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Master Bedroom Flooring and Transformation

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If you’ve been following for a while, you may remember that at the beginning of quarantine, my husband and I bought flooring. We bought enough flooring for the entire house, and if you want to read more about that, you can find it here.

Up until now, I have only posted our guest room being done, however, we had also started our master room, and now it is finished. The process we went through was the same as our guest room, so if you would like to visit that, you can by clicking here.

Differences with our master was, I painted the walls before I painted the floor, and the floor was in much worse condition than the guest room. There was quite a bit of mold/mildew on the bottom of the underlayment. The underlayment was also much different from the guest room with a plastic coated foam instead of the exposed porous foam that was in the guest room. Many floor tiles were also loose, but they all sealed back down with the coating of sealant paint. The only other hiccups that occurred doing this room where the fact that the walls were never primed, so in one spot when we were removing the painter’s tape, the old paint pulled off the wall in two small spots, and since the first row of flooring wasn’t perfectly straight and we were tapping boards a lot more than last time, we were having trouble getting the boards to lock together fully about 3/4 of the way through.

Removing Old Carpet

Painting Walls, Chipped Out Cement Edge, and Filling with New Flat Cement

Twice Cleaned and Sealed Floor

Laid Underlayment

New Bed and Newman

Laying New Flooring

Added Base Boards and New Curtains

Final Move In

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One Year Update

Listing Photos

It all started with my Starting Point post. There I wrote my initial thoughts and ideas for this house as recorded last November. We bought this house and found many things wrong with it. We starting putting work into the house starting last October/November, and below is what we were able to accomplish so far.

Current Progress

As you can see just between the first set of photos and the second, we’ve made some big changes. We removes trees and bushes, put in raised beds, added an exterior door on the garage, and changed the accent color on the house from red to teal. Inside, we removed a lot of the latex paint off the utility room walls, we built and removed our builtin pantry, and installed a storage shelf instead. We removed the broken dishwasher and sealed the space to be used for my canning stuff. We also upgraded the light in the kitchen, painted cabinets, remove the old range microwave and added a new range-hood, as well as replaced the old leaking kitchen faucet. In the dining room, we refinished the wall after removing about 1/3 of the wallpaper in the house, and we also created a lampshade for our single handing bulb from a lantern we used at our wedding reception. We haven’t done too much to the living room yet; we added a projector screen and are mainly using it for storing some of our extra stuff until we finish the master bedroom. We replaced the light fixture in the hall, and upgraded all the light switches in the house to the rocker style. We repainted the bathroom, removed the medicine cabinet, changed the light fixture, and painted the vanity and changed the hardware. We also added a new shower curtain to match. In the original green room, due to it’s carpet color, we originally replaced the floor in the closet with vinyl planking. After seeing how easy it was, we took on the task of redoing the entire rooms floor, which was not an easy task. we remove the wood from the closet to be replaced with matching floor eventually, I also painted the bedroom the two shades of orange, we moved in, and that is the state of our orange room. Finally, our current project is the master bedroom, or our new green room. We just finished laying the flooring on Saturday. There is still a lot of work we want to do in that room before the new unveiling, but I hope this helps build some excitement for the next unveiling, which will be coming in the next two weeks or so.

A Year’s Worth of Projects

A year is so long, yet so short. We were able to accomplish so much because of the blessing we’ve received this year and from taking things in stride. We are happy for our new experiences and are content with this house even as we continue to find more problems. We aren’t sure if we’ll keep this house forever, but we are happy for all the good things this house is providing for us. This Lustron gives my husband and I something to do together, to bond over, and to dream for. We hope for nothing but the best for this house in the future, and we hope our fingerprint on this house improves the beauty of this old Lustron, rather than hinders it’s potential.

For more on our home improvement posts from this year, feel free to check out any of this posts below. If not, I’ll see you again soon!

