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I've been much delayed posting all these pics of finished rooms. The two bedrooms were complete at the beginning of January, the living room in late January. Since then, we went back to demolition - upstairs bathroom and master bedroom. After a week of demo, some rough-in work, insulation, and a long weekend away on vacation, we're now getting the master bedroom ready to paint. The super exciting task of mudding and sanding the new drywall will hopefully be complete by the end of the weekend, after which we can start the drywall process all over again in the bathroom. In between, we've been meeting with various contractors about the floors and HVAC. Floors will be done in mid-March. We're scheduled to close on our current house at the very end of March, then will live in the construction zone. :) Pics of in process rooms to come soon(ish)...

Taken with different cameras at different times of day - color is more like the top pics than the baby blue on the bottom. This room is done! Well, almost done. Still need to replace some missing and broken tiles on the fireplace (that's currently blue painter's tape you see in the pic), and refinish the floors. All the floors in the house are being refinished in a few weeks - can't wait! Ceilings in this room (like all first floor) are around 9 1/2'.

This is the living room, despite the bed. Lovely paneling on the walls and ceiling, and even on the fireplace!!

I would not recommend Blogger.com, sadly. This thing crashes every time I try to post pictures - arg! I swear we would be more frequent posters were it not for the crashing...

No more dark paneling, dirty mauve shag carpet, log cabin-worthy trim, or acoustic tiles stapled to the ceiling. No more opening the door and walking smack into a shelving unit. This room will be our temporary bedroom until the master bedroom is done (hopefully not too long!). After that, it will be a guest bedroom. PS - When I was taking these after pics, I did not realize that the camera was as dusty as the rest of the house, so please ignore the white spots. That will continue for several more posts. :)

Literally. We found 2 bird nests in the walls. I'm not into theme decorating, but this room might a subtle bird theme.