Guest Bedroom Turned Master Bedroom-Before and After

Today's before and after will feature our master bedroom. I feel like a lot of people wait to tackle the master bedroom last because "less people will see it." This may be true, but they are forgetting one fact...that the most important people will see it EVERY day! The master bedroom is your room. It should be your solace and your resting place. Even if nothing else in your house looks great, your master should. It should not be the eyesore that you wake to every day. I say tackle this room first because you'll get the most use out of it. And it will inspire you to keep the ball moving in decorating the rest of your house that the guests will definitely see. With that being said, let me show you our master bedroom.

Initially Jon had his master bedroom in what is now our guest room. It was the smaller of the two bedrooms but had the only cable hookup. When I moved in, we switched things up and moved the master into the former guest room and decided that more space and a better layout was well worth sacrificing a TV.

This was the previous master bedroom with all of Jon's belongings.

Before: This was the previous guest room. With a short bed that was hard as a rock, and furniture that was too short for the space.

After: This is the new master bedroom. Soft, warm and inviting.

We literally got rid of everything in the room and replaced it will my old bedroom furniture from Dallas. It fit in the space perfectly. We also purchased new curtain rods and panels in one of my favorite fabrics, dupioni silk. This was especially important since one of the windows basically acts as our headboard.

We put Jon's mattresses from the original master on my bed rails and now we have a tall bed that makes such a statement. I love tall beds. We also added a settee at the end of the bed that I got for a steal (down from $750 to $175) when I went shopping for our couch. It was a must buy and a nice way to add a seating area to a small space.

The artwork was previously in my old living room and the R was used in the decorations for our wedding. The lamp and side table were from my previous bedroom and the glass bowl vase I found at a thrift store for less than $3.

If you're lying on our bed, you see the dresser which served as my TV stand in my old living room. Everything on it was previously owned.

Another view of that side of the room.

View from the bed out to the hallway.

We have a mini collage of four pieces of artwork I've collected over the years filling up what once was a big blank wall.

Before: Drab, dull and disproportionate.

After: Bright, elegant and proportional. It's now a place I want to rest my head at night :)

Our Living Room Mood Board

Our living room is slowly but surely coming together. The biggest To Do's are ordering a new media console, painting the room (which is unfortunately open to the dining room, kitchen, office and breakfast area which means lots of painting to be done!), order a few lamps and a console for the long wall behind the couch. I realize I haven't shared any pictures of our "new" house (we moved in at the end of last October) with you guys. So here's a glimpse of the living room before we moved in. This is what you see when you walk in the front door. The dining room is on the left, the living room is straight ahead and the office on the right. A closer look at the living room. Florida loves their plant ledges...I do not. You win some. You lose some. I also want to replace the tile around the fireplace. A view from the back of the living room looking toward the front corner of the house. The room behind the half green wall is the o...

Guest Room Before and After-Healing Aloe

Here is a shot of the room in all of its coral glory. Great for a teenager, not for a soothing guest room. And here is the Healing Aloe after. Healing Aloe is a color by Benjamin Moore. It was hard to get a good shot of the true color, but it is more of a seafoam than gray. Aside from painting the walls and buying a new white quilt for the bed, everything else in the space we already had--most of which are hand-me-downs (bed and dresser) or thrift store finds (lamp and side table). It will all be sufficient for now, and hopefully a space that our guests will love. I'm very happy with the outcome and the progress of one more room in the house coming closer to completion. One down, three to go (at least in the painting department!)

Up Up And Away- Take Two (And Three)

We took our second family flight this past June. We took the earliest flight out so we had to wake up at 4:00am to get everything ready. I had all of the girls' stuff ready and laid out so we only woke them five minutes before we left at 5:00 am. Rollins is our late sleeper so I thought she would for sure fall back asleep in the car on the way to the airport. Nope. Auden, who is typically my early riser (with the sunrise), fell asleep instead. I guess Rollins knew something was up and was too excited to miss anything. She didn't fall asleep until we were 10 minutes from our friends' house in Dallas. Meanwhile, Auden fell asleep again on the plane. Proof that you can never predict what toddlers will do during travel days. Auden loved getting to use her new suitcase and travel backpack (that daddy so graciously attached to his luggage for her). We got quite a few comments from those ...

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