The guest room reveal!

If you have been following me the last few weeks you will have seen some of the things that I have been doing with an empty room in my house. If you have missed some of the previous posts, you can go here and here!  Below is the before picture and remember I had some decorating challenges,

1. I was trying to use what I already had.

2. I had to leave the clouds in place, ( a request of my daughter.)

I wanted to make another guest room and was planning on putting a King size bed in this space.

So let the challenge begin!

It is a happy room!

I had this bedside table but decided in order to be in the room, it would have to be white.

Here is another stand that I had and of course it had to be white, so out came the white spray paint!  I planned on using both of these for the bed side tables because I didn't have a lot of space and besides who made the rule that bedside tables have to match!

I made these lamps after spray painting them white.

So here is how it turned out! Yes, it is still a happy room, I left the clouds and really the only thing that I purchased was the comforter and pillow shams. Oh, and 3 cans of white spray paint!

I had these bottles that I decided to use as the window treatment, I didn't want to cover the window.  After putting the bottles up I decided it needed just a bit more, so I had these Christmas balls that were glass and the salmon color was just the punch it needed! I really liked how this turned out and lying in the bed you almost feel like there is some hot air balloons a way off in the distance in the bright sunny sky!

I attached them with hooks and tiny white ribbon and nails.

My pillows were just what the comforter needed!

Looking up at the sky!

My white horse and numbered painted pots.

I decided I needed just a little something in the pots so added these small Styrofoam balls with white flowers pushed into the Styrofoam.

The bird cages were painted white as well and I brought this bench from the play room. All of the art that I used in the room was old windows, I think this room looks better with just a few more windows!

I added some moss balls that I stole from the kitchen to put into the bird cages.

and painted the wire heart baskets white!

Yes, I think I did it! I am ready for more guests!

 It was well used the last 2 weekends when both of my daughters were here at the same time. It's kind of feminine but remember the cowboy room is right next door if you are getting a hankering for something more manly!

I love how it turned out and love having another king size bed to accommodate my well loved guests!

Pillows!

Okay, so now I need some pillows for my guest room! Remember that I was just trying to use what I already have or redo something else. I have soooo many pillows in my house that I wouldn't dare go and buy more. (just ask my husband!) So, I decided to redo some pillows that I already had, I pretty much just used the pillow forms that the pillow covers were in. My inspiration came when I got out some of the lace that I have had for centuries, well not exactly centuries, (I'm not that old.) I have had this lace for a long time, it was some that I bought when a fabric store was going out of business and I knew I could do something with it later. Well, it is later! When I saw it  rolled up on the fabric I had chosen it gave me an idea.

See, doesn't it look like a flower?

For the first 2 pillows I just ran a gathering stitch down the middle of the lace.

Then I just started sewing the gathered lace across the pillow, I didn't measure the lines but if you feel more comfortable measuring, measure out the lines and mark them before sewing.

Here are the 2 pillow tops with sewn lace.

For the next pillow I decided I wanted flowers so I did measure this time and made 9 circles and drew them lightly on the fabric with a pencil.

I gathered this lace at the bottom of the lace instead of the middle and then started the flower on the edge of the pencil line and worked my way in. When I got to the center I rolled the fabric into a tight coil for the center and I tacked the center down with a back and forth stitch to finish it.

Here is one of the flowers finished, only 8 more to go!

I could see that my lace was starting to run low so I thought I better work around the outside and because I didn't have enough to make all of them white another creative idea came and I decided to do the last one black! Sometimes improvisations are the best ideas because when I was finished I loved it!

I just used some black fabric because I didn't have any of the black lace to match.  I measured about 2 1/2 inches of the fabric and then fold in half and press with the iron and run a gathering stitch along the edge. I then made the flower  like I did the rest but found when I got to the center that it was easier to finish it by sewing with a needle and thread instead of with the sewing machine.

Here is the finished middle of the flower.

Sew it by hand.

Yes, the black really pops but I think that is what I like the best about it.

It turned out great for the comforter and matches just perfectly!

Here are the 3 finished pillows using what I had in my sewing room. The room is turning out great and can't wait to show you the big reveal!