Two Years Later. One room down...too many to go!

So, we bought our fixer upper two years ago now.  We had all these plans for renovating our house and a timeline of 2 years.  Well, 2 years have come and go and we've finished a grand total of one room.  Now, in all fairness, life has totally gotten in the way.  Anthony changed jobs, we made a temporary move to New York, and we had twin boys (for a total of 4 boys)! But no matter how you slice it, we've only completely finished one room.

Now there is one advantage to it taking us a while to renovate.  When we bought the house we had a plan for each room, but as life has changed so has our plan for some of the rooms.  In particular, our smallest bedroom we originally used as an office as it seemed too small to be used as a bedroom.  But when Anthony changed jobs he began working from home.  And then when our friend Mike started working for the same company, they both began working from our home.  In addition, we needed a place to set up a treadmill...preferably a room the kids did not frequent.  The best solution was to use a larger room and turn it into an office for two/exercise room.  If we had done our renovations sooner we'd have had to redo two rooms a year later.

OK...so enough about that.  Let's get to the pictures which is the reason for this post.  First, the before-rendering-after shots.

Before

Rendering

After

Here are some additional pictures of the room from different angles.  A few things I'd like to point out...  My mom hemmed the curtains on the window and closet.  She and I painted the stripes on the wall.  I also framed an original work of art by each of my little artists.  Also, we were blessed to meet a do-everything HVAC guy.  He was recommended to us when our furnace needed fixing, but it turns out he does everything except roofing and carpeting.  He's been a blessing to us and is responsible for transforming this room by repairing and painting the walls and ceiling; installing new baseboards, crown molding, and trim; installing a new ceiling fan; and refinishing the floors.

The Boys' Bedroom

Raymond's Bed

Raymond's Artwork

Ryan's Bed and Artwork

Replaced Closet Doors with Curtains

Hidden Wires

*** Updated SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2012 at 11:08 AM ***

Just realized I forgot to add a picture of the inside of the closet.  I customized the closet so that I could utilize every inch of it.  This picture is before I added artwork to the walls...but everything else was done.

Custom Closet