Feeling Feminine on the Second Floor

Let me start with… WE HAVE MADE IT TO THE SECOND FLOOR!

We believe this was a dressing room for the ladies back in the day, based on its location between two bedrooms with a private pass through. This room is slightly small and awkward with three entrance doors and a wall of windows with heavy woodwork. Since purchasing our home, we haven’t really done much with this space due to its size. While we are both fancy men, we don’t need a dressing room…we have a closet. This space worked as my office for a while but as my business continued to grow, I had to move it to a different room.

This room had flaking paint on all of the wood trim from top to bottom, holes in the plaster walls and some sports of wood rot. The light in the middle of the room appears to be original and amazing in person. Everything in the room was basically the same brownish color (walls, trim, doors, windows and ceilings.)

While we waited on the all of the patchwork to dry, we started on the wood trim. We had to scrape and sand every piece of wood down since it was flaking. Talk about a massive mess. I may have gone through two face masks for this one room. All of the wood work by the end required 5 coats of high gloss, white paint. The wood trim was already painted so we didn’t feel badly about doing this!

Once the wood trim was completed, we picked out this french yellow to keep the room a little traditional and feminine. We are still trying to figure out what we will use the space for at this point.

Then the work began on the wood floors. The floors were so dry and rough that you couldn’t use a swiffer or it would snag and break pieces of the wood. We did a good cleanup , a light scuff, and some wood restore. You can see in one of the photos that halfway point from beginning to middle.

Finding a rug that we liked was a difficult task since the room is 9′ x9′ with a radiator. I think this rug will hold us over for a while until we find the right one.

We still have some finishing touches to put on the space such as curtains and one more painting. Both of those things will tie the room together. This is our new favorite Sunday night spot while we listen to Night Tides on KCUR. This space is very calming and relaxing!