A New Room for Brody

With the new baby coming in just four short months and taking over Brody's room (the "baby room"), we've started working on our bonus room - the big room over the old section of the house - making a corner of it into a new bedroom for Brody. The big room had become our "attic" where we stored all kinds of things that we either didn't need, or that should have been in our actual attic! So a few weekends ago we spent the entire weekend up there going through things and (almost) completely clearing it out to get ready. Then this weekend Kevin took on his all-too-familiar role of weekend warrior, rolling back the carpet on one end of the room and starting to frame up B's new room with the help of his dad and our friend John. It looks great! Lots of work still to do with wiring, HVAC, drywall, all that fun stuff - but it's underway and we are excited. Once the new room is done and the HVAC is in, we'll redo the rest of the "big room" into an upstairs play room/rec room.

"Before" shot of the corner where Brody's room will be.

A "before" shot of the whole room from the far end. Through the door is the rest of the upstairs and bedrooms - the plan is to replace the door with a French door.

The fellas hard at work on wall #1


Brody is pretty excited about his "big boy room"

The new room all framed up. The doorway to the room is just inside the main door.

View of Brody's room from the "playroom"

View from inside back corner. Those are some high ceilings!