I hope everyone had a nice holiday. We sure did, lots of family came up to visit. I sure love having them all here. With things getting back to normal I need to get back to work! I promised my son that I would start working on his room next, so that it shall be. His birthday is next month and I would love to give him a lovely new room. His is the last of the kids rooms to be renovated, I haven't posted about the other two yet, but will real soon. I have some tweaking yet to do for them to be post worthy.
I'll share pictures of the room I'm about to start on as it sits now. I usually don't like to post "before" pics before I am done but maybe this will light a fire to get it finished quickly!
I just adore the emerald green carpet and cracked drywall, don't you? And that ceiling fan fixture is just to die for! Haha, I kid. I will be stripping out all the trim, sheetrock, and carpet first. Under that sheetrock is more of my amazing tounge and groove bead board. This stuff is 1/2 inch thick, I kid you not. What 10 year old boy wouldn't love this room? Ha, right. He does have an awesome view though!
Here is what I found peeking through the drywall a few months back. By peeking I mean I used a nail bar to yank off a chunk of drywall :)
I will simply repaint the walls once uncovered in my favorite shade of beige and add new trim molding top, bottom, and corners. I love using 1x's for trim. It is simple and fits what the style I like, and it's EASY! I use 1x4's for crown and 1x8's for baseboards. I'm going to repaint the ceiling which is also beadboard and install an new ceiling fan. Eventually, he would like carpet but that just isn't in the budget, so for the mean time I will sand down the original wood floors hiding under that lovely green carpet.
The majority of my house was "updated" in the 1970's so there are lots of interesting things I find unwrapping it all. It may be taking me a looooong time to get through all this renovation but I do see the beauty in the end. I am doing this all by myself while raising three very active kiddos with insane sports schedules. My hubs works very long hours and I like to have it "cleaned up" somewhat before he gets home in the evening. That and dinner, gotta cook dinner!
Lot's to do, guess I better get started! I can't wait to have this one checked off my list!
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