Our Guest Bedroom (So Far)

So... after many hours of taping, painting, hanging, stapling, ironing, and starching, I think our Guest Bedroom is finally worthy of the blog. There are still several things that I would like to add to it, like a dresser, wall art, a floor lamp, and maybe even an upholstered bench at the foot of the bed. But for now, I'm very happy with the room so far!

Here's a quick "before" to refresh your memory:

And here's the "after:

Before:

 After. We just hung new bamboo blinds throughout the house!

Yay!

Oh, and Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you all are doing something fun and romantic :). Bryan and I are going to see Josh Hamilton speak at LCU tonight.....not really romantic but definitely fun!!

P.S. Go to The Shabby Nest and Between Naps on the Porch link parties to see other things! I decided to link my blog to them too :).

Recovered Headboard

Hi!
 Are you ready for another home decor post? Good, because you're getting one!

Ok, so since I painted our guest room a VERY light blue, and bought all white bedding for it, I wasn't feeling the dark brown leather headboard that was originally in the room.

Since I'm too cheap to go out and buy a new one, I decided that I wanted to reupholster it myself. Thankfully, I have a WONDERFUL mother-in-law who offered to help me while they were in town this past weekend. We weren't sure if it would turn out well, but we knew we had to try it! We spent pretty much all Friday afternoon buying fabric and supplies for the new headboard.

I found directions to make a trufted fabric headboard HERE, and we used that as our guide. Let me just say that I would have NEVER been able to do this without Judy (my MIL)...she was so talented at this! And she understands my need for things to be perfect :).
 

We were the most nervous about tufting the headboard....but we did it and it looks amazing! The fabric that I picked out is really busy, so it's hard to see the buttons and how much detail that add, but I promise it looks great in real life.

Here is the back of the headboard, I threaded the buttons and Judy tied them to back.

I am in LOVE with this. It matches the room perfectly. And we did the whole thing for about $40!

I learned that making fabric covered buttons is SO easy and kind of fun :). That was one of my jobs. I should also mention that Bryan helped us out so much by drilling the holes for the buttons.

We spent about an hour trying to make the corners lay right. It was hard work, but it looks really good. You can see one of them really well in this picture:

Here it is with some of the bedding (I'm still not completely done with that part yet).

I really love this project--it is probably one of my favorites!

Have a great rest of your weekend!

Guest Room Progress

With Bryan's parents coming to Lubbock this weekend, we thought it was time to finally paint and re-do the guest bedroom. We actually meant to do this the last time they came to stay with us (in September...) but we never got around to it.

As I mentioned in my last post, I didn't know if this would actually happen since Bryan was sick, but I ended up deciding to do everything on my own. It's no where close to being done, but I feel like a got a lot accomplished for one Saturday night. I painted the entire room, repainted all the trim, hung new curtains, moved the bed (Bryan helped with that part) and began putting on the new bedding that I bought on sale about a month ago. Oh, and I re-organized the closet.

Some of the things I still need to do are:

-Touch up the ceiling paint
-Put in new bamboo blinds (we are ordering those this week!)
-Make a decorative pillow with some fabric I bought specifically for this room
-Finish putting all the bedding together (almost done with that part)
-Put up wall decorations (Probably hang some frames and a sunburst mirror over the bed)
-Move the floor lamp from our room to this room

...I think that's it. Since it's not done yet, I'm just showing you a couple of pictures....

Before: (Yuck.)

After:

Much better!

Now I just need to finish it, which I will hopefully achieve by Thursday, because that's when Al and Judy get here!

Oh, and in case you're wondering....all of the junk in the "Before" picture was moved to the other guest room...haha :).

Have a great week!