Windows Week, Part 4: The Guest Suite

So they all went away from the little log house.

The shutters were over the windows,

so the little house could not see them go.

It stayed there inside the log fence,

behind the two big oak trees

that in summertime had made green roofs

for Mary and Laura to play under.

~Laura Ingalls Wilder

Isn't that a bittersweet quote?

Did you catch Windows Week, Part 1?  Part 2?  Part 3?  Today we're in the Guest Sour Suite.  Slooooowly, surely it's coming suite-ly together, although it's been pretty sour since our furniture arrived from Guam in September.

Here's how it looked in August when we took possession of our townhouse rental.

BEFORE

Standing in the Guest Suite door

Looking toward far right

At right, those are a pair of closets

below, Standing at the windows above,

looking toward the left side of the room

The chest of drawers was removed by the owner at my request.

This is the view
from the window shown in the previous photo.

This is the view from the far right window,

in front of the closets.

Owned but unoccupied townhouse nextdoor

And here's what a portion of the room

looked like in mid-September.

iPhoto

AFTER

For these window treatments, I used the Hawaiian barkcloth from our master bedroom on Guam, plus more sheers of dreamy, creamy gauze.  

Far left window

For the toppers, I

* chopped off the lined panels I'd used on a Guam house slider door,

* hemmed and pressed the panels, and

* pleated and stapled them to the window frame.

Far right window

For the middle window, below, I knew I wanted to place the double bed there, so I

* lined these West windows with sheets of styrofoam leftover from our refrigerator delivery,

* hung a layer of the dreamy, creamy gauze sheers over the styrofoam, and

* hung 3/4 of this cranberry-framed bamboo screen (from The Firstborn's 2003 bedroom) right on the window frame.  Ta-da!  Headboard!  

The bed's not prettily decked yet!

Remember that we have two seasons here in Manila-- HOT and HOTTER-- I treated this "headboard" window in this way because this entire room is going to catch a lot of heat in just a few weeks.  In case you're interested, this double-bed area on the top floor of our townhouse is directly over my husband's office windows.

Thanks for exiting on Kelley Highway!  Tomorrow we'll conclude Windows Week in the master bedroom!

Windows Week Posts
Part 1:  Cornices Anew
Part 2:  Downsala Drama
Part 3:  Grrrr!  The Kitchen