Office - Complete!

When M&J were discussing what was needed in their future home, an office was a must. M works from home for a national commodity association, so he needed a place to store his supplies, work and keep all his things separate from J's.

The home has 3 bedrooms, so it worked out perfectly to have their master bedroom, a guest bedroom and an office for M. By process of elimination, the "airplane" room became the office. There was a beautiful (please note the sarcasm, here) blue color painted on one wall in the airplane room. Thankfully, the three other walls in that room had already been painted white over the gorgeous primary yellow color. M&J always talked about putting purple in a room (We are K-State Grads, after all...) and so by elimination, the purple was painted over that AWFUL (I'll just come out and say it) blue. 

 The Airplane Room - Before

(Take note of the curtains, the blue wall

and the traces of yellow behind the white walls)

 Yay for Blue!

 The Optional Shades of

Purple and Taupe for the Office Walls

Before Picture of the Closet and "White" Wall -

Notice all the yellow paint along the baseboard

 After the Closet was Repainted

 There's that Purple and White - GO CATS!

 After the Brown Paint

 New Light, New Paint

(The hole in the wall is the access to the bathtub in the full bath.)

 After the Carpet was Removed - No Sanding Done

 Installing a New Floor Vent in the Office

The Office - After Furniture, Before Decor

After the floors were complete, we moved in a rug and M's furniture as soon as possible, as he had been without an actual work space for a few months. He was very happy to finally have a desk, a permanent place for his printer and storage for all his supplies. Although the furniture is mismatched, it all serves a purpose and will eventually be replaced with something more functional and a little easier on the eyes...

Master Bedroom - Complete!

Our master bedroom wasn't a huge project, but it definitely wasn't a walk in the park. And that is why we lived like this before we moved into our bedroom:

 The Guest Bedroom - Our Bedroom for 3 Months - Quite the accommodations...

We then chose paint colors for the bedroom walls - we eventually chose the color on the far right. It is difficult to see the exact color since the paint is still drying.

We tore out the blue carpet and all the trim, as well as repainted in our bedroom. The closet doors came off and the closet was cleaned up and repainted as well.

After tearing out the carpet and painting the room, we were ready for the floors to be refinished by a friend of the family.

 After Paint

 After Paint - With Our New Closet

 After a Partial Sand

 Completely Sanded - No Top Coat

After the Top Coat - New Light Fixture Installed

We had to wait one week before we could walk on the floors or put any furniture in the room. At the end of the week, the baseboard, window and door trim was added to the room. 

M&J got the rub protector down, along with their new rug, to protect the floors, and then started moving in the furniture and hanging the curtains. They didn't get anything hung on the walls right away - they were still trying to decide what decor would be put up in what rooms.

 The Master Bedroom

 Another View of the Master Bedroom

 A View of the Closet

M&J were able to move into their bedroom about one week before their First Anniversary. They were SO excited to be off of that mattress on the floor and have at least one room that was (somewhat) complete.

Decor will still need to be hung in the room, and we'll also be changing out all of the closet doors as well as hardware. M&J want to add crown molding to bedroom as well, but that will not be added until the rest of the home has trim and other projects are complete. The room will also be getting a new door as the door to this bedroom was pretty beat up.

M&J are loving this new room and have really enjoyed having a place to go to get away from all the construction and renovating. It is definitely a retreat for them and they love the dark, chocolate color with the trim and room accents.

Half Bath - Complete!

Our half bath ended up being quite the project.

We started with this:

Note the beautiful lights surrounding the mirror (there was always a solid 5 seconds between the time you flipped the switch and when the light actually came on). In the first photo, you can see the large cabinet that sat right inside the doorway. It was so large that the knees of J's very short legs touched the side of the cabinet. Not good.

We pulled out the large cabinet, followed by the vanity cabinet. Once those cabinets were out, we tore out all the laminate.

We followed by removing the lights and the vanity cabinet and patching the hole where it once sat.

The next morning, we uninstalled the sink and as we were trying to remove one last pipe to replace it, it ripped in half and dropped a big bomb on our plans to renovate this half bathroom in one weekend.

 The old sink.

 Hmm... no wonder it practically fell off when we tried to uninstall it. Talk about corrosion...

 After the paint job, but prior to the new light installation.

 One of J's big contributions for the half bath - painting the trim.

 Not sure if there was more paint on J's hands or on the trim.

M, with the help of a friend, fills in tile backer.

 Installing the new light fixture.

 Definitely an improvement!

Installing the bead board to cover up the textured wall after we chipped off the pink plastic tiles.

 Installing the vanity.

Getting the new toilet ready to be installed - wonder how many people laughed as they drove by and looked into our open garage!?!

 Putting together the new toilet and getting it ready to install.

And we ended with this - the finished product! It was definitely a big project, but we're glad to have a new room that is complete, clean and has a modern look.