I hate the guest room color

The Guest Room use to be my grandfather's bedroom.  My grandmother loved it because - despite it being the master suite - it was on the top floor and outside the windows are all these trees and birds and squirrels....  My grandpa likes bright colors so we painted it yellow.  Well... now that its no longer his room.... I'm not ashamed to say ... I really hate this color.  Its too much and I don't really like the yellow with the purple of my bedding.  But I like my bedding better.

I'm not opposed to yellow I just hate this yellow.  The bed is stained a dark cherry wood.  My cedar chest is deep cherry and the couch is cream and brown.  The bedding I love is a plum purple.  What the hell do I do?

 

Options for Yellows I found today

The colors I like with yellow and purple is... grey... problem is my bedroom is grey and I don't want a whole grey floor.  It would look like an asylum.  Which might actually be fitting. 

Curb appeal Before and After

My parents came over this week to help me do a whole lot of work on the front yard.  The success of the "growing grass" experiment has had amazing results so I'm taking it a step further with a 50 pound bag of grass seed.... drought resistant :)  We'll see if it really works but I'm watering it like mad.

If you remember the awful part of what I was dealing with and what it looks like now you can't see a better result!

 

And after a whole lot of work and a whole lot of pain in my back/legs/arms/shoulders 

 I'm going to paint the bench black though.  And I really want to put a fountain to the right and a lamp post behind it. . . .but I'm kind of out of money for a little bit....

 Hopefully the seed I planted will grow some grass in this dead spot where I've killed off a ton of weeds.

 Think Google Street View would replace their image with this one?

 Front flower bed - I have a garden gnome I plan on putting in there somewhere.  We stole it from someone's yard when we were in high school.  I fully expect that if I put it in the garden that someone will steal it.  I embrace this and welcome it.

 Flagstone patio with bench and side flower bed.

 ooooo new grass.... ooooo ahhhhhh and its all soft too!

 New shutters!

 Awesome house numbers with one of my favorite fonts ... a little art deco a little modern a lot fabulous!

Other potential additions to the yard include:
The big foot statue from the SkyMall catalog

 

Or maybe Roswell the Alien Sculpture

Maybe a solar birdbath/fountain (my friend Jacque says I have to have a fountain not a birdbath because of mosquitoes)

There are actually a lot of options for solar outdoor fountains.  And solar lamp posts... I highly recommend this - particularly if you're too cheap to pay for the electrician to come out and install some kind of outdoor outlets.