Roomspiration – Craft Rooms

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Roeshel

Have you been following along and participation in the Roomspiration series? Today it’s Craft Rooms hosted by Shan from

You MUST see her awesome craft room! It’s so organized and pretty and you’ll drool!

My craft room/office combo is actually in the works. I’m in the process of moving my office/craft room upstairs (to be able to close the door when it’s a disaster) and create a pretty guest bedroom downstairs. I just emptied this room:

Before (although the twin bed has been gone for about a year)

Now that room is completely empty. When we moved in, we removed the gross carpet and just live(d) with plywood.

(cleaning out in progress…)

The mood board I created is intended for this room!

And there wasn’t a door on the bathroom! We added one soon after we moved in and it’s time to add trim to this side of the door frame. The opening on the right used to be a walk-through closet. It’s now our laundry room. (Another project one of these days!)

Okay – enough about the guest room! Back to the craft room!

Most of my craft junk has been moved into our unfinished family room. It looks like this…YIKES! Where does all that stuff come from?!!!

Just keeping it real! The family room is another project on our DIY list.

However, here’s where what I’m keeping is all getting moved to, everything in it’s place…

I‘m not quite finished and it’s all just moving, re-organizing, sorting and purging and using things I already had into a room that didn’t need re-painted at this time. I still have to move my sewing machine in here. Nothing new in the room but it really needed organized and downsized and I love the way just a new location with old t
hings feels fresh and new, don’t you?

See more real craft spaces and link up your own at Family Brings Joy.

Next up = dining rooms on Friday at Involving Color!

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DIY of an 1895 Historical Home

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Roeshel

Meet: Mandy, a beautiful thrift shopper and DIY project lover from

Ready for some DIY before and after room makeover eye candy?

Office Reveal:

Before

(sage green, brown trim and painted floors)

Beautiful stained glass window!

Dark

Amazing After

LIGHT!

Fun pops of color – just the right touch!

Love the freshly painted white trim and lightened floors.

$5 desk and $20 armoire!

Hello gorgeous pocket door!

Isn’t this entire chalkboard wall fabulous?!

and best of all, an unbelievable budget! See HERE for the original post with all of the details.

Bathroom before leaves a little to be desired, maybe even a lot…

But now, it’s beautiful! They put up beadboard, installed new wood floors, a new sink, cabinet, faucet and light fixture. They added a new door and refinished that gorgeous claw foot tub. They wallpapered, textured and painted it a warm yellow. Lack of any natural lighting affects the picture color, but you can still see that their hard work paid off BIG from the pictures below:

See MORE pictures at Mandy’s Bathroom Reveal.

A thrift store treasure hunter too!

Piano bench before:

Such a pretty girl now…

See more from Mandy at Biblical Homemaking, including her pretty what she wore posts – so fun!

Mandy, thank you so much for sharing your DIY ~ you’ve done an amazing and gorgeous job with everything! Can’t wait to see more!

Thinking Ahead to My Next DIY Room Transformation

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Roeshel

Once the kitchen is done – I’m going to rearrange two of the spare bedrooms. The first floor bedroom is right off of the dining room. It’s going to be my next project. Right now that room is a craft/office area. It’s always a mess. It may or may not currently only have a path to the desk. Okay, seriously…if I was sitting at the desk and you walked in, it’d take days to find me.

It used to look like this. Then the twin bed became my niece’s big girl bed and a tornado (not literally) went through and it doesn’t resemble this anymore except that the mirror with the broken scroll and curtains are still there.

We have a smaller extra bedroom upstairs with this beautiful poster bed in ivory…

That bed is getting moved to the bigger room on the first floor but I’m keeping my office there too. It’s a blank slate. Plywood subfloor. Four unframed windows. Tiny closet. A French door with sliding barn door hardware lead to the dining room…the door in the background shown here:

and there are doors leading to the laundry room and this bathroom:

Both the bathroom and laundry room open to the family room.

This room will be my first attempt at DIY wainscoting and framing the windows. I can also either paint the floor like I did in the bathroom pictured above but depending on budget, I’d love to go ahead and get the dark distressed, wide planked bamboo we’re installing in the kitchen, dining room and pantry (2 more weeks!) and eventually the entire first floor..

Antique Java Wide Plank Fossilized Strand™ Bamboo Flooring

I snagged a beautiful lantern type pendant from Habitat Restore last year that’s going in here too! It’s similar to this PB version except a beautiful antique gold…

What’s the color scheme you ask? (You were going to!) I know I’m using a creamy white and antiqued gold. Other than that, I’m still gathering inspiration. I’d love to maybe use navy. But I’m also leaning towards rustic reclaimed wood tones paired with the ivory and gold.

Most of my other furniture will be from thrift shops, Craigs List or estate sales but for a desk I’m considering something along these lines…