I love a good before and after room reveal how about you? I especially love it when it is my house! That means that we are making more progress with our fix-er upper! And although we are moving slowly now and doing one room at a time at the moment, each room is SO wonderfully great when it is finished! This is officially the first of the 4 bedrooms we have in this house! We still have 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a kitchen and a laundry room to gut–just in case you were wondering what we have left to do! If you are wondering about BEFORE photos, check them out here and here! We have finished the large living room, dining room and sitting room. The eat-in space and the office area are also finished from this summers BIG renovations! You can see more of the photos of that process in my “house tour” and here, here, here and here!
I know the room isn’t perfectly decorated and perhaps a little small and pain, but I love it.
It is now our “temporary” master while we get to serious work on the upstairs next! We were hunkering down upstairs in an unfinished room since we have been in our house so it is nice to be in a finished room even though it is tiny!
It looks even smaller than the before photo even, but that is because we have a queen sized bed in the room when the post owners had a full sized bed in their red version of the room.
I know the before photo may seem like the room doesn’t need thatttt much work…. trust me, I said that at one time…
But when we discovered that the lovely red paint covered not one but TWO layers of old wall paper that would NOT come off without ruining the drywall behind it we knew we were in trouble. But to make matters worse when we did our summer renovations of our living space we discovered the worst of worst things you can discover about an old house–horrible electrical. Yes, it is the worst thing because their is officially no way to NOT tear down every single wall to get at it. And so bedroom renovations like this one become a bigger deal!
Let me take you through the journey we went through to get to the end result!
Step one, clean out the room that was acting as my temporary craft storage space.
Step two, demolition, tear down the drywall and tear up the carpeting. Then go through and take out carpet staples on the floor and nails on the studs oh and get rid of that dangerous old electrical work!!!
Step three, not pictured, clean out room, install new electrical, and insulation while we were at it and then clean up and get ready for the fun step.
Step four, the fun step, drywall! This is the ONLY part that we did not do on our own. Drywall, texturing, priming and painted white!
Step five, paint pre trim and flooring–painting is SO easy at this step!
Step six, install electrical lighting and covers for the walls.
Step seven, install flooring. This was a part we had though about hiring out as well… but we got brave and did it and turns out is was SO easy! Our flooring was laminate and it just clicked and locked into place, it was great!
Step eight, (not pictured) install casing and trim. My job with this step was to fill in the nail holes after the trim was up! Then we touched up the nail holes with paint.
And now we have ONE finished room! And I love it! New paint smell and all!
And now that we are moved out of our unfinished master upstairs, it means that progress will start really happening up there! The master and the nursery are up there… and they are VERY high on my priority list–I mean how can they not be now?! We have a July 14th deadline folks! And in reality I need to be up there decorating wayyy before that! The nursery that is!
And since this blog is all about real life and not just the pretty stuff, I feel I must share this last photo, the photo of the one unfinished part of the room…
The closet.
Someday it will have doors and shelving and a normal rack for hanging clothing… but for right now, with this being our temporary room we got a little creative since we were tight on space and decided to stick a dresser in there and use a shower curtain rod supported by a couple of nails as my clothes hanging area. And you know what? It works great!
Not to bad for our first room renovation right?
Have you renovated before??!!
Do you understand the pains and the joys that go along with it?
Again to check out more of our renovations up to this point, check out the “home tour” here!
What a great room! I love everything about it. Those bedside tables are beautiful! There’s not a thing I don’t love. Congrats on having a restful place to sleep!
beautiful! so relaxing and soothing and i also love the bedside tables!
You’ve done a lovely job – your bedroom looks beautiful!
This room is very pretty and the soft colors gives it a very relaxed look. Great work!
Looks great. I love a total room redo.
I looks great Jaime!! I love it! That starfish pillow on your bed is too cute!! I want it!!
This looks great!
Gorgeous! I love the mirrors above the bed! You did an amazing job.
It’s beautiful! And, yes, I feel your pain.:) Renovating always seems to set off the domino effect ~ one thing leads to another…How lovely to have a place to rest your weary head at night. The “no closet door” makes me laugh,too. We seem to always end up in houses with no closet doors! What’s up with that anyway??:)
Jaime, that is beautiful! I love the bedding and the color and the mirrors above the beautiful headboard, all of it! I love that you put wood flooring in there too. That is one of my dream things on the wish list is to replace all the carpeting with wood floors someday. It turned out so nice. After a long day, it must be so nice to go into such a pretty and serene room. What a great job. Sharon
love the look and all the effort to get here….what a challenge,congrats
Gorgeously peaceful, Jaime! How nice to be able to relax in a finished space at the end of the day! Onward!
xo Heidi
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!! It turned out beautifully!!!
It is beautiful! I was just about to click ‘pin’ on your bedside table when I read it wasn’t done… but I love it just how it is
at least in the picture.
Thanks for sharing!
Oh I love how calming it feels- beautiful!
So pretty and calm, love the transformation!
Oh wow this looks amazing! I love how this came out!
This was amazing! Thanks for sharing. WOW!
Oh my gosh, you did an amazing job! It looks so serene and peaceful! I love the vintage beside dresser – so cool. Beautiful!!!
Goodness!! Now that’s an amazingly perfect bedroom!! LOVE IT!
Beautiful, cozy room! We have done a little renovating to our house, but nothing like what you are tackling! I know it is great fun coupled with great exhaustion! The end result will be amazing! Life to the full, Melissa
Gorgeous! I always find renovations are bigger jobs than you think they will be. We thought that our bedroom would be a case of removing old wallpaper, taking out some ugly fitted cupboards, a little patching up, etc. Actually when we took the cupboards out we realised one was concealing a hole in the ceiling, and peeling off wallpaper revealed crumbling walls. We got there in the end, but it was not the easiest room re-do!
It is lovely!! What is the wall color! I’m in the process of redoing our Master bedroom color..long story…and looking for a blue grey is really a challenge! I love yours! I love your chippy night stand too!! Looks great! Happy you have a peaceful relaxing place to rest before becoming a mommy and you won’t sleep through the night for a while! LOL
I love what you did with the bedroom! SO pretty!
This turned out amazing!! Love it!
This is just gorgeous! Come help me please!?
This is absolutely STUNNING, Jamie!! I’ve been through home renovations and I applaud your patience. And I have to say…you are doing one fabulous job. Seriously love this space!! ENJOY!
Looks beautiful! It’s amazing what a difference it makes to have a peaceful, beautiful place to sleep!
Such a beautiful room! Love it!