Our office served as the previous owners' baby room, and you would have thought it would be the first room we would repaint - the walls had a ladybug border. Unfortunately, the paint was oil-based (or something shiny and slippery looking), so we saved it for a rainy day. One hundred rainy days later, we finally decided to tackle it. I'm working from home the majority of the time now, and I was getting real sick of working at our kitchen table or bar. Papers were everywhere and I felt like work was staring at me at all times.
We decided to paint the walls navy and do a white beadboard. I thought we were well on our way to completion when we painted the room the first week of February (actually the day of our Olympics party, because who doesn't want to attend a party at a house that smells like paint fumes?), but little did I know. Turns out you don't just Elmer's glue beadboard to the wall and say "voila!" - you have to cut it and angle it and measure it and remove the floor trim and add ceiling trim and replace the floor trim and paint and blah blah blah. HUGE kudos to Adam and his dad for doing 99% of this work. Honestly, this was Adam's baby. I told him I wanted to do navy walls and white beadboard and he ran with hit. I love the room and am ready to start decorating (ha! Want to start taking bets on when that will actually happen?).
Some progress pictures...
February 8 the paint is on. Silly me, I thought we were almost done! (By the way, the paint color is Indigo from Sherwin Williams.)
Beadboard and floor trim are up!
As of the wee hours on Saturday, March 15 - it's done!
This will actually become the baseball memorabilia room/office. I won't even bother guessing how many baseball-related items we have. (Disregard all the mess. I'll tackle that....eventually.)
So there you have it - our first "remodel" of a room!
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