Introducing...

...our new room!!!

It's true! After two weeks, something to the tune of four gallons of paint, and a lot of inconvenience, the room is DONE. We love it and may not leave it for several days to come. Thought you might like to see the purple-paradise-turned-beach-retreat. Hope you love it too!

Here are the before pics. Yes, three shades of purple, painted nine years ago, pre-husband, when I decided if ever I was going to have a purple room, that was the time.

I did love it, but it was kind of dark {okay, VERY dark} - and I tried so hard NOT to think about all.the.hard.work. that went into those stripes. You know...as we painted over them.

So are you ready for the after?? I can't wait to show you!!!!!

Ta DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Please tell me you love it! {And if you don't - it's okay! WE still love it!!}

We primed. We patched. We painted. We patched some more. And I am pretty proud of us. I think we did it on a great budget.

Here are some of the up close touches.

The frames were ones we already owned. Ryan found white spray paint in the garage, and painted them so they would fit the new beach theme. I haven't changed out the pictures yet...so that was also free. And the S? REALLY cool gift from my best friend. Fits perfectly!

RYAN actually picked out our curtains, and he did a great job. We have curtains at the window and also behind our bed, to serve as a headboard. He found them and they were perfect.

 My amazing new mirror that Ryan gave me for Easter. It reminds me of a bit of driftwood on the wall. Couldn't be more perfect.

We reused all the lamps we already had in there. Ryan spray painted the big picture frame so we could reuse that pics, one of my faves from our wedding. All the other frames were already in the room. I just regrouped them to be together.

The seaglass and starfish art was a gift from my best friend...and the art with the Adirondack chairs was a present from my sister. We had the other two and they all just seemed to fit together!

Ryan picked out the blue pillow, and the little one in front was a shower gift from my sister.

And that...completes our room.

If you don't see us for a couple months, we're taking a nap.