The Master Bedroom is Painted!

I’m really excited to show you this.

I’ve gotten our master bedroom all painted!

It was kinda a major undertaking.

Was it? I guess I’m just kind of still used to being a renter, and only watching makeovers on tv. I’m out of practice for doing it myself. Those tv makeovers happen so fast, at least from the couch! This felt like forever! By the time I get all our rooms done I’ll be back in the swing of it -- and then I’ll have nothing to do! lol.

The reason it felt like a major undertaking was…

wait…

you want pictures….

I’ll talk your ear off later….

(I write way too much in a single blog post, in way too much detail, about details. But its my blog, and these are my thoughts and the way I think. You can skim if I bore you.)

Here is where we started:

Before

Not terrible. But nowhere near great.

And there was the awkward built-in.

You can’t smell it through your screen, but this house used to reek of wet dog and old-shut-up-home-smell. So I smell that when I look at this photo. Its nearly all better now. Only the slightest of pet-scent in a few spots. And when we are done it will be fully better. But you better believe that carpet was a HUGE part of the smell -- like 98% of it.

Anyway. 

Here is a before look from the bathroom door towards the closet and hallway.

Before

And now the pristine “Progress” Photo. After painting.

Ok so you notice the built in is gone. We tore that out first thing -- we had to in order to refinish the hardwood floor hiding under the carpet.
I talked before how Blake and his dad worked on the wall after that process made some holes.

And now Angle 2: towards the closet.

You’ll notice the closet doors aren’t painted. That’s because we are gonna get different ones, and I didn’t wanna waste paint on something we aren’t keeping. (We might not get around to the doors for a while -- but at some point they are outta here.)

Ok so lets talk about the major undertaking:

Our First Little Spot

I have a done spot!
A teeny tiny done spot!

Well….
kinda.

How bout a “Phase 1” kind done?

It is quite possibly the smallest, least “anything” spot in our house. BUT it feels awesome!

Its our “your home” space -- you know, the one you come in, when you come into your own house.
It’s our attached garage entryway.

It was the only place where no one had painted over brown paneling prior to our moving in. So it was a dark hallway-hole of a spot.

Here is our before:

It was flanked by our yellow eating area of the kitchen.

Straight ahead is the garage.

To the left is our family room.

To the right is our laundry room.

Here is the view of it from our family room, looking into the brown wallpapered laundry room.

Pretty....maybe pretty neurotic

I don't feel like I have very much to show you right now...but I did get some stuff done.

I've had a couple pouty moments where I think "I am NEVER gonna get this house in order."

But then I've had a couple days where I feel unstoppable.

And of course some sick days off in the mix. It's winter (a freakishly snowy winter) with kids. What do I expect?

So here's some pictures. (If you follow me in instagram -- sorry you've seen much of this. But now you can hear a little more about it.)

I found some fantastic handles at Restore (Habitat for Humanity's thrift store -- of home goods.) A quarter a piece!

They are brass with some sort of silver that looks like a mirror insert. With just enough patina for me to love them even more. I can't get over my love for them.

I grabbed them all. Knowing for SURE the are going in the main bathroom upstairs -- I'm wanting to accomplish an edited glamor feel in there -- because it's my bathtub space -- and LOVE a good hot nightly bath to sooth the day away. So a chic glamor space sounds just right in there. So I knew these handles were perfect.

I put them on the vanity in there right away because I couldn't wait one minute to adore them. But they don't really work too much magic in there yet because they don't stand out on the wood...I want to paint the cabinets when we get there...not sure what color -- the walls will tell me once they are not yellow.

I also have them in the downstairs bathroom right now...but I'm not really sold on them in there. (But once again, hard to tell pre-makeover. They could work...but I may look looking for something else.)

I made serious headway on my dresser.

I got a free one off craigslist and I'm giving it a good makeover.

Its the perfect size for the space, I'm thrilled about that. Its in our room now and I'm SO happy with the portion and how it makes the room so much more visually calm.

I don't wanna show you a picture of it right now, because it's not done, and I don't really know for sure how I'm gonna finish it. I need some more time with it.

But for now here is a peak of how I got rid of the 80's craved vines in the drawers by filling it in with wood filler and sanding a bunch of times. Then I primed it because the top and side were laminate so I can't sand that, it needed primer to make paint stick.

(It's not white anymore.)

I also gave some serious thought to how to improve our lighting situation. I looked at restore like 50 times, and craigslist nonstop, hoping to find more lights, but really didn't see anything. So I started to figure out how to make what I have work. 

I have my two free light fixtures from Iowa with me. So after much debate decided to turn them oil rubbed bronze and put them in the eating space and cooking space of the kitchen.

Having a mess of a house can be kinda awesome at times -- like when you can spray paint indoors in the winter! (If I get more time I'll blog a post about the painting process. I learned a few cool things.)