Sunday, August 30, 2009

New guest room!


Right now our guest room consists of some bland curtains, a blah-ish lamp and some leftover office furniture. When our house-swappers were here, there was inflatable bed, too. The only exciting piece (and it is pretty darn exciting, if you ask me) is the bedside table that Nathan and I (mostly Nathan) made in a woodworking class we took way back before we had kids.

But I have big plans: new curtains, which I started shopping for last week. A new sofa bed, of the same kind Linda and Adam had in their guest room (yes, I slept on it, and it was very comfy). And a color scheme that I plan to base partly on the house we stayed at in the Blue Mountains and partly on the invitation to a million-dollar wedding we went to on Lanai about six years ago -- in short, green and purple. Here's an idea of the colors from the Blue Mountains house: