Guest Bedroom!

Oh my I am squealing with delight! It has been a L-O-N-G week working on the guest bedroom but it is finally done! Quite a few bumps in the road with things that were suppose to be simple and a few more trips to Menard's then we had thought we'd be making and it now looks amazing if I do say so myself! And by the way, pictures don't do it justice! The golden tan color it now is, is so much more richer in person! But you'll just have to take my word for it! :) And no, the door is not put back on yet. And there's only 2 things hung on the wall, and the rest are sitting in the closet for a later date of when I've decided to figure out exactly where it all should be hung. These are the first holes we've put in the walls since moving in, so I wasn't going to go crazy an hang stuff and then regret it in a week and have to patch even more holes on the brand new painted walls!

Anyways let me tell you a few things that went wrong. I started with painting the closet. We washed the walls only to find the texture would crumble every time we touched it. Hence it hadn't ever even had a coat of paint on it. Totally crazy. So I painted that. And got frustrated enough with that I was ready to throw in the towel. LOL! Then, painted the ceiling. And that's one thing I inherited from my father. Horrible circulation in my arms. Honestly within a minute of having them above my head they start to tingle, and within 2 minutes they full blown have no feeling left. So its a lot of up down up down with it. :) Anyways got one coat done. Realize another coat has to be done. Begged hubby to do it while I had to work that night. He did it, thankfully, and came home to realize yet another coat had to be done. Seriously? Three coats of white going over an off-white color? Who would of thought. Anyways, after three coats there was just a good handful of spots to patch up that looked like roller marks for a fourth coat. Yipes. So thats what we did. Now there happens to be one spot that still bothers hubby, so when we do our next project painting something white hes going to patch that one spot up. Yesh. Anyways that took a lot longer then expected.

Then I painted around all trim with the tan color. That went good. Then Levi painted with the roller all the walls. He pretty much drenched the walls in paint. Thank goodness, because then I only had to go around the trim one more time and it was done! Sweet! So then I remembered the fact that our closet the shelf/hanging stuff is super low. Like if you go in your closet and look at where your hanging stuff hangs, ours is eye level with my eye. Levi stands looking in our closet and he has to look down! LOL! Like he can see the entire top of the shelf, less where the hanging stuff is. So weird! So I thought, shoot I bet the guest closet is the same! Go and check, and yep it is! So I say before we put it all back together, lets move it up! Okay easy right? Yea right! Where they had the braces drilled had studs but go 6 inches up from that and there is no studs! Obviously they rigged something up just to make it possible to hang one right in the middle and one right on both ends of the closet. So another trip to Menard's and we bought a 1x12 to cut the length of the closet and put that attached to the studs and then attach the shelf/poll brackets where they belong to it! Of course we had to paint that two coats and such. Oh and we bought a new fan for the guest bedroom because as you'll see in the pictures the old one was WAY too big for the bedroom. So we bought one that fit much better for the room size! And our room happens to have a small one in it, so when we redo our room we will pull that one out and put the big one in! Yay!

Anyways, I'll stop blabbing! You just want to see the pictures anyways! :)

Looking in at the bedroom before.. of course it wasn't all 'set up' and kind of just thrown together with random pictures and what not laying all over, but you get the point. :)
looking back towards the door.. again stuff sitting all over.
looking at the closet.. and all of the Christmas presents that I had to wrap still! Well not all of that is Christmas present.. theres a random blanket in there, some pictures behind there, and a stack of pants/shorts that don't fit Levi anymore. :) (also note how short the shelf is in this picture!)
Here's during.. the bottom part is the wall.. the top part is the ceiling. Obviously the white part is the new paint. So thats just so you can see what color the wall and ceiling were before. And we thought they were white.. Ha! It actually was a lot worse then it even looks in the picture!
And a picture during.. all cleaned out and taped off painting the ceiling.. took forever!Looking into the bedroom from the door which isn't on yet of course. :) I put the bed together ever so nicely if I do say so myself! Even ironed the bed skirt which I've been wanting to do since I bought it over 2 years ago :) Note the new fan in this picture! It is SO cute!
Looking at the bed.. Definitely need to put something on the wall here... but I am not sure what yet.. or how really. :( Struggling with that part but I love the look of it!
Looking back at the non-existent door. Levi put the mirror back on the dresser, but put it on the opposite way it used to go on (it used to not be stable which was kind of hazardous cause it kept tipping over.) I also switched out the chair to be a more user friendly chair. I put one of the fake plants next to it.. I like it, but it could use something to sit on so its a lil taller.
Looking at the closet. There's the two things we hung! My foot print from 5th grade and the footprint picture. As soon as I saw this bedroom being our guest bedroom I knew that was right where I was going to put that. Kind of big for that wall, but I still love it right there! :)
And a nice clean closet! With a shelf that is a normal height now! You can kind of see a slight line where you can tell the bottom of the 1x12 is. The top of the shelf was below that! So thats approximately how much its moved up. I like it so much better now. :)

Along with all of that, we pretty much cleaned ever service in this room. It has got to be thee cleanest room in the house. I can not say it enough that I think the people who lived here had to have been some of thee dirtiest people ever. I'd just get half way around the room from cleaning just the base board alone and my pail of water would be black. Gross! And the shelf in the closet seriously had 1/4 of an inch of dust on it. Cleaned that off and that original smell of the whole house came rushing back at me! A strange smell of something that seriously reminds me of the smell of warm cat poops. Gross. If it was a shelf that was anywhere else I'd say maybe it was from cat poop but seriously how could it be a shell about 5 1/2 feet up in the air smell like cat poop?! If you have any idea, don't tell me because I'm just going to pretend its NOT possible that a cat would have pooped all over that board as I've washed it 3 times with my bare hands and we are going to still use it. If I do think it had cat poop on it I'd want to replace it and I don't really want to have to do that. LOL! So lets just pretend that's not possible. :)

Okay, that's enough blabbing for now. Later gators!