The first time we looked at our house when it was on the market, the sunroom made me cringe! I cannot stand vertical blinds, but vertical blinds on three walls...IN PINK?!? TOO MUCH!
What I did love though were all of the windows in the sunroom (hidden behind these awful blinds!).
When we closed on our house, we agreed these blinds HAD to go before we moved it! I happily carried them down to the road for bulk pick up, and one of our neighbors who was outside jokinly asked why we would get rid of these blinds?! Haha! I'm sure our neighbors were relieved that we threw these out as these and the pink hue from them could be seen from outside the house!
Panoramic shot of the sunroom (left) and living room (right) the day we bought the house.
Lots of natural light could come through these huge windows hidden behind PINK blinds!
This is the wall that separates the sunroom from the living room.
This wall...whew what do you do with this wall except take silly pictures with it...
haha!
We have actually started referring to this as our "brady bunch wall"
So our first step in the sunroom was removing the ugly pink blinds.
The next step was having white blinds installed in all 9 windows and on the door. I did not want to do drapes, because I wanted to keep it really neutral and allow as much light to come through as possible. Where the vertical blinds were mounted in the wall, they had been pulled out of the sheetrock making holes in a few places (see that white area in the corner in the picture above?), so we had some sheetrock patching to do here.
In these pictures, you can tell we had also started moving our furniture into the house.
Our next step was to paint. We painted the white walls with Behr Premium Paint Plus Primer in the Benjamin Moore color Shaker Beige. All of the trim desperately needed to be painted too. We painted this with Behr paint again in the color White Dove.
Freshly painted walls.
No more pink hue coming out the nine sunroom windows and door from the blinds....now just a clean look from the outside.
Starting to get things settled here.
We were still working to patch sheetrock and I was shampooing the carpet with an industrial carpet shampoo. So many people have looked at our sunroom carpet and asked if it's new carpet. It isn't, but it sure looks like it after the shampooing and just all the natural light.
This was our first furniture arrangement as we were getting settled.
Look at all that natural light!
We have also had two of the 9 windows replaced in this room.
There are a few more we are going to have replaced in the next couple of months as we have some exterior work done.
It doesn't look great, but the "brady bunch wall" isn't quiet as bad now that it's freshly painted.
We have lots of dreams for this brady bunch wall, but that will have to be a future project as we have had lots of other projects going!
In preparation for Baby Clayton's arrival in March, we moved the computer (just last week) downstairs from the extra bedroom to the sunroom. I think the sewing table and the computer desk both fit nicely along our brady bunch wall.
We actually spend a ton of time in the sunroom because we all love the natural light!
So our big changes in this room were removing the blinds, patching wall holes, painting the walls, painting the trim, replacing windows, installing blinds on the 9 windows and 1 door, and cleaning the carpets....and what a difference it has made! The room actually feels bigger too!
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