Guest/Jam Room Makeover

The next task was our Guest/Jam room. We needed a multi functional room that could serve as a Guest room, and a "Jam" room for Jeff's guitars and our music memoribilia.
The before was not pretty, empty and boring, with the main focal point being a HUGE, ugly, old, television. Jeff refused to part with the TV and wanted to keep it in the room for video games... so we had to get creative. I went through about 5 color scheme ideas before I decided Gray would be the way to go. Then, we were going to do gray and purple... but after it was painted, purple just didn't look right.

We had Jeffs acoustic guitar sitting up against the newly painted wall, and it was the only thing in the room. I loved the nuetrals, tan and black, against the gray. So we decided to nix a "color" and just go with naturals.

Pardon the Marilyn Manson poster, it freaks a lot of people out, but I love it. We bought that papisan chair on Black Friday for $18!!

New gray walls, rock posters, guitars, futon (snagged on craiglist for $15 and it's soooo comfy), and black curtains... where's the TV????

We hid it in the closet! It fits perfect and you just slide the doors open when you want to watch something, fair compromise I think!

I still plan on building the "drum table" out of an old bass drum and some glass, but I still haven't come across a drum yet :(
Total Cost: $35!

I expect the drum to be about $25 to finish, so $60 not bad!

Home Office Makeover

We decided to conquer the office first, because that wallpaper was driving me crazy. I don't like wallpaper, never have, probably never will. This room is our home office, and will one day be a nursery, because it's closest to our bedroom, and the perfect size for it.
So obviously the first thing that had to go was the wall paper, and we had to find a color we liked and balance this room out a bit. It felt like it was all over the place, with the stripes, polka dots, and elegant desk... ugh.
Tearing down the wallpaper was more of a task than I had imagined. This wallpaper was WATERPROOF. Meaning I had to tear of the top layer, soak the glue film paper underneath and then peel it off in strips. After several methods I found out using a spray bottle to soak a 12" by 12" area and then pulling it off worked wonders!

And of course, our little kitten, Gretchen, was there to help.
The "final" product. I say "final" because my sister is going to help me make a gorgeous painting for about the computer to fill up some wall space, and I think it needs a rug.
We painted the room semi-gloss "Sweet Harmony" yellow, painted the desk chair pink and added a tan chair pad. We rearranged to make the room more functional, and centered the desk because it was annoying me (I like things even and symettrical, so much for funky designs here)!I found that awesome pink lamp for free after a garage sale in our neighborhood, and found some drawer knobs at michaels for $1 each!

Overall Cost: $25 (not a typo, seriously $25 dollars!)

I'm on the look out for a nice rug and ideas for a painting, but overall I think this room will cost less that $75!

Big News!

We have some big news around the Davis household! No, no babies... and NO we are NOT moving again :)

Jeff and I are going back to school! I will be starting within the next two weeks. I will be attending Sheffield School of Wedding and Event planning. I will receive my certification as a Wedding planner in a year or less. Jeff will start school on July 16th (as soon as we can buy his new Cannon Rebel XS DSLR camera) at Icon School of Photography. It is only a 4 week class, but will probably take him 3 to 4 months to finish because of working full time. Both of these schools are online, which will allow us to still work full time jobs, and do some Pro Bono work to build our portfolios!

We are also going to START OUR OWN BUSINESS! More details to come on that later. Website launch coming soon!

Overall we are SO excited about going to school, starting our business, and eventually quitting our dead end jobs. I can't wait to make money doing what I love!