The Master Bedroom

The next stop on the remodeling tour is our master bedroom. At our rental house and also our house in Baton Rouge, we had absolutely no space. That is not the case at the new house! We love the size of our master. It is just the right size to fit all of our furniture and still have plenty of space to move around.
I realized when starting this post that I only took 1 before picture of the master. Here it is in all of it's 1970s glory. Walls were a strange off white color and it had the same yellow-ish carpet as the rest of the house.

The first thing the guys did (my wonderful labor force Keith and his dad, Mike) was to hang crown molding. We wanted the master to stand out from the other bedrooms and distinguish it as the master and we figured the crown would do that.

Here is the crown finished on one wall. It was definitely a frustrating experience as this was the first room that it was hung in and getting those corners just right wasn't too easy.

Paint went on the walls next. We used the same paint that is painted on the top portion of the hallway. It is a beige-gray. We got it at Lowe's but I don't have the name around here right now. As you can also see the carpet is now all torn up. We had all of the carpet in the house removed and replaced with a specked frise (yeah I am sure my spelling is so wrong on that). We really like the carpet and it has a great pad under it that really adds some cushion to it.

Here is the wall that is between the door from the hall and the door from our bath. Just another little shot to see the work. We have also replaced all of the outlets and lightswitches as everything was off white and we wanted pure white.

And here it is all completed with our furniture in it. With the furniture in you can see that the walls are a little darker than in the other pictures. We have never had much on our walls in our bedroom since we got this furniture (part of the Cindy Crawford collection from Rooms to Go) because the bed is pretty high and has a leather backing and the other pieces we have also take up quite a bit of wall space. We do have one iron cross that needs to go up on the wall, but currently it just sits on the ground next to where it should go. The cross weighs a ton and Keith has to put anchors in the wall to hang it which just is not at the top of the priority list yet.

I still love our bedding which we got for our wedding. It is Nautica and from Bed Bath and Beyond. I just love the chocolate brown, blue, and ivory colors on it and though it is plain, it is so us. And yes there are like 15 pillows on the bed! What is sad is all the ones behind the decorative ones are in the bed with us at night. I currently require 2 regular pillows and a body pillow to sleep. Really I am surprised there is room for Keith in the bed at all!

Here you can see the cross I was talking about above. We got it in Canton at First Monday when we first moved to Tyler and we both love it. It even has fleur de lis' on it to show off our love of Louisiana. We are still planning on replacing the doors to all the bedrooms along with their handles but haven't gotten around to it yet. All of the doors are OLD and have gold handles and soon they will not match anything as the molding will all be white. But all in time!

Here is one last view of the bedroom. We have replaced the blinds in this room with 2 inch white faux wood blinds (which really keep the sun out). I am still deciding about curtains but I figure one day (probably right before we move or something) I will have all of those finishing touches done, but right now its the remodel that our money is concentrated on!

Hope you enjoyed the tour of our Master Bedroom... we are finishing the nursery this weekend, so that will be our next stop! That will probably be the first room in the whole house that actually gets things hung on the walls.