The Fourth Bedroom {In Progress}: Round Two is Color

A few months ago I put together a guest bedroom using only stuff we already had on hand.  One commenter noted that it wasn't my usual color explosion.  True--the room was pretty brown, but it was free and functional, so that's what we used, figuring eventually I would save some pennies and come up with a more colorful plan for that room.  (I went through a beige phase in 2008; I have a lot of brown stuff left over.)

In September I visited my family in New Jersey and came across some colorful paintings that I had shipped back to California.  I've decided to put the horse painting in the guest bedroom and use that as my jumping off point.

I was further inspired by a navy blue and green living room that I wrote about last week.

I changed out the bedding, the curtains, and added the horse painting.  Everything else, such as the furniture and lamps, remained the same.

I've loved this blue diamond Nate Berkus bedding from Target since it first came out.  I debated between the orange version and navy, but once I saw that blue and green living room I knew it had to be the navy.  Last week the navy blue curtains were on sale at Target, so that seemed like fate.  The green quilt on the bed was also from Target years ago and was formerly in our master bedroom three houses ago.

I feel like the bed could use a bright, fun decorative pillow of some sort, but I haven't found what I'm looking for yet.  This room feels bright and cheerful (and less brown), so I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

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I didn't get this room done in time to join up with the One Room Challenge, but yesterday was the reveal day for all the participants, so I highly recommend you check them all out here.