not your grandma's wallpaper

Wallpaper is back in a major way and I've been loving the look for a while now. We decided to wallpaper one of the bedroom walls for a pretty pop of hotel luxury. I've always wanted a bedroom that felt like one of our fave boutique hotels (Thompson LES, Viceroy Palm Springs, Portrait Suites in Rome to name a few) and I think this gives the room that extra pop I was looking for. The process took a while to get the hang of, was definitely time consuming and left me wishing at certain points that we just paid the dude I found online $180 to do it. But it was all worth it in the end.

the bedroom + other finishing touches

We're full speed ahead trying to complete the big pieces of the bedroom before Friday when our new bed will be delivered. Last week we gut the room and C skim coated all the walls and ceiling to give the plaster a nice smooth finish. This weekend we accomplished a giant checklist: painted, laid the floors, installed an elfa closet system, hung the last 2 doors, and installed baseboard and trim around the doors and finished up the hallway and stair landing.

In the next few days we will paint all the molding and wallpaper one of the bedroom walls. While we won't be completely complete (will we ever?) we will have accomplished the major interior renovations on Carver! Just in time to make pizzelle's and trim our fake white christmas tree. Since this time last year we were crammed into the one bedroom we just finished, we have a lot to celebrate in gratitude.

bedroom before

a door on the bathroom

laying floors

finished (dirty) floors

closets before

closets after