Master Bedroom
Master Bedroom
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Background:
The master bedroom was a the 4th room that I renovated in the house, and by that time I had spent 5 months renovating and leveling up my skills on the other rooms in the house. While it may just look like another room to texture and paint, this particular room had its own specific challenges. In the middle of the room is what is known as a "tray ceiling", and it was difficult to work on as I had to be on a tall stepladder any time I worked on it, and trying to make straight lines between the corners by myself was a nightmare. This room also featured three closets; one became the Hufflepuff reading room, another a cat sanctuary, and the final a towel closet. The flooring in here was installed by Home Depot only three years prior and it was already bubbling in spots, so it all needed to be removed and replaced with a higher quality flooring. There was also pet damage on the sub flooring and baseboards, which all needed to be remedied. The tray ceiling did provide me a great opportunity however to do something different with the paint scheme, and I was super impressed with the results.
The only specs I had going into the room was my wife wanted pink walls, and then she said, "you'll figure the rest out!"
A view of the master bedroom when I got the house.
Master bedroom cleaned up but large furniture remains.
Master bedroom empty and in starting position!
Back portion of the master bedroom, the doorway that will eventually lead to Hufflepuff. The door hardware is also aged and showing it, all will need to be replaced.
Master Bathroom was in good shape, and I didn't have to do anything in here.
Another view of the master bathroom.
Toilet in the master bathroom. That yellow speaker knob would eventually need to get removed and patched over as I had planned to removed the speaker in the ceiling in the bathroom.
Starting Demo on the flooring in the master bedroom.
I filled the trash bin for the house with all this old flooring, and it was so heavy the garbage men wouldn't take it, I had to parcel the flooring out to the trash for the next 6 weeks to get rid of it all. Playing the long game wins!
Can start to see the pet damage on the sub flooring.
More pet damage.
Even more pet damage!
Best way to deal with pet damage in the sub-floor is to use an enzyme cleaner, and then multiple coats of BIN to seal the areas, that is all the white patches you see on the flooring from here on.
Looks like a pet had scratched this trim so much it was also on remove and replace list/
Door trim removed as well as a baseboard next to it that had pet damage.
Speaker holes in the tray ceiling, I would have to remove and patch the drywall,
I found it much easier to cut back to the nearest joists to secure my drywall patches to. In this case it also made it easier to remove the plastic speaker mounts.
Speaker mounts removed!
Speakers patched and first coat of green top USG mud on there.
2nd coat of mud done with blue top USG mud.
My plans were to skim coat the tray, so I didn't need to get super perfect on the patches, just a rough sand would be enough. This is me grey boxing where the new 6" recessed lights would go.
Grey box work, I the tray was not a perfect square, and I didn't want the lights too close to the edge of the rectangle.
Using the laser to try and get everything lined up.
Dooh! I went into the attic to look and see if my grey boxing was going to hit anything, and sure enough there were joists in the way.
Trying to alter the placement, to not hit the joist, I could go closer to the edge or closer to the center, but in reality this shot looks like I am trying to try a demon summoning circle or something!
Using my grey box templates, and I didn't like either option in the plan to avoid the joist.
I decided that what I had measured out to begin with was the best looking placement for the lights, and removing an inch of wood from the joist would be acceptable, as that is all I needed since these lights are so slim. This oscillating tool dubbed "zippy-zip" would be my friend in removing wood from the joists.
Holes cut in the ceiling, and you can see where the joists conflict!
Pretty impressed I drew that joist spot on from outside the wall.
Running the romex cabling to power the lights that would go there eventually.
The stack of holes I cut in the ceiling so far. The master bedroom added 11 more!
Time to lay in the new flooring, since this room is above the gaming room, I put in some sound damping material between the flooring and the sub floor.
Another view of the flooring going in.
Hooraay! New floor installed.
Back view of the room.
Test color swatch wall when deciding on which shade of pink/purple to go with.
The bottom pink was the color chose, Benjamin Moore Regal Select Easter Bonnet in a matte finish.
All the paint I would need for the master bedroom and Hufflepuff rooms.
Now that the new floor is in, lets paper over it to protect it!
All papered up!
Back of room!
Time to haul up the sprayer from the basement and apply a coat of primer to everything!
Ceiling, walls, baseboards all primered!
I used a Zip door for this room to keep the fumes and dust down in the rest of the house, it worked out pretty good.
I found the only professional texture sprayer in all of New York after calling 30 places. Textured walls are just not a thing people do in NY. One place told me "Dude popcorn ceilings went out 15 years ago!"
I said "I'm not doing popcorn I'm knockdown texturing my walls!",
he said "What's that?"
