THE GREAT COVER UP

The doorway.

  The door on the back wall of the master bedroom,

 1 of 3 doors in the house leading to the laundry room/mud room

 was ALWAYS being used as a short cut by... 

kids

kids friends

dogs

kids friends dogs

cats 

shall I keep going...

you get the picture.

All of whom, were usually running!

( I don't know about you...but that's a lot of traffic through our bedroom! )

The room also had no solid wall to act as a anchor for the bed and nightstands.

So, my husband pulled some 2x4's out of the scrap pile,

 framed in the doorway, 

 covered it with a sheet of plywood 

and that's how it stayed for a few months.

Before

Until this past weekend!

Saturday we installed 3 4x8 sheets of bead board (trimming them slightly)

10' top cap and a 10' shoe molding at the base.

Countersunk the nails, filled with wood filler then sanded them smooth.

I finished the day caulking the seams with white Painters Caulk.

Sunday I applied 2 coats of  Benjamin Moore White Dove in Pearl Finish.

 Voila...instant wall!

 

After

I hope to be painting the rest of the room soon,

as I have yet to decide on a color,

 It all comes to me in time...I'm leaning towards a soft light gray.

-Michelle

P.S.  ( for Cynthia) 

Sneak peak of headboard we made

 from two old doors found atop a trash pile.