Colorful Guest Bedroom Makeover on a Budget
Wake up your overnight guests with these simple bedroom decorating ideas using a happy mix of vibrant color accents and pops of patterns and texture to create a cheerful and welcoming guest room for your guests to enjoy.
My goal for this guest room was to make it more feminine. I have another guest room in my house. It is more masculine in color and decor. So when guests come to stay, I can now let them choose which room they would like to stay in. The more feminine or masculine one. In my previous house, I DIY’ed every aspect of a bedroom to make it guest room ready.
My house has 4 bedrooms and my kids are grown and out on their own which allows me the use of two rooms for guests. The fourth bedroom in my house is a game room.
For the color scheme for this guest room, I used a kaleidoscopic approach. Pops of vibrant color come to life in the room against the white painted walls.
Guest Room Makeover BEFORE
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As far as bedrooms go, this room was pretty neutral. It just needed cosmetic changes, along with some simple bedroom decorating ideas, no demo needed to get it guest-ready. I brightened it up a little with white paint and lots of pops of color.
Guest Room Makeover AFTER
You know I like white walls to showcase and highlight everything else in and about a room. I thought of painting the wall behind the bed, navy blue, but I know from 33 years of decorating my homes, I would not be happy with it. It would look dramatic in a photo, but just not my style.
Cheap Decorating Ideas for Bedroom Walls
To add color to the wall, I waited for a sale on 24″ x 48″ stretched canvases at Michaels, they are a cheap way to decorate a wall in a bedroom that offers a lot of impact!
I bought 5 and used a mix of craft paint to paint them using colors taken from the bed spread. To hang them evenly with each other was made easy with this home-made picture hanging tool.
In a perfect world, I would love to have wood floors in the bedrooms, but for now the beige carpet has to stay. I guess I can play the “Pollyanna Glad Game” and say… I am glad it’s neutral. :-)
I have always wanted to make a white pom-pom pillow and finally did, with the words, Be Our Guest painted on.
How to Make: Be Our Guest Pom-Pom Pillow with Tutorial
Simple Bedroom Decorating Ideas That Also Work for Guest Rooms:
- In all bedrooms, especially guest rooms, I always like to have a throw at the end of the bed so that guests can take a nap and get all snuggly without having to un-make the bed. This throw is reversible – pink on one side and orange on the other. It is actually a twin-sized bedspread.
- I made this bench for under a window in my previous house. It is the perfect place for guests to place their bags.
To update it for the bedroom, I painted it white and covered the cushion with fabric from JoAnn Fabrics. It is an outdoor fabric. I used my no-sew cushion cover method to cover it.
The bedspread is called Dreamcatcher. It is from Birch Lane. I like that the bedspread is reversible so I can change it on a whim or seasonally.
I loved the color of the sheets and thought the fish were fitting for my house that is on a lake. The set comes in a few different colors.
- On the white dresser I placed a few goodies for guests to feel right at home. Treats in a tall Apothecary Jar and water and glass on a tray.
- I still love getting snail mail and think many others still do, too. To give my guest that vacation feel, I had note cards customized at Minted for guests to use to write to their friends and family when they stay with us.
To make the notecards even more special, I ordered custom stamps from Minted, too. Look close at the stamp. That is a photo taken from the guest room out to the lake. :-) They are Forever stamps, so they will always be good to use.
- I elevated the card on a small white cake stand. When not in use for notes, I may put a-just-from-the-oven, muffin or cupcake on it as an extra treat for anyone staying with us.
I love chalkboards and added this one to welcome everyone that comes to stay with us…
…hoping that they will relax, stay awhile, and have a great visit, even if there is a storm brewing outside.
- One thing that EVERYONE that stays overnight with us asks is… “What is your WiFi password?”
I made the answer easy by making a printout of it using my computer and printer. Placed in a Yates frame in a visible area in the room makes it easy for guests to see. This frame comes in a set of two. The frame itself can be placed in the holder vertically…
… as well as horizontally. I plan on using the second one in the other guest room.
The XOXO art is from Minted.
The brass bedside Deegan lamps are from Birch Lane.
Cheap Bedroom Makeover Ideas
- The beside tables are not really tables, but act like them. To save money, one table is a tray table that I had and spray painted blue.
- On the other side is a tall stool that I bought at a thrift store. It was stained brown and I painted it using chalk paint I made to get just the right shade of green. It makes the perfect bedside table for a lamp and cell phone.
To make it easy for guests to charge their phones and devices, I make sure there is easy access to an electrical outlet and also an extension cord.
I also did a full remodel of the Guest Suite Bathroom
