Belle's Bedroom

I am really bad at taking indoor pictures, especially trying to capture the overall look of a room, but here it is, anyway. If you can look past the messy bed and clutter...

I got another old window and put scrapbook paper behind it for a fake headboard. The letters were cut out by one of my former students and I painted, modpodged, and embellished them. I really like this wall.

You may think the second picture is meant to show how bad I am at faux-finish painting (It's not my fault, I swear. The walls have an insane amount of texture.) BUT the real purpose is to tell you a funny story. Belle was using the ledge around the room to showcase her collection of bells, rocks, knick-knacks, and toys and the clutter was driving me nuts. Even when her room was clean it looked like a mess. So I hung up the wall shelves and we arranged her collections and we put all the toys in her closet. I was admiring our work, thinking it looked pretty good, when she declared, "I look poor now!". Because she couldn't see everything she owned all at once, she thought it looked like she had nothing! Gotta love the perspective of an eight year-old.

Family Room

This room was a lot of work! The wallpaper was nearly impossible to remove and the walls got really damaged in the process, so we had to retexture. Also painting the wainscoting was not easy, it required lots of taping off and filling in cracks and nail holes (time consuming!) Since I've used dark colors before I was worried that the "barn red" that I chose would be a pain too (lots of coats) but we got some really good quality paint and it covered well-yea! Now for the pictures... Drumroll, please!

Before:

After:

Okay, I cheated, I didn't take a picture behind the couch where the computer desk used to be, but trust me it's wide-open now. I just didn't want you to see the ladder that we used for installing the home theater speakers or the pile of frames that are yet to be hung up :)

Before and after

I really want to share more pictures of the house with you now that the painting is almost complete and furniture is in, but I also want to wait until I get the walls decorated so I'm really torn! For now, here are some pictures of the entryway.


Before:
After: This is just to the left, when you come in the door. I took down the wallpaper that was here and painted the walls and trim.


I wish I were a better photographer!

Ch ch ch changes

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After:

This is ground zero for my painting supplies so it's kind of a mess in here, but I was so excited to get this room painted and show the transformation. Besides removing wallpaper and covering up the sponge-paint I painted all the trim, doors, and the ugly beam (you can kind of see it in the uppper corner of the second picture). I love it. I'm using these two colors in most of the house with a few color accents here and there so it's a good thing I'm happy with how this room turned out! The sheetrocking and texturizing of the living room walls is complete today so, I'll have lots more makeover pictures to share after this weekend.