Guest 1

This room is probably my biggest dilemma. I want to do grand/cheap and fabulous/creative decor in this room but I am having such trouble. There are post about it here and kind of here. But if you want to see my dream bed room check out White trash bedroom from Funky Junk. Now I am sure you are wondering where this idea comes from. The rest of the house looks nothing like this. Specially the guest 2. But I L-O-V-E the idea of sticking a guest in that bedroom and them thinking they have come to heaven to sleep. All those pillows and fluffy blankets make me want to snuggle and sleep a million years. So lets take a look at what I have.

This is the Queen size bed with my husbands old quilt bed spread, water bed frame, and the "bad" mattress from the Master Bedroom. The too-short-re-used-curtains are covering up the one window that faces the street and the book case was a hand me down from our best man's parents (yeah, we'll take any furniture).

-Add chair to corner
-Add side table with decoration
-Find decorations for wall, book case, tables, everything.
-Spiff up bed with over sized pillows, little ones, round ones, etc
-Fix the curtains (hang higher, get rid of, revamp, whatever it takes!)


The hand me down bookcase needs some love. We'll keep the dark wood for now because it is more work then I want to take on. But I need to get rid of some picture frames (or at least make them match) figure out what to do with all my books, and basically make this a functional yet stylish book case, if their is such a thing.

-Simplify look
-Re use as much "decor" as possible in the final design
-Find a better place for books (preferably not all in the open)

And last but not least the "I can't believe I took this picture, or am going to show it" item out of the room. The closet.

Yeah, I took the picture. What are ya going to do about it? Clearly it needs some help. For a room that has no occupants except the dog at night the closet is heavily used. All of the hubby's work clothes are stashed here along with clearly a bunch of other things. Why is the work clothes in there? Because they are dirty and old when his nice clothes are not worn, but kept in the master closet.

-Clean out all the junk
-Clean out unusable/wearable clothes (i.e. the wedding dress in the big bag on the floor right)
- Make use able for a guest (all our guest will be long term, at least a few days)

In this picture you can also see the TV and what it sits on. You could call it a dresser or a small hutch maybe but whatever it is, it stays too. Right now it holds the TV , VCR (yeah why I don't know I don't' think we have any tapes), and the DVD player. In side changes all the time. Some of it is office supplies that haven't found a home in the new office, some of it is craft projects that needed a home, and some of the space is just empty.

-Clean out
-Organize

For a recap of the resolutions or ta-do's (yes I know its TO-do's... but who says it like that?)

-Add chair to corner
-Add side table with decoration
-Find decorations for wall, book case, tables, everything.
-Spiff up bed with over sized pillows, little ones, round ones, etc
-Fix the curtains (hang higher, get rid of, revamp, whatever it takes!)
-Simplify look
-Re use as much "decor" as possible in the final design
-Find a better place for books (preferably not all in the open
-Clean out all the junk
-Clean out unusable/wearable clothes (i.e. the wedding dress in the big bag on the floor right)
- Make use able for a guest (all our guest will be long term, at least a few days)
-Clean out
-Organize
and in general -Paint the walls.

Someone help me! This seems like a lot to do. Better yet on a dead line! I have the in law's coming in March and my Maid-of-honor maybe at the end of the month. I will be lucky to get one of these checked off by then... but we'll see!