, here's what we started with on the day we first viewed our home (complete with date apparently):
Pretty much a blank slate, right? You can even get a hint of the hideous brass doorknob! Ugh!
So once we moved in, we thought we'd make both bedrooms to the right of the stair landing offices, one for me and one for him. Then the two bedrooms to the left of the stair landing would be the guest and the master. The guest bedroom would then be located next to the guest bathroom. Makes sense, right? Kinda.
So then we actually started getting guests and found it was rather awkward to have your parents staying in a room that can see straight into yours. Also, David's "office" was slowly becoming a catchall room for junk seeing as he had no real use for an office. So after much consideration, we decided to move the guest into David's "office" and make the room across from ours the nursery.
The end result?
This is basically the same shot as before. Notice, no more brass doorknobs! Yay! I will do a future post about how I got all new doorknobs and hardware for only $30! But now, the details.
I wanted to do the room in a gray, yellow, and aqua color scheme. It's really trendy right now and I like it! So I purchased the comforter, which is aqua, and sheet set, which is yellow, at Target. The throw pillows are also from there. The lamps are from Big Lots! It's soooo hard to find lamps at a reasonable price! The curtains are black and came with the home as did the curtain rod. I just threw them in the wash to get all the dust out.
The wall color is Martha Stewart Cement Gray. I strayed from my home, Lowe's, because I thought deep down I wanted Martha Stewart's Bedford Gray. However, once I got to Home Depot and looked at the pallette, I realized that Bedford Gray was the gray I used in the hall/stairway and I knew I wanted to go darker for the bedroom. So glad I chose this gray! It looks awesome! This room gets a lot of natural light so it doesn't look too dark.
These rooms are teeny tiny. Which ain't bad if you're housing kiddos, but we're trying to furnish the room with a complete bedroom set given to us by my super geneous in-laws! So we put the queen sized bed in there with the night table. My house was bestowed with a walk-in in each bedroom (<3!) so we stuck the upright dresser in the closet for guest use. It leaves a little hanging room leftover. I also keep my porcelain doll collection that I inherited from my paternal grandmother in the guest closet because they're nice and safe in there (and relatively dust free), but it can be a little creepy when you open the closet doors.
My goal with this room was the keep it as clean and functional for guests as possible. So no using it for storage! Which is soooo hard. The dresser is empty, as is the side table. I do keep my purses and bags under the bed in some storage cases but that's only because our bed is too low for the cases to fit. :)
So, other than art, a ceiling fan (we want one in all bedrooms), and maybe some plants or something, this room is done! I do like to make my guests feel at home so when they visit I put out some little things to make the room more cozy like reading material, bottles of water, granola bars, chocolates, etc.
So I know you want more pics! Haha! Here are a couple of other angles:
What do you think? :)
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