The Room Of Rooms

This particular post has been waiting 3 years to be written!!!

::Deep breath::


The "boys room" (aka torn up room, project room, 'the' room, spare room, unfinished nightmare) if DONE!!!

Come with me on a walk down memory lane:

it all started a few months after we bought our house...

"this room could have so much more SPACE" we said (by we i mean I)

What a nice surprise, the entire house has oak hardwood under the ratty carpet!!

before shots of the closets

the door

"The Wall" behind this wall is a cast iron vent pipe, installed before long before the invention of studdor valves (that i fail to get a picture of)  This pipe postponed the whole rooms renovations by a year... almost two! upon removal of the pipe we had to patch the roof, that later became an entire new roof, and included new siding, for the whole house.. and we also had to gut the downstairs bathroom and install new plumbing

layers of wall paper under layers of paint... sixty years of questionable choices

rooms torn out, rafters moved up... way way up... now we have a loft

A team on cars lining our street to shoot a 10 minute segment of... our house (a friend in the spray foam industry needed a project room... and hey, we had one just sitting here waiting to be spray foamed)

hubs getting his camera face on

me getting all done up (9 months preggers me, is longing to be this skinny again)

i don't recall what we were so amazed by, but WOW spray foam!!!

later we decided the loft needed more structural support!

husband installed/rigged a pocket door

baby3 helping put up sheet rock

3 babies helping put up sheet rock

brought in a professional to mud the room

additional wood flooring ' acclimating '  to the room

4 days was all it took for one talented sheet rocker to finish mudding and sanding

walls primed, but the flooring guys got postponed a few days

so we painted... pregnant lady on a ladder painting ridiculously tall wall whist husband is working

before tape is removed

Floor are sanded and finished, then we have spend two days installing moulding an painting(soooo sick of painting)... AND our new rug (from target, it was free, long story!)

closet finished and another look at our lovely floors... the bench in the closet is to cover the air conditioning duct, but turns out to be one o my favorite features. Pocket door is awesome!!

view of the other side of the room, built in cubbies, accent wall painted 'metropolis grey' second baby picked it out!

a look inside the loft, with an access door to the attic

trim installed on the pot lights

We built this bunk bed about 2 years ago, but never painted it... so we had been sanding and priming and painting this monster of a bed between coats of paint on the walls and moulding... I HATE PAINTING  AHHHHHHHHHH

Star wars toy patent diagrams(thank you zulily) the kids love em, there is a C3PO, a wing, and a walker on this wall... i had ordered an R2 also, second baby's favorite character, but it didnt fit like i had planned it so we put it on another wall

this previously had a doll house on it, but now can be utilized to its full potential as a chest of drawers/ checkers bench!!! The oldest boy was quite excited when he saw the checkers board under the doll house... i had painted it on there before he could walk, but now he is old enough to play ::sigh:: he is growing so fast!!

all moved in, plus a mattress for the girl under the bed(because her room has now been gutted and is in the process of being rebuilt!!) the nifty gas station light and book case came from a friend a few years back, she was remodeling her boys room and gave it to us, and its been sitting in the basement waiting to grace the boys room for quite some time!

Train table has also been sitting in the basement for two years...  the cubbies house most of the building toys so they can use the train table for Lego's, hex bug, blocks, TRAINS, knex, the possibilities are endless... the rule we have been working on in the room is,"toys go on the table not on the floor" the big kids get it, if you don't want to lose the toys keep them in the train table, the baby doesn't get it, he thinks the table is a way to get really high up before throwing fist fulls of tiny Lego's all over the room! Hopefully we will get this rule ingrained before 4th baby is old enough to put tiny toys like Lego's in her mouth!!

Well there you have it, the best room in the house so far!!! I love it, the kids love it, the husband is even impressed with how it turned out... i tell him of course, an unlimited budget(we didnt plan on it being that way, but every time we would have some money to throw into it, we would start work on it again then stop when the money ran out and wait for the next time) and three years of planning will do that, haha. It is so nice to be done!!