That Day In Pictures - The Jungle Room

When we bought our house a couple years ago, the third floor had one bedroom and one bathroom finished and then a third room, mirror to the other bedroom, left non-remodeled and used as a true attic storage room. A couple walls had a pepto bismol type faded paint over cracked horse hair plaster, the wooden floor, painted black, was badly damaged and duct and pipe were exposed here and there and a couple walls sported an atrocious wall paper that you see in the above picture.  It was a very ugly room.  I loved it!  I immediately got that excited, itchy, adrenaline rush, happy, joyful feeling I get when I feel a project coming on.  Our realtor told us he had sold this same house three times now in the past 25 years and no owner had done anything to that room he referred to as the Jungle Room.  I thought what a shame and I told him we would immediately transform it in to another bedroom.  A couple months later, I emailed him pictures of the remodeled Jungle room and he exclaimed his glad tidings back.  Here are before and after pics.  I go up and visit this room daily as it makes me so happy to be in it.  When we were in the process of moving in to this house, it was a four month process due to a major and painfully slow remodel we were having done on the master bathroom and some of the floors, and the master bedroom was being used as the holding room for all the contractor's materials AND Dan was gone most of the four months wrapping up his 25 years at his old firm back in CA (long run on sentence) so I slept in the Jungle room when he was gone because I loved it up there.  

We repaired walls, patched holes, covered ducts and pipe, skim coated, primed, painted, added new lighting, and had carpet installed since the floor was so badly damaged and not a candidate for refinishing.  We could have put in new wood flooring but the other bedroom was carpeted with a similar underfloor so we re - carpeted them both.  You will see the Jungle Room's mate (the Ocean room) in a future post.  We then moved in furniture from both of our previous houses including a mix of our former kids' rooms bedding and it worked.  Enjoy the Jungle Room tour.  

Did I get every angle?  Probably a couple times.  One of the beds has a trundle under it that folds out and up to make a King bed or one humongous bed when all three are pushed together.  This is a favorite with the grand kids.  A piece of wall paper is framed and forever preserved and hung outside the room in the little hall way and this room will be the Jungle Room forever.