Taking On The Boy's Room

Upstairs we had only two rooms. One for the girls and one for the boys. When my oldest moved out, it was decided that each kid could now have their own room. The girls shared one room that was 13' x 26' and the boys shared an odd shaped room about 10' x 26' with a large bite taken for the water heater, bathroom and a chimney.

Unlike all of the rest of the remodeling, this job had no demolition. The only tare down was the covering on one part of the wall where the door was. A couple feet of sheet rock came down and a couple studs. This was just to move the one door over and make room for the other door that was added. All the rest was new construction so there are no pictures to show of things being ripped up for this part.

My youngest daughter got the odd shaped room and the large 13' x 26' room was chopped into two smaller rooms. Girls need more space you know. Below you can see some pictures of the boy's new rooms.

The walls need to be textured and painted still. The kids haven't figured out what color they want yet. Once they do, we will finish the rooms off and this page will be complete.

One big problem in splitting this large room was the fact that the stairs required the doors to be side by side. We placed them so they swing away from each other and into the hall. This made room for the heaters which will be near the doors in the rooms. The odd turn required in the devider has also become a place for a closet or desk area. How ever it needs to be used. Currently, we are using it as a desk area and there are no doors on it. Take a look at thes rough drawing of the over head view.

This looks a little odd. We couldn't any door at the top of the stairs because the ceiling is just a little too low to allow it to work. We thought about cutting the door down but that seemed strange. We needed a closet so putting it right by the enterence and placing the angle wal in the closet seemed the best solution.

Here you can see the texture we have placed on the wall. It is a very simple texture. We take diapers and get them wet. Then we dip them in texture/joint compound that has been thinned with water. By patting the texture soaked diapers on the wal we get the nice look. Once the texture starts to dry a little (about 5 minutes or so) we gently run a 6" knife over the dobs we put on to flatten them out slightly. By placing a random dob and random flatening motion the end result looks quite nice. The idea of texturing is to hide minor errors. Once painted, the seams and little boo-boos will all be hard to find.