Guest Bedroom Tour

The guest bedroom has seen the most change out of any room in the house over the past year of living here. From futons, to shelves, to desk space, to storage, I've rearranged this room more times than you'd like to know. But finally, arrange no more--our guest bedroom feels complete, and it's going to stay this way for awhile.

Being limited on painting options and floor options while in a rental (ie. not changeable), I had to bring in color in ways other than painting the walls. And, being a room filled with mix matched pieces of furniture, I decided to run with that theme and have everything from textiles, prints, and colors mixed. Besides, that's kind of my thing.

Frames, maps, and a sewing machine {the beginnings of a functional guest bedroom and workspace}

The other day I wrote about glorious gallery walls and how my plans in the second bedroom were to piece together my very own frame covered wall. I have so many frames, with photographs, thrift store prints, my own art, etc. etc. After countless times stumbling around in that room and tripping over frames, I decided to get my picture hanging on. It was getting ridiculous and too messy for too long, so this morning I got to work and have some progress to show you on this long awaited guest room (which for the past month you could call a storage closet of sorts).

windmill sketch: thrifted
wooden shoes: bridal shower gift from Matt's mom
hand painted pot: from grandma's house
hard-cover books: thrifted
glass votive: anthropologie sale
wooden library box: thrifted
vintage desk: craigslist
green runner: Ikea

We have very little storage space in our Park Hill home. We do have a garage which is wonderful, but storing inside items (linens, coats, games, photographs, paperwork, wedding dress) that should steer clear of extreme garage weather are left for me to get creative with in the home storage dept.  The closets are filled to the brim, and even then, there is still more to store. With this second bedroom, I used a lot of trick storage. The wicker hamper next to the desk is filled with board games. The box setting on top of the hamper is actually a wine rack. We have a hutch now that houses all of our wine, so this wine storagebox is full of letter writing materials, sewings bits, maps, and travel books. The maps are not vintage, but merely trail maps we've gotten from various hikes. Instead of having them folded flat in a drawer, I rolled them up  add some visual interest. I like that this box has built in handles, making it easy to lift the box and access the board games in the wicker hamper below. (You will get to see more of this room soon, and the rest of my visually pleasing "store it" tricks).

Sewing Machine: from my grandma
{chair missing because it is being painted}

I merely created this space with things I already had. It was fun to put together because I had to make do with whatever was not being used in the rest of the house, and piece by piece hang each frame until it looked just right. Now I have a great corner of the room to learn to sew in, write letters, map adventures, sketch, read my Bible, and work on other small projects.