Testing out thickness of my mud, also applied a yellow dye to make it easier to spot mistakes once on the walls. If the metal ball sinks easily, the consistency of the mud is good, if it floats, mix in more water.
Annnnnnd, the only sprayer I could find was Broken!!! I wasn't half a day trying to get it working to no avail.
Back to the trusty 1 gallon at a time method. This little hand unit has served me well so far, I was just hoping to use a bigger professional unit for this room, since it takes roughly 10 gallons to texture an entire room...
Walls are knockdown textured, and this room turned out my best texture job in the house so far.
I wanted to skim coat the ceiling tray and the lower ceiling portion to smooth out years of roller paint jobs leaving their own texture.
I wasn't doing a "level 5" ceiling like the gaming room, more like a level 3 to just smooth it out a bit.
Have to cover up those light holes!
The Zip door! I highly recommend taping one up for any room project you may do.
Since everything was textured, it was time to apply that 2nd coat of primer to the whole room again.
I added a de-humidifer to my arsenal of tools for this room, and it really helped out drying the room much quicker than the previous rooms.
Time to tape up the parts of the ceiling that will eventually get black paint.
Apply coat 1 of Easter Bonnet!
Paint doesn't apply the same color as it dries, and this color applied Pepto Bismal Pink. Thankfully as it dried the color lightened considerably.
Taking down the plastic and tape after applying coat 2 of the Easter Bonnet. Always take off your tape while the paint is still wet so the new paint doesn't bond to the tape!
Taking down the plastic!
Ugghhhh! I had a sag spot on the tray wall. In order to fix the spot, I had to wait for it to try completely, use a razor blade to cut off the sag, then wet sand it down and again wait for it to dry. Then paint over with the sprayer.
Post fixed paint sag!
Quadruple Ughhhh! Adhesion failure when I pulled off the tape in the ceiling tray seams. This was a bear to fix and took multiple days to reprime those spots, apply a thin coat of mud to them, prime again, and sand.
Ohhhhhhh! I was super happy when the paint on the walls cured at how good the texturing came out. This is probably my favorite wall in the whole house so far.
I decided to try the tape method for applying caulk to the outer trim to Hufflepuff. There was definitely less mess than doing the normal caulking technique.
Applied the show molding to the baseboards and decided to paint it with the White Dove trim paint. Normally I would do trim last, but I was in a trim painting mood!
Action shot of removing the tape from painting the trim to the Hufflepuff exterior.
These 3d printed triangles enabled me to paint doors solo without resting the door on box or anything.
Just screw the triangles into the corners of a door. Paint one side, wait 15 minutes.
Then lift the door by the door handle hole, and flip the door, the triangles rotate by themselves as you flip via the door handle hole. These triangles turned painting doors from a 5 day process into 2 days.
The Easter Bonnet has had days to cure, I could safely tape on it now to start applying the plastic for the ceiling paint.
Taping up all this plastic by myself was quite a chore and super time consuming, but we must protect the awesome walls!
More plastic going up.
The ceiling tray walls need their plastic too!
Once all the plastic is up, I used a detail brush to paint the top of the tape with Easter Bonnet, which required 3 laps around the room for all the tape, but it was worth it in the end!
First coat of Benjamin Moore Regal Select Black Onyx in a Matte finish is applied!
Lets hope none of that black paint dust gets behind the plastic you can see the mess the black dust is making of everything else.
For coat 2 I wet the floor and plastic with a spray bottle of water to keep the dust down because I would need to take the plastic down while coat 2 was still wet, but that meant dust would still be bouncing around the room.
The biggest risk to the pink walls was the potential of black dust getting on them. You can see what the dust did to the bucket top and wrench.
Dust!
@nd coat is still wet, time to take down plastic and tape, and hope my wetting the floor and wall plastic trapped the dust.
Look at those straight lines with no bleed! This is why you take the time to paint the top of the tape!
Behold! The straight lines!
Tape and plastic down, but I need to get the floor paper out so I dont inadvertently kick up dust.
Yup! This is messy work!
Floor paper coming out! Hey look the new flooring is back!
So much dust!
My shoes had been white before I painted the ceiling.
Time to seal the room and let the de-humidifier do its thing for a couple of days.
Recessed lighting installed!
Ceiling fan installed!
Zip Door down! Outer door trim to room hand painted!
Newly painted door hung back up with new matte black hardware!
Newly painted bathroom door hung back up, also with new hardware!
Old light switches.
New light switches and fan control!
New electrical outlets installed, old ones were almond color , which didn't match the colors so I wired in new commercial grade white outlets and. Did you know an upside down electrical outlet means it is controlled by a wall switch? The more you know!
My wall of depleted paint cans and buckets used for all the rooms so far.
Left over paint and green top USG mud!
A wild kitty has appeared and approves of the room!
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