Voila, room done

We're done with painting the spare bedroom! At last:

Actually, we finished it two weeks ago, just in time for some house guests. Still, all in all it took around 3 1/2 months to finish. Very happy with the results... but wow. Really feels like we've been working on it forever.

The following picture doesn't do it justice, but this is what the room used to look like (dates to when we moved into the house):

There was an excess of wood trim in this room, which required layer after layer of paint. (The wood trim was finished with a weird ripple effect that we did not like.)

The room also suffered from a lot of cracks in several of the walls, plus water damage, which all required repair and weeks of work before we even started painting.

We'd ripped up the brown / white carpet in the "before" picture years ago, but underneath that was some hideous linoleum. (Sorry, no picture of that.)

So, a month or so ago -- as we were finishing up the trim -- we ripped up the more-than-40-year-old linoleum and painted the floor with floor paint. (I believe the color -- viewable in the above "after" picture -- was French Grey, or something like that... a nice, light, bluish grey.)

We kept on painting too -- now we're painting the hallway just outside of the bedroom. And, Evan spent a day ripping up more linoleum and putting down tiles of carpet (Flor!) in that hallway area. But last weekend, we got an early visit from spring, so we put these efforts on hold for a week, as we took care of some work outside... More on spring -- we started planting -- soon!