Just because I have had Jack’s stinky boy bedroom completely decorated in my mind for over 18 years, doesn’t mean that I was pushing him out of the nest.

EEEERRRRRKKKK (screeching car tires)

Okay, that’s not entirely true. I could not wait to get my hands on that room. The change from a 144 square-feet of stinky clothes, food wrappers and crusted over cereal bowls to a soft, calming, fresh-smelling place for guests to lay their head couldn’t happen soon enough.

Let’s review where we started.

I have received several compliments about my ability to decorate, and the question that people always ask is, “How did you know how to do that?” My response is, “Visions come to me in a dream, then just like a great song writer wakes up in the morning and writes down the lyrics to a song, I go and decorate.”

Bahahahah. That is a huge stretch on the truth.  🙂

How I decorate is very, very simple. I know what I like. I know it when I see it in a store or magazine or online. Then I put those things together.

Done. Decorated.

And that is exactly how the guest bedroom came together. Let me show you.

First let’s talk about the trim. I love white trim. If it was up to me, I would repaint all of the woodwork in our house white. But since Wade lives here too, and did not want white trim, we compromised. Now, the guest bedroom is the only room in the house that has white woodwork. Best of both woodwork worlds.

The next item was to change the wall color. Painting over the mossy green not only softened the room, but I swear it added 24 square feet of real estate.

After the biggest changes and longest part of the makeover were done, I could finally start on the fun part.

The windows needed a face lift. There was, and still is, a venetian blind on the window but it needed to be more of a focal point for the room.

I painted a wooden cornice that I brought from our previous house and made a pair of curtains from fabric I bought at IKEA.

We had replaced the mattress and box spring, but the bed itself was a little bit short in the headboard department. I shared with you how I made a headboard from a piece of paneling, but on the day that I was putting the bedroom together, I didn’t like the curves of the board so I flipped it upside down. Now the square headboard, matches the square cornice, matches the square pillows on the couch. A perfect square trifecta.

Since the pattern of the curtains was strong, I did not want the pattern of the bed spread to fight for attention. I bought this spread from Target.

The final decorating steps were to add “the littles” as I like to call them. You know, they’re the little things that make your house a home. I added a little lamp, some candles, a picture, some bed pillows and a wrought iron piece behind the loveseat.

Now, if you are here today to see the before and after pictures, thanks for reading through my chitting-chatting. Here is what you have been waiting for:

One before picture from each corner of the room beside one after picture from that same corner.

 

And a couple of detail shots.  What do you think?

 

If you are interested in the numbers part of the makeover, I’ll share that break down with you on Wednesday.

~Wendy

P.S. Jack, if you are reading this post, I love you. The fact that I wanted to makeover your room had nothing to do with you leaving the nest, but everything to do with my passion for decorating. 🙂