Our house has three bedrooms. One is our master bedroom and one is a guest bedroom. Since we don't have kids yet, the last bedroom has housed a random assortment of items: dog crate, cat feeding area, exercise room, etc. We're lucky that we have a separate designated office space downstairs so the "bonus" room was just laying low for a while.
Here's a "before" shot of the bonus room after we had emptied it of MOST of its contents. That's our helper beagle, Roxy. Isn't she cute?
Before we had even started, we realized we HATED the wall color in there. It was a really ugly shade of baby blue that the previous owners used for their baby's nursery. We decided on a light gender-neutral shade of grey and then spent a weekend painting. After some of our other lengthier painting projects, this one didn't seem too bad. Four walls, 2 people, no problem!
Once the painting was finished, we hopped over to our local Ikea store to buy 3 full-sized and 2 smaller Billy book cases as well as 6 doors so that part of this eventual storage solution would provide closed storage for some of our unsightly items. We also went shopping for wallpaper because we decided we'd rather have a pattern on the back of the book cases (rather than a solid color like in our inspiration photo) and decided on a cool monochromatic grey pattern.
The next step was putting the book cases together and wallpapering the backs. We experimented first because neither of us has ever done any wallpapering!
Since we'll have doors covering that middle section, we decided to save some of the wallpaper for future projects. (don't judge us, that wallpaper was pricey!)
But a few months ago, we realized we have all this junk around the house and there's nowhere to put it! We don't have that much closet space and what we do have is occupied by more important stuff (servers, computers, DRESSES, etc.) So I brought up the idea of making some DIY built-in book cases (inspired by http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2011/11/from-billys-to-built-ins/#more-23570). And then.....a few weeks later, Bill agreed to help me take this on.
Here's a "before" shot of the bonus room after we had emptied it of MOST of its contents. That's our helper beagle, Roxy. Isn't she cute?
Before we had even started, we realized we HATED the wall color in there. It was a really ugly shade of baby blue that the previous owners used for their baby's nursery. We decided on a light gender-neutral shade of grey and then spent a weekend painting. After some of our other lengthier painting projects, this one didn't seem too bad. Four walls, 2 people, no problem!
Once the painting was finished, we hopped over to our local Ikea store to buy 3 full-sized and 2 smaller Billy book cases as well as 6 doors so that part of this eventual storage solution would provide closed storage for some of our unsightly items. We also went shopping for wallpaper because we decided we'd rather have a pattern on the back of the book cases (rather than a solid color like in our inspiration photo) and decided on a cool monochromatic grey pattern.
The next step was putting the book cases together and wallpapering the backs. We experimented first because neither of us has ever done any wallpapering!
Since we'll have doors covering that middle section, we decided to save some of the wallpaper for future projects. (don't judge us, that wallpaper was pricey!)
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