Done at last!! (mostly)

Big day, folks.  Our master bedroom is done.  It still might need a few tweaks, but those will come as they come.  I feel like it's done enough to share, and I'm excited.  My apologies for not so great photos.  I hit something on my camera, and I can't figure out how to fix it...and so they are a little fuzzy.

What did we do in this little master bedroom?  We gutted the existing room, waterproofed it, updated and ran new electrical, knocked out a concrete wall, built a walk in closet, insulated, drywalled, taped and mudded, sanded, primed, painted, installed a plank wall, installed a bigger window, hung new doors, and had brand new carpet laid.  Then we installed a custom made blind, found a bed we loved, bought night tables, put together bedding and carved out a little desk space.  PHEW.

Anyways - more photos, less chatting....here we go!

Waterproofing.

 This is the wall that we ended up removing to make room for the closet.  This picture is taken from the middle of the family room.  We did end up losing some room in the family room, but it's hardly noticeable.

The wall was not load bearing, and it came down very quickly.  You can also see in this picture how off centered that bedroom window was.

Again...the window being removed to make way for the larger one.  This made the space on either side of the window in the room, the same.  Very pleasing to this symmetrical loving gal.

On the right, the beginnings of the closet which we later changed to have two doors in the center as opposed to one door at the end of the wall.  On the left, Dad working on wiring in the bedside light switches (note:  if you ever have the opportunity to install a switch that will turn off your main light without having to get of bed...DO IT.  It's awesome.).

And this is how our bedroom stayed for a.long.time.  We used our wrapping paper storage box and our Christmas storage totes as night tables :)  Our sheets were often damp and gross because of all the exposed concrete in the basement. 

Then it went to this....insulation and the mattress off the ground.

And then to this.

And after a WHOLE LOT of sweat and tears....to this.

Somebody send me to my room.  Please.

 

 

We worked hard to make it "us" and we are SO happy with the results.  It is a relaxing and cozy space :)  We are still working on the closet in terms of organizing and making it as functional as possible, so I'll update with that another day.  For now....we are happy to call one room "DONE".