For some reason, I didn't take any before photos of the upstairs. There wasn't much to see. Same blue-gray walls and dirty white carpet, but upstairs instead of down. We have a vaulted ceiling in the master bedroom which helps make the small room feel a little bigger. Painting it this brown we used at the gallery too helped warm it up quite a bit. Neil surprised me with a newly painted room and bathroom while I was off skiing. That was a good trick. I should leave him to go skiing every couple months.
The bedroom still needs a lot of fine tuning. We've added storage where we could with antique dressers and a custom bookcase Neil built for our t.v. and some pottery. Space is an issue since we share the room with 2-3 dogs depending on when you catch us. I have lots of ideas, but keep this room low on my priority list since it's not seen by others. On the list are new bedding (maybe something like ones from here, here, or here) and curtains and building an upholstered bench for the end of the bed. I'm gathering ideas (and money) for the moment.
The master bathroom is teeny-tiny. I mean REALLY small. We don't even have room for a towel bar. On the up side, there's less to clean. We spent next to nothing in here and it looks better already. We painted the vanity black and Neil made some knobs for the doors. There was a wall sized mirror above the sink and toilet that just looked tacky, so we took it down and replaced it with this framed one and a small medicine cabinet from Target that we added our own knob to. I'd eventually like to replace the light fixture with something nicer (we found this one for around $30-40 and switched out the shades). And in my wild idea file I have plans to rip out the tub and build a full sized tile shower and then re-tile the floor in something not blue. We'll see if that ever happens.
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