Study/Music Room/Yoga Studio

With the house originally having four bedrooms and turning on of those into a dressing room, we still had three rooms to work with. After deeming the master and guest bedrooms, we decided to make the third room into a study...which then also became a music room...and eventually my yoga studio as well - ha!

The face-lift of this room included moving the door frame to the other end of the wall to make the hallway a straight shot and to accommodate the bar we built. We also carved out the extra area above the closet and sheet-rocked it in and installed little doors (the original "doors" you see were dummy-doors and were sealed shut). Then we also painted and decided to do an accent color which is the burnt, red brick tone you'll see. OH, and we had to patch a big spot in the floor & try to match the wood, but luckily we found some old Heart Pine and then we had the whole floor sanded and finished (this room's floors were the worst of the original-wood bunch).

Before:

During:

After/Now:

It’s a Miracle!

Our kitchen floors were pretty terrible with the two layers of linoleum flooring and plywood, but we could cover most of what we didn't rip up (for the sake of trying to keep the floor level) with new tile and new hardwood floors.

Our study and the hallway in front of the guest bath (the area directly before the kitchen/bar) was a totally different story. I wasn’t sure if it would be possible to salvage 100+ year-old floors that had been covered by carpet for the last who-knows-how-many years and had turned gray, had a huge hole in them and looked about a month away from rotten.

But remarkably, it was done! The hole was patched with antique, heart pine tongue-and-groove boards. Then the floors were sanded and refinished and they look amazing. I don’t really have a great before shot of the floors so try to make them out in these shots:

Check out the plywood filling in the huge hole:

And then these are floors newly refinished:
Just phenomenal!