Before + After: part 2

Here is a continuation of some of our house renovations.  This is what's been happening upstairs.

So this is our upstairs guest room before we bought it.  Really not bad from the photo, but again, this was her staging furniture so none of it stayed.  The walls look deceivingly mild, but don't be fooled.  They were in fact practically lime green. And what looks like a bed was the size of a bench. 

We now painted the walls a grayish purple.  We added navy and white accents with the curtains and bedding.  The twin beds were actually left in the house, so we cleaned the box springs and bought new mattresses and put them in this room...and they fit perfectly! The photo seems darker because all the windows are covered up at the time of the photo, but it still gets a ton of light.  

Little fun things:  The poster I found at a flea market in Charlotte and it's actually a map of Austin, TX (love), and the green wooden and iron table I found at a flea market in MS.  This room was definitely a home run for salvaged/reused finds.

Rug runner: West Elm

Curtains: West Elm

Paint color: Grape Creme by Behr

This is the other bedroom upstairs.  There was nothing terrible about this room before (other than how dirty it was), there really was just nothing in here...except for those twins beds we ended up putting in the other room.

Now we use it as an office/catch-all storage for my art supplies/textbooks, etc. We painted the walls a lighter color to brighten it up.  Added some colorful curtains and pillows.  Got a storage unit.  Pretty simple so far.

Curtains: Lowe's

Pillows: West Elm

Storage unit: Ikea

Paint color: Polished by Behr

This bathroom upstairs is almost the tiniest bathroom ever built, but somehow they fit everything in so fine by me.  Such is life in an old house.  The previous owner unfortunately though put in a green shower stall *cries.*  But it works and is rarely used, so for now we're not paying the money to change it.  However, the walls before were bright yellow and the floors were checkered linoleum.  Needless to say that made the green shower look even worse.  Unfortunately I lost my "before" picture of this.  Trust me, not pretty.  Anyway, since the shower will be with us a littler longer, we decided to try to neutralize everything else around it.  We painted the walls white and David so handily installed a nicer looking floor.

He also built these storage shelves that we stained dark brown.  We ended up also building a "frame" around the medicine cabinet and stained it the same color.

The bathroom is definitely the least special thing to show, but 1) knowing how bad it was before i'm so happy with how it is now, and 2) i'm really impressed by my husband that he put in the floor and shelves :)

I love having this blessing to slowly turn from house to home.  Even if it has a green shower.