Home Office/Craft Room/Guest Room Makeover

After doing some upgrades to the living room and the main bathroom in our home over the past couple of years, it was crazy how worn down everything else started looking in comparison!  It was time to start moving into the bedrooms.  First up was the bedroom that used to be occupied by the female offspring.  We now use it as a guest room, home office, and my craft room. 

We pulled everything out including the carpet. 

You can see the flowers I stamped onto her walls when she was young.  And there were soooo many nail/tack holds in the walls from all the picture and poster changes over the years.   (more on that HERE)

A fresh coat of paint on everything and some new flooring.

Doors removed from the closet.  Hello future crafting space!

The Man of the House hung some extra shelving in the closet.  We added a simple parson's desk, a hanging shoe organizer for yarn, some glass canisters and storage boxes...

And VIOLA! My new crafting closet is complete!

The vintage metal table I inherited from the Man of the House's Grandmother becomes a computer desk.  Plus some cube shelving for storage.

It's just gorgeous!  You can kind of see the futon to the right bottom of that last picture. Which is where guests can sleep when they stay over.

There are still a few finishing touches, such as maybe getting an area rug and hanging up some pictures. But I am so very happy with how it all turned out!! 

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Living Room: Another Weekend of Work

This past weekend was spent finishing up with the priming and beginning the painting process.

Hallway: pre-primer

And post-primer

With the ceiling painted and the trim primed - the walls look so yellow and dingy.  Ewwww!

Priming the entry way took a LOT of work!

Painting the ceiling

First coat of pale grey paint on the living room wall



You can see the new color a little better in this picture contrasted against the old color



Living Room - Days 11 to 20: Prime Time!

The remodel came to a bit of a crawl for about a week - life just got busy and slowed us down. Things are still moving along though - even if it's a little slower than the first week.

We've been taping and compounding the new 1/2 wall at the top of the stairs.

Priming the new drywall around the fireplace

Taping and priming windows (taping is slooooow work!)

And priming various trim around doorways

Stay tuned!  Next up is ceiling paint - which should prove to be highly entertaining...

Living Room Renovation: Day 1 - Demolition

Since we are doing the work on our living room remodel ourselves to save cost (and because the man of the house is all handy like that!) , the first step was to rip out the shelves and panelling.  Time to destroy some stuff!!

The shelves are down!

Shelves gone. Panelling gone.

Oh my... what have we gotten ourselves into??

Living Room Renovation: The Befores

After living in our home for 13 years, we had finally reached the end of our rope when it comes to living with the 1970's decor. The built-in shelving units, fake panelling, free standing gas heater, and stained gold carpeting have GOT to go!! We're looking at a major re-do, which has to be done before the holidays! Yikes!!


This is what we're dealing with:

Built in shelving and fake panelling.  Oh... I mean "faux" panelling. 
So dark, so dreary, so... out of date!

Built in shelves wrap around the corner all the way to dining room entry

Overlooking entry way.  What's with the metal railing?

View of living room from top of stairs. Another great(?) view of out dated railing.

That's right.  Check out the gold carpet.  I know you're jealous!