Finished Yellow and Grey Guestroom

Finally.  Last night we put the finishing touches on the guest room.  I hope you like what we did. Here are pictures of the finished room.  Final cost $154.63 Click on all the hyperlinks below to go to the projects that we got accomplished. 

One day I am going to actually hit my cost goal, but this is not too bad for a great guest room.  You will see that I added a cute pillow to the bed.  I love the color and graphic.  I got it on Etsy.  The lamps make me happier than the globe lights.  I love them but the chain was too busy for the wall.  I am giving them to Sweet Amanda for the lovebird room.



Remember that it all started with a end table I picked up on the side of the road. I started looking for inspiration to get the table painted.  Then it hit me.  I had a whole room needing love.

Yuck.

This is the inspiration.  A bedroom from The Hills Blog


I stenciled the wall.

 I thrifted a milk glass lamp then made the shade.
 

I thifted and crafted this chalkboard.

 

I made these owls.

 

 

I love these owls.

 

Easy Artwork

 

I used a lot of my finds to create a mirror wall.

 

More thifted and crafted items.

 

A reused armoire is going to be my craft cabinet.

 

 

I tried these lights.

 

But I did not love them in this room.

 

 

 

I like this one so much better.  I found some curtains I can live with. 

 

I hope you like the room.  We are proud of our hard work.

 

 

 WE LOVE IT!  Now bring on the guests.



Getting a Jump on Christmas

I really do love fall. I promise. I especially love, love, love the time change. I am such a morning person so having more daylight in the a.m. Is great. I have more time for Pintrest! This year I have decided to get a jump on presents. We are not spending much this year but I do have a few things up my sleeve. I have finally joined the 21st century and have started shopping online. I can't wait to show you what I will be working on but not until January. Let me say that I am excited about the projects I have in store. The Southern Belle and Sweet Amanda are fun to do things for.

The Weekend

I love fall. I especially love fall at Star Hill. The leaves are beginning to change color and the temperature was in the high 60's. I spent too much time sitting on the porch and almost no time in the Garagemahal. About all I got finished this weekend was a pound of shelled pecans. I do have two projects to finish this week at home. Waiting on Hubby to hang my new lamps in the yellow and grey bedroom. Pictures to come this week. I hope everyone got the chance to be outside enjoying the weather.

Paint Chip Art

Here is a picture of our wall in the family room. 

 See that puny picture on the wall?  can you believe it is really 18 inches by 24 inches?  The reason it looks so small in this space is because it is in a huge room on a ridiculously tall wall.  My den is 17 feet wide and 24 feet long.  I have never known what to do with the room, and from what I saw the people who owned the house before us had no idea either.

On top of being a long and wide room, the room sweeps up to eighteen feet with a cat walk stairway.

I have decided that I love color so it is time that I embrace what I love.

My first bold purchase was a rug.  I love the colors.  It makes me happy.  I bought it one afternoon with my buddy the social planner.  Hubby would never have picked this out, but I brought it home and rolled it out.  He seems like he has warmed up to it.

 

 

 

Shortly after the rug, I purchased some neutral furniture.  It was before my blogging days but the stuff was a great deal.  I have moved slow because I really didn't have a direction to go. I love the wood floors, I like the room height, I am happy with the french doors, but something always seems a little off with this room.

  I painted this picture this past summer from something I saw on Pinterst.  I loved the colors because they are all in the rug.

I have been slowly collecting McCoy pottery as I find reasonable pieces.  I love the colors, and we have a family connection to the McCoys.

At my friend, Pam's house, I was inspired to make a paint chip art piece. Here is the link to how she did this. i really did follow her directions.
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4086884246929168617#editor/target=post;postID=159055830737770270
I loved the fact that I could choose my colors, the slightly vintage quality, but let's be honest... this is great looking almost free art. 


I bought this big frame for $3.00 up near the lake house.  I painted it the color of the craft table.  That color is in the rug.

It was big.  twenty four inches tall and forty eight inches wide. 

I used paint chips that match the colors in the rug to make my version of the paint chip art project.  I actually was able to use the picture in the frame as the base for the paint chip art piece.  This piece really meant that the cost of this whole project was $3.00. 

