Georgia's Room

I'm sure most of you know by now that in April of 2007 Brendan and I bought a house built in 1880. It has a great history and was owned by only two families in 127 years before we bought it. It is a wonderful place with a ton of character but was in desperate need of some updating. This was originally supposed to be source of weekend projects for Kara...and then, in May of 2008 (one month later), we found out we were pregnant. Needless to say, we were faced with a rather daunting situation. Baby on the way, no suitable room for it, and handy but pregnant wife who was now not supposed to play with chemicals and dangerous tools.

However, my incredible husband, who was only vaguely familiar with a hammer before this (I fondly remember a set of bookshelves he hung crashing down on our slumbering bodies 7 years ago) , cowboyed up to the challenge. Among other things, he spent the summer of 2007 learning to tear out carpet, demo old plastic paneling, hang wallboard, cut trim, and plan out ceiling tiles. He learned when to call an electrician and when to ask for help from friends, fathers, and father in laws. Perhaps the biggest challenge of all was doing it under the pressure of a sleep deprived pregnant wife, suffering from lack of oxygen and sleep depervation (aka dumb), influenced by raring horomones, going through serious nesting (yes I insisted the closet was ready before all the walls were up) and about to have a baby 8 weeks early.

In any case, although we have a little more work to do, I wanted to show you what wonderful Brendan did with our little Georgia's room.

Before: Changing table corner.

During: Changing table corner.

After: Changing table corner.

Before: Crib corner

During: Crib corner (see the blue tape marking where it will go...that is a sign of a crazy nesting pregnant lady looking for something to do at 2:00 a.m.)

After: Crib corner


Before: Closet area

During: Closet area

After: Closet area

During: Ceiling

After: Darling decorative ceiling tiles and molding