rooms later on.
On the second floor of the farmhouse we have 4 bedrooms and they all looked like these two picture. 1970's paneling on the walls. Here and there a little 1960's wallpaper, bright colored carpet and tiny closets like the one on the right here. Look hard you'll see it.
So, we added a new closet to Trey's new room and put mud in all the panelled walls seams and the room became a completely new looking place.AFTER:
This is now Trey's room and he really loves it. You can't see it in the picture but beside the rocking chair is a door that leads into Breanne's room and they have oodles of "secret" fun with that passageway.
The other bedrooms in the house started out like the above pictures and ended up looking like this..........
Breanne's room
In Bre's room we took the old 60's furniture that we were given by Arlan's parents and gave it a paint job and some new "old" looking, glass knobs. I thought they turned out pretty good.
This is Arlan and I's room. When we tore out the walls in our room we noticed an old barn beam in the ceiling and Arlan was determined to expose it for "preservation" of the old farmhouse. He loves those old beams as you'll notice in our new livingroom.
This winter we decided to redo the staircase leading down from the bedrooms into the livingroom. Getting the carpet off was quite a chore and getting years and years of carpet glue off the wood was even worse 
but the end result on the right was worth all the effort
but the end result on the right was worth all the effortThe same time we did the staircase we did the livingroom. We took off oodles of wallpaper to discover a beautiful boogie colored plaster underneath, (which we painted over). And under the tannish colored panelling we found old barndoor beadboard. Which we restored a bit and gave a nice coat of paint.
AFTER:
Arlan also tore down the ceiling and found more of those barn beams and restored them as good as possible and the result came out looking fabulous I must say so myself. 
I'm proud of all the work Arlan has done on our home and all the effort, long hours and love he put into making our house a home.
4 comments:
ooooooooh, i've been waiting to see these pictures! the living room looks AMAZING!!!!!!! are you still finding dust?? see you at Mindi's if not before. i miss you.
Looks good guys! You did a lot of work! It's great when you find good original work underneath and not something else you need to replace.
Great job!
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I just LOVE what the two of you are doing to that old house! Top priority of our next Lancaster trip is to get a personal tour; been too long! I can't wait to see what you'll uncover in that big front room someday. :)
dana,
your house looks amazing. i love the family room now, it's beautiful. you and arlan did a great job, well worth the time and effort.
now you have an empty room upstairs, maybe a baby #3 to fill it? ha ha ha!
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