Lately I've been dreaming about what I would do if I got the chance to renovate my own space. So naturally, when the chance to renovate Drew's new room came up - I jumped at the chance!
In my head I know what I want the space to look like, but it's a bit harder for the Mr to wrap his head around my big ideas.
As of last, we've given the room a good scrub down with sugar soap (which is a miracle in a bottle if you ask me), removed doors, hinges, lights; basically anything that doesn't need a coat of paint and started sanding down in prep for plastering. We probably lasted a good few hours until it dawned on us that we can pay a friend to do this for us.. professionally!
The room it's self has gone through a lot of wear and tear - with at one stage 2 teenage boys sharing the space. So we have our work cut out for us! We're looking at getting some new carpet and
maybe some mounted shelves for storage. I think it would be cool to take
off the wardrobe door and turn that into a desk / workspace / TV / storage thingy. My best friend at the moment is
Pinterest and
Apartment Therapy for all inspiration. Surprisingly, there aren't too many posts around on really nice manly-rooms that aren't 'man-caves'. So just looking at elements within rooms, rather than to try and copy paste entire projects...
I can't talk for both of us (
aka, if I had it my way), but I quite like the cubby-hole shelving in this kitchen space, and the rustic head board and antlers; and the photo montage above the bed. I think we'll have to make a mood board so we know what he wants.
Still a work in progress - I hope that he will let me add a little bit of me to the room... But a girl can dream right?
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The photo below is taken last week just as we were finishing the prep work before paint and the bottom one was taken last night! The original colour of the walls were white, but after years of abuse, they're looking great with a new lick of paint! You can probably see that we haven't touched the wardrobe yet as it's not urgent, but the plan is to paint it with a darker colour, leaving the door off and adding some shelves in there (so i'm pretty happy with that!). We plan to add colour to the walls tonight, matching the living area with white trims and brown walls. (you know that kids brown that most 'modern' houses have these days).
