Modern Guest Bedroom

I've showed you the yellow dresser. I've showed you the bamboo headboard. Now it's time to show you the whole room!

Like I said before,

         "Some people pick a color scheme and design a room
     around it. Me? I designed a color scheme around my
     yellow dresser!"

To contrast and tone down the brightness of the yellow, I decided to add gray, white, and navy into the space. With just a few additional pops of yellow. I loved the contrast of the yellow, but I wanted to be careful. A few pops = good. A lotta pop = get some sunglasses!

So I painted the walls a nice medium gray color and bought a navy blue comforter set. I kept the sheets and most of the other furniture white to keep the room bright and light.

I thought my yellow dresser's color and clean lines looked modern and wanted to keep that vibe going throughout the room. So, for the art over the bed, I used Photoshop to create a modern 12x12 grid of photos.

There's 81 photos in each 12x12 block. 162 pictures total. It took a while for me to get it all done, but I really like how it looks!

I had a couple IKEA Ribba picture frames laying around. So I made them one of my "pops" and painted them yellow.

I bought a couple of these neat-shaped lamps at Target. One was green and one was white (all they had). But it was nothing a can of yellow spray paint couldn't fix.

I did a search online for modern clocks and found this little guy on ebay. When the display isn't one, it just looks like a cube of wood! Too cool!

It display's the temperature too!

Then, of course, there's my yellow dresser :o)

I added some cool white accessories, as well as a couple of coffee table books and my mercury glass Buddha head.

People tend to have a strong reaction about the head. They either think it's creepy and hate it, or think it's awesome and love it. Take a guess which team I subscribe too! ;o)

There you have it! My modern guest bedroom!

What do you guys think? Would you stay here?

Insta-Friday

Here's a look at my week in filtered instagram pics! You can follow me at thehomemadediva



My new job has me waking up at 2:30 a.m. so I can be to work by 4 (cruel and unusual, if you ask me). I let the dogs out of their crate when I get up. Looks like waking up so early is hard on everyone :o)

  

I ordered some new bloggy business cards to match the new blog design. So pretty! 

My brother-in-law and his wife just bought a new house. The old owner left some stuff behind, including this outdoor bamboo table and chairs. So I snatched them up and am in the midst of giving them a makeover. Yay for free stuff!

Friday night I got to have dinner with my sister and this little cutie. I just love her!

I decided to give the whole maxi skirt thing a try. After playing around with tops and accessories,  I ended up with this look. Not too shabby I think.

Me and my mama on Mother's Day

The combination of the sweet little dress and the pigtails was just killing me!! She looked so stinkin' adorable!

One night hubby and I hit our local Food Truck Round-Up for dinner. Had some yummy Tandori Chicken and Chicken Tikka Masala.

Hubs and I were out running errands and decided to stop for lunch. I love the California BLT at this place. And their cookies are the best!

It is getting soooo hot! We're super close to hitting the 100 degree mark. What better way to cool off than a dip in the pool?

Our master bath area is open to our bedroom. Now that I have to wake up so early, it's hard for me to get ready without waking up the Hubs. I usually end up in the other bathroom. So I'm making some pretty blackout curtains to hang in the doorway so I can get ready for work without blinding him with light!

What've you been up to this week?

Modern Bamboo Headboard

Some people pick a color scheme and design a room around it. Me? I designed a color scheme around my yellow dresser!

I knew I wanted the yellow dresser to be a statement piece. So I decided that other than a few small pops of yellow, the rest of the room had to be more neutral. And modern. That dresser definitely screamed modern!

I decided on navy and white. While navy is considered a neutral, it definitely is still a color. And it looks great with yellow!

Now that I had a color scheme, I was gonna need more furniture. I had borrowed a queen bed from my sister who had it in storage. She had a bed frame too, but it just wasn't the look I was going for.

So I scoured craigslist and came across this bamboo headboard for $40.

I didn't remember to take "before pictures" til I had already started to paint it. Oops!

I had hubby come with me to pick it up. And he very mildly expressed his concerns that I might be crazy. I explained to him that I was going to paint it (when do I not?) and it was going to look fabulous. He continued to look at me sideways but didn't say anything else.

He recognizes that he's not able to visualize things like I can. And he always loves what I do when it's done. So he usually doesn't question me too much. He lets me do what I want. He's smart like that! ;o)
So I gave it a couple coats of white spray paint and it was good to go!

Hubby joked when we picked it up that I must have been going for a jungle theme. But it looks anything by jungle-like now!

Pair that with crisp white sheets and a navy/white comforter set, and it's a cool, modern looking bed!

Love!

Happy Mother's Day

(via Jengerbread Creations)

I want to take a minute to thank the most influential woman in my life . . . my mom.

She's smart and strong and kind and beautiful.

She taught me to sew.

She encouraged my love of reading and kept me in good supply of new books.

She's the only person who doesn't think I'm crazy when I say things like "I'm gonna paint this dresser bright yellow" or "I think I'm gonna paint all the doors black" . . . and if she does, at least she doesn't show it! :o)

She values my opinion as much as I value hers.

And she loves me! :o)

Happy Mother's Day Mom! I love you to the moon and back!