The guest room in our Chicago home was one of the very first spaces we completed after the initial wave of renovation. Do you remember" It started as a somewhat-crumbling tan shoebox, and one of the most time-consuming tasks of the makeover was repairing the drywall. As a bit of backstory, our home turned 131-years-old this […]
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The guest room in our Chicago home was one of the very first spaces we completed after the initial wave of renovation. Do you remember" It started as a somewhat-crumbling tan shoebox, and one of the most time-consuming tasks of the makeover was repairing the drywall. As a bit of backstory, our home turned 131-years-old this year(!), and at some point in the house’s history, the plaster walls were replaced with drywall. In some areas, the drywall is fine, in other areas, we spent days, weekends, entire weeks sanding, patching and prepping for fresh paint. It’s been one of the largest labors of love, and even still, it’s not perfect. That’s okay though; there are stories in these walls. When we revamped the guest room, we brought in a salvaged headboard and incorporated several pieces from our former condo life. We added pretty black + gold wallpaper, a green velvet chair and white bedding. It was so peaceful and calming – truly, because it was the only room in our under-construction home that was a place of respite! You may remember...