Budget Decorating: Our Guest Room

We have a lot of extra rooms at the moment. I'm sure one day they will be filled with adorable, well-behaved, exceptionally smart children. ;-)

For now, we wanted to make our guest rooms feel welcoming without spending a fortune on them.  The upstairs guest room is my favorite of the two. Decorating the whole room cost about $150  including paint. We painted this room when we moved in (as the room had 60+ sailboats stenciled on the wall in paint) and I love the color we chose. It's a soothing beige with hints of a grassy yellow/green.

The bedding was a super clearance find from Macy's Martha Stewart Collection. The entire set with all the pillows was $60. I actually chose the whole color scheme of this room around the bedding. We had the bed skirt, lamps and old IKEA furniture from our apartment. We also had the drapes...I tried to make them work in the city but they didn't. They are definitely too long for the height of these windows but they are hidden from the doorway - out of sight, out of mind.

I found a few accessories at the thrift store or at Homegoods. I love this green vase and throwback college pic. We had the tall "green sticks" as Scott calls them and a black mirror (not pictured above).

I created the canvas artwork with a wooden "S" letter from Michael's with an old canvas, some super glue and a can of spray paint. Super simple tutorial: Glue on the letter, spray paint, hang. Voila.

And, of course, these guys have to live somewhere in our home so this is their room. :-)