Stenciling and Updating Guest Bedroom!

Yes, I am an impatient soul! I took the picture AFTER I took the headboard off and the TV down! My Bad!!

Note: I did patch the wall where the TV mount was, gotta love prep work before painting.

This was the monster of a dresser that was in the room!! The room really is small and just vacuuming was a chore. With no closet, this is where I stored all my linen for the beds on our lower level. Something needed to be done! The Beast is Gone!!

Btw, the headboard for the bed matched the dresser.

First, I painted the walls with my new favorite color: Agreeable Gray by Sherwin Williams. I love this color! It looks wonderful with everything. I actually had a full gallon of this paint left over from the upstairs hallway so it did not cost me a dime to repaint this room. Big Score!!

• Stencil (I bought mine from Cutting Edge Stencils)
• paint (three different colors)
• small sponge roller
• paper toweling
• wood for sconces and end tables
• lamp shades and light kits (purchased at Menards)

Here is the sad story about moving up to the lake....There is NO Craft Store within 40 stinkin miles of our house!! Seriously...Nothing!

For this project, you would think that I would have the colors in my arsenol of paint to pick from, but of course, not the colors I wanted.

I went to Menards (again, 40.5 miles away, hey, a girl has to do what a girl has to do) and found myself in the paint department.

Menards has the Pittsburg Paint line and I had them mix up: UFO and Glazed Granite in their great little samples. My third color I had the store do a color match from the Grey Sky craft paint. In the picture above it shows a different brand of the paint sample...I used a lot more of the Grey Sky and had to go to my local Ace Hardware for another sample.

When stenciling, you do not want a lot of paint on your roller or brush!! That is the number one, best tip, anyone will give you when stenciling. If you have too much paint on the tool, it will bleed under the stencil. Have some paper toweling to roll off the excess onto.

I did not have my camera crew available when I stenciled the wall, instead I am sharing the video on YouTube from Cutting Edge Stencils for you to watch. If you are doing this particular stencil, they show you how to get the misty effect which is what you want with this particular stencil.

For lighting and endtables, I made Corbel Sconces and Floating Endtables/Shelves for both sides of the bed.

I found directions on how to make these awesome Corbel Sconces from the dynamic duo sister team from Shanty2Chic. These instructions are seriously easy to follow. If an almost 60 year old can do this, so can you!!

This my friends is an orginal by yours truly. I hate having to move endtables to vacuum, with space being limited in the room, I decided to make these floating shelves instead.

Because this post is getting long, I will be posting another post on how to make these.

Guests can wake up to sunshine and happiness and enjoy the view of the lake!!

I hope you liked what I did in this room!! I am so much happier with how the room turned out and I hope my guests love it also!

Thanks for reading my post!!