Old Door (after I painted it)
Walls (after much patching)
Closet wall
Then there was the discovery of mold....
Lovely, huh? We're VERY grateful we found it.
This was the beginning of the demolition. If we had vent up anger, ripping out sheetrock surely helped ;)
There is a dark purple spot on the wall-that was paint choice #2. I love purple.
The closet wasn't very big, so we decided to make it larger. Which meant also moving the doorway.
So we lived like this for a while. (My new hallway closet is on the left and the new bedroom door meets up with the make-shift child block)
Ahhh, new sheetrock. We put anti-mold sheetrock on the bottom since there has been flooding in the basement. Thanks to Jeff for helping get the upper sheetrock up! I'm such a wimp. This was HOURS and HOURS of mudding and sanding-that led to the White Ghost (I can't repost the picture of that, or my marriage may be in jepardy ;) The kids liked helping, though (or pretending, anyway).
Here's my new closet. It has a larger opening and we added over 2 ft in length!!! Other than the door being moved, it didn't cut into the actual space of the room-how nice!
The dark purple was apparently a NO GO with the man of the house...so I taped up MANY options. And the winner is....
A faux brushed pearl finish in a color that I felt was a happy medium between purple and blue.
HAHAHA!
Keith really loved the look of the paint, but preferred the color you will soon see.
I spent a couple days getting the ceiling textured, which was pretty fun, priming and painting. Then Keith hung my new light.
It was starting to look REAL!! Then I added the base color.
And it was BLUE. It looked really cool, kind of like a really blue sky. I was scared-not quite what I was going for...the things you do for love ;)
Here's where the Room Of Love comes in. The brushed pearl finish starts with brushing the finish on in Xs and then you let it dry a little, use a plastic trowel to swirl the Xs into Os. I painted the Xs and Keith swirled the Os...Our room made with hugs and kisses! Yes, Keith thought it was very cheesy, too.
It looks way cool, I think and I was feeling a little better about the blue. After 2 coats of brushed pearl finish, which took approx. 5 hours to do (totally worth it, btw).
We put in all new outlets, covers and trim.
Keith also re-did the window seal, which was a bit nasty and uneven.
And then it was time to start on building the closet.
I'm now saving for carpet because everytime I turned around-Keith was cutting carpet (good thing we'd already planned on carpet replacement)
Almost there...
I could hardly wait to put clothes in. There was ROOM for them. I had so much fun later organizing my clothes into colors and etc. I even found a new outfit (not really new, but I was able to see some things that would go together!) Keith had no idea how much fun I'd have. If you look hard you can see the cut carpet just to the left of the shelves. That is where the old closet was...not missing it.
I hung the curtains and blinds myself (I have to brag, because I used power tools and enjoyed it!)
Finished closet doors.
The furniture was my parents for years and I refinished them last year and I think they look GREAT in my new room.
AND we're DONE! Except for the wall decor-I had to see the room finished before I could move on to that. I'm loving the bedspread that Grandma Lila thought would look great in my room-it does!
It might not be purple, but its US and we LOVE it! Some people say remodeling is hard on a marriage, we actually found it fun to work together and enjoyed most of the process. Now on to the next room, YAY! Maybe we'll take a little breather first.
