Before & After: A Color-Blocked Nursery in Des Moines, IA
My house is quirky in a lot of ways. As we’ve gone room by room to fix up our 1900 home in Des Moines, IA, my husband Austin and I realized there are things that have to be left alone and loved as-is. One of the oddities is the small, 9×9-foot bedroom that has four […]
My house is quirky in a lot of ways. As we’ve gone room by room to fix up our 1900 home in Des Moines, IA, my husband Austin and I realized there are things that have to be left alone and loved as-is. One of the oddities is the small, 9×9-foot bedroom that has four doors and is the only access point into our largest bedroom. When we first toured the house, we saw its potential as a nursery someday, but could see it working well as my office for the first few years we lived there. It was the only room in the house with wallpaper, thankfully, but that wallpaper was applied directly to the plaster walls so the process of removing it involved clothing steamers, plaster knives and getting the paper backing off bit by bit. My friend Layla and I spent a weekend in February in the humid, tiny room, prepping the space to be my office. I was traveling the next two weeks and Austin made it his goal to have the space ready for me to set up as my office once I got back.
He patched the plaster in places that needed it, sanded and primed. While I was away, Austin put up crown molding and then asked me for paint colors. Since a lot of the larger spaces in our house had gotten the white wall with w...
My house is quirky in a lot of ways. As we’ve gone room by room to fix up our 1900 home in Des Moines, IA, my husband Austin and I realized there are things that have to be left alone and loved as-is. One of the oddities is the small, 9×9-foot bedroom that has four doors and is the only access point into our largest bedroom. When we first toured the house, we saw its potential as a nursery someday, but could see it working well as my office for the first few years we lived there. It was the only room in the house with wallpaper, thankfully, but that wallpaper was applied directly to the plaster walls so the process of removing it involved clothing steamers, plaster knives and getting the paper backing off bit by bit. My friend Layla and I spent a weekend in February in the humid, tiny room, prepping the space to be my office. I was traveling the next two weeks and Austin made it his goal to have the space ready for me to set up as my office once I got back.
He patched the plaster in places that needed it, sanded and primed. While I was away, Austin put up crown molding and then asked me for paint colors. Since a lot of the larger spaces in our house had gotten the white wall with w...
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