The Spare Room

The second bedroom has been one of those things that have been really slow going. To save some cash we decided to fix up the existing wall once the asbestos came down rather than covering it up with new vj sheeting like we did in the kitchen.



Before. We had started steaming of the wallpaper when we found fibro. Asbestos-y fibro.

And under the fibro... a total mess!

Jason has spent days and days agonising over filling and sanding the wall over and over until it resembled something good enough to slap some paint on. Along the way I may have been accused of being a 'backseat sander' for constant questions (mostly about how long the whole process would take) and honestly I think Jason could have spent months working on it and trying to make it perfect but basically the wall is AMAZING compared to what we started with.

 



Master painter at work











Painting nearly complete
 

This is how the room looked when our first visitors arrived:

 

 



Such an improvement! We were in a mad rush to get it finished so it's not perfect but it's a huge change from what we started with! It's quite a small bedroom so it's hard to get decent photos but overall the room looks really good. The next step (and there's always a next step) is to get a new ceiling fan with a light so we can remove the old fluro.