The Summer Ends Guest Room

I know today is the first day of Fall, but it still feels like late summer. The days are warm with low humidity and mornings and nights are cool. 
The next month are so is perfect weather, just like the end of Winter and the beginning of Spring. 
It's just the right time to get the house ready to transition into Fall....

I love our guest room that overlooks the side and backyard. 
It's not too big and it's not too small. 
It has a large closet. 
The windows are in the corner and light comes in from 2 sides of the house. 
and it has the pretty curvy plank headboard that Mr. DIY made. 
This was our daughter Jenny's room when she lived with us and she picked out the paint, which is pretty and relaxing. 
The whole room feels comfortable. 

I love the curtains too.

I recently found the white comforter at TJMaxx.com. I wasn't sure if I was going to keep it, but I think I will.

I love the textured design. Plus it's soft. 
The textured design reminds me of bedspreads from when I was a child. 
You might call it vintage. 

The bed is really comfy. The mattress has a gel foam topper on it and it's super soft. 

One of these days, I'll get to painting the night table a different color. 
Sadly, so many projects have piled up in the past few years.
Yes, I said years!

I'll make an announcement on my other blog soon with an update about why, but I'm not quite ready to do that just yet. 

I don't want to jinx it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Pam

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

Gustavian Headboard In The Guest Room

Our guest rooms are still in need of a makeover, but since the bed in our larger guest room has been adorned with the Gustavian headboard, it is one step closer to completion.
I can’t tell you how happy I am with how the headboard project turned out.

I added another coat of white wash to the headboard since the last time you saw it because it looked a little too pink.
Not sure how a yellow tone wood and thinned out white paint  makes pink, but it did.

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This guest room was our youngest daughter’s room  before she moved out. It was painted on the day we moved in because our daughter wanted to have the walls painted before our furniture arrived.  

Thank goodness she chose a nice paint color!

I added the twig wreath I made after a big windstorm at our last house. That lovely curve at the top of the headboard was just calling for one.
The Vintage Lace Valentine Heart Pillow I made last week was the perfect addition to the bed.

I hope you like the Gustavian headboard as much as I do!

If you’d like to see the how to build the headboard, you can see it HERE

Pam