Vivid Hue Blog: ORC Final Reveal

Friday, 3 January 2014

House Tour: Guest Bedroom

Back in November, I participated in the One Room Challenge as a linking participant. For those of you that may have missed this event, this is a 6 week challenge that was created by Linda from Calling It Home . Designers pick one room to transform within a six week period, each week revealing a bit more progress towards the final reveal.

I posted my original final reveal photos here but I was never thrilled with the photographs because I ran right down to the final night before the reveal and ended up taking my shots at night.

Finally, I have had a chance to photograph my guest bedroom in the daylight.

The guest room is Palm Beach Regency meets Bohemian Chic.

This is also the room where my five year old, Vivi, sleeps so I incorporated elements of her style into the room. I even included artwork by her and a few bohemian-style photos of her at the soccer field.

The paint is HGTV Sherwin William's Loyal Blue and I was inspired by Emily Henderson (she painted her at home office in the same color). I fell in love with this sailboat painting during our annual summer trip to Kennebunkport.

The turquoise stripes on the ceiling were an evolution. I'd originally intended to wallpaper the entire ceiling in a solid turquoise with Temp Paper temporary wallpaper. However, this particular style was a bit thin and difficult to work with in large sheets (on the ceiling). So, the idea morphed into stripes on the ceiling.

The Turquoise Urchin Chandelier is by Stimulight and caused quite a stir during the challenge. I was obsessed with it the moment I saw it and it was even more impressive hanging!

Herons and cranes are a theme in my bedrooms! I love their elegance.

The drapes are from Target with a fuchsia pom pom trim added for extra pop.

I'm a Home Goods fanatic and many of the Vivid Hue accessories are from there. This fuchsia chair was a major score from Home Goods along with the lips pillow. The Ascher throw is from one of my favorite décor accessory shops in Kennebunkport called Spaces.

This is the bathroom off of the guest bedroom. I plan to tackle this redesign next (shhhh, don't tell my husband). But, I want the styles to flow from one room to the next so that the bathroom is a logical extension of the guest bedroom. Maybe I'll tackle this for the next One Room Challenge in April 2014.

Before

Just a reminder of where this room started:

After:

Here is a reference to the original weekly posts.

A tremendous thank you goes to Linda from Calling It Home for allowing over 70 additional design bloggers to participate in this challenge as linking participants. I would encourage you to head over there to check out links to all of the linking participants that posted their final reveals. The results are absolutely stunning.

And thanks for revisiting my final reveal through "updated photographs"!

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

ORC: Week 6 Final Reveal- Guest Bedroom

Thank you for joining me for the final reveal of the One Room Challenge! If you're just joining, you can catch up with my guest bedroom transformation here:

Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 5 1/2 | Week 5 3/4

The past six weeks have been an adventure. One lesson I learned for next time is that I need to tackle my sub-projects much earlier! I was worried about revealing too much too soon. Instead, this was a "down to the final minute" finish.

But, I won't bore you with any more small talk. Today, it's all about the pictures. (Speaking of which, please excuse the night time shots!)

Introducing, my Bohemian Chic/ Palm Beach Guest Room:

I hadn't planned to do a gallery wall but my five year old daughter also sleeps in this guest room each night (it's closer to our master), so I wanted to add a touch of something that would have meaning and represent her. I selected a few quotes that reminded me of her, some photos of her that I love and some artwork that she painted.

I added this pom pom fringe to the curtains when I realized that I was going to have to rethink my plan to put ribbon nail head trim around the room (because the Petersham ribbon was on back order since August).

I just found this stool today at Home Goods and fell in love. It's perfect for this room and I love it!

I'm Home Goods obsessed. The chair is also from there and I love how it pops against the blue walls.

The wallpapered ceiling was not originally in my design plan either. It all comes back to that back ordered Petersham ribbon. I wanted to add something else of interest so decided to try removable wallpaper. See previous posts to learn how it ended up as stripes versus a solid color on the ceiling.