So the guest room is finally done. Sort of. Short of 4 pictures up on the wall and an art piece over the bed, but hey! There's no crap on the floor and the bed is no longer a transition area between the store and the destination!
We've been making over three rooms since January, Sprite's bedroom, John's office, and the guest room. The guest room proved especially difficult since I was trying my hand at homemade furniture for the first time.
We picked a creamy yellow, reminiscent of unsalted butter, fifteen dollars, and then spent another twenty dollars on wood for the headboard. Oh, and found curtains at Ross for twenty dollars (with rod). All in all, fifty-five dollars spent on this room.
One point of contention: the headboard. The very headboard which took me two months to finish, thanks to busy weekends, a nasty head cold, and various other necessary evils ("I just don't FEEL like it.."), has flaws.
The squares aren't exactly 90 degrees, but John and I actually think that's part of its charm. So, no, the uneven squares are not the headboard's flaw. The flaw is in the wood itself. (I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere, but I'm wiped out. Insert your own joke here.) After the wood was screwed (ah, there's the joke), we (John and myself alternating) sanded it smooth and then spray painted it Colonial Red to compliment the more subdued wall color. The problem was the paint opened up the pores on the wood, which made it as rough as if we never sanded it. You can't get splinters from it, but rubbing your bum against it is out of the question. (Not that our guests would, but..well..um, dude, it's a guest room, you'd better not be rubbing body parts on anything unless you're staying longer than a month. And if you're staying longer than a month, you're obviously paying rent and you can do whatever the hell you want.)
Still, we're keeping it until we get our first complaint. (Maybe a nicely placed plaque next to it would be helpful: "Please don't bite the headboard. It will bite back." or "Beware of headboard.")
And finally, the pictures of the space!
Sprite decided quickly into my photographic endeavor that she would be in EVERY. SINGLE. SHOT.
That wine bottle holder, I don't want to call it a wine rack as it only holds three bottles of wine, and even then only held wine bottles for the first year we lived here. I'm now entertaining ideas of placing bunches of flowers in varying shades of orange and cream into the liquor loving slots.
Ah, the mirror art piece, which is currently on its side while we try to find it another home, was part of a huge mirror movement back in the 80's. (The benefit of this particular artistic endeavor was that you could see it coming. From behind.) My parents featured it in their home for years, a glassy and weighty interpretation of the New York skyline. When we moved into this house, they donated it to our cause of saving the white walls, but now, we're not quite sure where it's going to go. My mom and dad recently met the original artist at an art show in South Florida who is currently nearing retirement and now sells the same pieces for quite a bit more.
Here is our media collection. And Sprite. If my point and shoot was as quick as the Canon, I would have been able to show you the scene movement by movement as she waved her arms up and down to "show my Disney movies!"
I turned around quickly and before the flash could reset itself, there she was again. And there's the door.
Now, there's actually four of these framed pieces. Original June Rose drawings done in either the forties or fifties. And I actually have my hands on dozens more, since my dad salvaged all of his mother's art books from when she was studying the human form. Yup, my grandmother created these. They look like scenes from an old fashion magazine, and the age worn, yet preserved tint of the paper gives credit to its history. I absolutely love them, and if I could get past my own reluctance to section out the wall so they can hang in a four sqaure order, they'd be on the wall now.
No, this one isn't going on the wall. She's already plastered all over my Facebook wall. Too much of one thing would be overkill, no?
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Next week's Spin assignment: UFO's
Thanks to Bex for the idea!
Do you believe in unidentified flying saucers? Aliens? The unexplained?
Have you seen them? Met them? Been abducted? (No judgement here! We're here to listen!)
Do you think it's nothing but hogwash, a distraction made up by the US government in an attempt to cover up their own sinister experiments?
Type it up, stamp an Area 51 classification on it, and submit it ASAP!
See you next week on the Spin Cycle!
