Coastal Cottage Bedroom

For those of you who MAY have thought our downstairs remodel was coming to a close....

SURPRISE!! 

Here we go again....

This time it's the downstairs guest bedroom.  

Up until this point, it's been used as a holding grounds of sorts for EVERYTHING that we THINK we may SOMEDAY use but NOT. QUITE. SURE!  

Do you have those sorts of storage areas?  

You know, the ones that hold just about everything you are on the verge of toting off to Goodwill in one giant truckload, 

but can't quite FULLY commit to the idea.   

That was us!  

It was a mixture of Michael's bachelor pad classics and my single girl decorating 

{I just couldn't imagine forcing that level of girly-ness on Michael!  He's been such a good sport about the remodel, but some of those things were CLEARLY crossing the line!}

Gosh I wish I had taken a picture of that over-crowded room before I made it my mission to 

de-clutter and make pretty!

I really am SO terribly awful at "before" pictures, because the projects seem to just start themselves {always after 10 pm} and before I know it, the room is well on it's way to recovery !

Here's one post clutter blurry phone picture...

but at least it gives you an idea of the dark and dingy that we started with:

CREAM colored EVERYTHING! 

Carpet, floors, walls, ceiling AND trim....kinda felt like the inside of a manila envelope.

If we can all imagine together  for a moment what THAT feels like ;)

Though you can hardly see it through those tiny windows, this room DOES have a lake view....

so I thought we'd try to brighten things up a bit and go for a 

coastal cottage feel in here.

Though clearly this design I put together for a client couldn't work in this room. . .

CLEARLY we don't have the space OR the budget!

But it's sure fun to dream (even for someone else's house!)

And more Coastal Cottage bedroom LOVE:

We're not QUITE ready for a reveal yet (as in the room is still EMPTY!)

BUT here's some of the elements we're incorporating:

Benjamin Moore's Spring Mint on the walls

{as seen here in the Klotz home in the Hamptons}

And Benjamin Moore's Constellation {with a few pumps of white mixed in} for the ceilings:

Next up...  WHITE PAINTED FLOORS 

{I think that's almost EVERY room in our house now}

But THIS time.... I think we'll try stencils in the ceiling color

Actually these  may have to come LATER depending on how brave I'm feeling this week!

To give the room some natural flavors and texture, possibly something like:

And of course...no room of ours would ever be complete without:

And...

If I'm ever going to post an "after" picture...I better get to work. 

Hope to show you the end results SOON!

(hopefully before Friday....because we've actual GUESTS coming to use the guest room!}

Enjoy this gorgeous day!