Monday, April 14, 2014

Guestroom Reveal and Decordeaux Pillow Review

I don't think I have ever posted photos of our dreaded "purple" room on the blog before, but holy cow was it a bad situation... Like worse than Mike, The "Situation". When we moved in one of the upstairs bedrooms was painted a lighter color of purple with darker purple stripes. It looked like Barney had thrown up everywhere and so what should have been our guest bedroom became a dumping ground and cemetery for decor not being used. I literally HATED the sight of the room, so the door stayed close and only got cleaned up when we had visitors. We are going to have a house full next weekend for Easter so I decided to get a move on with the guest room and "just do it". Guess what??? I just did it! The hubs, myself and the sweet boy loaded up early saturday morning and headed for Lowes to find the perfect color. I am all about grey right now and I wanted to find a light neutral gray that is more in the greige family then the blue-grey family. Guess what else?? We found the perfect color in the "As Is" pile. I am always so scared to buy from the pile, but it was only $5.00 so I said what the heck, what could be the worse thing? We got to painting over that beautiful purple room and I did all I could to choke back sobs. (Sarcastic of course.)


Can you believe we lived with this room looking like this for um..... 9 WHOLE months??

I got scared after the first coat was still wet and drying on that first wall... really really scared. It looked bad. I was thinking we made a really bad choice by choosing that discounted paint for five bucks....
We cranked up the fan to help the process and I said a quick prayer to the Good Lord to please help this paint turn around and fifteen minutes later it was a beautiful beautiful thing. I loved LOVED the color. It was perfect.

































I won the black and white chevron pillow from a Centsationalgirl Giveaway. The pillows came from Decordeaux and they are so fabulous and comfy! They are made extremely well and are so cushy and pretty. I picked the black and white chevron for my guestroom and the havock pillow in the darker blue color for my living room. I am not kidding about how comfy they are. We each try to steal it when we are watching a movie in the living room. I will be posting a living room post featuring the havock pillow in blue soon. 

I found the FAMILY printable at Shanty-2-Chic for free. I just print and cut each letter out on thick card-stock, punched two holes in each one and threaded twine through the holes and tacked them up.  Easy peasy. I am wanting to either find or make a tufted headboard or add an old door for a head board. 

































Ugh I cannot get the wrinkles out of the comforter, I ironed it three times! I got the white curtains from Target, you can find them HERE.

































Their isn't much you can do around a big old tv and dvd player, but I didn't want to leave the guests with nothing, so I tried to disguise it as much as I could. I styled some books in the colors of the room next to it.

































I started a little gallery wall with a painting that my mom did, that I still want to get framed in a big black chunky frame and some printables and pictures. I try to change out the pictures with different guests. So for Easter it will be my mom and brothers and sisters and my sister in law and her family.

































I added a mirror above the dresser to serve as a little dressing area where they can do their makeup and hair and such.

I don't know the name of the paint color since it was an AS IS selection. :(

And just because before and afters are always so fun...





















Are you sprucing up your guest room for family that may be visiting over the Easter holiday?

6 comments:

  1. I love before and afters! It's amazing what some $5 paint can do. What a steal. This is beautiful. Great job, Dez.

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    1. Ahh thanks so much Ashley. I am loving this room. Is it bad that I want to sleep in there???? HAHA I also wanted to ask if you designed your own blog?

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  2. Hey Girl! It's Deonna from the Child at Heart blog. I was just stopping by to say hello! I love the after. Painting over stripes is such a bear! The little pendant banner is SO cute! I am doing a great spring necklace giveaway and would love for you to come by and enter to win :) Have a joyful week!
    http://www.thechildatheartblog.com/2014/04/spring-statement-necklaces-from.html

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    1. Thank you so much. I just hopped over to your blog to enter. That coral necklace is wayyyyyy cute. Thanks for the opportunity.

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  3. Oh my gosh "like Barney threw up"! That is an awesome description! I love the new color and look of the room it's sophisticated now!

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    1. Haha thanks girl! That's all I could think of when I walked into that room.

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