Guest Bedroom

This weekend, Justin and I decided to paint the guest bedroom. The room was originally a butter yellow, which was fine, but I wanted something else. There were also some holes that were filled with spackling and never painted.

I used a Valspar (from Lowe's) color called Palisade Blue for my room/office in our house in Tifton. I liked the color. It was soothing and familiar, something that I currently need in my life. Justin and I discussed it and decided to paint the guest bedroom in Atlanta Palisade Blue.

After breakfast Saturday morning, Justin and I moved the furniture out of the room and covered the moulding with tape. We also covered the floor with plastic drop cloths. When we painted the house in Tifton, we usually had the floor stripped down to the concrete slab and the base mouldings removed since we were installing the bamboo. It is so much easier and less stressful to paint like this. If you drop paint on the floor, oh well! No big deal!

I mainly "cut-in" around the doors and ceilings with a brush while Justin rolled the walls. It doesn't take long to paint when you have help and it's fun to have someone to talk to. We finished painting and got ready to go eat with friends at The Treehouse in Peachtree Hills.

Sunday morning, we touched up some areas and waited for it to dry before we removed the tape. After cleaning up the room, we began moving the furniture back in. This is always so exciting to me! We even made up the bed with our old down comforter. Mama said we could have the matelasse bedspread that used to be in her guest room. It's ivory and will look really nice in the blue room. I bought a rug that I used in my blue room in Tifton, so it now has a home in the guest room in Atlanta. After we got the furniture in the room, I began pulling random, unused decor items from other parts of the house to use in the guest room. I'm sure I'll make changes to this room in the future, but I used what I had lying around.

I'm pleased, but this room is a work in progress. The black desk will eventually be moved to another room, but it works in the guest room, so it will stay a little longer. I know a lot of the colors don't go together, but we'll make do for now. I also want to replace the closet doors with either bi-fold closet doors or a pair of regular doors. I absolutely do not like sliding closet doors. The closet organizer has to be off-center and one side of the clothes rods is practically useless. I am planning to paint the closet. None of the closets in this house are painted to match the room they are in, except for the master bedroom, which we painted.

This is one corner of the room before we began painting.

Another "before" corner. That big hole behind the door is where the air vent grille belongs. We removed it to paint.

The window corner. We did leave this one chest in the room while we painted. It's heavy and somewhat difficult to move. It came through without any stray paint on it.

Accessories can really make a difference in a room.

The "after" picture. Of course our guests will be greeted each morning by Pete's and Annabelle's faces (in picture-form only).

We are planning to hem the curtains and move the rods higher. The curtains we previously used in this room were shorter and we never moved the rods. I would eventually like to replace the curtains, but these will work for now.