I may be a little obsessed....

....with the guest room. Realize how all the photos are super dark? It's because I am taking pics at like 11pm, 1am, 3am....yep. Silly me. Well, I hope you are well lovelies! I have a bit of a progress report with the guest room. I have been working my booty off to get her finished and now I can actually see some movement, I feel good about it. 

I think my favorite moment in the room has got to be this suitcases, lamp and commissioned piece of Rocket VonScience an amazing friend got Joey and I for our wedding. 

This side of the room needs the most work. The art need to be properly framed and the media center turned ocassional table needs to be styled. See that lamp on the floor? We have plans for that. Last time you saw this side of the room it looked a whole lot different. 

That chandy is going on the ceiling above the chair I pulled from the garden room. I think the chair will live a happier life right where it is now. 

I horde etsy art. And when Renegade Craft Fair comes to town, I get a little shop happy. I was so excited to find a place to put some of the pieces. The mirror was from Target, on sale for $15! I painted with yellow spray paint. Love. 

I kinda messed up the floors with primer, spray paint, glaze, and regular paint. I need to sort this out pronto so I can lay the rug down. So where did I get everything and what's next? Glad you asked...

Where I shopped for the guest room:

Bedding:

• Duvet, Shams, and Large Pillow; Anthropologie on sale in NYC!
• Throw Blanket: Karma Living on Gilt

Fabric:

• Curtains and Closet Cover from Fabric.com

Closets:

• Built by Joey, Stained by Lana

Accessories:

• Lamp: Lamps Plus is LA!, Wish they had one in NY, it was a beast to get back!
• Suitcases: Vintage, I got a long time ago - one at Trailer Park in Brooklyn and the other I forgot. 
• Art: Etsy.com, Renegade Craft Fair, For Like Ever; I got here, gifts
• Media Center: West Elm, like 5 years ago. I painted it lighter with the glaze mixture I made up. 
• Bottles: Found; then painted with spray chalkboard paint
• Mirror: From target on sale for $15 then spray painted with Rust-o-eum Yellow
• Blue Garden Chair: Trailer Park in Park Slope, NY

What's Left:

• Clean the paint off the floor!/Throw down rug
• Hang Lamp
• Sew one more set of curtains
• Find and install fan
• Style media center/frame/hang art

I would also like to report that the cabinets in the kitchen Joey is working on look awesome!! He started hanging them up and the next step is to install the counter tops and put up the backsplash! We may just get everything on our 30 day list checked off!

New Hobby: Listchecker

Hey there pretty people! Yep! As soon as the list was written I got to work. This is what the guest room looks like this very moment:

I finished sewing the curtains for the closets, and now I just need to add a little trim work to the tops, see the big 'ol gaps? I hung them both with tension rods. I also grey washed both of the closets to match better with the grey trim in the room.

I completed one panel of curtains, and have three more to go. This one took a while because I decided to line it with new fabric I was waiting on. It's getting chilly! Gotta save that $ wherever we can. Also, sewing pom pom's....it's a chore! But don't they look cute?

As you can see from my 30 Days to rental ready list, #3, #4, and #5 involve grey washing a "Restoration Hardware" like finish on some items in our home. I wanted to test out what I have read online on a raw piece of furniture before I hit the big boy stuff. Here is a closer look of the closets washed grey:

If you dig the grey wash as much as we do here is what you do:

The Restoration Hardware Grey wash Look

1 part glaze

2 part grey paint (we used Martha Stewart's Winters Day)

Mix well in a plastic container.

Paint on wood with the intention of getting the paint on the wood, like in the corners and evenly across.

Use an old T-shirt or painters rags and rub is into the wood so you don't see any brush strokes.

Let dry.

 

So, I can't reaaaaaaaaaallllly check anything off the list because I have more curtains to sew and the grey washing of the closets were not on the list, but at least now I know it works! And to be bold, and go someplace where most bloggers don't, I will share the other side of the room. 

Lots 'o stuffs to deal with. But I am so excited to feel the pressure of having to get it all done. Am I nutso? Have a wonderful and productive weekend!

Another Day, Another Color Story.....

So yea. The guest room....not so much. The fabric I have been waiting on, well, is sold out. If I didn't check I would be waiting a long time. So, I decided to take the hint from the universe and relook at what we were working with and make sure I was making the right decisions. 

It's miles away from the first mood board, back in the day.

And then I changed my mind. Yet again. Welcome, new color story. 

Also, new pattern story. See, I love chevron. I loved it before I even knew it was called chevron. I want to put chevron all over my house. I want blankets. I want to paint it on my floors and dress my curtains in it. But I hate that it's so right now and it's also so last week. You know what I mean? I feel trendy and because it's oversaturated, I am beginning to hate it in my house. I tend to like unpopular things. And the cycle is usually; I like it, and then it's everywhere and I hate it. Except for vegetarianism and veganism. That wound up being very convenient. So I went backwards and made some new decisions.

The yellow and white is Premier Prints Chipper Slub Corn Yellow and the flower print is Amy Butler Lotus Wall Flower Cherry. The super deep teal behind it is our paint from True Value, Natural River Bed. I am happy about them all hanging out and throwing a color party in my guest room. I was getting a bid bored with the spa feeling going on around the rest of the house.

With new changes in textiles comes a little bit of editing. For example the rug (#7) is going to be saved for something else, and the West Elm rug (andalusia) from the kids room is going to takes it's place. Have I ever mentioned how much I love shopping my own home?

The yellow and white fabric will grace the built ins Joey made, while the flower fabric will power the windows. 

Can you see it coming together? I needed to brighten her up a bit and I am really excited about the edits. No more chevron, but total introduction of some fun patterns. Maybe when the trend blows over me and 'ol Chev can take it slow. Go out on a date or two and see how it feels.