April 2, 2016

Lily's new room!

When we first moved into our house, the thought of giving Lily the bedroom with a slider to the deck wasn't even a thought. She didn't need that big bedroom - she'd survive in her little one with a little closet. But she's not such a little person anymore so we thought we might as well ask her if she wanted to move into a bigger room. She said no. Ha. Well. You're doing it anyway.

The upstairs guest bedroom was a disaster. It had awful crown molding along the ceiling, water spots on the ceiling, nails all over the wall, and the windows all needed to be painted too. In December on my time off I thought I'd knock out painting the windows, the ceiling, and the walls. I only got as far as priming the windows before I was ready to give it up and call a painter. Especially once Mike put a hammer through the wall - not once - but twice trying to take all of the nails out of the wall. So that bedroom has sat there for months a complete and utter unusable mess. It finally started to eat at me. I was determined to get it done and get Lily moved in there whether she wanted to or not.

So I finished painting the windows, ceilings, and walls in about a week. A huge thanks to my parents who entertained Lily while we slapped on a couple coats of paint over Easter weekend and then took her overnight for a couple of days so we could put closet shelving in, hang window treatments, and move the entire contents of her bedroom from one room to another. And a huge thank you to my husband who puts up with my "crazy" DIY ideas.

I didn't hate the color of the room before, a grayish blue, that seemed to bring the water right inside. I did hate the oak colored windows and unfinished trim. Either way everything had to be painted. Lily wanted pink walls but we negotiated pink comforter and curtains for the leftover gray paint we had in a five gallon bucket from the basement remodel.

See how there's snow on the ground? That's because I started this back in December.