Downstairs Guestroom
I have two guestrooms and this one is my favorite…I love the cottage-y feel to it. It has a closet just the right size for a guest but not large enough for someone to really live in this room…which is why I have not claimed this room for my own.
This room has a “vintage poinsettia” theme for Christmas. During the rest of the year, it’s decorated in bright colored 1930’s quilts, a collection of stamped cross stitch pieces, and lots of bed pillows made of vintage tablecloths.
I also used the vintage tablecloths as valances on the windows…it took me a long time on ebay to find 4 of the same print and the same size to use as valances! You can see my love of red and white in this room too…I just can’t get enough red and white!
The tree is chunky wooden candycanes, wire snowflakes, some repros of vintage ornaments and Christmas stockings. I got the red and white glass balls at Crate and Barrel a number of years ago.
The collages above the mantel are made from vintage poinsettia Christmas cards, and I got the peely paint frames from someone at a flea market. I especially like the green frame…it’s a 1930’s jadite green that doesn’t work anywhere execpt a cottage room!
On the dresser is a collection of postcards with a poinsettia theme, and the white shelf gives me another place to hang stockings.
Posted on December 18th, 2009 by Sue
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I stand in awe. Your Christmas trees are so imaginative and creative. I, too, put up a few themed trees as well as the “main event” tree and have posted a few pictures on my blog of the smaller ones so far. But I also posted a link to your blog so people can see how it’s really done!!! I truly loved the entry way tree. As a backyard bird watcher and feeder, I enjoy a birding theme in ornaments and have plans to stitch a whole flock of cardinals in scarfs for a tree next year. The chart is in an old JCS ornament issue and so simple since you use deep red linen on which you simply stitch an outline of the bird and then stitch the scarf … a great way to use all the odds and ends of floss.
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! Your home should be in a magazine!
Sue,
I am really enjoying your christmas trees! I love the one in your cottage room! I have to say I probably love red just as much as you do. I have it throughout my living, dining/kitchen and bed room.
I think I would like to come stay at your house! The room looks fantastic. Maybe I should just have you come decorate at my house? I am the awfulness at setting up room moods like this. Your guest room looks like it jumped out of a magazine!