This is the third post in my “Catching Up” series, where I post things I have completed over the past year or so while I was ignoring my blog.
As I noted in There’s No Such Thing as a Free Carpet, Part 2, I received an oriental rug and used it as the impetus to redecorate my guest bedroom. I had redone the floor to be a great backdrop for the rug, and repainted the walls. Next stop was to layer in the colors and all the interior design happiness to complete the room.
As you can expect, this took a while to find all the bits and bobs and put them together. I carried the paint chips around in my purse when I went shopping. Very useful for checking “that thing” to see if it coordinates or clashes.
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- A view from the door, with the “free” carpet. The sheers came with the house, and the valance I got cheaply at a local curtain store and added the lace.
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- Dresser courtesy of Curious Goods, New Hope . Mirror I got from the Golden Nugget flea market in Lambertville NJ a few years back.
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- This William Morris “Tree of Life” tapestry I found on eBay after the fact. The color coordination with the rest of the room is nothing short of amazing!
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- Corner. The chair is one my mother refurbished years ago, the color coordinated well so I didn’t even have to reupholster it.
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- Closer view of the corner pictures. The tin ad was a great find from the flea market, coordinates with the room colors wonderfully.
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- Close-up of the old photo. My great-great-grandmother is the rightmost girl in the top row. We used several old photos on the wall, I have a pile more that are waiting to find frames.
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- I didn’t want a bed skirt, so I used this burlap printed with fleur-de-lis like the anaglypta and stapled it around the split boxspring. Bonus is it keeps the split boxspring from sliding apart.
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- metal bedframe, from overstock.com Simple white quilt, which after I put it on the bed I realized also had a fleur-de-lis in the quilt thread pattern.
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- I’ve had this old suitcase since college. A bit smelly so not very useful. I found this luggage stand at The People’s Store in Lambertville NJ, and it made the most fantastic side table! The lamp is a reproduction from overstock.com, the shade is acrylic but very passable as real glass until you touch it.
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- Travel stickers collected from Girl Genius kickstarters, with a Platform 9¾ Harry Potter tag. Letting my geek show.
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- A mostly hidden picture by the side table, a Teresa Wentzler cross-stitch I of Rapunzel completed many years ago.
Hope you enjoyed this journey through the creation of my farmhouse guest room. It was a lot of hard work, and it most certainly wasn’t cheap! But I have to say the end result is stunning.