One Room Challenge: Our Guest Bedroom

Shew, the past 5 days have been crazy so I apologize for the lack of posts since Wednesday! My sister's bachelorette bash was this weekend in Charleston, {as you can imagine} I was running around like a crazy woman last week trying to pick up all the last minute items before I left bright and early on Friday. We had an absolute blast, I will be sharing the details later this week!

I had this post ready to go for Thursday's One Room Challenge update but completely forgot to hit publish. Go figure, right?! I still want to share the progress that we made last week before another big update this Thursday.

Our To-Do List for last week was lengthy but we were determined to get it all done. 

Week of April 12th:

1. Scrape carpet pad

2. Sweep and vacuum carpet pad sand

3. Sand hardwood floor

4. Remove carpet tack strips

5. Kilz the hardwood floor

6. Remove wallpaper

7. Repair the cracks in the wall

8. Kilz the walls

9. Repair the rotted window framing 

10. Caulk around the windows and fireplace  

I am confident that last week will go down as my least favorite week of the entire makeover. We spent multiple days on our hands and knees, scraping and sanding the floor. The carpet pad was glued to the hardwood floor and had deteriorated because it was about 50 years old. When carpet pad deteriorates, it turns into a dust/sand mixture. When I walked downstairs to take a break, I realized that there was a layer of this dust on everything in our house {and I mean e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g}.

Once the carpet pad was removed, we sanded the hardwood floor and removed the tack strips. Whoever installed the tack strips put a nail every inch or so along the entire wall, which means that we had the fun of removing 100's of nails.

Next up, two coats of Kilz to seal and protect the hardwood floors before we paint them. Eventually, we will restore the floors back to their natural oak color but we will have to save that for another rainy day.

Looking much better already, right?! At this point in the project, I had to give myself a major pep talk. We've made HUGE progress but I know that we still have so much more to do before May 7th.

We took a few days off before we started removing the wallpaper. Once the wallpaper was removed, TC was able to repair the rotted window framing and the cracks in the wall. We put two coats of Kilz on the walls and spent the rest of the evening caulking around the windows and fireplace.

And just like that another week is complete! I can't believe that we are half way through our six week challenge. Thank goodness for the constant inspiration and support from all of the other ORC participants.

If you didn't see our Guest Room before, you can check it out here.