Cottage Guest Room

Hello Friends!

We had some very special guests come to stay at our house a few weeks ago.
Our sweet little 3 month old granddaughter came for a visit (with her parents) and helped me celebrate my birthday. It was so nice to have a full house. 
  
Our Cottage Guest Room used to be our youngest daughter's bedroom and was the first room painted in our house.  Actually, it was painted the very day we closed on the house and before our furniture arrived. 
The bedroom has evolved over the last year or so, adding curtains, a headboard, new bedding and a few accessories, some new and some pulled from other rooms in the house. 

I found this scripture sign at Hobby Lobby.com .

The sign brings back sweet memories of when our girls were little and we would sing Galations 22-23 on our walks to the park a few blocks away. 

The blush comforter is so cozy and cuddly, without being too heavy and warm. 

Last year, Mr. DIY built this Queen size, Curvy Plank Headboard. It was one of the easiest and most inexpensive building project we've ever done! You can find it HERE if you'd like to see how it was built and how little it cost!

The twig wreath was a craft project from our last house. We had a birch tree in our front yard that would drop lots of thin branches after we had a really breezy day. One day, as I was collecting them, I had the idea to make something with them. You can see that post HERE. 

The Cottage Guest Room is a little larger than our other guest bedroom, which I've had plans to make into a room for when our grandkid(s) sleep over. 

It's only been 2 1/2 weeks since our guests left and we're ready to have them back and stay in the Cottage Guest Room

Thanks for stopping by!

Pam

Our New Home- A Year Later

Has it been a year already? 

We moved into our house one year ago on July 15th. The house was 2 1/2 years old, but since it was the owners 2nd home, it was hardly lived in and no upgrades had been done.

Lets start at the beginning...Here's the MLS photo of our Carolina Cottage. I love how it looks small, unlike our last house, which was all brick and 3 floors!

MLS photo

Guest Bedroom Reveal

I've been working on the transforming our Guest Bedroom for MONTHS!

It seems like forever.

Our guest bedroom worked for us, but I wanted to lighten and freshen up the decor just a bit since we're getting our house ready to sell and it's the first bedroom you see when you come up the stairs.

I also wanted to spend as little money as possible, which is always a challenge. 

I'm excited to share it with you today, especially because this little makeover cost us: zero, zip, nada. I even made a few dollars on the makeover
More on that later...

Repurposing Old Art

Most of you know that we're working (slowly) on getting the house ready to put on the market. We were hoping for this summer, but it now looks like it's not going to be until next Spring. 

One of the rooms I've been working on (slowly) is the guest room. It's the first bedroom you see when you go upstairs and I wanted it to look good. The colors were dated and since we needed to make room for a special treasure from my mother in law's estate, the dark furniture had to go, especially because we were lightening things up.

What does all that have to do with the above photo???

New Paint For An Extra Bedroom

Our oldest daughter moved to Southern California two years ago this past May and since then, her room has pretty much remained the way it was when she left. 

You can read about that day HERE, but I'm warning you that you may need a tissue.  

This weekend, we had some time and I was brave enough for a change and decided to get it painted a more neutral color...Mr. F even admitted to getting a little sentimental when he went up to patch a few holes in the wall.

Our oldest daughter's room had been painted Valspar Lucent Purple about a year before she moved. 

This is how it was painted when she lived here...You can see more of the details HERE.

Here are  some of the holes that had to be filled before we started painting.

And a few more holes that made Mr. Fanatic wax nostalgic...

We didn't spend any money on paint for this project.

 We had 1 gallon of Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter leftover from when we painted the Kitchen and Breakfast Room a couple of years ago. Ben Moore paint is pretty amazing and covered the previously goldish paint in those rooms with one coat, which is why we had a gallon left over. 

We weren't sure if the Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter would cover the purple in just one coat, however, and didn't want to chance having to purchase another gallon of paint, so we mixed 3 quarts of samples from Sherwin Williams we had from when I was trying to choose the kitchen paint color. 

Here's how the first coat looked:

Here's how the bedroom looks now after a top coat of Revere Pewter:

Not bad for a no cost project! Now I just have to add a little color besides the purple pom poms from Jess' graduation party a few years ago.

Maybe one of these days, I'll find a new home or a new purpose for the armoire that was once Organized. I wish there had been some way to move this out to SoCal with her without having to spend $500 to get it there. She could sure use it now the way it was configured to hold all her makeup and hair supplies.

The bookcase still has a few of her awards in it...Maybe I'll box them up one of  these days too...

The planters and mini tissue pom poms are from both daughter's graduation parties. 

sniff sniff.

My, how time flies... 

Pam

You can see a little update of this bedroom by clicking HERE.