My next
trip was to the wallpaper store.� The first thing I picked up looked like this.
� I brought home 8 different border samplers and used some on the inside of my linen
closet and chose one for the grandkids room and at that point I decide to use this one for
the guestroom.� I was going to sponge the lower half of the room the 2 greens (by the
way GREEN & PINK delight me - my entire house is variation of greens & pinks) in
the paper and do the upper half with the pinks in the flowers.� I thought I could get
� bamboo strips to run as along the top & bottom of the paper which would be
chair rail height.� Then last Sat. morning I went back to the wallpaper store to get
my paper.� I thought I would check to see if� it had a matching paper (it does -
just leaves - which is going to be used in our master bath).� I collected about 8
more samples and as I was paying for the grandkids room border I looked up - & spotted
the PERFECT border for the guest room.� 
I was so excited when I found
it, I was looking for something tropical to inspire my guests about their trip to Florida
and something cool that would blend in with our own sub-tropical paradise that the room
looks out on!� This paper has a lot more than what you see here, but you will have to
just imagine.� On that Sat morning I woke up with a BRIGHT idea - matchstick shades.
� Only instead of using them only on the windows I would use them on the lower half
of the wall and make it look like a hut in there.� Off to Lowes to see how much the
shades are there (I know Pier One has them but I didn't want to spend my entire
allotment). � They didn't have any, they had a textured paper that I thought I could
do a faux finish on and it was on sale 
for $4 a
quadruple roll.� Then I made a mistake & walked into the plant department, just
to check to see if they had the shades there (they didn't).� Well, I left with $52 in
plants & no paper.�
The next morning I thought why not just do a faux finish so I
got out a sample board and did it. � It looked ok, the fence looked great but the sky
at the top didn't look good, but I could have gone with different colors of blue.�
But I just wasn't happy.� By yesterday (Friday) I had decided to use the green and
pink theme again.� Only this time I would put beaded board up 5' painted green, then
the border and then the pink. � Well, as we all know bead board is expensive, didn't
find any wall paper that looked like it and so I just headed to Home Depot and bought the
paint.�� Last night on HGTV I saw an idea of using a darker paint on the edges
of the walls to make an antiqued look.� So my goal today is to sponge on the green
light & dark for 5' and glaze the pink for 3'.� I will still be putting the
border at eye level.
This is a rough sketch of the layout of the room. (It worked - there is a lot more room!) Just take your time & draw the furniture in all different positions and it really helps to figure out how you want it (without breaking your back). As you can see, I just used a pen & drew it - there are several. I decided on this one.
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