Outside

I wanted to utilize the tiny little patio outside Kay's bedroom window so I dug my old bistro table out of storage and bought some new cushions. I think it came out kind of cute.

The Grand Finale

The paint color is called "Soothing Aloe". It looked very soothing on the paint chip and when applied to the wall seemed much brighter. It has a very crisp feeling to it when you look at it. My daughter, who loves everything green (see "Prom" on "Joolies World", her dress is as bright green as it gets) loves the color. She is happy.


The new carpet and window



The finished closet



She moves in.

The Middle of the End

We got as far as finishing the drywall on the ceiling. After that the bedding and taping got too much for me to do.


Kay's room had an old door that wouldn't open all the way. The wood around the threshold was rotted from years of rain coming in under the door. I built a beautiful new threshold in the doorway to stop all that and drywalled all around it, thinking we might keep it.

I changed my mind, once the builders got there and decided a window would be better suited for a sixteen year old than a door. The irony of that is that the door was much harder to get open than the window.




They also built her a closet where there was none before.

The Beginning of a Long (long, long, long, long...) Journey

I finally had to realize there are just some things I cannot do by myself. After two years of demolition and rebuilding from the walls up, we finally just broke down and hired someone to finish the job. I realize now it would have taken me another two years to do what these guys did in less than a week. My poor daughter would have been in her dorm room in college before her room here at home was done.
Here is a photo montage of where we have been. There will be more photos in the next post.
These photos are a series entitled "The Nightmare Behind the Walls", for obvious reasons. The day we discovered what was hiding behind the old beat up paneling we both almost had to be resuscitated from the shock. We just left the paneling we had removed on the floor and walked away for almost a year. That is plastic holding up some kind of green masonry, maybe plaster? There was no lath of any kind, no framing, no structure behind the paneling, just these one by two strips holding up the plastic that they had adhered the paneling to, and which had contributed substantially to the problem. By "they", I'm sure you have figured out that I mean the Previous Owners.




My dad came over and helped us (or should I say we helped HIM) frame up the room when we finally decided to tackle the problem. There was an old chimney hole in the middle of the wall and I bricked it up to keep out bugs and critters since I had no plans to put in any wood burning fireplaces.