Bedrooms

We could only do half the bedroom floor at a time because of the Murphy bed. The first picture is before sanding and then different stages of grit sanding. We didn’t get the smooth finish we desire because the sander was only using half of the sand paper and Steven had to work a lot harder to get the desired results

The original oak door was varnished; previous owners painted over the varnish. The first coat was a bright pink, the second coat was a heavy layer of white paint. Where the varnish had been in good shape, the paint peeled off easily, where the varnish was deteriorated it had to be scraped. The inner trim of the panels still had heavy paint which had to be scraped off. One side is stripped and stained finally.

I thought the paint color for the north bedroom would work with the wallpaper. I decided it didn’t so I mixed paint from several colors to get the color I wanted. I am much happier with the color. The color matches the bedspread now.

The north original window needed trim boards between the windows and smaller trim boards around them. Steven ripped the boards for me. I painted and installed.

I decided to limit the wallpaper to 3 walls with the fourth wall gold paint. Steven asked me to paper the area above the Murphy bed.

I got 4 double rolls of wallpaper from a thrift store. I decided to use it in the downstairs bedroom. First I mixed 2-3 different paints to achieve a gold paint. I painted the alcove behind the Murphy bed and the window alcove. After I wallpapered on each side of the Murphy bed alcove, Steven asked me to also paper the alcove above the Murphy bed. Three walls will be papered. The closet wall wIll be painted gold.

The alcove is at a window between two closets. There will be a bench over the radiator. Steven installed two sconce lights with swivel arms. Still need to find shades.

We will create a window seat over the radiator between two closets. Steven installed two sconce light fixtures which have arms that swing out. We just need to find shades.

I painted the alcove behind the Murphy bed a gold paint that I had mixed from 3 different paints.