Guest Room, Part 2: Painter's Tape Boogaloo

And the winner is...

"Talipot Palm" from Sherwin-Williams!

Mini Guest Room Update

Notice anything different?

Hmm?

How about from this angle?

No?

What if I supply this picture from the other day?

YES.

We got rid of the... weird... I don't know what it was, actually. Mum kept calling it an entertainment center, but whenever I ventured into Messy Room Land, it was always piled with clothes and treated as a dresser, so... I kept calling it a dresser. Which is weird, because it has no drawers.

Getting that thing out enabled me to move the bookshelf around to the other side, giving me more breathing space along the right wall.

Kara and I hauled it downstairs and out to the curb:

It wasn't that heavy, but when your hauling partner is a 14-year-old girl with weak arms, it gets dicey. 

The white boards are the disassembled rickety white shelf from the corner of the guest room that I covered in this post.

And those of you who left your opinions on wall colors on this post, thank you! I was pleased so many of you agreed with me, but I think my dad's decision will surprise you. Stay tuned!

The Fun Colors Post!

So where I left off yesterday, we had a freshly primer-ed guest room just waiting to get some color added.

I had spent nearly an hour at the Home Depot paint counter in pursuit of three sample Behr colors for the wall, and along with an older sample of Valspar, I had four colors to test on the wall. After all the cleaning, spackling, sanding, and priming, I was dying to get to the fun part--transforming the room!

So here are the samples in all their glory:

... So?

What do you think?

Do you love?

... Well for me, after I stepped back to take a better look at these samples, all I could hear in my head was a sad trumpet sound.

Yeah. Unfortunately, I'm not wild about any of these colors.

Let's take a closer look:

Guest Room Adventures

Remember how I said that the ultimate goal of moving my brother into a new bedroom was to ultimately convert his old room to a guest room?

Well, we got him moved out just in time for me to move in. Mr. Cheddar is off in training halfway across the state, and until he signs the lease on our oh-so-nerve-wracking fixer-upper, I am staying behind with Lucy. 

So while I'm sleeping on an air mattress, it's my job to get that guest room up and running to the best of my abilities.

If you remember from my last post, this is how the room started out:

I wasn't even able to get into the room to get different angles of the "before" pictures. It was mess-ay!

Now THAT'S Entertainment!

Remember this big brown monstrosity?

It's the entertainment center that used to be in our living room for most of the '90's and a lot of the '00's. 

My first idea was to throw the thing out. It's not the most solid piece of furniture in the world, it looks outdated, and the way it was dark and looming always made the room feel smaller.

But I know my mother, and she doesn't like to throw stuff out. So I immediately came up with Plan B: PAINT!