It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better

Before- enter at your own risk

During my time off I am trying to go through and organize the stacks of papers and pictures that have been building up over this past year (or maybe more). As you can see, when I decide to clean out I really clean out!! I'm all or nothing. Not always a good trait because you wait and wait (while the mess accumulates) until you have enough time to really do it right. Anyway below are some photos of our guest room. The walls have been bare for the past 4 months and I kept looking at pictures and art that I wanted to buy to hang in there, but I decided I needed to hang everything I had first before buying anything new. So, you will see how I made sense of a mish mosh of things around the apt. Hope this helps some of you decorate too. Enjoy!

(I hung pictures and curtains before the real demolition began. Sorry there are no real before photos to see how plain the room previously was).

Even Jack was scared to go in there!

After

I had my eye on a headboard, but again resisted temptation and opted to use the old bulletin boards that were taking up space (and I couldn't seem to throw away). Again I cut out pictures from an old Norman Rockwell calendar. Quick, easy and cheap solution to livening up a

blank wall.

Above the computer, I hung any frame that had black in it.

Bedding from my studio in NYC.

Random things

-2 of the 5 clear shelves

-sunset photo- my photography from a family calendar I had made for everyone last xmas

-old post cards tacked into the wall

-the "S"- had this since college, I just keep repainting it

-tiny dish (actually a soy sauce dish from a sushi set- loved the colors in it!)

-shrimp picture unframed and leaned on shelf

-a few inexpensive candles

My owls again (little dusty shelf huh?).

Organized shelves, what a relief!