Materials and the sequence of the job sit together on this page.
Renovated Guest Bedroom: No More Nasty Carpet contributed by View Along the Way Well, some might call it a guest room. My mother-in-law calls it her Georgia bedroom, and I love that.You might remember this room from our first “before” shots. What we knew at the time was that there were mysterious gross things stuck to the wall (which were a lot harder to remove than we expected!).
What we didn’t know when I first posted this photo was the depths of disgusting hiding under the carpet. You can see the stained carpet in this photo, and you can assume the worst from the color and nature of the stain. And you’d probably be right.
What we soon learned when we pulled up the carpet was that the nasty poo goo had soaked straight through the carpet, straight into the floor boards and made them mildewy and, well, steeped in poop. Nice.I can’t decide if the previous owners had locked their animals here and refused to clean the mess, or just mistaken this room for another bathroom? Because it’s not. It’s definitely not a bathroom.
We ripped out and replaced the nasty floorboards, ripped up and replaced the carpet, scraped the popcorn off the ceiling, added crown molding and a new light fixture, repainted everything, and installed new windows and window treatments.
Wait, don’t just skip through that paragraph. This was a lotta work! (And this was one of our EASIEST rooms to renovate!)
This is where it stands today:
Is it finished? Well, no. I still want to find a fancy little dresser for the wall opposite the bed, and a few more things, but:
- It is habitable.
- There is no visible or hidden human or animal excrement.
…and therefore it has met my standards for a guest room.
