Our house never had a master suite. Our bedroom started off in the basement living room. I didn’t like have our bedroom in a living room. We moved upstairs to the attic. It was hot and the bathroom was far away. We moved downstairs again to a bedroom. Finally, we just decided to remodel.

The current master bedroom looked liked this a year ago:

The space has been used at some point as a kitchen to a secondary apartment years ago. We used it as a family room, and school/craft room. Now with an added wall it is our master bedroom.

While we were working on the remodel, we got to a point that everything was livable. Now, we are focusing on one room at a time. My bedroom was the space I wanted to do first. I wanted a space to retreat to and enjoy, and not have to look at construction holes when I went to bed every night.

We worked hard, and got it down. I love it. The bedroom isn’t large, because I like small cozy bedrooms. (It does have a giant closet.) It is the retreat I wanted. Now I can go to bed looking at wallpaper and birds and things I like.

It was nice to actually finish something. When you remodel with jobs and gardens and kids and a tiny budget, it doesn’t go very fast. We’ve been working our our basement since March. We still have a while to go, but by finishing this, it made the rest of the remodel seem achievable.