Tons to do!

Agust and I moved to Germany, and we found an awesome flat, but boy it needs a lot of work. This is the bedroom on the 2nd or 3rd day. We had already started removing the hideous wallpaper.



Things that needed doing:
Remove all wallpaper
Scrape up stuck on carpet padding from old carpet
Sponge walls with soapy water and scrape off excess adhesive and paper
Repair walls with spackle
Sand walls smooth
Paint with primer
Mask off the edges of the coffee walls with masking tape
Paint cream walls and ceiling
Install ceiling light
Reverse masking tape so that cream walls and ceiling are now masked off
Paint coffee walls
Install new light switches and sockets
Lay plastic vapor layer over the floor
Lay sound proofing foam over the floor
Lay the laminate (way more complicated than it sounds, lots of cutting and sanding and hammering)
Install the trim (definitely the hardest part so far, my fingers are raw from the little metal clips)

Now, 3 weeks later, here is the same room:



We're going with a coffee and cream theme. Every room will have a cream colored ceiling, and one or two cream walls, then the rest the chocolate coffee brown. The flooring is just Ikea laminate, but we're on a budget and it looks nice for now. The trim is a cream Ahorn color, and all the light switches are a matching coffee brown. We intend to use all large diffuse light sources like this in the house, no bare bulbs allowed.