Home Tour--Part 3--Livy's Room

Home tour part 3--Livy's room. If you missed the first two parts, head to the living room, living room favorites, kitchen, and kitchen favorites.

I do not have a "before" picture of this room either. Note to self--take more pictures!

Imagine a dark room covered with paneling except for the last foot of wall which was covered with popcorn ceiling stuff. Also imagine two small closets at one end and the same blue grey carpet as in the kitchen.

The first thing we did was tear down the paneling. The outside of our house is covered with ivy and it was actually growing in the house between the wall and the paneling. Yikes!

Here you can see the frame work to the two small closets. We had every intention to make them larger.

This was a total surprise. When we took down the paneling we found a door! Of course now leading to the wall in my master bedroom. The house was an original one bedroom and was very lucky (I guess) to have two back doors leading to the back porch. One here and the other in the kitchen. The door was completely a part of the wall and we had to literally cut it out with a saw. You can see where the molding used to be and a light switch with the old silk wires.


The next step was my job and oh how I hated it! Trying to scrap off near 100 year old wallpaper!

Between the wallpaper and paneling, there was so much damage to the plaster walls that we had to mud nearly everything. Thanks mom for helping!

Here is Eduardo framing in the closets.

Horrible me, I have no in-between pictures. We tore out the carpet and used the original linoleum floor (green marble looking) for a while until we were ready to install carpets.

And for a time, I used the room as our bedroom followed with a nap room for the daycare kids. Once Livy came along, it is all hers. I still would like to paint (other then what I did a few years ago) and we still need to install closet doors. But that will come!

So here is the current stage of this room. There is so much more that I want to do...you know, decorate!

A look down the "hall" into Livy's room. Bathroom on the left and the utility closet on the right. We will look at these another day.


Where the blue sign is on the wall used to be the door-in-the-wall. I think Eduardo did a great job patching that up.

You can see paint sample on the wall next to the window. I would love to paint stripes on the bottom and a solid light yellow on the top. Still testing it to see if I like it.

I must tell you about the bedding that I purchased for Livy. I was able to get, all Pottery Barn Kids brand, a quilt, toddler duvet, three crib sheets, sham, small pillow w/two small pillowcases, bumper pad, bed skirt, decorative pillow, and window valance. This is about $700 worth of bedding for $75 including shipping. How you might ask?! I found everything in this Pottery Barn kids line "Sophie" on eBay. If anyone out there has a twin size flat sheet that they are getting rid of from this line, I am interested in purchasing it. I will be moving Livy to a toddler bed soon and would like a sheet for her.

This is my favorite window in the house. I love how tall it is and the chunky molding.

This is an older picture of the closet. Last week I took the curtains down to wash and haven't gotten them back up. And I didn't want to show you everything that is behind the curtain. Eduardo will be installing closet doors soon on the monster of a closet!

Stay tuned for my favorites in this room and more home tour!