Our Bedroom

So, FINALLY, here are pictures of our 99% completed bedroom. We still have to put 3/4 round around the floors and hang the door. We are waiting to hang the door until we finish putting hardwood flooring down in the upstairs hallway.

We don't have central AC, so we have to use window units.

This picture is a little dark. That is the sleigh bed that I have always wanted :). We got it after we finished the room.

Like I mentioned above, we still have to hang the door. As you can see, we have drywall hung, taped, and mudded in the hallway. Now we just need to get around to sanding it!


This wall is the main long wall in the room. Eventually, I will be putting a dresser on that wall. My old chest works for now but not for too long! I found a dresser and side tables that I absolutely LOVE!!! I just have to wait until we have some extra money and who knows when that will be!

Just thought this was a neat picture of the brick wall.

Crazy to see how far we have come with this darn room! For those of you just coming to my blog, you'll have to go back to the beginning and see what this room looked like when we bought our house. Upstairs bathroom(s) renovation pics to come.....

Good-bye Desktop, Hello Laptop!

So, you are probably wondering where I have been lately...well, our desktop computer is seeing its old age and decided to SLOOOOW down on us. I was having problems accessing photos, music, etc.; everything I use the computer for. My very caring, wonderful husband went out tonight and charged our credit card back up and purchased me a very nice laptop so that I can keep up with sites like this one. Thank you, baby! So, now that I am back online (while I sit on my comfy bed...yea!), I can regularly keep up with my website.

We are (and have been) living in our nicely renovated "master" bedroom for about a little over a month now. We still have a little work to do in the closet area and have started on both upstairs bathrooms. Our goal is to have those done by mid to end of July. Once I get all my photos transferred to my NEW laptop, I will post photos on those rooms.

Glad to be back!

SLACKER!

I know, I know, I am the world's biggest slacker for not posting any new blogs. We are just about finished with our bedroom, and I have been waiting to take pictures and post them. So...hopefully, after this weekend, I will have new pics up. Our bedroom and closet/dressing are painted! Nick and our neigbor Tim (who was sent to us from God and has majorly helped us out on the renovations) are putting the hardwood floors down in those two rooms this weekend! I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!

Vacation Pics to Come

Hopefully in the next day or so, I will post some pictures from our Disney World vacation once I take the time to upload them. Sorry Robin!!

The Closet/Dressing Room

For some reason, I am having trouble putting into words the description of what is going on in these photos. It will be a little difficult for you to get an exact idea since I do not have pictures from every angle. You really have to see it in person; so, I will describe things the best I can...

This room (we call it the Ragedy Ann and Andy room; hince the old wallpaper) was directly connected to what will be our room. You could enter this room from our bedroom or from the hall. Since this room was on the smaller side and our bedroom had no closet or a connected bathroom, we decided to make it a closet/ dressing area. The bathroom will be right off this room, but pics of that will come later.

So, we chisled down the plaster and ugly wallpaper and completely tore down the walls that stood in between this room and "our" room and also the hall.

We had a brick layer come in and repoint the brick because we are keeping the wall you see here exposed. The little "masterbath" will go behind the plastic in this picture.

Up goes the framing for the walls that will separate this room from the bedroom and also from the hall. There will be no door into the hall like there was before.

More framing up! Starting to insulate the walls. Some recessed lights hung. Notice the nice new window!! Had NASTY rotten wood windows that were NOT INSULATED at all!!!

The wall in this picture is in our bedroom. Right in between the brick and where the wall ends is open to walk into the closet/dressing area. We decided not to put a door there because the window is lined up with the open spot. That way we will have a lot of light from outside. Hope this makes sense!!!

At this time, we still have a little more drywalling to do in this room. Our goal this weekend is to have all of that finished. We are getting close to finishing this room and our bedroom. Our room has primer on the walls, so now I need to pick out paint....any suggestions on colors? I thought about a latte-like color, but someone told me that was too plain. We will be getting a new bed set when this is done, so I don't need to match what I have currently. Anyway, I will post more on these rooms as we approached the end. Our next room to complete after these two are finished will be the tiny masterbath. We have done a lot of demoing to many rooms; now we need to complete them. My next post will probably be on the hall bath and laundry closet since we have done a lot of work there. So, stay tuned......

Falling behind

Hey... I haven fallen behind on new postings of our house. We just got back from a week in Disney World (can I say, totally exhausting!!!). Don't get me wrong, we had a wonderful time. It just strips you of all your energy!!!! I will definitely get some new pics up this week! I just need to get caught up on house chores, laundry, emails, etc. You know, everything that piles up while you are gone and waits for you when you get back. It doesn't help that we lost an hour last night! Until then, have a great week. Back to work...UGH!!!!

A New Bedroom in the Works

This room has been in the works since last December. If it does not get finished in the next month or so, I just don't know what I might do! Maybe kill my husband! Just kidding...he better be glad that I love him too much!

We took down all the nasty plaster and also knocked down walls. We took down all the walls on the second floor and reconfigured the upstairs (more to come in later blogs).

The framing is up and insulation in. This room is SO quiet now!


This is the door into our soon-to-be bedroom. Sorry for all the construction mess in the background of all the pictures!

YEA for the drywall!!! We are almost there with this room! I CANNOT wait!!!! I am very excited about the exposed brick on the one side of the room. There are better pictures of it.

The ceiling in the bedroom.