Working Weekend at the Beach

My parents have owned a beach house on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia for years, but Dad is tired of taking care of it and wanted to sell it. My husband and I just couldn't bear the thought of losing the place where our family has made so many wonderful memories over the years, so we recently purchased it (kind of scary with the economy the way it is right now). So now we get to carry another mortgage, but we also have a new place to redecorate (totally worth it!). We went down to the beach house for the long weekend to do some much needed redecorating. This is a "before" of the bedroom my husband and I usually stay in. Very small and dark.

There were a couple of layers of wallpaper that needed to be stripped. I mentioned that I kind of liked the "antique" look of the old wallpaper...
My husband refers to this look as "Early Parisienne Flophouse." Kind of takes the romance away, don't you think?

But we repainted and switched the beds to make a little more room. It is now so bright and cheery, everyone wants this to be their room.(By the way, I hate that the shades were uneven when this photo was taken....)

I started with the bedspread (from Target) and chose pink and green paint to match. Everyone thought my pink was too bright, but I knew it would look great. I painted a wicker chair ivory and started to repaint the dresser the same ivory, but I ran out of paint. Now the room just needs some art for the walls, and I need to finish repainting a dresser and it's done.

One bedroom down, 3 more to go (plus the living room.)