Tiling Behind The Naked Lady

Too pretty outside to craft. I've been spending all spare moments pulling weeds and nurturing my vegetable garden.
But eventually a free Sunday came up so I got to a house project I've been planning forever. Took it to a good stopping point. Still need to cut the sides (Can someone lend me a wet saw?) and grout and work on the trim and paint the trim...Wow... Up until this point I was thinking that I was almost finished.


A little something I'm working on:

Guest Room Progress

Lots of progress this week. I still need a new bedspread and a macrame plant holder, but besides that, the Red Room is complete! Beware, it still spells heavily of spray paint.
And now allow me to present The Allegory to the 1970's in Red and Yellow, by Elisabeth:

Quick & Cheap Table Refinish

$7 for an unfinished bedside table at Goodwill? Yes please. Only spray paint, tissue paper and glue are needed to take this little table from raw and useless to retro-super.
I forgot (!) to take a 'before' picture, but you get the idea from the mid-way spray down:


Don't forget to wear a mask and properly ventilate, peee-yew!
Let it dry, you'll have to apply several coats for raw wood.

Next, mix up elmers and water and slop all over the place:


Lay down strips of tissue paper. Smooth out and paint over with glue:


Dry over night. Done!



Slow but steady progress on the guest room!:

Guest Bedroom 2

Guest bedroom #2 is suffering the 'I don't have time/money to think about you" syndrome. Its symptoms include a brass/weave ceiling fan from 1980, pull down vinyl blinds, craigslist furniture and the "It's a Boy!" beadspread.
Yet I have dreams, plans and inspirations as usual. The inspiration comes from our the lovely Bed & Breakfast room where Joey and I recently stayed:


Only three major unchangeable- furniture, tan walls and ceiling fan.
The furniture is really good quality and I'm reluctant/too poor/too lazy to refinish it. But I'll change up the hardware. Something like:


The ceiling fan is necessary, our lovely old house has no central air. But I can switch out the blades and the shades:


The old fireplace wall behind the headboard would look amazing covered in this wallpaper from the endless resource blinds-wallpaper.net


I love those pops of coral in the paper. I would incorporate a few pops of coral through the rooms- vases, pillows? Still need to find them... (Trader Jacks, here I come.)

Oh and a ceiling medallion if I'm dreaming. Replica plaster medallions are actually pretty affordable.

(i love you i love you i love you)

Ah, and the headboard. I fell in love with three ideas:
1) I have so many pictures. I could easily do this

2) I love I love old window frames

3) I constructed something like this for my room in one of my college apartments. It looked nice next to the indoor/outdoor carpet, 6'9 drop ceilings and fluorescent lighting. Ah college.


Bedspread would be simple, historical, feminine:


And I still have to figure out window covering.
Anyway I'm still working on the red room and, oh yeah, working 45 hours a week so.... I'll just let you know when its done.

Guest Bedroom Design Challenge

I swear I didn't die, I had the February blues and spent most of my spare time wrapped up in a Snuggie while watching TV. Or playing in this:


But the sun is shinning and the days are getting longer so I'm inspired again.

So I have this guest bedroom; a tiny little room that gets tons of great sunlight but it's untouched since our move.



I can't buy new furniture or paint and have a budget of about $300 (high class!). But I have a great head's start. I already own the curtain fabric and the two accent fabrics as well as the bedside lamp. All I need to purchase are pillows, a bedspread, wall paper, a overhead light and a crazy piece of art. It can be done!

Here are some super rapid sketches of what's in my head:



This whole design started brewing the day I found this lamp at an antiques mall in Duncannon, PA almost three years ago:



These are the fabrics I've gathered from various places:


The damask is a tissue paper that I would like to decoupage into a piece of crazy art in a gilded type frame. Something like this:



The other 2 fabrics are for curtains and for stretched fabric art in the manner of:


I can't decide between these two wall papers, both from the extensive Classic Wall Coverings, Inc:



The red damask is right on in color but it may get a little too red and yellow in there with the curtains, accent art and these amazing pillows from from the awesome etsy artist, This Little Home:



Still to do is to find a black overhead light that won;t cost $7000:
(i love you i love you i love you)
and the bedspread... Oh yeah, and to actually install this. There aren't enough hours in the day...