Making a Nursery, Part 2

This second installment in an open-ended series has been in the works for some time. In our last segment, I showed you some pictures of what was then the study, and intimated that it would eventually become the future home of Tater Tot.

Well as in most cases, plans change, and my sweet wife made it clear to me that I was, in fact, mistaken. For you see, faithful readers, this room was to become our next guest room, and not the site of our nursery as I had once thought.

Since we both liked the idea of having our guest room painted a cheery yellow, the first step was clearing everything out so we could begin priming the walls and ceilings (why the original owners of this house painted the ceilings the same dark green that they put on the walls, I'll never know). Unfortunately, this required the moving of my monstrous desk through a far less-monstrous doorway (thanks to Charles and Kyle for sacrificing their backs one Saturday afternoon to help me with that).

Even more messy was the task of removing the white shelves on either side of the window which the previous owners decided to bolt into the walls with the heaviest of heavy duty drywall anchors. The holes they left were sizable:

Here is a picture of some of the hardware I had to remove from the wall. I say "some" because I had to leave more than half of it in there since the anchors were too large to pull out whole. So rather than rip apart the wall, I had to break them and let certain pieces stay.

To give you an idea of how big the holes were that they left:

So here are the fruits of our labor. Over three weeks of spackling, priming, and painting produced this, our new guest room at Casa Bloggerton:

As for those holes, here's what I was able to do:

So as you can see, we've made some progress. I wish that I had taken pictures of what used to be our guest room so I could show you the transformation that is yet to occur there, but when you finally see it you'll just have to imagine all this furniture in what WILL eventually be the nursery.