The Room Formerly Known As Ugly

It is finished!! Well for all practical purposes it is. I still need to hang pictures and strip and paint the door but basically, I'm done. My craft/scrapbook/storage room has been called "the ugly room" since before we moved in. While packing, I even marked the boxes to go in that room as "ugly room" and no one questioned which room that was. Its yellow/gold shag carpet, yellow and white striped wallpaper and chipping, peeling, yellow painted trim, made the room one UGLY place to be. I had a vision of a pleasant place to scrapbook and be creative but the work to be done was overwhelming. I started on it last spring by pulling up some of the carpet that I could get to, which wasn't much because the room was so packed with junk. I also tried to strip the wallpaper, but found it wasn't coming off the never painted plaster walls underneath. My solution...paintable wallpaper, which I bought months ago. Then, this fall I was forced to get busy on the room when we had the hardwood floors refinished upstairs. Couple that with Jerry getting me a new computer that was still sitting in the box after 3 weeks because I had no place to set everything up got me motivated... finally. Then, I realized I didn't have enough wallpaper and Lowe's didn't carry it anymore. AARRRGGGGHHH!!! After much time on the phone I tracked down 1 roll in Kansas on the the clearance rack for $1. Jerry was out that way picked it up and I thought I was all set. Then I realized I had miscounted how many rolls and had one less than I thought. So, I scrimped and saved and pieced all over the place and I had enough! I was on a mission and completed the room. It took me 8 days, yes I know I'm slow, but the trim had to be scraped, sanded, primed, painted, the paper hung and painted and I had to organize and get rid of a LOT of stuff. I did it and am very pleased. What to call it now, I'm not sure, but in my opinion, it's definitely not ugly!

The before: (isn't it awful?!)





The after: