The Green Guest Bedroom (Part 1)

What helped keep me moderately sane during the home buying and closing process was planning what some of the rooms would look like ahead of time. This meant picking out paint colors and trying to assign some to the rooms.

In previous places, I've photoshopped rooms together to see what they'd look like, but over time I've only needed to do that for bigger, more dramatic changes.

Anyway, fast forward to closing day- my bestie and I hit the hardware store to get paint, front door locks, and a few other things. Then, she went to grab food while I met Drew at the closing office to sign a bunch of papers, and Drew went back to the old house to keep working on moving stuff, and I met bestie back at the new place. And we started painting.

We worked on three bedrooms that day. My idea was that if we got the bedrooms painted before the furniture was moved over, the rest of moving and packing wouldn't be as stressful.

Learn from my mistake: Don't attempt to paint three bedrooms within the first 24 hours of getting keys to a new place.

I say this, because the bedroom that was meant to be a sage green bedroom with kind of a rustic boho theme, turned out to be a pea green color. At this exhausted state of mind, I said, "F it, we're pushing forward, there's too much other stuff to get done"

So we finished the room out, and while it wasn't completely terrible, it wasn't a conscious choice I'd make. However, it's a guest room so it will be fine while I finish out other spaces. Plus, this room's decor was mostly made up of leftover decor from the last house, and not a ton of thought or specificity went into it.

(Bless bestie for going along with my crazy plan to paint this much in one afternoon/night, absolute trooper that one)

Here are the photos from this version of the room:

And here's the inspiration photo of what it was meant to be:

Anyway, as time went on, that green guest room seemed to glow its green into the hallway, and stick out more and more like a sore thumb as the rest of the house was getting polished up. So I decided it was time to rework it...

It's currently in progress, but once it's done, I'll post a link to version 2 here.

Lesson learned: Sometimes it's best to come back and rework something when the inspiration hits you just right. Everything is a work in progress at some point, some things for longer periods of time than others.