Repurposed Item From The Past

He knew this would happen.

He told me it would, but I didn’t believe him.

The cribs that we have stored in the attic for 21 years should not be used. Millions of cribs made before 2007 have been recalled.

I would not feel good about having my grandchildren (grandchildren that I hope to have someday) in cribs that were a potential hazard.

When I was looking up the measurement for a full size head board it dawned on me that the side of a crib might be the same width as a full mattress. When I went in the attic to look at the two I had up there, I realized that the side rails on our cribs were pretty nondescript, that the most interesting parts of the bed were the head and foot.

For some reason we didn’t only have the crib that my children slept in but also the crib that my husband and his siblings slept in .

That one was more interesting and it fit the colors in the room. 

I knew there was no way that a baby would ever sleep in that bed again. 
I put the head rail and foot rail together attached to the wall.

You have read about the bedding. Here. 

I love the new chandelier. Here.

This room has come together so well.

I can't wait for guests. It will also get used when one of us has trouble sleeping and is afraid to wake up the other.

I have plans to use all the other parts as well.

Maybe Mr Bill can even make something out of the bed my children used.

Sprinkled with crib parts,

Katie
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Guest Room Decorated

We are still tweaking the empty nest around here.
When we painted my daughter's room a few years ago, I thought that Rebekah and I chose a color that we both could live with. Rebekah would not be living in the room for very long. She had graduated from college and would be moving out when 
she found a job. 

We chose an olive green called Meadow Trail from Sherwin Williams. 

 She and I purchased a new bedspread that she could take with her. Would you believe we found this set at Macy's for $20.00? 

Martha Stewart -Cypress Paisely

My plan was to use another bedding set that I had on the bed while she was at college. 

It was a damask in browns and corals from Target.
Target didn't name this bedding. 

At first we didn't have a bed so I set up the room as a office/workroom for me to use for blogging. 
Read about it here. 
It ended up being a drop room. You know what I mean... a room to drop stuff on the table and leave.
We had guests coming so it was finally time 
to get a bed.
I shuffled chandeliers around. Read about it here.

I was tickled to put the bedspread on but I didn't love it. Maybe it was just too heavy for summer. If you have been around my blog a while, you know I love to dress beds for the season.

I thought maybe I needed to repaint and get new bedding.

  I decided to find a white set hoping I wouldn't have to paint.  My original plan way back when was to have a green room with green toile. 
But I didn't want toile.
In fact, I had a black toile quilt I got at Big Lots for $25. It was a king but it fit. I liked how it hung really low, almost to the ground. 
No. I think I am over toile for a while.
 In case you are thinking of recommending me for an episode of hoarders, you will be happy to note that I did take the toile bedspread and a whole truck load to resale.
I found a lovely full/queen white quilt at T.J. Maxx for $39.00. It also had the nice long draped look I wanted. I picked up a white dust ruffle and pillow cases with a lace edge at Tuesday Morning. I spent $36.00 on those.

I put these on the bed but didn't love it.

My inspiration for what to do came from a night in my sister in law's guest room. I spent the night after going to the Dallas Premiere. Read about it here. 
The walls were a taupey blue-gray. On the bed was a beautiful damask set in Wedgwood Blue.   
The room is gorgeous and so restful.

I wanted to recreate that feeling for my guests.
I had a set in Wedgwood but it was a king.
I tried it on the bed but it didn't fit like the toile spread did.
 I thought I could still use the other pieces from the set to capture the feeling of the 
guest room at my SIL's.

 I pulled out the blue dust ruffle and added that. 

It took a little remaking of the dust ruffle to make 
it fit. 
Cheater alert... (I used my glue gun :/)
Once I added the glammy pillows and my gold edge pillow cases it all came together. 

I made these and not with the glue gun either! 

The bolster pillow and the European sham are from a Waterford set I got at Tuesday Morning few years ago. I had it before we got our new bed and didn't love how it looked after the new bed arrived. 

I know, I know.

I got this little painting on one of our antiquing weekends. 

 Some of my sweet Robin's Egg Blue things ended up in here.

I love it. 

I saw this publication at Walmart.
Victoria magazine has been my favorite since I got my first look at it in 1990.  
 My room does need a headboard and I love this wrought iron bed.

 Read about it here. 
Let's see what I can come up with.
Sprinkled with Wedgwood Blue,
Katie
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