the spare bedroom is finally finished!

after 2 years of using it as a storage room and keeping the door closed all the time because it was so ugly, i finally have a guest room/dressing room that i'm proud of.

i disliked the room for 2 big reasons:

1. it was ugly -- it had been the previous owners' baby's room, and they had done the entire color scheme in dirty blue, rose, and mustard yellow.

2. it needed a lot of work, especially because they had used thick coats of really cheap paint (and more horrors that we discovered as we started to overhaul it).

( before and after shots under the cut )