I'm working on two longer posts, but while I'm in the process, I want to share our latest room redo. Tyler and I have been on the go A LOT, so it was nice to have a productive weekend at home. I was in Vegas last week for a user group, and Tyler came to meet me for the weekend. On the subject of Las Vegas, if you are planning a trip and would like to see a show, stop looking and book tickets to Absinthe. It's a small, intimate, hilarious, show with a Cirque du Soleil feel in a tent outside of Caesar's Palace. The humor is a little bit inappropriate and off-beat, but what do you expect in Vegas?! As long as you aren't easily offended, I guarantee you will find the show incredibly amusing and equally hilarious.
Back to our project, anyone who knows me well, knows that I love K-State, football in particular. I would wake my lovely Chi O sisters up on gamedays in college playing the fight song. The reason I bring that up, is that deciding to stay home and work on our house rather than cheer on my Wildcats, was not an easy thing to do. BUT, we've come so far on the house and a work weekend was exactly what we needed.
My goal was to tackle the final room in our house, the guestroom that had become the ugly stepchild room. Ty and I recently purchased new bedroom furniture for our room, so the old dresser was stuck in the guestroom, next to the bed, taking up what little space we had. There were also scraps of projects left over from Janna and Evan's shower {one of my blog posts in progress}, a random assortment of wedding gifts that didn't have a home, as well as other odds and ends. Our guest room had become our catch-all room (which is what happens with no basement and no garage, i.e. no storage). My goal was to repaint, decorate, organize, and make the room livable.
I bought curtains for the guestroom months prior. The problem is that I'm very indecisive and for some reason I have a hard time branching out from gray when it comes to wall color. After spending quite a bit of time on Houzz, I found a teal/mint color that I fell in love with. It was a pastel, which coordinated with the bold, yellow/gold color of the curtains. We also bought a ceiling fan to replace the outdated light fixture (circa 1970s.)
I organized the gifts, (everything finally has a home!) cleaned out the room, and started painting. Disclaimer: I'm a terrible painter. I'm not very patient and cutting in = no fun. However, the guestroom is not very big, I was listening to the K-State game, and I was excited to be working on the neglected room. After about two hours of painting, and another few hours of waiting for the paint to dry, the transformation was semi-complete. It is pretty amazing what a change a fresh coat of paint will make.
I organized the bookshelves, Tyler hung the curtains, and I finally got to move our beautiful (do you sense the sarcasm?) K-State rocking chair out of my closet/dressing room, into the guestroom. The only thing that was left was to find a headboard, or something to go above the bed. I spent a lot of time on Pinterest, looking for headboard inspiration.
Below are before and afters of the (now) lovely guestroom.
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| Bed Before |
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| Bed After |
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| Window Before |
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| Window After |
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| After |
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| This is my great-grandparents' dresser that my dad helped me refinish a few years ago |
Also, I have to give Ty a shoutout because the yard looks great, too!
I'm looking forward to a fun, non-productive weekend since we will be celebrating Tyler's birthday.
Until next time...
