Polishing up the Bedroom

I finished the master bedroom recently, well actually awhile ago, but I’m finally getting around to posting the photos.  I didn’t really have much to do in this room since the wood floors were already refinished, but there was an outdated maroon floral border and some forest green curtains that didn’t quite work for me.  When I took these curtains down, the room suddenly brightened up and the light came through.

Here is the only before picture I took.

Well, actually I guess there were two.

I took down the border, which was surprisingly hard because little bits of the paper were stuck to the wall.  After getting it all down with some hot water spray, I painted the room a similar neutral color just so it was fresh.  I tried to wait until the sun came out for the pictures, but it seems the weather is not going to cooperate.  We have had non-stop rain for the last couple of days, including a couple tornadoes and golf-ball sized hail, so the photos aren’t as bright as I had hoped.

The curtains helped to lighten things up, and I really like this bedspread – it has such cute buttons and a beautiful flower print.

And the rest of the room…

That’s as far as we’ve gotten with the room, but I have some plans for the closet and for the furniture in the room.  Eventually the two nightstands from the garage sale will be in here, and I would also like to get some pictures up on the walls.  I’m hoping to put this one up behind the bed…. (got the picture from easyart.com)

Hopefully we’ll get down to the decorating details sometime in the near future, but until then it’s on to the living room floor!  I took my last final today so I’m free to work on whatever I want now, and floor refinishing is first on the list.

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Last week the time came to get rid of the dusty, smelly carpet in the living and dining room.  I decided at some point that I could not walk across it barefoot one more time, and I couldn’t take the smells drifting from the carpet into the kitchen.  I’m not sure what was hidden amongst the 30 year old fibers, but the heat and humidity were really bringing out the worst in it.  Jimmee had warned me not to start another project in the midst of the other things going on, but he was out of town for a week and I had a little free time on my hands so I thought I should go ahead and get a head start.

There was another reason I felt compelled to pull up all the carpet ,and it starts with the floor refinisher coming by to give me a quote.  I had pulled up some of the carpet in the dining room to show him what he would have to work with, and he thought everything looked fine.  As we were discussing the details, he informed me that animal urine is one of the worst things for wood floors, and it can really make the project more expensive if he finds spots like that under the carpet.  At this exact moment, Kitty (out dog), walks into the room, walks straight past us to the carpeted area, squats and pees.  There was no hesitation, she just walked out right in front of us all and relieved herself.  She acted like this is her usual routine, and I was horrified and the floor refinisher was horrified (he tried to keep taking like nothing had happened but i could tell).  Bottom line, the carpet had to go… very quickly.

This is the room pre-carpet pull up….

The next photo is of the large mirror that Jimmee took down before he left.  There was nothing good about that mirror, and I definitely didn’t need to see myself up close every morning walking past it.  It was a little too much for us, but there was a very nice man who came by our trash and was so happy to have it for his house.  He tied it to the top of his car and was on his way.

The last picture of the room is with the wallpaper coming down.  This stuff just peeled right off… some of the glue had turned to dust and so the paper was already falling off.  Other parts of the glue had turned to stone instead, and that stuff was a killer to get off.

The last two pictures are of the beautiful hardwood floors we found underneath of the carpet.  I’m a little sad because I took pictures of the whole process, and now those pictures are nowhere to be found on my memory card.  I really like my camera, but I’m beginning to question it’s worth if it can’t keep up with my pictures.  Sometimes they’re there and sometimes they’re not, and the other day some came back from a year and a half ago.  So I now have pictures of Jimmeee and I with some Christmas light displays and no wood floor pictures.

oh, and bear in mind this is before the re-finishing so they will look like new in a couple of weeks…

the last picture is of our wall color choices.  We picked one called “Rope” by Valspar for the top and a color called “Pale Bloom” for the lower wood half.  This week is painting week so I’ll post some pictures next week of the results!

(the color we chose is in the top left corner)

Hope you guys enjoy and let me know what you think!  :)