Starting Point

New Light Fixtures

New Kitchen Faucet

Update and Mistakes

DIY Hidden Pantry

New Dining Room Light

Removing Wallpaper

Closet Work

Bathroom Transformation

Dishwasher to Storage

Kitchen Cabinet Updating

Raised Beds

New Kitchen Vent Hood

A New Big Project: Laminate Plank Flooring

Green Room Flooring

Finishing Our Guest Room

New Kitchen Shelf

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New Kitchen Shelf

If you’ve been following me for a while, you may remember my post back in January or February about my DIY Hidden Pantry. This pantry was very helpful, and very convenient, however over time, the screws began to pull from the wall since we didn’t use drywall anchors. Also, the pantry was too small for all the snack foods I had and needed to store. We eventually began to store bags of chips on the fridge just because they wouldn’t fit in the space anymore.

Josh and I want to eventually put in built in cabinets around the fridge, however, we want to see how we can use our space in the meantime. So, we decided to get a shelf from target, and if it’s very useful, we’ll eventually add doors, or install all built ins. With built ins, we hope to also re-arrange our washer & dryer, but one step at a time.

The shelf we got is the 5 shelf bookcase from target, and we picked the color black. It was easy assembly, and gave us so much more space. Each shelf holds 30 pounds, and the shelf is shallow enough to not interfere with the dryer door.

  • Before
  • Removed Pantry
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Finishing Our Guest Room

Our guest room, if you could even call it that before, was used mostly for storage, but it also had our cat’s supplies and Josh’s desk. Now that the floor was complete, we came up with some plans for the room to be a guest room and at home office. With this in minds, the first thing we did was decide how to paint the room. We decided that since we had no orange in the house it would be a good choice. I wasn’t a big fan of orange as a color, but I wanted a new and unique color for the room. We picked up a sample of a saturated and bold orange. I had planned to just paint one spot, but I ended up using almost the entire can, and created what we decided would be an accent wall.

Because the accent wall was hand painted instead of rollered on, it had lots of inconsistencies in color and had lots of texture. I personally loved the effect and decided to leave it that way. So, since that was our accent wall, we wanted something neutral but also slightly orange in order to match the existing wall. That is when we decided on Belgian Waffle. The color was slightly darker and orange compared to the existing color, but it was subtle enough to barely notice it was painted if it had been a while since you saw the room.

Finally, I painted the trim pieces with a new layer of white paint, and Josh installed them with a air brad nailer. Finally, we moved in from our room. In the future, we have a spare bed that will be going were our bed is. Our spare is a full instead of the queen that we have. I plan on leaving the open nightstand where it is against the wall after the legs get finished. On the other side of the bed we will have enough room to fit Josh’s desk against the wall with the window, and there should be enough room to add my cedar chest at the foot of the bed. The rug we bought specifically for this space. It’s a 6 ft x 9 ft rug, and we plan to have it stick out at the foot of the bed, as it is seen here. Josh and I are temporarily moved in here as we are working to redo the floors in our room next.

Thanks for reading!

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Bathroom Transformation

Josh and I hadn’t been able to do too much with the bathroom since we moved in. We had big plans, and the bathroom is the smallest room in the house, so why not refinish it a bit? We decided we were going to paint, so we went out and picked paint colors and came home with 2 gallons of paint and a primer.

Before painting, we had to remove everything from the bathroom. We decided to paint behind the toilet, so that came apart. Then, we found mold. So, we mixed up several buckets of hot water and Ajax and we scrubbed all of the walls and the baseboards. Once that was done, we taped off the baseboards, the tile, and the ceiling.

We painted all of the walls, starting behind the toilet, so we could put on a second coat and assemble the toilet that night, since it’s our only bathroom. We picked the color “Courtly Purple” by Behr. The color went on pinker, but it dried to this beautiful light purple. I also primered the cabinet with 2 layers of 1-2-3 Zinsser primer. This primer is mold resistant, which is very important so close to our shower.

Finally, I painted the cabinet, inside and out, “Anonymous” by Behr. It’s a fully gray that seems dark, but it adds a boldness to the room, and ties together the tiling since where is some gray in them. Once I finished painting them with 2 layers, I attached the doors and replaced the handles. I also reorganized our bathroom. I was able to finally utilize the space under the sink well, and I was able to clean up the clutter that was accumulating on our wooden shelf.

We have a few more plans for our bathroom. We plan to install a wall mounted shower curtain rod, buy a new shower curtain, get a new mirror that can be mounted easily to the wall, adding wall outlets (since there are none), and installing a vent fan.

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