The house tour now begins with the not-so-pretty in our house.

The guest room started like this….

and it stayed liked that for about a year and half. Oops!

We’ve slowly added stuff to the room and it currently looks like this…

It just doesn’t look like I want it to…luckily we haven’t had to spend a lot of money in here.
(I had to post the before picture so you can at least see that we're making progress.)

What don't I like?

I think the flowers are going to find a new home (after I made Nate put a screw in the wall to hold them…oops!)
The comforter looks messy…always. It was the comforter we used in our master in our first house and I was happy to trade it in. So, I think I’m on the look out for another one in here. I’m thinking plain old white with a black bedskirt.
And that hunking tv……Nate and I are still battling over that tv. Our compromise may be moving a smaller one from my sewing room in here.
And I’m not digging the wall color in this room. I like it in our living room but not here.
And….

After all of that babbling, the tour continues…

I plan on adding a “gallery wall” of frames on the left wall.

Room info:
Wall color: Sherwin Williams Macademia
Headboard: Made it! (read about it here)
End tables: Salvation Army (read about them here )
Dresser: Hand me down (read about it here)
Mirrors: Salvation Army (read about them here)
Lamps: Target
Bedding: Fieldcrest something (Target) (We received it as a wedding gift.)
Wall Flowers: Pier 1 (gift)
Anything else: Ask!

What are your thoughts?

on bedding...love it? hate it? suggestions?
If you have been my guest/plan to be a guest….do you think the tv is important or is it just a giant eye sore? Don’t worry, you won’t hurt my feelings...maybe Nate's..but not mine.

Have a great week-end and comment away!!!

The Salvation Army comes through again....

This trio of mirrors was $9.00 ($3.00 per mirror).

Plus $3.00 for black spray paint equals...

(Ike could care less about mirrors...he just wants to play tennis ball.)

Spray painting mirrors is easy if you can take the mirror out.
The backs on these were pretty secure so I just decided to skip tearing them apart or taping them and just spray painted away.
I've taped mirrors in the past and the paint still sneaks it's way through...probably because I'm impatient with tape.
Mirrors are nice though because you can take a razor to them and they are as good as new!