Pieces At A Time

Slowly but surely I am nesting into this beautiful home that God blessed us with over 2 years ago.  Over Christmas break we finished our master bedroom just the way we wanted it.  Then in the spring we finally completed the guest bath and kitchen.  Today I woke up with energy ready to rip into the worst decorated (or lack there of) room in the house.  Our music room.  It's our other spare bedroom that hosts our music instruments and computer.  It's where we "jam" and where I edit photos.  I find it always very difficult to stay in the room for a long period of time because of its lack of stimulation.  This girl's gotta have some stimulation and color!  I took some advice from a good friend who informed me that one day he is going to create his own HGTV show of going into peoples homes and redecorating with what they already have.  I took this into consideration and got right to work this morning.  Well, after Regis and Kelly of course.  The music room needed a lot of work but with a little pop of color the room began to create some sass.

It began with me wanting to fill this horridly large wall over the piano.  Isn't it a mammoth?   (This below is what you would see when you walk in the room...blegh)

Basically like our mammoth wall in our master bedroom.  It takes a LOT of art to cover it all.  Right after we got married we framed every possible wedding picture we could.  Once we moved, we stored most of the frames away.  Instead of collecting dust, I thought I'd spray paint them yellow.  As I was digging for many frames I ran up on my turquoise and white paint.

So there I had it, soon to be white, turquoise, and yellow empty frames to cover the mammoth wall.  While I was digging some more I found old curtains that weren't being used (in the next few days I will add some turquoise and yellow fabric the the bottoms of them for more sass!) and while I was at it I realized that our ugly rusty and dented filing cabinet should be spray painted as well.   (You can see it in the picture above in all its glory nice and nude by the desk.)  Once I had all of my ideas out and planned, I gathered the items to be painted and went to work.  It still amazes me how a little paint can transform something.  I didn't want to stop there, so I decided to include my desk hardware as well.  I ran out of yellow paint and really wanted them yellow, but turquoise is a nice sass of color when you walk in the room I think.  I had this awesome shelf in the closet in this room that was serving as a cool "photography" closet room that I decided to dig out and display in the room.  Apparently it didn't like that idea because as I was scooting it across the room it did this...

A bruised leg later, I decided to trash the shelf and be creative with the boxes.  I huffed for a moment and then decided that I didn't let that slow me down!  So I grabbed a Red Bull and continued.  I finished up my frames, added even more, and then decided that I wanted to display some shap shots from the past 3 years of our marriage.  I had no idea how enjoyable that would be.  I looked through so many pictures, took a trip down memory lane, and chose my very favorites!  I put them all together in the frames and got right to placing them on the wall.  This really took no time at all.  If you ever decide to do the whole multiple frame thing, don't measure and all that mess.  I didn't and I thought mine turned out just fine!

I "eyed" it up and worked out different placements on the floor like this before I made many holes in my wall.  As I was hanging them I started from the outside and worked my way in tweaking along the way. I told myself that I didn't want it all to be perfectly straight and boxed in.  That mentality helped a lot.  Here's how it all turned out!

I moved all of the furniture around, shifted a few items, and stored most of the instruments in the closet for easy retrieval when they are ready to be used.

I hung the curtains (OK, I had to buy a $1.00 rod at the store.)

So all together I admit this music room makeover did cost me some money.

Not too shabby for a little inspiration, pop of color, sass, and finally some stimulation in this little music room!  Time to create, relax, and finally enjoy our music room.