Guest Bedroom Refreshed

Okay, you know how it is when we change one thing it always leads to other changes.   Well it happened to me.  I posted last week my purchase and remake of a French Provincial Hutch into a French Provincial Armoire.  

I painted the inside of the armoire a bright green. I loved the green so much I decided to refresh the guest room in more of this color.  So while looking for pillows or fabric to match, I came across a pretty green and pink and fell in love.  This is the colors the bedroom needed to give it a crisp spring look.  Here are some before and after shots of the room.

Before with the brown Highboy and dark cushions.

After with armoire and pink.

Sorry for the blurry photo above, but you get the gist.  Keeping fingers crossed for my new camera for Mothers Day.

Before w/brown

After w/Pink

Before

After

Love the bright pink.  It just brings life to the room.

Before w/ burlap pillows

Here are some more photo's for you to see.  It didn't take much to transform this tiny room...mostly a few yards of fabric...and a new armoire...lol.

Before

Even the light coming in this small window has a pink hue.  I love it.  And I highly recommend this room spray.  I love the unusual scent.  I bought it at Tuesday Morning.

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Porch Lamp

You know what it feels like, you find the perfect shaped lamp at your favorite consignment store but it's the wrong color.  What to do?  Paint it .. of course.

I needed a lamp for my front porch and saw this one and loved it's shape, not it's color.

It didn't have a shade on it, so I purchased this burlap shade from World Market.  I needed the lamp to be black so I painted the green parts black and left the tan/gold parts as they were.  I then taped off the top and bottom of shade and painted two black stripes on the lamp.  I used Valspar interior/exterior black satan.  

I think it looks nice next to the black and white print on the porch chair.

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Old Treasure

I love old things, furniture, hobnobs, houses, and barns.  There is something so imaginative about these things.  We get to look at them and wonder what they've seen, who's hand has touched them, what was happening long ago.  

I have lots of old things and I seem to have an affinity for them.  Sometimes I want to redo, remake, and repurpose them, and other times I want to leave them as is.  Our old barn is both leave as is and redo.  Just this past weekend, my husband added a little shed roof off of one side for his tractor and lawn mower, so I took a few pictures to share with you.  We plan on leaving as much as possible original, it's in good shape, and use wood and tin roofs from old barns to repurpose ours.

The photo's above are the barn in different seasons, below is my hubby working on the barn this past weekend adding a shed roof for his tractor.

Here are a few of the pictures of the barn.  Our barn is about 80 years old and the wood on it is both beautiful and hard as a rock. 

New, shiney things have their place, and I love them like everyone else,  but nothing touches the beauty of worn, used, aged, and well loved things from the past. 

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