Painting the guest bedroom

Remember this room?

This is going to be our guest room.  Such a boring color on the walls, so I decided it was time to paint.  I was torn on which color to use.  I was considering yellow, green or gray. I ended up going with gray.  So I bought two samples of gray from Lowes and put them on the wall to see which I preferred.

I usually choose two shades that I like and let Justin have the final say.  He chose the gray on the left, good thing because that was the one I liked.  So I covered the carpet with some drop cloths and went to town.

It doesn’t really look like it in this photo but it was starting to look more light blue than gray to me.  So once again I was starting to get a little worried mid paint job.  So I trucked on and gave it a shot just like my experience with the master bedroom.  Thank goodness I did because it is now my favorite room, all because of the color.

Mom and dad this is where you will be staying so get pumped!

We also steam cleaned the rug, as you can see all the fresh tracks on the carpet.

Love this color.  Looks great.

I was so excited that I had Justin hang some art the next day.

I bought this print off etsy, it is a print of a watercolor done by an artist from Oregon named Katie Daisy.  She has some amazing art, check out her shop.  I want to buy everything she has for sale, but I needed to go with something that Justin wouldn’t hate.  Her art is pretty girly, I do eventually want to buy one of her house prints(like this farmhouse.) Anyway, I went with her sweet print of the great lakes.  I thought it was nice since Justin and I both grew up on one of the lakes(he on Erie and myself on Ontario.) Seriously, check out her art she’s great.  Here’s a closer photo.

The print is an 8×10, so I wanted to put an 11×14 mat with it to help it fill out the wall.  I bought the frame at Michael’s.  Normally I’ll purchase a mat and frame separately, but with my luck they were selling this guy on sale for $12 with the mat included.  I was going to go with a blue mat but I think the whitish-gray looks even better. For one of the bigger walls I decided to hang some of my own art.

These are three paintings that I did last year.  You can check  them out and more of my art at my etsy shop here.  Here’s a closer look.

Justin made the wood piece that the canvas’ are hanging on a while back.

The guest bedroom is coming along, still needs a bed and some other furniture which I’m still working on. I’ll keep you updated;).