The Guest Room

Let me introduce you the guest room. It’s not the most daring room, as great guest rooms are. It more kind of came together with all the left over pieces of the house, as most guest rooms are. Considering that, I think it’s pulling it off alright. One day it will become a kid’s room (even though they love sharing a room right now), so things are pretty tame to allow for an easy conversion. Excuse the gross carpet and unpainted baseboards, hopefully they will be gone in a few weeks! The usuals, for us, remain on the to-do list for this room: wood floors, baseboards and lighting. I didn’t take a photo of it, but there is 1 sad, scary light bulb hanging from the ceiling at the moment.
This is one of the few non-white rooms in the house. It’s light greenish yellow. The paint color is a favorite from our old house, where I had it everywhere, but I’m not sure about it in California. Rainforest Dew by Behr.Most of the furniture is parts of two vintage Heywood Wakefield bedroom sets, an Encore and a Niagara. We have zero use for the vanity at the moment and it seriously needs a refinishing, but I have these visions of my daughter using it in a few years so I’m hanging on to it and letting it clog up my furniture flow. And sinking money into reupholstering the stool.I can’t get rid of this 50’s record cabinet even though it doesn’t work. I’ve had it for like 15 years and don’t know what to do with it other than hoard it. Guest room storage.This lamp is so cute. I love it. Thrift find. The curtains are painted on Ikea curtains, an ill planned project where most of the print is hidden by furniture, but still fun.Did you know I majored in the useless study of analog photography in college? Did you know I love shooting old mini golf courses? One good thing to come out of it is that I have endless prints for hanging.
This is where the string art on cork ended up.This old chair has been hanging around for far too long. It should probably be reupholstered and refinished but I don’t love it enough to spend the money or time, nor do I dislike it enough to get rid of. So I put my problems in the guest room and forget about them. Hospitable, I know!
I decided to hang the curtains on a long piece of garden bamboo. It made a cheap and easy rod. It is resting on screw-in-wall hooks.