Project: Completed--and Sleepovers for All!

Remember those pictures I promised, of our completed basement project--a guest bedroom, bathroom, and a storage room carved out of what began as a huge unfinished storage area? ("Before" pictures here.)

Finally, after working through all my camera issues--(my camera is fine, but my psyche has issues with learning new cameras, new uploading procedures AND new photo software)--here they are.

First off, my pumpkin-colored bathroom!


Bold, no? Yes! For me, that is. I got the idea from a page in a Restoration Hardware magazine. I am thrilled that the color came out pretty nearly as expected!


The harvest gold towels are a nice contrast, and the oil rubbed bronze fixtures
look pretty classy, I think--an idea from the same picture.


But no one will be fooled for long...


...if they but open the door to the utility closet!

Next we have the guest room, from the doorway...

...looking on around to the right...


...and then back toward the door. There's a small closet there on the left, then the doorway through which you can see the doorway to the bathroom. On the right is a little cabinet that will have a door (it's being custom-made) with a locking latch on it. The shelves extend another 18 inches to the left behind the wall, and the bottom shelf lifts up for storage down to the floor. My plan is to keep Christmas and birthday gifts stashed away in there, under lock and key!

And finally, we left ourselves an L-shaped storage hallway wrapping around the side and back of the bedroom. Here's the view into the storage room (from the family room)--and nearly all those boxes along the left wall are not going to be there much longer, I hope. (I am still unpacking! Several of them contain framed pictures, since we haven't hung any yet...always our last thing to do.)


Notice the leftover carpet that I was able to use in the storage area, which is so much more inviting to walk on than concrete.

And if you walked all the way in and looked to the left, here is the view:

Again, the boxes to the left are mostly not permanently in position--more stuff to be unpacked eventually. (What does one do with all the cassette tapes one has accumulated since the 80's?? Before I can toss them all, I must go through and pull out any really meaningful teaching tapes, and rescue the handful that are of me or Papa Rooster speaking.)

I hope you have enjoyed this tour, and that perhaps some of you--you lucky ones, you--will eventually get to try out our guest suite for yourselves!

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In other news, this weekend all the kids and I are driving back to the former area of residence for a performance of Seussical by a newly-launched county associated with our theater group. (And of course I'm hoping: that will be us in a year!) A number of friends from our old theater group have leads in it and we love the show, so it's going to be so fun.

Then, we all have sleepovers planned--even me. On Saturday I'm having breakfast with my hosting girlfriend, then going to a baby shower for one of my readers and frequent commentors, Taryn! I am looking forward to laughing with her and other ladies from our former church, as I know we will. Then I'll pick up all my kids and we'll hang with some other old friends and see what else we can fit in before heading home by bedtime.

Papa Rooster is having an old friend over for a sleepover, too--in the new guest room, of course!--so he's not feeling too left out.