Repurposing a Room

October 28, 2014

I am all about making use of every square inch of my home and love to repurpose rooms when they aren’t being used to their fullest potential. My most recent project was a new guest room space. Previously, the bonus room functioned as TV room / playroom / and sadly, guest room. I really wanted a place my guests could feel comfortable and have some privacy. So in comes the one room in the house that has been like um….about 6 or 7 different spaces since we moved in 7 years ago. I once blogged on the many faces of this room- you can read about it Here.

Before we added the addition on the back of the house this was the dining room, but the table was moved to the eat-in area once that kitchen space got larger and this room became very sad:(

Hmmm, I thought, why not make this my guest room- all I need to do is add some privacy doors. So with all my free time on my hands (ha-ha), I started moving and painting furniture and here’s the result:

The privacy french doors that my fabulous carpenter installed for me:

The pretty sea foam green dresser was in my office area and it was black prior to me painting it to coordinate with the room. This is the 3rd time it’s been painted:) I left the mirror collage because I thought it still worked great in here. The bedding was in the bonus room, the rug was in storage, the bedskirt I also had in storage, the white slipcovered chair was in my office- so needless to say, I didn’t purchase a thing for this room except an “S” hook to raise the chandelier!

I still need to paint the doors- they’re just primed right now- but that is for another day… for now maybe I’ll just crawl in the bed and take a nap:)

-Ally