I’ve been meaning to redecorate our guest bedroom for quite some time, but things always got in the way, and it has taken me three years to finally get there. I did not want to spend too much on it, but I still wanted to make it look welcoming and not just be a blank canvas.

The easiest thing to do is give it a fresh lick of paint, which I decided to do. I chose a feature wall, which I wanted to be behind the master bed (but it doesn’t have to be).

I still had a beautiful mandala stencil I bought back in the UK, which we used in our main bedroom. But we moved within two years of using it, so I decided to reuse it since I didn’t get much enjoyment out of it. You can find so many beautiful stencils, and some are very cheap, too. I bought my stencil from http://www.mandalastencils.com (I am not affiliated with them – I love their mandalas, so in case you wanted to know where I got mine from).

Once I settled on the colours, which is one of my favourite colour combinations, I went out and bought the paint. I purchased made-to-order turquoise blue wall paint, which only came to around €40 and some gold acrylic paint, which was about €17. The paint could have been much cheaper as if you buy it off the shelf, they are usually half that price, but I really wanted to match our chest of drawers which we had already painted in the colour when we were in the UK, so I had to have it made to order.

As you can see from the picture, just changing one wall makes all the difference! I could have stopped here, but I had grown so tired of the bedframe and bedside tables, which we have owned for over 20 years! I still loved them. They are solid teak and have been with us in every single home we have moved to. So I didn’t want to get rid of them. Still, I had grown tired of that dark wood, so I decided to paint it with some white chalk paint, and I think they turned out great! Chalk paint is a little more expensive than regular wood paint; mine costs around €20 per 500ml, but it does go a long way. Also, with the one I used in particular, I could skip the sanding and priming of the wood, saving me a lot of time. Again, I have no affiliations with them, but in case you want to know which brand I used, it is https://www.novecentopaint.it/

And with just some paint, a beautiful stencil and some elbow grease, you can have a brand-new bedroom! I still have to finish buying some soft furnishings like curtains and a couple of cushions. I plan on making a couple of rugs to go by the bedside, but I still haven’t come up with an idea.

Also, a few weeks before, I had made a fabulous flower of life art using toilet paper tubes in the same colour combination, which now works perfectly with the rest of the room. You can check it out here.

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