Ashy’s Room Makeover: Demo That Dang Bench!

There are some very happy feeling floating around the entire Gubler family right now. We just started working on Ashy’s bedroom makeover (you can see the befores and read the project plans here) but this room is not really just Ashy’s room.

At one point or another we have all lived in this bedroom. It was Court’s room when we started dating and after we were married we lived there for a little bit. So overhauling it is extra exciting.

The first item of business was taking out the window bench. I am sure that the people that built the house originally had visions of their daughter curling up on it with a book in a comfy sweater and peacefully gazing out the window and dreaming of her one true love. Don’t lie, you’ve always wanted to feel like that on a window seat. But in reality it was a place of forgotten storage (hello Britney Spears poster) and a surface to pile stuff on. There was no window gazing happening. Plus I have a great idea for the space. So the window bench had to go.

When we overhauled Alicia’s Kitchen and Living Room, we also replace the flooring on the top floor (where her office and Ashy’ bedroom are)  Taking out the bench meant that we also had to feather in new flooring (when the flooring was laid down they laid it around the bench, not underneath it.)

The demo was fast and easy and mostly consisted of Court throwing things out the window and me praying that he didn’t knock the gutter off of the roof.

This fabric brought back memories. When Court and I lived in the room the ENTIRE bench was covered in it. My Grandma would have been sad to see it go. She loves pre-quilted florals.

Once the bench and carpet (and all things carpet related) had disappeared it was time to tackle the floor.

The flooring that they installed was this. Thank goodness it was click because that made feathering it in really simple.

We took out all of the boards that had been cut to fit at the edge of the bench and were left with this staggery situation. You can see the line where the bench was to see how far back it was staggered. (Oh look! A penny!!)

Then starting on the left side of the window we filled it in.

The hardest part were the pieces that had to be slid in a long ways to fit. I had to gently pull and lightly twist the preexisting floor while Court slid it down the groove. (Sorry no pictures because I was gently pulling and lightly twisting…)

The floor took just less than 2 hours to finish and you guys, my MIL almost started crying when she saw the pile of bench remnants on the front lawn.

The room looks SO MUCH bigger. Not that it needed to, but we always had a hard time with furniture placement and now that problem has been thrown out the window with the floral fabric. So now the real fun can begin. Insert happy dance to Shake It Off because I have had that song stuck in my head for days.