Once we had all the walls in the new, bigger bedroom framed, it was much easier to picture how it would turn out. Instead of an icky, gross bedroom we just might have a nice, cozy one!
As soon as we had all the walls framed, the exterior walls insulated, and all of the electrical boxes placed and wired, we began working on putting up new drywall.
At the corner by the CH&A unit, we used a lip seam, making a nice, rounded corner. It gave the room a nice, modern look to it!
Andy also finished covering up the old “peak-through” to the living room.
It was a little difficult to get the new drywall and sheetrock to match the old, but Andy used our drywall sprayer over all of the sheetrock. By covering even the old drywall, we were able to blend it much better.
I spent hours and hours painting this room and the ceiling over and over. The ceiling is fairly low, and it took at least three or four coats to cover up the old blue paint. People, for the sake of any people who will own your house after you…do
not paint your ceiling blue. It’s absolutely ridiculous to cover up! (Sorry, no pics…this was a project all on my lonesome.)
In early November, my sister Victoria came to visit and she helped us paint the room. We choose to leave most of the walls plain antique white, and paint two of the walls a bright green for an accent.
The room is south facing, so the green color is very cheery and colorful. By the way, these pictures don’t really do the color justice. Stay tuned for some later pictures of how great it looks!
We also replaced the old closet door with a new paneled one (one of several we bought at an auction last summer).
We also painted the door to the small closet containing the CH&A unit and electrical box white as well. We plan to build shelves around it to make it a bit less awkward.
We then added new white trim. I also salvaged and refinished some of the old trim and we used it too. (More abut that later.
Everything was really starting to come together!
Next up, “Carpeting is Hard Work”.
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