Our bedroom has come along way since Derek purchased the house back in 2006.  When he bought this house the carpet in the master bedroom was hunter green and the walls were yellow, and there was lime green shag carpeting in the closets.  W O W!

We have a sneaking suspicion that this entire house was completely green at one point in it’s life; thanks to what seems to have been a 1970′s makeover.  We decided to pull up the green carpet that was so dark you could spill motor oil on the thing and never find the spot.

Dog fur, now that’s another story, because that’s about all you could see on the freakin’ thing.  We figured since the rest of the house had hardwood floors the master MUST have hardwood under the carpet…it just had to.  We decided right away we had to pull up the carpet to at least look.  I mean wouldn’t you?  Even finding old, worn hardwood would be better than the Oscar the Grouch green monstrosity someone thought was suitable carpet for not only a football stadium, but a bedroom.  To our delight there WAS hardwood underneath!  It was in need of a bit of love, but nowhere near the nasty of the astro turf that sat on top of it for years.  SERIOUSLY.

We begin on a mission of carpet pulling-uping.  We made it about two thirds of the way across the room and realize that the hardwood STOPped.  See during the 1970′s massacre re-model of this house the owners added an additional 8ft onto the kitchen and master bedroom, but figured astro turf would really class up the joint.  Cuz I mean that makes total sense.  Maybe they rented the room out to little league football teams on rainy days.

Sorry, back to my story…

We began saving money for new “non-green” carpet, and decided the less of the nasty carpet in that room the better.  So, we tore up any carpet that had hardwood beneath, and left the what did not.

A few months later our money was saved and the new carpet was ordered.

Oh here’s a funny story….so, the dogs, Cohen and Ellie, (at this time Amy & Ellie lived here) loved, loved, loved to eat all the acorns they found in the yard.  There were like a gazillion of these friggin’ acorns.  These two fools would eat acorns and then come in the house a barf all that nasty up.  Well, not 30 minutes after the carpet guys left, Ellie trots into the room and yacks in the corner….dark brown!!  Ahhhh!!!  Derek about lost it.

A few years have passed since that barf filled day, and the room is slowly transforming into a nice little retreat.  It could use a few window treatments, I had to persuade Derek to let put some up in the house.  Just like a man, he thinks curtains are pointless.  Since then he has seen the light.  We replaced the ever so lovely mini-blinds with 2 inch wooden blinds, painted the walls a lovely neutral tone (i’m already wanting to change the color), and added some art.

All the art in the room was either drawn/painted by Derek or is a photograph taken by Derek or me)  I think it adds a nice personal touch.  Oh, did I mention that we made those bedside lamps ourselves.  I bought the shade on e-bay for $60.00 (it’s a Le Klint knock off), and purchased steel pipe at the hardware store.  We love them.  They are pretty with an industrial flare.

I would eventually like to see that dang popcorn ceiling scrapped, and some crown molding put up, but that’s just will have to wait.  I just found out yesterday Derek has decided to started getting estimates on having the wood floors refinished.  Yippie!!!!  So sorry ceiling you are just gonna have to wait.  Jenny needs her some purdy wood floors.

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