photo tour: guest room

It's been awhile since I've given you a photo tour of one of the rooms in our house. In fact, I've only given you a tour of one room... and that was almost four months ago! To be honest, I had been putting off any more photo tour posts until I had "finished" another room. I wanted to be done re-arranging furniture, hanging and re-hanging art on the walls, etc. Like I mentioned in the first (only) photo tour post, it's hard to make a fully-furnished rental feel like ours but I was going to try. And it's been harder than I thought! So I kept putting it off and putting it off... but I realized that the point of these photo tour posts (and this blog in general) is to give our friends and family back in the US a glimpse into what our normal, day-to-day life is like... and I guess that includes our un-"finished" home. :)

So... I'm going to take a deep breath, swallow my pride, and start posting pictures of our not-Pinteresty-enough-for-the-internet home for all of the internet the seven readers of this blog to see. 

We found our house on ecayTrade, which is a Craigslist-type site for the islands. When I first saw the ad, it looked way too good to be true: three bedrooms + an office, for the same price as many of the two bedroom places we had seen! And with Brett working from home, we were hoping to find something with an office. I figured there must be something glaringly wrong with it, such as no air conditioning or just really dumpy inside... but we had a friend check it out for us and she said it was great! (And it is!)

We feel so blessed to have so much space. I especially love being able to have a dedicated guest room so that we can host visitors. My mom stayed with us in January and we have Brett's parents here with us right now. It is really fun to have people stay with us in our home since we get to see so much more of them. (And Joshua loves the extra attention, too!) 

Here's a quick tour of the guest bedroom, which is on the first floor.

It kind of doubles as Joshua's "play room" a lot of days. One of my great fears about having kids was that their toys would slowly take over our home... and it's slowly coming true. So in the guest room we keep all of his books and the overflow of toys from the living room. 

The kid LOVES books. Sometimes he'll sit with me and read for 45 minutes! Often, it's the same book over and over and over again, but I'm just glad he's interested in reading. :) 

Which, I guess, shouldn't be a surprise considering how much his dad likes books. We keep Brett's overflow of books in the guest room, too. (Technically, this is his "Biography and Fiction" section... so if you come visit, you can feel free to browse the "library" in your very own room!)

This is also the part of the room that most screams "UNFINISHED!" to me... the empty white wall. One of the trickiest parts of decorating this house is that the outside walls are concrete... so it's a HUGE pain to try and hang anything on them. What I've been doing in the rest of the house is just using the nails/screws that are already in the wall - so just swapping out something they had hanging on the wall for something I brought/made. But this wall didn't have anything on it... and it has stumped me.

Here's a view from the other side of the room (I think the reflection in the mirror helps to give perspective, but the doorway out of the room is to the right of this picture.)

The room has a full bathroom connected to it, so does that mean I can call it a guest "suite"?

So that's a quick look at my very un-decorated guest room. It might not be the prettiest, but it's still functional... so come visit us! Maybe I'll rope you into helping me decorate. :)