Here are the paint chips glued down.  I used Elmer's spray adhesive to get everything stuck down.  I did have to check the corners and press several down many times.

 

I thought the colors were too vivid when glued down.

 

Here it is with watered down brown acrylic paint washed over it.  I love the frame on the picture.  This is going to be a statement piece in the room.

 

To fill the big empty wall, I plan on bringing in a small buffet height dresser that I am going to paint an amazing color.  The wall is going to look great when I am done, but I still do not know what I want to do with the whole room.  Suggestions?

 

Finding Frames for the Charlotte Wedding

The Southern Belle asked me to look for small ornate frames for her June wedding.  She wants to turn them into chalkboards to write menu items and information to guests.  Because the chalk boards are black, I am painting the frames white until I get instructions from the Southern Belle.

Here is how the beauties started:

 Bought for $1.00 each

Bought for 25 cents each

The top two are Home Interiors specials from the 70's.  The bottom two are plastic faux wicker.  They will all make great chalkboards.

I am determined to become a better spray painter, and I believe I am on the right track finally.  I have discovered the spray paint handle. 

This is the best thing since sliced bread.  I love it.

It is amazing how they turned out.  I did not take a picture of the larger one when bought.  It was southwest style teal and salmon.  I bought it for a dollar.  Hubby already cut the chalkboard for the large one.
I am going to spray the mirrors for the narrow ones with chalkboard Sprint.  I can see them as direction signs at the reception.  On my way to collecting some frames for the girl.  It is nice to be able to help with her wedding- even from a distance.

Getting Close to Finishing the Yellow and Gray Bedroom

I am getting close to finishing the bedroom. I have been exhausted from my real work, so not much has been happening at the city house.  I am still waiting for two pillows to arrive and I need a curtain rod for the sheer curtains going in the window but other than that all the elements are in the room. 


Here is what I got done today.

Silhouette Birds for over the bed.

I used two frames that I have had since the Southern Belle moved to Savannah years ago.  I wrapped some fabric left from the owl project around a piece of cardboard.  A quick google search of royalty free silhouette birds landed several options. 

 

 

 

 



Here are two of the birds I found.

 



 

 

I printed the birds on the computer printed then carefully cut them out.  I used some spay adhesive to attache them to the fabric then put them in the frame.  Easy.  And best of all, free.

 



I have had some hob nail milk glass globes for a while.  I got them for fifty cents each and have been looking for a project to use them on.  I want the night stands to display some of the things I have collected for the room so I wanted hanging lights.  Hubby found the parts for the hanging lamps by shopping hardware stores around us because Lowe's and Home Depot did not have the hardware needed.  He spent $2.50 on each light kit and then $13.00 on each swag kit. 

 I had to sand and spray the light kits black.  They looked much better.

 

Hubby wired it together with the swag kit.

 

Swag Kit

 

I am not sure I love the light yet.  I am not happy with how the lamps came out but I have a plan to fix them. I think the chain is too distracting on the busy wall.  I have a plan, but I have to get Hubby to build what I need.  Thank goodness he is such a good sport.

 

 



 

 

Learning Curve

We have one Microsoft friendly computer at our house. With two people living there it seems like we could share this machine pretty easily.  We don't.  Because we are without Internet all weekend when we are up at Star Hill, we both want to use the computer when we get home.

I wish I could say we want use it for worthwhile pursuits like world peace or curing some horrible disease but really we want to check our Facebook pages, shop...and I want to blog.  Hubby is the actual owner of the computer  while I have an iPad.  I decided to see if I could find a blogging program that works on the iPad because Blogger stinks.

My first app was Blog Docs. It is probably a lovely program, but for the life of me I have not been able to figure it out.

I got online to see what others are using and discovered Blogsy. I am not in love with it yet, but we are at least dating.  Blogsy does some nice things but I have not quote figured out the picture situation yet. My blog on foundations was done on Blogsy, but it took me an hour to get things set up.

I am determined to conquer Blogsy, but please be patient with me.  I am an old dog and this is a new trick.