Weekend guestroom makeover

I’m a little late today on posting up the weekend happenings, but while I may be more organized, I’m not nearly organized enough to have started writing posts ahead of time yet. Anyhoo. Like I mentioned on Friday, I spent the weekend in Virginia helping the parents get the guest bedroom guest-ready. This included removing the things we had been storing in it, fixing a wall, priming & painting the ceiling & walls, and then reorganizing. Needless to say, when I got home to Philly on Sunday night I slept like a log. Here’s some of the photo documentation:

First up is the wall from hell. Technically it’s the flue from the fireplace two floors below, about a foot and a half squared in the center of the wall. When I was in high school and wanted to turn this room into a craft/office space (yes – I’m a spoiled only child brat, but not really) I thought it would be cool to make this column-like wall into a 3D cork board. After vaguely describing it to the (world’s most considerate) parents they graciously agreed to let me go nuts, and thus began my mission to adhere rolled cork to a wall. I tried spray adhesive, nails, and finally heavy duty double sided tape. All eventually failed and image 1 is what was left for the next 7 years. I also had a jungle-theme happening in the room, and decided to paint the walls two tropical green colors. Totally appropriate for a jungle themed craft room, totally inappropriate for a comforting guest bedroom. So step 2 was to sand off the double sided tape adhesive and try to peel as much of the remainder off as possible (without damaging the gyp. board too much). After that came step 3: the spackling, which was most of the wall, followed by sanding the whole wall again, creating a dust cloud that rivaled the ash from Vesuvius. From there we were able to prime & paint the rest of the room as usual, and it turned out looking and feeling really great!

I can’t wait to see what it all looks like put together with bed linens, photos hung & final touches! I’ll make sure to post it up when everything’s finalized! Now it’s time to get my apartment back in order, haha.