Trim It In

During our almost 2 years here (can you believe it?) we've very sorely neglected our upstairs trim. While trim on our main floor is stained, upstairs is painted, and painted very badly. Before moving in we repainted just about every part of this house, but the work the trim needed to look nice was totally overwhelming so we just chose to ignore it.


Underneath a window in our bedroom that was apparently left open during a storm. Don't eat the paint chips!





Obviously it's pretty hard to ignore how bad that is. Plus, there was some general rearranging we wanted to do in our bedroom, so we finally found our courage and attacked!


What a mess!

We spent two weekends sanding, filling holes and cracks, more sanding, more filling . . . you get the idea. Here's the finished product:







While we were at it, we painted a former accent wall green to match the rest of the room and finally hemmed all our curtains.


Old accent wall - you can still see the brown along the ceiling.

And the we swapped out some of our furniture with the guest room next door and rearranged everything.


The bed fit perfectly between these two big windows.


We moved this cool antique serpentine dresser that Chris' parents gave us as a gift this year to a very visible corner so you can see it when you walk in the room.


We moved this old dresser that I bought at a garage sale in college and refinished from the guest room to our bedroom. And a sock monkey because . . . why not?


I got this desk at an estate auction in college and we refinished it, and this chair was from a flea market a few years ago. We moved these from the guest room into our room for a getting ready station.

Still to do:
- Get some art/decor for the walls
- Replace the rug for a larger one (I'm debating between dark brown and ivory - any votes?)
- Wooden blinds on all the windows
- Find some cool antique nightstands to swap out the last of the furniture