Guest Room/Office Progress

We are feeling the pressure to get some things done around here. In 2 weeks my mom and baby Yoast are on their way and we need places for them to sleep. We haven't made up a nursery yet because the baby will sleep in our room. Since we don't know the gender we are waiting until the baby is here with us to do the nursery.

Our house is 4 bedrooms with an office. Occasionally on a snow day Brian will stay home so we need a small space for him to work. We decided that a guest room with a small work space would be perfect. I like a multi-functional room. 

The space for our office needs A LOT of work. It has wood paneling with peeling wallpaper in an awful color. The trim and door are also a shade of dark grey. The walls need to be replaced with drywall eventually but for now we are gonna put some paint on it and save our pennies for a complete overhaul. Here are some cringe worthy before and in progress photos.

At this point we started to remove some of the peeling wallpaper. It is impossible to remove entirely.

Once we removed as much of the peeling wallpaper as we could we got to work with our trusty primer. 

After some ceiling paint, trim paint, 2 coats of primer, and 2 coats of paint we are looking like this. 

It looks better but still very rough. In the lighting the walls are giving off a pink/beige hue but the color is the light grey that we use all over. We didn't want to buy more paint for a room that we are going to tear the walls down anyway. 

You can see that painting over the wood panelling shows some flaws but it will work for now. 

Our temporary plans in here are adding curtains, a bed, bookshelves and a desk. I will post another update as soon as we get in looking somewhat like a guest room. 

Long term plans are as follows:

-Remove wood panelling and replace with drywall.

-Built in bookshelves and desk. 

-Large rug.

-Hooks for guests to hang up clothing and luggage stand. 

-Overhead lighting (none of the rooms in our house have overhead lighting).

That about sums it up. Now lets get some decor on these awesomely wood paneled walls.