Guest Bedroom- A year of Difference

 

Here is the guest bedroom after finishing the drywall and putting in the new windows.  Still didn't have the new ceiling or floors.  This picture was taken almost a year ago exactly.

 

 

This is the guest bedroom today.  The window still needs to be trimmed out, and there are a few decorating things it lacks, but in general it looks pretty close to finished.

 

The guest bedroom a year ago.

 

The bed today, with new headboard hung.

 

This headboard was made using a 30"x80" hollow core door cut down to 30"x60".  I had a pillow that was weird and kind of gross that I tore open to find that it laid flat the same size as my headboard would be.  That may not make any sense.  Oh well.  My mother-in-law helped me with this project last weekend.  We glued down the stretched open pillow, then stretched and stapled batting over the whole thing.  We then took two $10 curtain panels from Fred's, tore them into 3 inch strips long ways and short ways, stapled the top, and wove the pieces.  Once woven, they were all secured on the back with my staple gun.  I may go back someday and add a ribbon detail around the edge... but who knows.  Well, this post goes out to my mom who always likes to see what new things we have done.  Thanks for the support.

Bookshelf and Windowseat

This is one of the original photos I took of our house, pre demolition.  Looking back, I have to laugh a little at my ignorance as to what it would take to transform this wreck of a house.  With more than two years under my belt of home renovation I can finally see rooms as what they will be.  Lovely, functional spaces in our home.

 

This is the living room after the floor was torn up, the wall on the right had been redone, but still lacked new windows and ceiling.

 

This is what the living room book case looks like today.  I have the doors put on and the shelves organized.  I would like to put trim on the window seat, but that is really the last project for that area.

 

Here's a look at the left bookshelf, and a better view of the doors with their eyebrow arch.  I was hoping it would complement the adjacent archway.

 

I love collecting things, which you will see when I post pictures of the bookcase in the dining room.  I collect vintage cameras, globes, keys, and such.  I also love bikes.  Matt just got me a vintage Sears bike we will have to fix up.

 

Here is the window seat.  Have I noted yet that my awesome husband built all of this, the bookcases, the window seats, the ceiling, and even replaced the windows.  He's a good man to let me design whatever suits my fancy and then he builds it.  We make a good team.  The window seat has storage space that you can get to from under the cushion.  My mother-in-law did an amazing job covering that giant cushion for me.

 

A shot of the other bookcase.  More of my camera and globe collections.