Before: Realtor photos of the room.
It didn't look this bright and cheery in person. It was much more dingy and dark.
Before: I took this picture the day we settled on the house.
Before: Goodbye baseboard heaters and tan carpet and tan walls and tan ceiling and tan trim!
Goodbye cat smell!
Before: We don't have an attic anymore so this is where we were storing a bunch of stuff that didn't have a home. We took a few loads to the dump and Goodwill.
The carpets were all ripped up and the floors refinished the week that we bought the house. Jared did the majority of the work of refinishing the floors. I pitched in a little bit and some friends came over and helped pull up staples for three hours from all the carpet (and the carpet that had been down before that).
Goodbye, cat smell.
Look at that white ceiling!!!
Look at those blue walls! Here Jared is installing the trim for me between the two paint colors.
Then he installed his old bunk bed.
And we took off the closet doors to paint them.
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Here is a little before and after mash-up.
After: Everything is so peaceful. It might be my favorite room in the house right now.
After: The only thing let is to buy curtains for the windows (I am thinking some sort of grey) and a shade for the lamp. But otherwise, it is completely finished!
Here is what we have done to the room:
✅Old carpet removed and wood floors refinished (Bono Mega - Amber seal)✅Baseboard heaters removed (they were condensating and leaking on the wood floors and causing discoloration)
✅Ceiling painted white
✅Walls painted (dark blue - Valspar Space Sky, light blue - Valspar Dreamy Clouds)
✅New trim installed on walls
✅New shoe molding installed
✅Old molding painted white
✅New windows
* Loft bed/book shelves was Jared and his brothers. Build by a family friend.
* Twin bed given to us by people moving at church.
* Crib/Toddler bed IKEA - thrifted for $40.
* Dresser 1 - was Jared’s as a teen
* Dresser 2 - was given to us with twin bed
* Small Ikea chair - given to us
* Car rug - given to one of the boys
* Light blue leaf rug - bought on clearance at Lowes for $90
* Quilts - made by Grandma Cindy (priceless)
We have since switched the lamp with the one in the baby's room. And I am really thinking of stealing the rug and giving them the rug from our room (it is dark red and would match their quilts still).
It has been such a great project - one that I have been wanting to do since January, but that first trimester killed me and I never finished it. We purchased the paints around 4th of July and they were having an amazing sale ($45 back on a 5 gallon bucket and $15 back on a gallon - I think we got an $135 gift card from them when it was all said and done - which we then used on the rug and a rug for the baby's room).
