Surprise! Our Seattle townhouse might not be as spacious as our Wichita “mansion”. Bet you couldn’t have guessed that. Let’s be honest though, Kansas has pretty unlimited space compared with a water locked city such as Seattle. Thankfully, we do have 3 bedrooms which was sort of a necessity for us since so many of our friends and family live thousands of miles away. And we LOVE having guests. Few things make me happier than a house packed full of friends and family. Shortly after we moved in we had a summer full of friends scheduled to visit and we needed to get our guest room in ready as soon as possible.
No time to spare
Normally I like to take my time to shopping and curating to get a mixture of pieces, fabrics, and textures that blend together, but doesn’t look like page 72 of the Pottery Barn catalog (hey there F.R.I.E.N.D.S. fans). In this instance, I didn’t have that kind of time on my hands. This room was a result of a major shopping spree at West Elm, a quick trip to IKEA, a tiny DIY project, and using pieces we already owned. I was pretty pleased with how it turned out especially given the size of the room and how quickly it all came together. I like it enough that I can occasionally be found napping here..
We already had the bed, side table, and ladder shelf (yes I know the ladder shelf is probably overdone, but it’s so functional while taking up barely any space!)
A DIY even I can do!
The part I might be most proud of is the art hanging above the bed. Now, I love paintings, photographs, basically all wall art. I have a very very hard time committing though. That makes it really hard for me to spend big $$ on wall art. So it was nothing new that I couldn’t decide what to put on the walls of our guest room. This project was meant to be something temporary just to get something up on the wall, but I ended up really liking it, so there they’ve stayed. This whole project took two hours, max. First, I picked out matching frames at Michaels and some pretty paper at Paper Source. I got home and flipped over the stock images in the frames so I had a white background (no judging please) and ripped the paper into similar sized rectangles. Once I added a little double sided tape to the mix and, done! Best part, I think it was around thirty dollars, total.
