Getting started

We started out the room by knocking out part of the old bookshelves to make room for the new loft and bottom bed. This actually went smoothly with no obstacles. Then we had to remove all the old wallpaper border from the wall. This did not come off nearly as easily as we thought it would. We used DIF brand wallpaper stripper and a scraper. It took a little work, but it all came off.

Painting the room

The walls were painted purple with white trim. We saved one wall to paint a patchwork quilt pattern to match the comforters that we purchased for the room. This was tedious, but well worth it. First, we painted the wall white so that the squares would have a nice, clean, white border. Then we taped the squares. We measured out 1foot by 1 foot squares and taped accordingly. The time consuming part was actually painting the squares. We painted in a pink, yellow, blue, purple pattern. It took two coats, but the end results we were very pleased with. Once dry all we had to do was lift the tape and we had our patchwork quilt wall.

Building the loft

The loft we built with two-by-fours and a few sheets of wood. We used metal braces to help provide extra support. The picket fence look was accomplished by cutting the wood at an angle on both sides. It was much easier to design than we had originally thought. Even as amateurs with a little measuring and elbow grease, the loft was completely put together in a day and a half.

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