Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Almost finished...with the Craft Room

Well, the craft room is almost finished.  There are a few finishing touches that I have to do.  Another coat or 2 or 3 of white paint on the bathroom floor (decided it was oh so much easier than laying peel and stick tiles).  The white floors make the rooms look huge!  Then I will polyurethene them to add a protective layer.  It is so wonderful.  Here are some teaser pictures that I took tonight (by the way -- water and electricity are on and everything seems to be good to go!).

Here is the bubble wall I painted. I bought a giant compass at Lowe's and went to down drawing the "bubbles" and then I went back and filled them in with paint. Turned out to be really cute!

Here is another picture of the "bubble" wall.  I am so not organized yet!  But getting there!



Here are some additional views of the craft room.  I bought new white miniblinds and my wonderful mother hung them for me.  Everything in here looks so clean and crisp!







There is a little cubby that must have been used as a closet at one time, but in a craft room was pretty much just wasted space.  I ran across some inexpensive plastic shelves at Lowe's (my favorite hardware store) and they fit just perfectly.  Now my soap and scrapbook paper are all arranged in an orderly fashion (once again thanks to my sweet mom)!




Here are two pictures of the floors.  The top picture is the craft room the bottom is of the bathroom.  It had one giant sheet of linoleum laid down with little blue squares.  It was curling at the edges and all around dirty.  It is amazing what a few coats of white paint will do.




This picture is taken looking into the bathroom.  The walls are Neon Mint, and the trim and accents are two different shades of coral.  I didn't want anything too pinky and these really turned out well.  My nautical theme is carrying over in the bathroom a bit.  Instead of hanging a blind over the door in here, I frosted the glass.  It turned out really well.



Here is another picture of the bathroom looking at where the washer and dryer would go.  I also frosted that glass.  It really lets in the light, but provides the privacy I was looking for.



Wow!  What a sense of accomplishment to be so close to done with one part of this massive project.  I have so much still left ahead of me.  Clean, clean, clean then paint, paint, paint!  Such is the life of a renovator.  Bye for now.

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