Painting the New House: Guest Room

The third room I painted in the new house (after our daughter's bedroom, and the accent wall in the dining room), was the new guest bedroom in the basement. This room had a white brick wall and a white exterior drywall wall with a window, both from the original open-floorplan basement, as well as two new drywall walls the contractor had just built for us. They were all white and primed, but not painted. There was a lot of furniture going into this room - a bed, dresser, hope chest, two nightstands, and a treadmill - and I wanted to paint the space before all that furniture was in the way. We moved ourselves (and all the boxes and small furniture we could fit in our cars) about a week before we had professional movers bring the rest of our furniture - so it was during the "in between" week when we were living there but all of our furniture wasn't yet, that I painted this room. 

I taped the ceiling, trim, and the white brick wall (which we were leaving white to act as an accent wall) the day before, and then did the actual painting in one night, after my daughter had gone to sleep. I did all of the painting myself, while my partner worked on installing lots of shelves in the new pantry space in our basement. I then did touch-ups the next day to finish it off.

The room is dark because there are only two small ceiling lights, both of which are on one side of the room. There are also several changes in ceiling height (to account for ducts in the ceiling, presumably), which cast shadows on some walls and parts of the ceiling. And I wasn't getting any natural light from the window, because it was January in Michigan, and I was painting at like 9 pm. So hopefully it still looks good when we add some lights to the nightstands and/or in the summer when some sunlight enters the room! ;)

We bought new curtains for the window. The brown wood furniture, as well as the pink/green/white quilt, were in the guest bedroom of our old house (which also had green walls, although a slightly different green). In our old house, the hope chest/bench was at the foot of the bed, but here it works nicely as a window seat under the window instead.

Now we just need the pandemic to end, so it's safe for visitors to come stay with us again! :)