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Alright so on to today’s post. I’m in love with this room – and this bed. I’ve had this in my files for the longest time because I have a similar antique bed in the guest room and I’ve been wanting to paint it.

Here’s the bed in the guest room of our last house:

I liked the color of it in that room but in our current house I’m not so sure.

Gray or blue would look nice and there’s also always white:

But I think the white would be just a little too shabby chic. I also really like the patina on the bed right now and it would be kind of a shame to cover that up. It reminds me a little of this bed:

So I could just leave it and use a with a warmer color palette for the room which would work well with it. Would you like to weigh in?

(Photos: 1.Unknown 2.FTRB 3.via Brabourne Farms 4.Sarah Kaye)

I fell in love with the combination of yellow, gray and red almost two years ago and it looks like I’ll finally get to use it. This room reminds me a little bit of what I’m doing with the second guest room.

I’m not sure if I’m going to hang it on the wall or put it on the bed but I’m using this suzani as my starting point:

I decided to bring in the Dwell Draper Stripe shams I bought over a year ago and still haven’t used:

I like how these colors pull in the colors of the border and fringe on the suzani.

I’ve bought some pillows in a taupy gray and everything else in the room is white or black. Now all I need to do is hang some art and decide on the fabric to reuphoster the Baughman chair and this room will be done! I still love the Manuel Canovas fabric but with the suzani and stripes, it’ll be too much. (I need to use that somewhere else though because I love it so much.) If you have suggestions for the chair, let me know.

(1.Marie Claire Maison 2.FTRB 3.Dwell Studio)

I’m woefully behind on this month’s to do list. One of the things on the list is to fix up the guest room because we have guests coming next month. My goal for the room is just to make it cozy and comfortable. There’s an antique iron bed and a white dresser in there right now.  The room’s pretty small and the bed is queen size so that doesn’t leave room for much else other than maybe a chair that could also be used as a nightstand. There is also white bedding and white cotton drapes on the window.

I want to hang some art above the dresser either framed or just tacked up on the wall:

and find a patterned (or at least colored) shade like this for the window:

Then a small rug and I think I’ll be done. Easy, right? Ha!

(Photos: 1.Marie Claire Maison 2.Domino 3.Livingetc.)