Guest Room Redo

Dave and I have a guest room that over the past year became increasingly unusable.  Between pulling up the carpet due to a little water issue and using it as a catch-all for shipping boxes, wedding gifts and random stuff, it could barely be called a guest room.  While it still contained a fully made bed, there was so much stuff on the bed that it was really useless.  Although our friend Stacy did manage to move enough stuff so she could curl up in a corner and take a nap once.

Old "guest" room.  Love those lilac walls!

So before my family came to visit for Thanksgiving, we decided to not only organize the room, but to also give it some character.  It still had paint from the previous owners.  The terrible part about it is that the walls aren't actually dry walled--they have a flake board/particle board which makes it really difficult to paint.  Using a brush or roller would have used tons of paint.  So Dave had the bright idea to get a paint sprayer.  It's pretty cool and worked amazingly well. He picked it up on Craig's List for a reasonable price and if we ever move or redecorate again, we'll probably do very little painting by hand. In about an hour, after the room had been taped and prepped, all the paint was on the walls.  It dried pretty quickly too.  I have to thank Dave's mom, Madaline, for helping on this painting project. They had it all done one day while I was at work.

So much better!

We also picked up a carpet remnant for a good deal that fits the room rather well. There is a little cut out at the doorway in need of a throw rug, but overall it's complete.

And even better, after taking down the awful lace window treatments, Madaline offered to make us new ones.  So Dave and I hit up Joann Fabrics and found a pattern idea we liked and some fabric that works really well in the room. 

We're really happy with how everything turned out.  We still have a little organizing to do, but at least we can properly host guests now.  Although I'm pleading the 5th on what the guest room's closet looks like.

Some lingering wedding gifts and "stuff"

We can officially say that after 6 years in the house, all the rooms have been done.  I suspect that means we'll probably find a reason to move out of this house soon.