Garden Guest Suite Renovation Reveal Pt.1
Phew, we did it! We are officially done renovating the Garden Apartment and are currently hosting our second Airbnb guest!
We know a lot of you have been following along as we’ve tackled this project over the past few months, so cheers to all of you for the continued support. There’s plenty more to do but this was a good first pass at making the Garden Apartment a cozy and inviting space. In this blog post we’re going to look at the Living Room/Bedroom.
Living Room featuring our Interior Define Jasper sofa and the original pocket shutters. Rug is from Loloi in 8.5 x 11.5. The ceiling medallion is pvc from Ekena Millwork and the celing light is from West Elm.
View from the sofa into the bedroom area. We relocated our vintage Westnofa Lounge chair with ottoman down here and added in a round wood coffee table topped with an Upstate Stock diffuser in the Woods of Onondaga County scent.
We liked the idea that this room would feel like a hotel suite with the bed and the sitting area open to one another. This way we could have more natural light as well! The bedframe and nightstands are designed and built by GLAM in White Oak and the sconces are from IKEA. The table fan is Vortex in cream.
The living room layout is essentially the same as it was when we moved in except for the wall that was missing. We rebuilt the wall to add support back in and then rebuilt the crown molding, doorways with trim, installed new windows, painted and rebuilt the window boxes. If you look at the floor plan below, we haven’t deviated too much from our original proposal. See the gallery below to see the before!
BEFORE: A big priority was adding back in the missing wall (the beam the last owner put in was SHADY) and covering the exposed brick chimney (we hated the weird mantel).
In the gallery below you can see our progress on the wall rebuilding, the entry way and sheetrocking the exposed brick chimney (sorry brick fans!).
When we moved in the window boxes were in bad shape. The only thing left were some broken stone shelves, the original pocket shutters (paint stripped and all!) and some battered trim. We caulked and painted the surrounding trim, installed new windows, rebuilt the boxes below and cleaned the shutters. It was a labor of love and we’re ecstatic!
Stay tuned for the kitchen reveal next week!
