Redecorating

Alright, so it is Memorial Day weekend, which means I have plenty of time to get projects finished (or started). I have been in the process of redecorating the room I moved into after my brother moved out. I can safely say after spending half the day working on the ceiling fan, the ceiling is finished.

First, I want to show you what the ceiling looked like before:

Yeah, it was that bad. My brother was a huge fan of Linkin Park and he had a giant version of their logo on the ceiling. I will admit, it was his request and I did it for him, but that was way before the thought of still being at home after he left crossed my mind. So after moving in, it took me a little while, but I got the walls and ceiling repainted.

Green walls with a tan ceiling, but the ceiling fan remained largely untouched for a few more months. One afternoon I decided that I needed to replace the glass part of the ceiling fan (there's got to be a technical term, but honestly I can't come up with it right now). So I discovered these beauties at Menards and on clearance no less!

I let it sit for about another month before I decided I really needed to finish this project. I decided on a paint color for the blades and went out and bought it, waiting for a weekend or an afternoon where I can get to it. That time finally came around, I spent the entire afternoon this Saturday taking down, painting, and putting back up, the blades.

I can finally call my ceiling finished and I am incredibly happy. Next this weekend I think will be to finally get up some curtains in the room.

Redecorating!

So shortly after my brothers moved out, I moved into their room and out of the basement. I spent a few years just not caring about where I put my stuff because it really wasn't my room. It still had the boring white walls with ugly half painted red and blue trim and shelving. I hated it.

And here is where the red and blue comes in...

And the hideous ceiling...

In all honesty it was fine for a boys room, not fine for me. As much as I can be "one of the guys," I'm still very girly. I like my dresses, I like my fingernail polish, and I like styling my hair. This room did not emulate any of that. It was still the boy's room with my stuff in it.

I decided enough was enough and immediately started planning how I was going to change this to make it mine. Picked out paint colors, started planning on where I'm going to move the stuff around to, etc. Getting to the point of actually getting the job done was a bit of a headache. But finally I am happy to say that I have painted my room and even started hanging pictures.

One of the walls I display all of my toys and collectibles and decided to get a painting of mine framed as well as hang up a few of my photographs that I had dry mounted onto mat boards.

And this wall, which is far from finished... and try to ignore my messy bookshelf and desk...

And the ceiling is now a tan color that compliments the green walls. Probably won't be here long enough to replace the ugly black fan, but I did give it a good cleaning.

I still have more pictures to frame to hang around the room and a bit more organizing to do, but the room is coming along and I couldn't be happier to spend time in it now.