Boys Room Reveal

For all those who have been asking for pics of the boys room all finished, here it is. It's not perfect and we don't care, because we know that they will probably destroy it in some fashion at some point. They'll either knock a hole in a wall or draw on a wall or... I'm gonna stop speculating there as there is no telling what might happen in there. Boys are weird, and ours ain't misbehavin' but they are boys. Anyway, here's a little before so that you can appreciate the effort. Here's what they had when they moved down here.

 The view from the door. Dark is about all I can think of here.

 From the door to the right. Still dark, and you gotta love that kinds pinky beige-y paint.

Here is the piece de resistance, the "wall" that divided my room from their room.












You can see the construction phase of the reno here.

Anyway, after a weekend renovation turned into TWO WEEKS, here is what we have now.

 The view from the door. Yay, there's light!

The view from the door to the right.We'd buy them real furniture for their clothes, but they'd just color on it or put stickers on it or ruin it in some other way so we stick with the cheap plastic bins that they don't acknowledge enough to try to tear up. It's the same principle about cheap sunglasses vs expensive ones, you know, you pay alot of money for them and lose them the first day, but those .99 ones from a gas station, you can drive from Nashville to Reno with them on the top of your car, pick 'em up and put them on when you get there.

This is an interesting situation. They *had* a huge console tv that took up waay too much space so we gave it away. They now have a computer (which has been living in a pile in random places in the house for like a year). They will eventually get a t.v. that, while smaller, will be on the wall and up high enough that they can't sit with their faces plastered to the screen. The wires and such will be straightened out at some point, but for now, meh.

This is just to the left of the door when you walk in. By shifting the bed down to the other end, it feels a little more open when you walk in. It'll also keep them from peeking out the door from bed when we are up and they are not. Oh, by the way this is a real wall and it is painted a nice latte color. The trim is now white instead of whatever that other color was.






Let's recap so that you don't have to keep scrolling up and down.

 BEFORE

 AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER!!!!!!

So there you have it, folks, the latest renovation at our house.

~Kellie~

Moving Mountains

Ok, so we're not really moving mountains over here, but we are building walls! A wall to be exact, and it feels like a mountain has been lifted off my shoulders. This new wall officially divides my office from the boys room and also makes our house a real 4 bedroom since they have 4 walls, a door, a closet, and a window. Helloooo added property value. Ok, maybe not but whatever! I'll take whatever I can get as long as it means not having them peeking over the wall to see what I'm doing, or hearing every word uttered over there, ooh ooh, and my favorite, I can work late at night or early in the morning and turn the light on without bothering them. It's not sound proof enough to run the machine, but I'm not sure that anything short of a bunker would do that and let's face it, I'm not really into working super early or super late when it involves sharp pointy things moving at a high rate of speed. The transformations are not complete, but here are some pics to get you guys up to speed.

Ok, so the pic on the left shows my temporary wall during construction/demolition/whatever you want to call it. It may actually be better than what was there before, just kidding! Most of the boys crap got crammed into my office, and a nice plastic sheet was screwed to the ceiling via a piece of scrap wood, and duct taped to the wall. Not our best plan with the duct tape, but it did what it was supposed to do and the wall has to be refinished anyway so... It was very important to keep dust and dirt and the like on the boys side of the wall and AWAY from my machines which were covered in their own little covers in addition to this massive plastic wall.
The photo on the right shows what we saw when we removed what we thought was the interior wall but as it turned out there was a wall within the wall. That explained alot as to why the crap we could rarely hit a stud in the wall, and why there were seemingly studs going side to side with huge spans between vertical studs. So let me break it down for you as to why we saw this. They poured a slab for the garage, and it had a rim around it. Think of a cookie sheet, that's kinda what they poured. Anyway, when they decided to convert said garage into living space they encountered the aforementioned rim. To get around having a weird rim inside the room, they framed a fake wall on top of it so that the rim was in the wall and the drywall went all the way to the floor like a normal wall. They did hide/get around the problem, and since the framing was just to hold the drywall up, they used the fastest, cheapest, crappiest way to do it. Now you know. This pic also shows the new header for the window going in.

So in these pics, we see daylight! YAY! On the left, we see that the window has been completely framed out, and the last of the siding is being removed. That's Henry on the outside and his dad on the inside who is accompanied by his trusty sidekick, Lexy. Oh the dog fur in my house after 3 days of TWO dogs inside. She's a super sweetie, so I don't mind. All the excitement actually wore Bromley out and he had to take a day long nap to recover. YESSSSS!!
So the pic on the right shows the window installed. The boys have a nice view of the side of our neighbor's house. I asked them about this and they said they didn't mind since they have no windows on that side anyway. A few of my plants were smashed flat during all this, but the are resilient and will bounce back or come back up next year so whatever. It's a small price to pay for progress like this. And speaking of progress...

 The boys have THIS!! 

 I, on the other hand, have THIS, but I'm ok with it. One disaster at a time and this was always part of the plan. We will have to have their room finished so that all of their stuff (which is scattered all over the house) can be moved back into their room so that MY stuff can all be moved out so that the room can be made into a disaster area. The ceiling will have to be scraped, some wallpaper border removed, and of course, the wall will have to be covered. Even in its current state, it's much better than THIS, which is what I had before.

Hey, speaking of this, does anyone need any bifold closet doors?
~Kellie~