Another Guest Room Transformation

Guest bedrooms are often filled with leftover bits and pieces, cast offs from other more frequently used rooms, and low-budget finds. That's certainly the case with the guest rooms at my house, but there's no reason for them to look like the red-headed stepchildren of the house.

This guest room was a blank slate: builder white without a stick of furniture (unless an ironing board counts.)

I had a handful of good cast-offs to use in this room. The drapes from my old living room and dining room, which I'd had custom made for those spaces, had no logical  home at this house. And we had nothing more than a mattress and box spring on a frame to go in this room. I figured we could create a "headboard" with two of the drapery panels and use the other four for the windows.

We painted the walls a soothing neutral (Sherwin Williams "Ramie") and painted the wall over the bed a darker accent color (Sherwin Williams "Prairie Grass"). Two of my leftover drapery panels break the transition and create some height over the bed. The two prints are some of the oldest pieces I have. I bought one in high school from Pier One, and the other was a gift that I had framed to match for my first apartment. (They are by Walter Valentini, who did a whole series of wonderful graphic pieces like these.) The black side tables were $70 pieces from Target, and the great urn lamps were on clearance at Wal-Mart for $15 a piece, shades included! The black-and-white hotel style bedding was a TJ Maxx steal...$30 for a set that included the duvet cover and shams. The medallion pillow is a Homegoods find for $10.

Not visible in these pictures is a large espresso-stained armoire that sits opposite the bed. This piece hid the television in my old living room, but now anchors this room quite nicely.

As usual, I am linking to the Metamorphosis Monday party at Between Naps on the Porch. I'm also joining Frugalicious Fridays at Finding Fabulous! Click over to those sites for more great ideas!