I’ve been promising photos of our two spare bedrooms for about a month now, and I’m FINALLY ready to share. It took forever because the rooms were piled high with crap, because carpeting the upstairs meant moving furniture and clothes and random doodads from room to room as we went along. It was actually a great excuse to look at all the stuff we’ve been stashing away in closets and purge all the things so unnecessary we didn’t even remember owning them. I love a good clean-sweep. But it took us forever to get things back into place. We really should have shared pics of the rooms in their full bomb-went-off glory, because it would help explain why I’ve arrive ten minutes late for work every morning for the past two weeks.

So without further ado, here’s the before/after of Bedroom #:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

This room got new 3/8″ drywall on all walls, a new ceiling, a new coat of paint on everything, and a carpet to make it cozy. It took us about 2 weeks to get through that list, but the room looks sooooo much different. It’s really pretty amazing.

The paint is a nice creamy pale yellow that brightens everything up. The room is small, so rather than go for my usual heavy colors I went super light and bright.

Tomorrow I’ll share room #2 with you :)