Here's the To-Do list for completing this bedroom project:
Empty bedroom of all clutter- Remove old A/C vents in ceiling
- Patch walls and ceiling
- Prime
- Paint
- Trim
- Sand & paint doors
- New door hardware
- New light fixture
- New closet shelving system
- Assemble furniture and arrange room
- Hang artwork & accessorize
- Curtains
Today I thought I'd share some before/after pictures of us emptying a room filled with clutter. We also emptied our office and plan to paint it at the same time but we don't have as many ideas yet about what we'll do, more to come on that soon.
Warning: This post is photo intensive! There's not a lot to say about clutter removal, but hopefully seeing all this junk everywhere helps you to feel better about whatever room you have that's filled with clutter.
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| As you'll remember, we were storing all this stuff in the basement when we decided at the last moment to gut the basement in preparation for our forced-air system install. |
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| Philip removed all the doors to enable our trim removal. Turns out it wasn't as necessary for trim removal as once thought, but we're planning to refinish them anyway, and living in a door-free house has it's perks. Like... ummm... less doorknob-related injuries? I'll get back to you on that one. |
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| Why yes, that is a certified flotation device. Why do you ask? |
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| This is all you need to know about the story of "How Philip lost his new driver's license before it even made it into his wallet." |
We started out by sorting the items in the rooms. The main categories were items coming back into these rooms, items we wanted to keep but just needed to store for the time being (e.g. memory box items, Christmas decorations, etc.), and last but not least items for the yard sale. We started trucking items downstairs with me putting them into the piles and Philip carrying them up and down the stairs.
The other factor we took into consideration is the fact that all of these items have been moved at least three times in the last six months and we're getting crazy tired of it. We tried to keep as much upstairs as we could, just moving things downstairs that we knew we weren't going to put back into these rooms right away or items that we just couldn't fit anywhere else for now.
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| Hooray! From our condo to the basement to the main floor to the basement once again. |
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| Philip's Michael Jordan poster is huge. You could measure heights in "Michael Jordan 'Wings' posters," as in "I am 1.1 MJWPs tall." |
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| Clutter awaiting the Philip train down the stairs. |
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| One day, when all this stuff is cleaned up, we'll marvel at the size of our living room. |
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| For now, we're just thankful for a place to sit and watch Community. |
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| Those are mostly Philip's movies, surrounded by yet more clutter. |
This is where we're at now, piles of things in the living room (mainly books we didn't want to carry down or things we still wanted on hand like gift wrap), piles of things in the basement for the yard sale or being stored, and two empty rooms ready for patching and painting!
With this mess, you'd assume we'll be holed in here with the door locked so that no one can see - but we're crazy so we're posting it on the internet and inviting people over for dinner tonight!
Stay tuned as we get ready to patch and paint our bedroom in the next week or so! Can't wait to have a mattress off the floor and finally start decorating!
Anyone else painting a room soon? Any ideas for us? Take a look back at our inspiration photo post and let me know if you have any accessories/light fixtures/artwork ideas that we could implement in this type of space.
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