Before and After: Nursery

So this is the room we decided would be our nursery. I was a little worried that we wouldn’t have enough room for all the baby stuff. But it turns out the previous owners just had TONS of stuff. Even after Regan was born I had plenty of room for both of the children and ALL their stuff.

I prefer not to have toys IN the Children’s room. I liked keeping their room a quiet room for reading/boring room for timeouts. 🙂

SO this is how our nursery looked up until we got rid of the guestroom. We painted and put up curtains over the blinds. There was a subtle turtle/ocean theme going on.

So just a side note. I for some reason brought that little space heater to AZ. Ya. Don’t think it will EVER be used here……..

So this is how their room looked with no crib and the full size bed crammed in. I knew that we were moving so I was o.k. with the temporary cramped bedding situation.

I had to repeatedly tell Kaylee that her “really big” bed was temporary. They LOVED running back and forth and jumping around on the beds. Oh, and the little chairs were to help Regan out with getting into/out of bed.

Before and After: Guest room

We turned their nursery into a guest room. We had MANY lovely guests over the years crammed into this small room. But I liked giving my house guests a door for privacy. And I really do enjoy house guests.

About a month before Jon had the opportunity to get a new job we turned the guest room into a home office for him. We had decided to make some financial changes and getting rid of the monthly expense of office rental/staff (that one was HARD/SAD)/cleaners/utilities was going to help us pay our personal bills.

Anyway…….. If you come visit me in AZ you will NOT have a door for privacy. You will instead be in our living/playroom. We are just fancy like that.

They so kindly removed the wallpaper for us. I REALLY appreciated that. Those wood doors took FOREVER to paint white. I am so glad I did it though.

Again. No curtains.

All the closets were packed. I was not at all suprised they were looking for a bigger house.

These are the only pictures I have of the guestroom. Our nieces and nephew were it’s current residents. So I had hung a blanket so the morning sun (blinds plus sheers in this room) wouldn’t wake them up TOO early. And Jacob got to sleep on the air mattress. BUT Jon did set up a computer for him so he was fine with that arrangement.

I had all my Japanese memorabilia decorating this room. And we painted the walls a soft butter-cream. It was a light and airy room.

Before and After: Master bedroom

So this is the Master at the Cedar house. Paint , curtains, and our furniture made I think a big change in the space.

We foolishly had our desktop in the same spot for a while. It made our room VERY crowded. I was happy when Jon convinced me that we didn’t NEED the desktop. He is SO wise.

The master bathroom was sad. We got new lights, painted the walls cupboards and counter, and put in updated towel hangers. I sadly don’t seem to have any after picture of the master bathroom.

Their bed was I think a queen size. It made the room look bigger.

I like curtains. A LOT. Jon picked these out. I love them so much they are in the AZ master bedroom.

This is our AWESOME projector “screen.” We just put the projector on a shelf turned it on painted the area we needed to in a flat white and then Jon framed the whole shabang out.

Our lovely projector. That thing got used to death. And our old bedding. I got a new set after Regan puked ALL over this one. We were due for a new one anyway. The puke was just the push we needed. It was $50 to dry clean our old falling apart set, or $80 for a new set. Never been happy about puke before.

Our AZ master looks NOTHING like this. Well, I mean the furniture and curtains are the same, but otherwise it’s SOOO different. I do miss the double closets and the master bathtub situation from the Cedar house. The AZ house sadly lacks those things.

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