We have a lot of books—too many books. So, over the past 2 years we have been, with mostly no real movement, making what was an old nursery into our library. There were layers and layers of wall paper (Harry Potter, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, other, non-specific childhood frightening characters) that we yanked off. We were lucky to discover, under a sconce, the original wall paper in pink and blue, which lead me to believe this was always a child's room.
We had some issues with the chimney above the room. Got that patched just last month.
Our plan for the room was always to "panel" it to look more studious and library-ish. We figured that we'll look smarter if the room is paneled. That took some time to design since I didn't wan to disturb the existing wood trim. decided on a plan of lattice strips to mimic board and batten style tall craftsman panelling. Were painting it—the room has always had painted trim— so no worries about matching any wood species.
Here are some during photos. The room needs to be completed in 3 weeks for an event in June so we're gangbusters on it, now. Will follow up with part 2 when we move in the rug and computers.
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| Original Wall paper scraps discovered behind the base plate of an old sconce. Interestingly, in other locations where we saw the same paper, the gold had turned black. |
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| We have a bunch of stuff, it's all jammed together, it's covered in plastic and taped closed, and Yup, I work here. |
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| The plastic is covering a 6x3 foot chunk of new plaster board I installed on the ceiling after cutting out damaged plaster. Behind the wall is a chimney (no fireplace in this room) that was improperly capped and funneled water into the ceiling. |
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| Test colors for the room. The "paneling" and all wood trim will be the deep grey, and I chose a darker green than shown for the ceiling. Oh, stop fretting, the room gets tons of brilliant light all day and is in no need of being "lightened up"' It's a library for goodness sake and should be sombre. |
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