Duct Tape Crafter

As part of the quick fix house changes, I had mentioned we decided to turn the old beauty shop into a bedroom. This consisted of removing the beauty shop sink, cabinets, and tables. Once all the fixtures were removed then came the removal of the carpet and linoleum. Since there was no drywall or plaster behind the paneling, I didn’t attempt any removal of it. I did complete minor repairs with drywall mud, just the simply tub stuff. When you originally stepped into the room you were visually assaulted by all the different paneling styles. Seriously, the people that previously owned this house are nice people but the visual assault of the décor in every room pained me. This particular room had paneling of a hunting scene, looked like duck hunting, then two different types of floral paneling, then was fake stonewall paneling, then was the wood paneling, just too many visual mixes. To top off the décor all the doors and wood trim was painted a medium brown color, similar to the color of dirt. To adjust the whole room without removing any of the paneling I applied two coats of Kilz Primer to all the walls, ceiling, doors, and trim. My next round was two coats of white satin paint on the ceiling, doors, and trim. In addition, the final painting round was two coats of my main color, a soft moss green, on all the paneling walls. I used linoleum squares to apply new linoleum to the entry area, then in the bathroom (previously the bathroom was carpeted, yuck, anyone ever clean the ‘man mess’ around the toilet bowl? Can you imagine what is on carpet in the bathroom around the toilet from the ‘man mess’ that you can’t really clean?). Lastly, we Chuck laid carpet in the remainder of the room – this was our first experience at laying carpet! Now we’ve moved our bedroom furniture out into the old beauty shop, to be our bedroom right now. Chuck is still working out of part of the room, since he does have a real job. This room will be re-done later, all paneling removed! This room is half of a 2-car garage converted; we plan to use the rest of the 2-car garage to have a real master suite. OHHH the dreams of the completed house, the actuality is the amount of time it will take to accomplish these dreams.

Here are a few pictures.

Once entering the room our bed is behind the door. This door I haven’t finished painting, because Chuck didn’t plan ahead decided to use a door we already had, and didn’t hang it until I was done with all the painting, and the carpet was laid. Looking to the far right of the picture is the edge of his desk, which sits at a lower level then the rest of the room. The lower level is the entry area of the old beauty shop where the new linoleum is. The wall the bed is against was the duck-hunting scene prior to my painting. If one looks closely, the area by Chuck’s desk was the stonewall paneling.

Across from the bed is the armoire holding the TV, DVD player, and VCR. We don’t have satellite out here yet as Chuck still needs to run the cable for it out here. On my side though I have blinds for the room and haven’t gotten them hung yet – good thing we don’t have any close neighbors can only imagine what they might see. This wall was still duck hunting prior to my painting.

This is a picture of the small room I talked about in a prior post. Originally, this was the tanning room of the beauty shop; right now, it houses my dresser, giving me a little dressing room. We originally thought we’d work on our master bedroom suite area after completing the bathroom / living room remodel; but Chuck is contemplating taking on the old master bedroom / kitchen / dining room area next. If we take out the old master bedroom then this little room has to become our closet! Right now, we are still using the closets in the old master bedroom. I can re-arrange and adapt this easily. I believe we have plenty of room for my dresser in the main part of the room, and then will put poles and shelves in this room for the closest if needed. On the walls going into this room again you can see the stonewall paneling. Inside this room were two walls with real wood paneling, then two walls of a floral pattern.

As crazy as it sounds this is my favorite thing about moving our room out here! I have a bathroom off my bedroom again! It is only a half bath right now, but since my bladder is the size of a pea at night this makes my nightly interruption a close jaunt! Of course, it is on my side of the bed, a quick hop out then right back to bed! I had never lived in a house since I was a kid that I didn’t have a bathroom right off my bedroom. The bathroom had floral paneling, different floral than anywhere else in the room; and the carpet has now been replaced with linoleum. I also purchased a cabinet to hold vanity items, a new medicine cabinet, and pretty new hardware for the décor.

As a final close, a picture here is our new carpet! It was a remnant of course, nothing too expensive in this to be disposed of area. On a side note, we didn’t move our head and foot board of our bed. As we complete each room in the real remodel, I have declared it is necessary to purchase new furniture.