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The Guest Room (part 2)

3/3/2020

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This is the second of our two-part DIY Guest Room Renovation. We’re Paul and Johanna of Soldier58 in Bordentown, NJ. For this project we chose furniture and accessories to add color and interest to an otherwise neutral room using art, colorful textiles, and furniture painted using Chalk Paint® by Annie Sloan. We also chose to use ‘responsible redecorating’ which is what we call repurposing and reusing items we already own as well as incorporating used and vintage pieces as much as possible.
​A couple of weeks ago we shared the first part of the Guest Room Renovation, in that post we covered the nuts and bolts of the room – the paint, the new floors and the details. In that post talked about all of the basics that need to be done in order to get to the really fun part...the decorating!
 
Our idea for the guest room design was to keep it simple, relaxing, and comfortable.  

​Paul and I love color, but we kept the walls neutral because we plan to sell this house at some point in the no too distant future. So, the color would need to come from the things we put in the room.  

We also wanted to incorporate a concept which we call Responsible Decorating.  Repurposing and re-using things we already own as well as incorporating used and vintage items rather than buying a lot of new things.


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