Updated: Guest Room

Hi friends,
You might have seen my Guest Room postings a few months ago. Many of you gave me some great ideas for spicing up my guest room. Well, I did a few minor, inexpensive updates and wanted to share them with you.


Here's a sneak peak of the guest room now:

Here was the guest room before. This hodge podge wasn't working for me for so many reasons.

• The art work was spread out all over the room and not cohesive.
• The brown paint color really wasn't working for me.
• The sad one lamp wasn't doing much good.

Here are some more photos of the guest room now:

I decided to use my jumping off point with two inspiration pieces:


-the Carribean artwork (purchased on our honeymoon)
-the blue and green linens in the room


I made some very inexpensive changes to the room:

• Replaced old sad lonely lamp with two new bright green lamps with fun burlap shades
• Bought two new reversible pillows (green side/blue side)
• Repurposed tv tray with additional tray as another bedside table
• Put all of the Carribean artwork together on focus wall with bed instead of having it spread out all over the room
• Added reading material in baskets to both sides of bed
• Added old white shelf to wall with mirror and placed some old blue glass lanterns, starfish, and candle on it

I am still considering the possiblitity of painting the room, adding additional art work, and maybe purchasing some new linens (bedding and curtains). What do you think?

Before:

After:

I hope you all have a great weekend. What are your plans? My 5 year old daughter Bryce and I are headed to the state fair today- our first state fair ever!


Happy decorating & living,
Megan

Operation Desert Bloom

Hi friends,
My husband and I have been away the last week in California:

• Celebrating our 6th Wedding Anniversary in Sonoma, CA
• Celebrating my good high school and college friend, Kristi Berg's wedding in Tiburon, CA
• Visiting with my brother and his wife in Mountain View, CA

We left our sweet rascals (Bryce- 5 years old and Brayden- 3 years old) in the loving care of my parents in Fairfax, VA. So needless to say, as I'm sure you're imagining, we had a lovely, wonderful week.

Highlights of our trip:

Gorgeous bride, Kristi Berg.

 My beautiful sister in law, Noriko.

Sister and brother.

Tiburon where the Blue Angels were performing.

  My brother, Richard, and his wife, Noriko.

Okay, enough of that, on to Operation Desert Bloom......

My brother and his wife bought a new home last winter that has an awesome patio which they haven't given a lot of attention to. My husband and I decided to secretly clean the patio, prune the plants, and purchase new plants/ flowers/ herbs. We had a great time planning it out and carrying out the execution of our operative covert plan.

Patio before:

Patio after:

Back to real life.
Happy decorating & living,
Megan