Adventures in Home Beautification --or—When Virgos Get Bored!

So, I decided I might as well start on redecorating the bedroom, first by removing the old rotten paneling. And I don’t use the word “rotten” for nothing! It not only looks horrible, but it actually does seem to be rotting :-p I think I’m in for quite a lot more than I bargained for here.

Before I show you how terrible a mess the bedroom is, I’ll show you the almost finished product that is the redecorated bathroom I did a couple weeks ago.

I didn’t take any “before” pictures because I forgot, but trust me, it looks a heckuva lot better now than it did before!

Here’s looking at the connecting door to the bedroom which we never use and I was going to take the door and frame out and put up dry-wall but didn’t feel like doing that much work! I will also be replacing that terrible mirror that for now is just resting on the sink.



And here is standing in the same spot but turned toward the opposite wall where there is the “linen cupboard”, which is really just a box with doors on it that towels and linens don’t really even fit in :-p



The bathroom is really very small and narrow, I can touch both walls if I stand in the middle and stretch out my arms elbows still bent. And I’m only 5ft 4in! That’s how narrow it is!

Anyhow, here’s the bedroom before pictures so you can see how ugly it is and why it needs updating before we list the house to sell it.

This one is the wall behind the bed, and then the ceiling over the bed. For some odd reason they put really really bad wallpaper on the ceiling, and when I tried to strip it I discovered it doesn’t want to come off. We may put tiles of some sort over it.





Here’s the opposite wall as we see it when we’re in bed.



The closet door is mashed right up against the side wall, with the trim somehow even buried under the panel and drywall there.

Here’s the side wall, where we have my Lord of the Rings collection sitting on the gun rack! *snarf* You can also see more of the ugly ceiling.



So, when I removed the paneling that was behind the bed, I figured out why they decided to put the paneling up in the first place. They’re lazy. And there’s a big freakin’ hole in the wall! GAH!



Here’s a view down the hole, into the basement. I guess they were either installing the plumbing, or repairing it. But sheesh, they couldda fixed the hole in the wall!



This next one is to illustrate why amatures should not do drywalling. The entire room so far is just piecemeal, I don’t think there’s a whole sheet of drywall anywhere, its all scraps!



Having not planned ahead for gaping holes in the wall, I don’t have any sheets of drywall here to patch or replace it, so for now I’ve just duct-taped a strip of panel over the hole until I can get some money from James and head over to Lowe’s. I may have to tear down all this crap and put up new dry wall throughout the entire room, not just the broken wall. Its that much of a mess. :-p



First I’ll see how bad the rest of it is, I haven’t got all the paneling off yet, there’s 30 or 40 years worth of dust between the panel and the baseboards, and its all going up my nose. I think I’ll just go have a bath, and finish it tomorrow.  ¶ 5:34 PM