Monday, October 12, 2009

Our master remodel...

Well, our master bedroom remodel is finally complete (minus a few decorating and fine details like hanging things on the wall)! Our lives are getting back to order and it feels so wonderful to have a house where rooms are not being used for storage (we were able to eat at our dinning room table again finally since before it was a storage area for our bedroom furniture). We love the end result and we enjoy our bedroom, closet and bathroom each day! We had our contractor and his workers do much of the work but of course Carl did so much of it himself and I helped by painting the bedroom and tiling with Carl. He is so talented and I am always amazed at how he reads how to do something and then does it and it looks wonderful! Okay, so here is an overview of what we did and there are pictures that will show you are remodel. The layout in our master was a funny one with a long skinny room, a bathroom and a huge closet so we decided to move the bathroom and closet (we did have to downsize but it is still a good size walk in closet) so the arrangement of the room made more sense. We also had but in new and different size windows. The only one that is the same is the bay window, which is lovely and we did not want to change this. Anyway here are the pictures. Enjoy!
Old picture of the hallway
Bay window before remodel

Our old bathroom (lovely wallpaper and Hollywood lights, huh?)

Old Closet (yes, this was huge but we had to downsize to make a much better bathroom and room)

Old Bedroom


Down to the studs (looking into old bedroom/ closet)


Newly framed closet and bathroom (you can see the long skinny windows (one was in the bedroom and one was in the closet before and we changed the size to smaller square privacy window since this is the front of our house which helps the curb appeal)

All framed and painted


Our new hallway (we got new carpet in all the bedrooms)

Walking into our new master

Walking in

The bay window (we still have things to finish and clean up). We need new window treatments and to finish getting this decorated.


Our bed with new bedding and we bought new nightstand from overstock (which I love). This is where the old bathroom and part of the closet were. We added that new window above the bed and closed up another window that used to be in the old bathroom.

My side of the closet. Carl put in the closet organizers.

Carl's side. The window is where the long skinny window used to be in our old bedroom.

Carl's side (looking back behind the door)

More of a full view of Carl's side

Looking into the closet from the bedroom (standing right by the bay window)

Our new bathroom .... my favorite part! Here is the bathroom looking in from the bedroom. This is where the old closet was (the window was the long skinny one in the closet and part of it was our bedroom since the bathroom is wider than the old closet).

Another view of our vanity

Picture of our shower. Carl and I (but mostly Carl) tiled all of the bathroom. Tiling is a lot of work and takes a lot of time but Carl did such a wonderful job!

Tub and show view (across from our vanity). We put in a large window above the tub and our bathroom is so light now. Carl trimmed all of the windows and he put a ledge on this which I think looks wonderful.

Another view

We also put in a shelf next to the jetted tub which is wonderful to use and Preston loves to take baths in it as well. He also loves to stand on the outside of the tub and turn the water on and off. He is so clever!
From the window looking at the tub. We put a double towel rack and a glass shelf here.
Here is a picture of the tile we put on the floor. I think this design we decided to do looks great and Carl did a great job (especially with those cuts!

A picture from in the mirror so everything is reversed but you can see the tile and the we have recessed lights above the shower and tub. Our shower door looks amazing and it's so nice to take a show in there.

Here is another vanity picture

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