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Weekend Guest Room Transformation

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

When we first moved into our NH home, I did not have the time or the money to design beautiful guest rooms like I wanted to right away. While saving up for my dream furniture, I used all of my furnishing from our previous NH condos.

Although it wasn’t quite the “dream room” that I envisioned, it still looked alright and had all of the necessary functions of a guest room (which was its purpose!).

And then one day, when I was shopping at Pier 1, I was talking to the salesgirl and she told me about this beautiful screen she had used as a headboard and she had just marked one down to half price because of a little hole. “Would I like to see it?” Bingo! Of course it was beautiful and at a great price. My plain guest room was going to be transformed!

It was just gorgeous! I had just purchased a new comforter on sale from Macy’s that I hoped would bring some color to the room. ( I checked at Macys.com to show you a picture but they are all out.) There was also a tall mirror in the room that I purchased at Bombay years ago which I still love, but I did not care for the finish now.

After complaining so much about it, I decided why not paint it? Yay! I love painting projects. I picked a dark blue color to coordinate with the comforter, kensington blue #840:

I had read somewhere about using wet newspaper to mask windows and mirrors instead of using tape. Forget about it!! It would not stick right as it dried, I had ink all over me, and paint went right through it. But it still did come out nice:

So I easily finished the room in a weekend. I still have some more things to do in the room but I like how it is coming out:

What do you think? Do you think it looks nicer? Next step is shopping for accessories, but that is my favorite part of the job!

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Obsessing Over Tablescapes

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Okay. I am going to admit it. I am just obsessed with tablescapes lately!

Rebecca Moses

Tablescapes, vignettes, setting a table, decorating a table, centerpieces. I just can’t seem to get enough!!

Martha Stewart (these are paper flowers!)

Did you know that the word ‘tablescape’ is not even a word in the dictionary? Even Microsoft’s Word says that the word does not exist. I think that they need to get with the program!

cg table setting 2 Centsational Girl

So this past weekend, I thought why don’t you try to make a pretty table Kelly?? I decided to start with a smaller table in my kitchen nook. This is what the table has looked like for while now:

I took out a few of my little accessories to see if I could use any of that first. What was I thinking dragging all this stuff out!

Last week for my birthday, I treated myself to a little shopping spree at Pier 1. I picked up a set of small plates on sale for 1/2 price for $3.50, four placemats @ $4.95 each, napkins @ $2.30 and four napkin rings for $3.95 each. Then I stopped at the Christmas Tree Shop and spent about $12 on a bunch of small accessories! Take a look at all my findings:

I had white plates already,

Then I just played with putting accessories in the middle of table until I liked the look.

I did not want to put silverware out but if you are looking for a guide on how to set a proper table, Solutions , an online and catalog store that sells ‘products that make life easier,’ offers a detailed article here.

I thought it was fun to do! And I get to smile every time I walk by. Even my husband, who does not care much about decorating, keeps saying how nice it looks. Yay!