painting the bedroom

inspired by this picture from pinterest

and this one from google (sorry i forgot where)

we are going to use some of the old boards from the roof and imitate these pictures.

this will cover our hole in the wall in the bedroom, and be a fairly easy way to address the challenge.

we chose this color to paint the other walls.

we don't like it.

its pretty, but way too blue. and  kind of boring.

who wants BORING? right?

to give my hubby a little shout out:

in 24 hours, nick ripped up the old floor in the new bedroom (to be reused to patch the floor in the living room and foyer), built the new wall, leveled the floor, and primed and painted the walls in the new bedroom.

holy wow-zers!!!!!!!

leveling the floor

these crazy old floor need a bit of straightening before we put down the new floors.

we were surprised at finding relatively little rot was below the hardwoods.  but we are laying new plywood to give the floors extra support and to level the floors.

laying shims

geometry

just a little rot

making progress

almost there

done

and now its time to paint!

building the wall

today we started building the wall between the bedroom and the living room!

nick framing up the hole

all this construction is occasionally traumatic for the dogs! separation anxiety is no fun, so zoey sleeps in the hall. this way she can watch nick work in one room and me work in the other (sigh).

zoey, the queen of the ranch

 making progress! one more board to go!

view of the wall from the front door

looking from the living room into the new bedroom

up next! leveling the floor!

nick's handy new tool (on clearance at lowes) helps with this project!

while we're at it...

since we are now officially tearing up the floor in the new master (former dining), 

might as well redo the master bathroom too! 

looking a bathroom, from the bedroom

before

 where we are now:

so nice! and smells great too!
(NOT!)

next up? putting up the wall and an almost finished dining room!

deciding on the floor...

if you have been reading previous blog entries, you will know that recently we decided to turn the dining room into our bedroom and make the old "library" into the dining room.

if you keep up with the blog, you will also know that we have been trying to decide what to do about the beautiful, but in spots, ruined heart pine floors that are in the front two rooms. the two rooms are open to each other and have long spans of wood running across. nick, board by board, painstakingly removed most of the boards ruined by termite damage. we have been trying to order replacement flooring to place the wood. its an odd size of 2.5 inches. no one carries it! and we don't want have to rip down a three inch board. we found a place where we can order salvaged heart pine. yay, right?

no, its kind of more of a BOOOO. its $8 dollars a foot and will get here in 6 to 8 weeks. after calculating the square footage we need, which as of right now, and if all things go well,  is about 100 square feet. mathematician says $800 dollars?!?! boy, that's a lot of money... 

BUT THE BUDGET!

what to do....what to do...?

wait! the floors don't have to be continuous between these two rooms anymore. we are putting up a wall. solution: take out the old floor in the new bedroom and use it to repair the living room floor!

taking out the floor in the bedroom

of course we found some rot in the subfloor. not a shocker. we will fix that!

we call that an opportunity. 

subfloor

all done!

to be as least wasteful as possible, we think we will end up using left over floor that we have from another house. but, we'll let you know!