08.25.09
Oh hey! After pictures! I’ve got the first of the after pictures!
I am aware that this couldn’t possibly be as exciting for you as it is for me, but please bear with me anyway. Because it’s exciting! To have a home! That is not squalid and filthy and covered in grit, not to mention a home that doesn’t have a miter saw on the dining room table (or toilets in the dining room for that matter!).
Annnnnnd, I’ll stop there. Because I could go on all night about the hating and the hate with all the hating of living in a mess. Which is over. So it’s okay, self, shh, shh.
Tonight I have for you the master bedroom. Complete! Clean! Yellow! My favourite colour!
Let’s start with the before, shall we?
Before
What you’re looking at: a poorly lit shot of a very drab, grubby room. The poor lighting has something to do with the fact that there is no lighting. The walls are filthy beige — and by filthy I mean when I washed them down before painting them, they turned out to be an entirely lighter shade of beige — and a filthy beige carpet. There was also, for the record, no baseboards, no closet doors, and the door to the en suite bathroom had a sizable hole in it.
During
The first order of business was to remove the filth sponge carpet. And, dudes. Carpets are gross. There were PILES OF DIRT trapped under there (you can click here to see, if you want). I was truly horrified and have sworn that I will never have carpet again, if I can help it. Next up was painting the walls with fresh paint and — hey! — a colour. OTHER THAN BEIGE.
Then it was time for new flooring…
And then ceiling paint, and closet doors, and doors, and baseboards, and curtains and…voila! A MERE THREE AND A HALF MONTHS LATER…
After
And we have a beautiful new master bedroom! With lighting and colour and cleanliness. SWOON. Aside: See the bedside tables? They used to be green and last weekend I painted them white to match the bed frame. This was a task I put off for several months because I thought it would be fussy and annoying, but spray painting turns out to be quite the opposite of fussy (although, I’m afraid, extremely toxic). I put it off to the point of considering buying new bedside tables, which would have cost at least $100 instead of, like, uh, $5.
Here’s a less artful shot of the room from the other side, if only to demonstrate Kieran’s handy work in that we now have closet doors that, you know, exist and entry doors without holes punched in them. It also nicely shows off the colour of the paint (it’s called Moonlit Yellow, which is apt because it has a delicate silvery undertone to it). The paint! Which is yellow! My favourite! Did I mention that already?
Tomorrow: the en suite! But for now, bbs, I have a date with Harry Potter. Oh, did I tell you? We’re relaxing this week and not doing renos. We were both gravely run down. Besides, what’s left is so negligible, I won’t even bother boring you with it. But for this week we’re enjoying what is as good as done.
Mom said,
August 25, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Ahhhh! How delightful! Well done, you.
Mom
Emily said,
August 26, 2009 at 5:40 am
Oh, man, pulling up carpet is the WORST. The stuff that gathers under there, no man nor beast should ever have to deal with. I, too, will never have carpeting again.
Karla said,
August 26, 2009 at 9:13 am
WOW!
What a beautiful room! Excellent work, you guys! Well worth the time and effort, I’d say. Stunning, seriously.
Now I am so excited that one day, one day soon hopefully, I will have a beautiful room in a similar fashion!
Love K
churlita said,
August 26, 2009 at 9:55 am
What a difference. It looks amazing.
Shannon said,
August 26, 2009 at 11:49 am
Wow, Jeci, that room is fantastic! Well done! You have inspired me to get off my butt after six years and finally paint the dang livingroom. . . maybe next spring.
We are experiencing our own little “finally done, omg” project at my house, with the exception that it isn’t my project at all but Barrett’s. He’s pretty much done with converting the garage into a band practice space, after months of labor. It feels so good to complete a reno, eh?
Robyn said,
August 26, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Lovely job! Beautiful colour! You two should be proud of your accomplishments (and I totally feel your pain of the toilet in a room where it doesn’t belong as a fellow woman whose husband decided to refinish hardwood in our old house and left the kitchen appliances in the living room for several months – and that is why we built a new house when the time came!).
Kieran said,
August 28, 2009 at 4:53 pm
I was struck by my appearance in these photos, and thought “Why the hell do I look Polish in these pictures?” Then I remembered my significant Polish lineage, and decided that was pretty awesome.
And I agree! This is a beautiful room! All the credit goes to Jay for that, she’s got the eye and came up with the plan… Great job Babe!
Nancy said,
October 13, 2009 at 11:31 am
Just came across this page while searching for pictures of rooms painted moonlit yellow. It looks very pretty. I’m trying to decide on a yellow for my kitchen and I really like this one. This is by Behr paints right?
Nancy
jeci said,
October 19, 2009 at 11:56 am
Nancy: Yes, if I recall it was a Behr paint.