A thrifty find and a peek at our house

So I found the sweetest little chair at Good Will yesterday. 

I was searching through the furniture and there she was...

Like an old washed-up beauty queen from the 80's. Too much blue eyeshadow and a bit...wider... than the other younger, slimmer gals.

She was blue, painted over red, painted over lots of kid's stickers. Here's after I started tackling it all with some cream colored paint. I didn't have any primer handy but this did the trick, after two long coats. All those curved spindles took forever. 

I think she's going to fit in just fine around here. 

But I've only left her cream out of laziness. I want to paint her a fun color or maybe do stripes on the seat, but I'm not sure what to do yet. I was going to ask for your opinions, but I realized you don't know what my house looks like so it would be hard to pick a color. So here's a few snippets of our downstairs...living room, dining room and breakfast nook.

So what color would you pick for my chair?

Blue? Gray? Green? 

xoxo

Guest Room Design Board...

Our house has the master bedroom and bathroom on the bottom floor, and the other bedrooms are upstairs. 

We've been staying in one of the rooms up there to be closer to the girls, especially since Juliette occasionally still  gets up in the night. 

But she's 8 months now {sniffs} and my husband is bugging me to move back downstairs so we can enjoy the bigger bathroom and have easier access to all of our clothes, since they're down there in the master closet. 

Since I knew we would be making the switch eventually, we just never got motivated to really decorate or paint the room we've been in. But my sister is coming to stay with us for a good part of the summer and I really want to turn it back into a proper guest room.

Here's what I'm thinking so far...

guest room by briannaroberts on Polyvore.com


Since a lot of my house is already decorated in similar colors, I'll probably be shopping around my own home and stealing things from other rooms until I can save up money for the things I don't have, like the bench and light fixture.


What do you think?  Any paint color suggestions??