The theme is "world travel", based on this giant map we got at IKEA ages ago. All the wall and deco fabric colors are derived from the map, with a silver/white/birch furniture scheme we were able to cobble together from existing and some new stuff from IKEA (my new favorite furniture store as it's cheap and I won't cry if we have to get rid of it in the next move).
So, with Craig's room looking so awesome (in my humble opinion), I have been burning the brain cells trying to make my own sewing room at least as good if not better. I found some great fabric to make curtain for the window and as replacements for the closet doors (this works great as I can open the whole closet area all at one time to stuff multiple storage boxes on the big rack that replaced the single hanger bar).
still has a ways to go, but I finally got the bulletin board and thread racks up.
next up on the opposite wall is the giant pegboard (6' x 3') that Craig helped me mount this weekend.
It was looking sort of blah, so I painted a lovely chocolate brown (to match the brown fabric in the curtains) "frame" around it.
Actually this was more frustrating than I anticipated as our walls have some texture which always seems to let the paint bleed underneath the painters tape I use to mask out a line.
Luckily I still had some leftover beige wall paint and painstakingly fixed this with a teeny tiny brush to make a nice straight edge. I think the next step will be an inner border with the orange flower fabric.Oh, and another thing we got done on this vacation is finally, finally planting a tree in the backyard. We visited the local nursery (3 Palms) to find this lovely Desert Willow. This is what it looks like today:
This is what I hope it looks like in a couple of years: