Where We Lay Our Heads

So while we have moved into our house, we haven't moved into our Master Suite yet since the bathroom isn't finished yet and most of the supplies for the bathroom have been living in the bedroom. Instead we've been staying in the largest of the guest bedrooms (I call it the green room, Landon calls it the not-purple room).  All the bedrooms are still something of a work in progress since a lot of furniture will move around once we move into the master bedroom, but we've started to get things more settled.  I though now might be a good time to give a little more before/after information on where we are with the two guest bedrooms.

First up, the Green Bedroom.  I started out as a dingy yellow office that looked like this when we first got the house:

 And, yes, the giant desk is now ours.  I'll sell it to you if you want it since it's currently living in the middle of our garage and taking up roughly the space of a small car.  It's a nice solid desk, but it's entirely too big for two people that both use laptops all the time.

During the reno process, the room looked something like this:

Carpet and Trim gone.  Walls sanded and patched.

New light switches installed for the new overhead fan/light.

This was after I discovered that the old owners had painted over a
wallpaper border about 5 coats of paint ago.  Parts of it were
peeling off, so I pulled it down before I primed and painted.

And the drywall patch where we had to pull wires
for the fan/light and switches.

After new floors, lots of wall patches, fresh paint, a new fan, new doors, and all new trim, the room is looking something like this:

The bedding is from my old townhouse.  I bought it at Macy's and I love the green.  The rug came from Landon's house--it was in his bedroom there.  The curtains were also from my townhouse, but there they lived in the living room.  They're the nice insulated ones so they keep the room very dark and very warm (necessary since the window in that room is cracked and all the windows are drafty.) The mismatched dressers are mine and Landon's.  His (the one near the door) will move into the master once we're in there.  Mine will stay and I'll use the dresser that matches his for the time being.  I'd also like to find/make a head board for this room to make it look nicer and more finished.  I don't have a picture of them, but I've also add two framed pieces of "art" that I found at Goodwill and hung on either side of the window.  The mat matches the curtains and the art is dried, pressed herbs.  It works with the nature vibe we have going on  in there pretty well.

The other guest bedroom is now known as the Purple Room due to the purple IKEA bed spread in there.  It began life looking like this:

You only get one picture because it had to be the most uninteresting room on the planet.  Just a giant beige box with crappy carpet, bumpy walls, and a wacky closet door.  During the reno we did some work: 

The weird closet door.  The closet extends from the wall
to about six feet to the left of the current opening.
It is a nice sized closet, but most of it wasn't useful.

So we widened the door.  This was my first time using the saw.

Beige box with no carpet.

Must like in the other room, it got a new floor, lots of work on the walls, new paint on the walls and ceilings, a new closet opening (we still need to put the bi-fold doors in ), a new ceiling fan, and some furniture and now it looks like this:

The new closet opening.  No doors yet.

There are currently two dressers in this room, one will be mine once we get into the master and one holds all of my crafting supplies and will eventually live in the nook in the craft room.  But for now, they both have a home in here.  At some point this room will get my childhood bedroom set which includes a headboard/footboard, dresser, and desk.  The bed clothes will stay the same, and rug (also from IKEA) will stay since I like it.  The curtains are also from IKEA.  I found them in the As-Is section for $8 each, which is awesome.  I still need to hem them, but currently the extra fabric serves as a nice cat bed when the sun is out.  The large dark bookcase came with the house and has been holding random tools and house related stuff.  Eventually it is going to get a fresh coat of paint and will find a new home somewhere, but that has to wait until it warms up enough to work on it outside.

So, that's where we are in terms of bedrooms so far.  They aren't done yet, but we're getting there.  And when I look at the before and after shots, I can see exactly how far we've come.