before & after Guest Room

This is the before picture: just a little bit country, a little bit hodgepodge with our "newly" married life and a little bit of his furniture and mine and whatever linens fit at the time. Well, inspiration has struck and I'm -done- with country! so.... i took the bed apart and FILLED IN ALL THE LITTLE HOLES that were "banged" into the wood to make it look "distressed" MAN did that take forever. then.. I wood puttyed the country carving in the center of the bed. and then sanded that....

I painted the whole thing, head board & foot board a Shinny Modern Black......

And *Viola* Sleek, Modern and hopefully richly elegant & relaxing.

here is a closeup of the bed and all the wood-filling and sanding. hmmm although since it is black you can't see all the smoothness of it! oh well.

and my cute little table that I "made" my girlfriend buy at a yard sale and her husband threw a fit and said was so ugly so I spray painted it black and it looks great and she is sorry now!
Crystal lamp is yard sale find for $3.00. Lamp shade/walmart with antique trim glued on.

An old unfinished "country" table I had, that I painted black and turned the Heart cut out toward the wall.

These are the same curtains... and I think I am going to try and find material to put a swag up (again black and gold stripe) and use these to hold it: