The guest room in our rental house.Guest room from the opposite angle, by the window.
We chose this room to be the guest room. Logistically, it is spacious enough, however, for two adults over six feet tall, the sharply sloping ceiling makes this room inconvenient for any use on a regular basis. If you get to stay in our home for free, you can deal with the stupid ceiling–sorry.
What bothered me most about this room, wasn’t the ceiling’s angle; that was part of the house already in existence that I had no control over. What I did have control over though (thanks to my nice landlords) was the awful color of the ceiling. I like brown. I do-just not for the ceiling. The overhead lighting is adjacent to the window, and thus, most of the light doesn’t dissipate ideally throughout the space. Of course, the dark color not only absorbed the light, but also gave the room a daunting-cave-like-atmosphere–and really, what is more inviting than dark-cave-room?
I used the remaining paint from the bathroom to repaint the ceiling. It was simple, but the difference was certainly noticeable.
Our guest room, decorated with freshly painted ceiling.Finished guest room–
Carly Swenson is an intuitive painter originally from northern Montana. She spent more than a decade working primarily as a mixed media artist before shifting to acrylics. Swenson received a BFA in Visual Arts with an Art History Minor from Bemidji State University. During and after university, she traveled and lived abroad, this included studying in China, traveling throughout Europe and living both in England and the Azores.Swenson’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and internationally. Her freelance writing and mixed media journals have been published in nationally distributed art magazines. She has facilitated art workshops for various age groups. Swenson’s work is also included in the permanent art collections of Angra do Heroismo Museum and Bemidji State University (Bemidji, MN). Currently, she lives in St. Paul, MN with a smart little dog and a weird little cat. They’re nice.
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You’re right, it changes completely
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Thanks! I thought so. :)
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