Moving Day!

Well.. really more like Moving BACK IN Day.... but still exciting for us! Haha


So, a quick recap.  (Or you can re-read the whole first post... if you're bored.)
 

- This all started because I ordered our first ever NICE set of bedding... and couldn't force myself to put it on in our current, meh bedroom conditions.

 - Here's what our bedroom looked like on the morning of Monday Jan 12.... when I went up to wash the walls and prep... then decided I didn't WANT to just paint over the paneling... I wanted it gone. And Jared said ok. (incidentally, our room seems small because (a) we have a king size bed and (b) it is small. We switched the rooms all around awhile back.... All 3 boys are sharing the largest/master bedroom now... and the 3rd is being used as a crafting/sewing/storage room right now. It just works out better that way.)

- And when I last left you - in this whole bedroom-remodel-blogging saga thing - this is basically where we were... paneling gone, carpet gone, ceiling tiles gone, and in the process of drywalling and mudding:

And NOW... for the REST of the story..... ;)


So here's what happened next...


We finished up the mudding/sanding/mudding/sanding portion of the project - including the ceiling.  And we even had some surprise help with that part from Jared's brother Tyler one day! (Even though I forgot to take a picture, you can trust me. It really happened.)


And then came Cleaning. Wiping down every wall and every baseboard.. widow frame... the entire ceiling...closets and doors...  to get off all that drywalling/mudding/sanding dust.  And, again, there are no pictures (Blogger of the Year, I know). But this time it's just because I am the photographer... and also the cleaner. And it's beyond my current skill-set to clean and snap photos at the same time. (But I'll keep practicing. Seems like this could be a good skill to have. Ya know, DOCUMENT the cleaning... since it's generally completely messed up again within 10 minutes... But, I digress.)


Next, it was Prime Time.

Then we painted all the White: Ceiling, baseboards, and closets... and then the Gray/Tan walls... and we ended up with this:

 (Did you notice that floor yet? Painted partly blue and partly brown?)

 Oh! And somewhere in the middle of all of this I had my first experience with Chalk Paint! I used it to inexpensively transform our dressers and my little night stand. (I made my own - because the Annie Sloan stuff is $$$! - and I found this website very helpful. Just fyi :))

 (I didn't take very good "Before" pictures... but you can see the dressers more if you scroll back to the top and see the general "Before" pictures of the room)

And then it was FINALLY time for the floor!!!


Now, we went back and forth and round and round with what to do with this floor:

Paint it white, like the other third bedroom/craft room floor? (No. Too hard to keep nice. I'm not careful enough... oh, and Jared HATES it. lol... so... there was that.)

Rent a sander and refinish it? (Nope. Too much time, too much money, too much more mess to deal with again.)

Carpet? (No. In general, I don't like carpet. And there is NO other carpet in my house.)

Watch for a deal and put a new hardwood floor over top of it? (No. Money, time, effort, silliness...)

 Just leave it the way it is - bc our bed is huge and will basically cover up the whole floor anyway, and buy a throw rug or two? (No. It is about time that we had at least ONE ROOM COMPLETELY FINISHED IN THIS HOUSE.)

And by now, patience was wearing thin.

And we were tired of sleeping downstairs in the toy room.


So, we revisited paint. And looked up inspiration. Thought about time/money/my abilities - since Jared works all day and this was my fault, er, project to begin with.


And decided to paint. But not white....:

 Proof I helped. Ha.

 It's a super glossy, dark dark brown called Fired Earth (or something)

And I LOVE it. 

2 coats of floor paint, 4 coats of polyurethane, quarter round on the baseboards, new hinges on the closets, and curtain rods up....

 

 

 And yesterday was the day we have been waiting for.... Move (back) In Day!!!!

 It's small. But it's as perfect as we could make it.

And I love it.

 The only thing left to do is put the rest of the handles/knobs on the dressers 

(to replace the ones we've lost and broken over the years) 

but they came in the mail last week and that will be done tomorrow!

And I got to put my pretty new bedding in my pretty new room. :)

(and now all that it's basically the nicest room in our house... I just want to spend all day in there. Admiring my amazing handyman husband's workmanship♥)