Last week in my guest room reveal I mentioned the closet doors and how they were one of my biggest DIY fails to date. So let's talk about that.
I was really excited about these and planned to write this great tutorial, because really...who wouldn't want an awesome DIY double bypass sliding barn door system (say that five times fast)? No one, that's who... it sounds amazing.
But alas, it wasn't meant to be.
You're probably thinking that it doesn't look that bad (besides the …
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Southwestern Guest Room Reveal
Time for another reveal post! Can you tell I'm trying to tie up loose ends on this house before I completely move onto the next one? Although this room turned out so well that I think I'm just going to move it right into the next house and try to change as little as possible. Anyway, here it is!
Here is what the room looked like previously...the one on the left is just after we bought it, and the on the right is after the first makeover.
This is by far my favorite room in the …
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Mason Jar Pendant Light
You know those projects that should be really easy...the ones that should take you less than an hour but end up being a complete time suck and turn out NOTHING like you had planned?
Yeah, me neither. Never happens.
Except like every fourth project or so.
I've been planning to hang pendants in the guest room instead of doing traditional bedside lamps. The room is pretty small and anywhere I can save space I will. Plus I'm certain my tomato cage side tables wouldn't …
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DIY Faux Stone Wall (aka the best thing ever)
I'm not even going to mess around with a proper intro paragraph in this post, let's just get to the good stuff. Behold...
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I love it SO MUCH.
Now that pictures are out of the way, let's get to the story.
Since deciding to re-do the guest room I knew I wanted something interesting on the wall behind the bed. I didn't want it to be colorful or bold, but rather very neutral. What I was after was TEXTURE. Big, beautiful, neutral texture. So my brain …
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Tomato Cage Tables
Sometimes I get the itch to try a project just for the heck of it. Even if I think it will fail, or look horrid, or be a total time-suck...I just want to give it a shot. These tables are one of those projects.
I've been wanting to bring some gold into the house somehow, and I figured guest room bedside tables would be a great way to do that. The first thing that popped into my head was a gold wire table, mostly because I've seen them all over the internet (Pinterest) and they are stuck in my …
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Guest Room Paper Flooring (and why I’m disappointed with it)
This summer I started redoing my guest room, and the first step was new flooring. I wanted to do paper bag floors, mostly because they're cheap and beautiful, but also because I wanted the flooring to match in my boy's room and the guest room (they're right next to each other).
CLICK HERE TO READ MY ORIGINAL POST ABOUT INSTALLING PAPER BAG FLOORS
(If you aren't familiar with paper bag flooring process then please read the original tutorial first. Links to the follow-up posts can be found …
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A Completed Wall + Office Organization
This is my first post with the BHG Live Better Network, and the challenge for October is to get your home "holiday ready" using Better Homes and Gardens products. Now, by that I'm pretty sure they meant holiday decor, but I'm not much of a seasonal decorator and to me "holiday ready" means getting the guest room ready for holiday guests. So I've been chipping away at the to-do list, and am excited to show you my completed wall!
As a reminder, this is what the room looked like earlier …
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Why the guest room isn’t becoming a nursery
Since announcing that I'm pregnant with baby #3 I've been asked a few times if the guest room is going to become a nursery. The short answer is "no"....the long answer is the rest of this post :)
To be honest, I'm not going to prep for this baby at all. It's not getting a nursery and I'm not altering the boy's room. We're just going to put this kid in a crib in our room and call it a day.
Why? Because I don't think we're going to be in this house long enough for it to really …
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Let’s finish a room already (to-do lists and self-imposed deadlines)
You may have noticed (or maybe you're blissfully unaware), but I haven't finished a room in a while. A long, looong while.
Plenty of rooms are in the works (let's be honest, they're all in the works), but I just can't seem to finish any of them. Maybe it's some sort of mental block I have against actually finishing rooms and publicly proclaiming them "DONE!", or maybe my project ADD has been flaring up for the last year or two and that keeps me from finishing. Or heck, maybe I'm just lazy. …
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Sewing a Euro Sham Pillow with Flanges
Today I have a simple tutorial to share...
A couple of weeks ago I showed you the new bedding for my southwestern guest room, and today I'm going to show you how to make the euro sham pillows. (Those are the big orange ones in the back BTW, I know different people call them different things.) Euro shams are generally large square pillows, usually 26 x 26 or 28 x 28. They are really simple to make, and if your a beginner you can totally do this. I know that because I'm a beginner...I've …
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Modern Southwestern Guest Room Bedding
For years now the guest room has been black, white, purple, and yellow. It's the first room I decorated when we bought our house, and while it was fun to do I stopped liking it a few years ago.
When we ripped out the carpet and swapped all the beds this summer, I decided to redo the bedroom. Because that's what I do...start projects before other projects are finished. So far I've painted the walls, papered the floor (which I still need to blog about), replaced all the trim, and bought the …
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The Perfect Neutral
A few times a month I get e-mails from readers wanting to know which paint colors I've used in my home. I can't help but cringe when I get those e-mails because I have the worst, least helpful answer EVER.... that I mixed them myself. The green in my living room, bathroom, and laundry room was the result of too many green paint samples getting mixed together in a bucket, and the blue in my hallway was an actual color that I altered with craft paint. As is the green on my bathroom vanity. Pretty …
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Shopping for Southwestern
First, a confession.
I have exactly zero projects to blog about. Lots of things are in the works, but nothing is at that glorious, complete, bloggable stage yet. And while I'm obviously pretty good at just not updating the blog for weeks on end, I thought that during this dry spell I'll take you shopping with me. Online shopping that is, since shopping in actual stores with two energetic little boys is about as fun as a trip to the DMV.
So I've started in on the guest room. I know what …
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Guest Bedroom Frame Wall
A couple of months ago I posted before and after pictures of my
guest bedroom. Though I'm happy with the main wall, the other side of the room is a bit boring. So now, my after picture becomes my before picture.
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I wanted to make a frame wall, so I started collecting frames. Really random ones.
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Then, while shopping at HomeGoods, I found these place mats. They're felt-ish and I started thinking about all the things I could do with them and my random frames.
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I didn't …
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Guest Room Before and After
Since the guest room was a pre-blog project I don't have any pictures of it in progress. Trust me when I say that every item in this room could be its own post! Here are the before and after pictures...I wanted this room to have a totally different color scheme and design than the rest of my house, and it certainly does!
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The before..
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and the after!
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Update - CLICK HERE to see my entire house tour! …
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