A NEW DOOR IN OUR BEDROOM

Over Labor Day weekend, Bob knocked a hole in the wall in our room--on purpose. He did it to create a door from our room into the bathroom. It is just one thing on our long list of home improvement and remodeling.

He moved the laundry room to the utility room with the intention of creating a large master bath by combining the old laundry room and the current bathroom.

So, here are a few pictures for you. One is of him finding the stud. Then a gradual change from hole in the wall to actual door. Now, all he has to do is finish the bathroom!

Accent wall

Bob painted the fireplace wall in our room and created an accent wall. Here is a before and after look at it. Before, the whole room was painted in an off-white. It looked nice, but Sarah suggested making the fireplace wall an accent wall and suggested we paint it brown. I love it. Our next step will be to paint the rest of the room a slightly darker color than what it is now. This room used to be a family room and we are slowly turning it into a nice master suite.

Right now, Bob is putting a door from our room into our bathroom. As I said, this room was originally designed to be a family/living room and to get to the bathroom, you had to go out into the hall. Well, since we are making this a master suite, we would like to be able to go straight from the bedroom into the bathroom. So, Bob is putting the door in. Once that is done, he can remove the door in the hall and put up dry wall.

His next step will to work on the plumbing and put in a new sink and then slowly do all the rest of it.

ONE MORE TOUCH ADDED TO SHAWN'S ROOM

Bob finished the dresser he was working on for Shawn's room. This is the dresser we bought at the flea market for $20. Bob sanded it down to get the scratches out then painted it. His room is looking good!

As you can see, I added a side view. The photos in the background are photos I took with the exception of the sunrise photo on the left. That one was taken by Doug when he was visiting Russ and Mei-Fen. He toook it from the kayak. It's of Russ's sailboat.

We put my old Toshiba computer in the room for Shawn's use.

SHAWN'S ROOM DESCRIBED

As you can see, we went with a very pleasant, light blue for the ceiling. The walls are a nice brownish-gray, a light to medium shade. The window shades and curtains are brown and the comforter has a mix of browns and blue. The trunks on either side of the bed are being used for storage as well as end tables and the rugs blend in niceley. Since these photos have been taken, I have added a couple of other touches--bongo drums, a candle and a vase with bamboo poles.

We have one water photo hung and framed. Eventually, we plan to frame and hang some of our other water photos. All the frames will be black and when it's done, I think it will have a very nice look to it. I intend to have Bob hang Shawn's guitar on the wall and I plan to get a keyboard and piano bench in there. We already have a dresser that Bob needs to refinish and put in there. Eventually, I plan to add a small TV/DVD player.

I'm so glad Shawn likes all the little touches we've made to his room.

I think I have been successful in my goal of creating a nice, comfortable space for Shawn to use on weekends and it will be a nice plac for company, too.

PHOTOS OF SHAWN'S ROOM

Here are some photos of the new look in Shawn's room.

IMPROVEMENTS CONTINUE IN SHAWN'S ROOM

We made a few small changes in Shawn's room over the weekend. We put a new comforter/sheet set on his bed and put up our first water photo.

A few weeks ago, Sarah and Keith suggested to me that we use our own photos of water to hang up in Shawn's room. I thought the idea was a great one. We are going to frame our photos of sunrises, waterfalls, beaches and so on and hang them in his room.

I'll keep you posted with pictures.

My Animal Kingdom towel

Several years ago I went to Disney's Animal Kingdom. While there, I purchased a fantastic towel--with animals from a wide variety of Disney movies--including, of course, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy and Pluto.

The towel is beautiful--the colors are vibrant and go perfectly with my Disney themed sewing room.

Bob built a frame for it and hung it up today. It looks fantastic!