Before...
After!
Well this blog has been sadly ignored for awhile...the semester flew by and now it's already December 15th, crazy. I hadn't been feeling very inspired to do much photo taking because of a dead camera battery and busy schedule, but then a few weeks ago I finally spent some saved dollars on a new camera, and upgraded to a Canon Rebel sl1! So I've been starting to play with it a bit and wanted to share a few pictures of my loft bedroom, which Will helped me redo last year. I live in a really unique garage apartment here in Lexington, but I've never posted anything about it. Here is a first glimpse.
When I moved in, my landlord didn't expect me to use this crawl space as a sleeping area, just storage, so he hadn't finished it off. It's actually a pretty spacious little loft, so I threw my mattress up there right away, and he installed a ladder. It just stayed that way for awhile, but then I kind of got tired of staring up at the ugly pipe. Will enthusiastically volunteered to lead my home repair project because he has a lot of experience doing this kind of work. He cut out new pieces of wood to cover the exposed insulation, and then built a beam around the pipe and across the ceiling, in which he cut holes and installed recessed lighting. I sanded the walls down and painted them with white stain; I like using stain because the grain of the wood shows through. I also sanded and re-stained the window, which is such an awesome feature - I love having an octagon window in my bedroom! Not a lot of extra space up there, so it's decorated minimally with a lambskin my parents gave me, and some glass blown balloons I picked up on the island of Murano, during a trip to Venice. Clean and cozy. It feels like sleeping in the coolest tent ever! The whole project cost under $250, which is another item to add to the list of why my landlord loves having me as a tenant :)
