Wednesday, August 05, 2009

The post you have all been anxiously awaiting...

That's right folks- Keegan's room is finally done(for the most part) and the pictures are finally here. Andi didn't feel like posting, she said something about being too tired to move, so the duty has fallen to me. Lucky you. First of all let me start by saying that we couldn't find any before pictures so for those of you that don't know what it looked like I'm gonna describe it a bit for you. It started off as a sun porch. It was nice and when we moved in we thought it would get lots of use. But, it didn't have any heat or ac run to it so basically it got turned into a 15x10 storage room that before we started only had a path from the kitchen door to the exit door and the rest filled with crap. When we decided to build Keegan's room I didn't want him to have an outside exit door in his room so we needed to build a wall. So with the wall built we threw in a closet. A walk in closet. Biggest in the house. Awesome. And we got a mud room. Awesome. Then we had to frame in and lower the ceiling so that we could insulate because it used to be a porch and there was no insulation. After that we had to pull out all the old windows and install a new window, run electric and heat and ac, throw up some drywall, paint, trim, etc. and BOOM! New room. Keegan loves it. So does Sophie because now she has her own room with butterflies on the wall. Pink butterflies. So without further ado, the pictures:

As you see all the colors, keep in mind this is the bedding Keegan will have - once it arrives back from being altered down to a toddler bed size. There will also be a valance made for his curtains so they won't look so plain out of the same material.




This is the wall we built to make the mudroom and closet. If you have any questions leave a comment and I'll try to answer it. Last of all- Enjoy.




Below it the storage bench we built in by the back door.Opposite side of the mud room, where we will just have a storage shelf.





This is the inside of a storage bench that was built by the back door. A handy place for Jacob to take off his muddy boots when he comes in from hunting.



This is the chest that Pappaw made and I'm sure he never imagined it painted this color, but he would love for Keegan to have it.

Andi took the pillow sham to a print shop and had it copied and enlarged, then she mounted them on painted wood panels, and fixed them to the wall with painted roofing nails. There are four panels of those in the room.



Above is the closet, which has 2 rows for clothes and about 8 shelves up the opposite side - in effect practically doubling the closet space we had in the entire house.

Below is a cabinet that Andi's mom used for Andi when she was a baby. Now it's being used for Keegan. Below is Keegan's storage shelf for his toys. Up on the wall, you can see a bit of the fox picture.

Lastly, these are some planes that Pappaw had given to Keegan.

3 comments:

Patricia said...

Awesome job! What a lot of work! I love the squares that you made to match the bedding, very creative. That bed is just about the cutest piece of furniture I've ever seen.

The only bad this is that the old "go to your room" punishment will never work because he'll want to be there all the time!

Fatcat said...

Cool! Cute room for a little cute boy!

Fatcat said...

Cool! Cute room for a little cute boy!