Things I love: in the guest room

As part of the continuing "tour" of our home, today is Guest Bedroom Day!

This room used to be painted yellow, and I had a floral duvet cover on the bed. Then a couple of years ago, I went dark brown ... this is one shade lighter than our kitchen on the same paint chip, actually. I know a lot of people aren't into brown, but it's probably my favorite color ... at least as far as paint goes.



Over the bed hang three original pastels, which were my first-ever purchases at the Bluff Park Art Show. (If you've never been, you really should go.) The quilt, like 80 percent of the other furnishings and soft goods in my house, is from Pottery Barn.



Here's a close-up of the pastels. They came framed, and one day I'm sure I'll change out the gold-tone frames, since they're really not my favorite.



On the other side of the room, you can see the TV on the chest of drawers my grandmother gave us as our wedding gift 14 years ago. That wall also houses the room's only window.



The bed is flanked on each side by mismatched apple crates (from Haywood County, N.C.), topped with matching lamps. If I remember correctly -- and there's only a 17 percent chance of that -- I bought them from The Linen Source catalog about five years ago. Could have been The Company Store catalog. I know for sure it wasn't PB, for once.



I think the little tin trash can on this side of the bed is actually a planter from Southern Living At Home.



Here's a close-up of the chest of drawers.



And these little Southern Living At Home beauties live on top of it. They come empty, and you have to THINK HARD and FOR A LONG TIME about what to put in them. I put some stuff from Linens & Things in mine. L&T went out of business here. [sniff sniff.]



At the foot of the bed is one of my favorite things in the house ... a red bench from somewhere other than Pottery Barn. Oh, who am I kidding? It's from Pottery Barn. It has a special meaning for me now, since we had Jake photographed on it when he was one week old.

It holds a basket (Longaberger, for those who know what those are) that we received at our basket shower when we were engaged.


And, um, that's it! It's a small room, and since none of us live in there, that's all I have to show you. Thanks for looking around!