Welcome to the "Sunshine Studio"

The transformation of the new "Sunshine Studio" into modern restive guest room is almost complete. New blue carpet in a shade midway between the curtains and the bedding help tie the room together. The bedding you don't see here because it goes onto a new Premier Raised Aerobed, which has not been put up yet (http://tinyurl.com/llxpz) But the bedding matches the light blue of the newly painted dresser. Formerly it was a 70s vivid bright yellow for 30 years, but has been remade into a cool blue "crackle" paint job that helps update the room.

Here is a close-up of the crackle effect. Steve applied 4 coats total to achieve this effect. A dark blue basecoat, a "crackle" layer, that creates the dark blue lines when applying the lighter blue paint over the top - finished with a protective top coat.

The pine headboard, seen on the left of the top photo, will be moved to the same wall as where the door is (and the blue carpet). Once it's been assembled for the guests arriving on Friday I'll post another photo.

My friend Katie's parents are coming to visit from back east (Wisconsin, Minnesota?) and we offered our home as a way for them to save some money while visiting - our homes are about a mile apart and ours has a lot more room for company. Katie's parents contributed to the guest room by purchasing the bed, which will stay here for future visits and those of other guests. Katie's baby is due in October and her mom will be coming for a visit then as well.



A view of the potted plants out the east-facing window of the "Sunshine Studio"


Getting rid of the original bed in this room opened it up to great possibility. The everyday use of this room now is as a yoga amd exercise studio, complete with stereo and a new LCD flat-screen TV/DVD player for watching recorded yoga and exercise programs. It's tucked away inside the headboard now so anyone peeking in the window won't know it's there. It was ultimately purchased for the teardrop since the laser on the DVD player we had in the trailer failed after just two years. This new unit will be kept in the studio unless it's actively being used on a camping trip (see http://tinyurl.com/nslhs)