When we moved into this house last year we knew even before we bought it that the kitchen would have to be redone. That was tackled this summer, and the newly expanded and renovated kitchen was worth the three and a half months of living with a thick coating of construction dust, washing dishes in a tiny little bathroom pedestal sink, and have six cats extremely annoyed at being locked downstairs for the duration.

That wasn’t the only project we knew we needed to tackle for this house, even though it was certainly the largest. One of the smaller projects on the (long) list of things that needed to be dealt with was the upstairs back bedroom. When we moved in, it was painted turquoise, and had oatmeal colored carpet on the floor. I peeled up one corner shortly after we moved in, and it looked like there might be wood under there, but we weren’t sure what kind of condition it might be in, and with the state of the kitchen, dealing with that carpet was pretty low priority.

After the kitchen was done, we assessed the state of the finances, and looked at our list, and decided that the upstairs bedroom was a prime target for finishing, if only because at least with that done, the entire upstairs would be pretty much complete.

Apparently we never took pictures of the room the way it used to be, but here is what it looks like now.

Well, this isn’t the entire room, obviously, since I was mainly trying to capture the color (it is called ‘Happy Camper’. I have no idea why), the floor, and the new wainscoting on the walls. Every other room in the upper level has picture rail, or wainscotting, or some similar feature, except for this bedroom (although it did, at least, have the molding over the doors, same as all the other rooms). We used the same walnut stained bamboo we used for the kitchen, so it flows nicely.

We’re not exactly sure what we’re going to do with this room, now that it’s complete. However, its good that they managed to finish the final flooring and painting on Friday afternoon, because we needed the extra space on Friday night, as a place to set up the breakfast nook table to provide extra seating space for the Nanowrimo writers to sit. Richard’s the municipal liason for the group again this year, and along with hosting the kick-off party last weekend, we also hosted the midnight write-in. There were 27 or so writers crammed into every available seat in the house, all armed with laptops and goodies to nibble, and stacks of notes for their novels, and at midnight they all settled down and commenced to typing away. So having the extra two seats at the kitchen island (now that we have both a kitchen island, and seats tall enough to sit there) and the table in the now-finished green room, was definitely a good thing.

It’s NaBloPoMo time again!