A Stylish Addition to Guest Room #1

As I mentioned in my recent post – this week I would be sharing a couple of the home projects I am planning to do over the summer.

I told you about the fireplace wall. Today’s post is about the second project I am in the process of doing. It is giving what I call the “pretty guest room” a stylish addition.

If you are new to my blog, I live in a 4 bedroom home. Since it is only my husband and I and we are empty nesters, we only need the primary bedroom. Two of the other three bedrooms we use as guests rooms and the fourth is a fitness/game room.

When initially decorating the two guest rooms, I styled one to be more feminine and the other masculine.

I decorated the more feminine room with a mix of cheery colors when we first moved into the house. Last year I changed it to be more neutral with a pop of chartreuse for the warmer months of the years. Once fall hits, I change the bedding to red plaid for the colder months.

The blue, more masculine room is used more when family and friends come to stay with us since it has a king size bed.

The more feminine room has a queen size bed, but I prefer it as it has the best view of the lake in the house.

What Am I Adding?

After making a few color changes last year in the pretty guest room, I had left the most prominent wall in the room plain, with nothing on it except white paint.

I was planning on painting an accent wall with a bold color, but decided against it. I felt it needed pattern to create more interest with the beige upholstered headboard.

Que in Love vs. Design, an online wallpaper company that specializes in creating customized color wallpaper to fit any decor.

After choosing a few patterns and colors of paper I liked, I had fun playing around with the “See It in Your Space” feature where you can get a better idea on how the pattern, color and size of the repeat of the pattern will look in the room.

I chose a few wallpaper patterns I liked and had nice size samples of papers sent to me.

What is great about the wallpaper patterns is that you get to choose any mix of colors on any of the hundreds of styles and patterns they carry. It’s fun and so easy to customize so the paper will coordinate perfectly in your room.

The wallpaper I ordered is peel and stick, but you can also choose to have the pattern printed on a more traditional permanent style of wallpaper called Glissade.

As I mentioned above, I first started playing with a chartreuse color. I liked it, but…

… realized that when I change the bedding to the dark red/brown plaid to cozy the room up for the winter, the color wouldn’t go.

So I chose all neutral patterns.

I could wallpaper the entire room, but will probably just do the bed wall as an accent to create more interest and an infusion of style.

I chose 7 patterns in 3 different shades of beige – Wheat, Luster, and Shell.

The fun part was seeing how each would look on the wall using the Love vs. Design “See It in Your Space” interface.

I like #3 Focastle Farms.

But Organic Stripes would work also.

So would Patterned Fronds (color Wheat). Choosing this would be fun since there is a large palm tree in the yard right in the outside view.

Back to another check pattern called Watercolor Gingham.

And lastly, Windowpane Plaid. If I am going to wallpaper all the walls, I will most likely choose one of the more subtle patterns.

So now I have to decide… decorating is all about…. decisions… decisions, but Love Vs. Design makes choosing a wallpaper a little easier.