When we found out that Baby Robinson #2 would be making us a party of four we started talking about sleeping arrangements for the girls. When we bought out house in Snoqualmie it had three bedrooms and a huge living area upstairs that we used primarily as a play room for Olivia. We felt the girls were too far apart in age to share a room and wanted to keep a guest room so we decided to make part of the upstairs space a fourth bedroom. Mike spent almost his entire Christmas vacation building what is now Olivia's new bedroom and he did an awesome job! We are so blessed to have such a dedicated (and handy!) husband/Daddy. It looks amazing and you'd never know that two weeks ago it was just one big open space up there.
This is what the upstairs looked like when the previous owners lived here. One big open space.
One of our friends, Matt, is a contractor and he and another contractor friend came over to help frame the room. Mike definitely did the lion's share of the work on the bedroom (and very well, too) but we were thankful to have experts help start the wall.
After countless hours of framing, dry wall, applying dry wall "mud", texturing, priming, painting, installing doors and baseboards and moving furniture, the room is finally done! Starting at the bedroom door, the entire right wall is brand new.
And Olivia loves it! She chose the green paint color, which actually isn't so bad in person. It's a yellow-y green color that goes nicely with the Navajo White that we use as our neutral paint color throughout the house.
The existing space had two great windows, awesome for natural light.
Happy that we could get Olivia's bookshelf in her room now that the upstairs living space is a bit smaller.
This picture gives you a good look at how many "stuffies" Olivia has on her bed. There isn't much room in there for her sometimes!
Love the closet doors. It's not a walk-in closet like in Olivia's old room but the bedroom itself is much larger so she definitely got the better end of the deal as far as bedrooms goes. She is the big sister after all!
We still have a decent sized living space upstairs even with the new bedroom!
Olivia moving out of her old room meant that we could get it ready for sweet Cecily.
Still a bit more decorating to do but baby girl will be bunking up with us for a while so we have some time for finishing touches. Because I'm going to have soooo much time on my hands :-)
I'm so very proud of Mike and the work he's done to this house to make it perfect for us. He's the backbone of this family in so many ways and we are so thankful for him. Now COME ON, BABY CECILY! We are ready for you!
