GUEST ROOM NEW HOUSE TEASER

 OK, this might be a boring update, since there's not a lot to see but we said we'd go room by room and since we did the master last week, now it's on to the other bedrooms. This week it's the guest room.

The house will be three bedrooms.  We had the option for a 4th but aside from adding a lot of expense, we didn't really need all that space.  I mean, it's just the two of us and we don't have much family.  We never have a lot of people that stay with us, certainly at the apartment we have none (1 bedroom/1 bath), but at the house we sold before the apartment, we had a guest room that was used on occasion by friends and family visiting

Of course, being the country, you never know, someone might come visit and would rather stay overnight instead of driving back into town.

So here is the guest room.

It measures 12.8'x13.6'.

9 foot ceiling.

4 recessed lights and a ceiling fan in the middle.

We could choose either bedroom to be the guest room but we chose this one since it's at the end of the hall for maximum privacy (also the other one is slightly bigger which would be better for how we'll use that room, more on that next week). 

This is from a model home photo (before they started decorating, ha).  It has a good size double door closet with some built-ins, of course it will probably end up being more of an extra closet to store our stuff, ha.  The guest bed that we have is queen size so it will fit nicely.  There is this large window that will face the front yard (the master bedroom windows face the rear) so it will let in a lot of light.

You've probably seen pics of our guest room at the farm, but in case you haven't, here it is:

This is a great, vintage Hoosier style cabinet my Mom had in her bedroom, we'll put it on the wall by the door going into the room...

Here's a yellow "Jack and Jill" dresser (something my Mom found at an estate sale), we'll put it opposite the bed.  We're going to, more or less, recreate this room in the new house.  We're saving the bed frame, end tables and the two pale yellow furniture pieces (they are antiques).  Some of the decor will move over but we'll repurpose others.

Speaking of repurposing...

...we're going to use these pictures in the new guest room.  We had them in the farm living room and we think they'll fit the guest bedroom theme a bit better.  We have four of them.

Chair in corner, image via Pinterest

One thing we want to do differently is put a comfy chair in the corner of the bedroom, with perhaps a small side table. Ottoman optional, ha.

Overall, the "new" guestroom will be much of the same color palette as well.  Our main decorating style always seems to lean more toward earth tones and more grounded, deeper, richer colors in the rest of the house (though at the apartment we've added blues and orange to our palette, ha).  For this room though, we want it to be softer and gentler.  This honors our mothers with their favorite colors and will give it a different energy.  Plus there will be a wall color, more on that in a future paint color post!

If someone does stay overnight, we want them to be a calm, relaxing space.  Because of the pastels and the flowers, we're going to call it the "Spring room".