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<\/p>\nLast summer our daughter came home for a month from New Zealand and we wanted to freshened up our cottage guest room before she arrived. We did it on a tight budget and I’m so pleased how it turned out. I thought I would share for some inspiration.<\/p>\n
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I’m writing this as we continue to be in “quarantine” due to Covid-19. \u00a0I’m missing having this room filled with friends and family. This weekend I washed the sheets, cleaned and dusted and prepared it for company. I don’t know when that will be, but I wanted to feel hopeful that it will be soon.<\/p>\n
This room isn’t finished. I have pictures to hang, I want to do “something” different over the dresser, but for now, it’s clean and ready. (And if I am honest – I am never finished a room, ever!)<\/p>\n
I’m always tweaking, I think that is why I stopped blogging, I never feel anything is every finished or good enough to share, but I though I would share where we are with this room, as it’s been making me feel good to clean and be hopeful it will be filled with my people again soon.<\/p>\n
We refreshed this room for about $200.00<\/p>\n
Here’s are a couple of before shots – what it looked like when we bought the house. \u00a0We did update it when we first bought the cottage and painted the room in a pale green when we had the house as a rental.<\/p>\n
All the doors in our house were painted red, gold or blue and gold. It totally needed a big refresh.\u00a0Paint is magic isn’t it?<\/p>\n
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We planked the wall with leftover plywood we just cut in strips and nailed it up<\/strong>. Super simple. The plaster walls in this house are REALLY wonky, wavy and weird. So the planks helped.<\/p>\n The headboard was from my parents house when they downsized. An old pine headboard we painted with Miss Mustard Seed’s Flow Blue Milk Paint,<\/a> and the red dresser is Tricycle Red MMS Milk Paint as well. I shared a post about it a few years ago here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The light, bedding, side tables and lamps are from Ikea. Easy and affordable.<\/p>\n My friend Lise made me the cute lobster catch pillow. (Fabric from Fabricvill in Atlantic Canada).<\/p>\n The vintage grain sack pillow is from vintage grain sacks I bought in France. I have a few more I am trying to decide if I can part with lol.<\/p>\n Stay awhile sign was made by us, we will soon be adding these to our website.<\/p>\n The walls were painted Simply White from Benjamin Moore, truthfully it was the white we had on hand that we painted our kitchen walls in. Leftover paint for the win!<\/p>\n There you have it, our simple cottage guest room makeover. Hopefully we will be able to have guests again soon!<\/p>\n xo<\/p>\n Wendy<\/p>\n![\"Front](\"https:\/\/frontporchmercantile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Blog.FPM-cottage-guest-bedroom.png\")
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