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Friday, September 30, 2011

A Relaxing Guest Bedroom

Aaron’s mom and aunt came to visit us a few weeks ago (more about that fun weekend later… it was project-filled) and that lit a fire under us to get our guest room acceptable for these very important guests. We started out with this:

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So basically, rag rolled walls in two shades of orangey red, a barn wood chair rail, and western curtains. This room didn’t have much goin’ for it, in our opinion. I’m really careful about my thoughts on this room though, because I know that to the three little boys that shared this teeny tiny room before we lived here, this was probably the coolest room in history and I know their parents worked really hard on making it great for them. Anyhow.

I painted the room (and the chair rail) Silver Birch by Glidden. I was expecting it to be a lot more gray, but it kind of turned out as a really light, almost whitish gray. I’m still happy with it though, it makes the room really soothing. I originally planned to do the room in all yellow and gray, but then I started really liking a gray, yellow, and blue combination. I found some great bedding that I really loved at HomeGoods and went from there.

Since all we had was a futon up until this point, we needed to buy a bed for the room. I knew from the beginning that I really wanted the IKEA Leirvik bed, since Aaron thinks it is so girly and it would never fly in our bedroom. To make a really long story about mattress shopping short, we picked a great memory foam mattress at an amazing price from Denver Mattress, and switched out our old mattress into the guest room.

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The day that we picked up the bed from IKEA, we were babysitting my parents dogs, so they were of course helping us put it together.

I found this perfect shade of aqua blue in the oops section at Home Depot at $6 for the gallon. I painted the nightstand that I mentioned here ($30, thrifted) with it and the shelves that were already hung in the room.

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So, here’s what we’ve come up with for now!

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Paint: Silver Birch by Glidden, color matched to Behr Premium Plus Ultra, about $35
Bedding: quilt, duvet, shams, and decorative pillows all by Hillcrest at HomeGoods, purchased with a gift card.
Lamp: $29.99 at HomeGoods
Nightstand: $30.00 at Next to New, updated with a $7 oops paint.
Shelves: already in room, updated with $7 oops paint.
Curtains: Target, already owned
Curtain rod: Wal-Mart, already owned
Bed: Ikea Leirvik, $99.99
Desk: West Elm at Pottery Barn Outlet (it was around $50, bought in January)

Our total out of pocket for this room was about $200. Not bad! I still have plans for things on the walls, and those shelves.

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