The Life of a Young Expat: The Room...

Many of you know that we have been redoing our bedroom. It was a last minute decision and became WAY more involved than we thought it would be. The original idea was to tear down wallpaper that had been in the house for about 25 years, fix up the holes in the walls, and paint. Simple enough. However, as I have posted previously, cement walls are not like the walls we have in the States and required an entire layer of plaster to be put on the top to actually make them smooth and "paintable".

Our project turned in to a sort of fiasco. Here's the timeline...

Wednesday of last week we all started tearing down the wallpaper. We had squirt bottles in hand and three of us sitting on the floor ripping of small portions of wallpaper at a time and having a great time seeing who could get the biggest piece off. (yes, we're easily amused)
Thursday, we finished the wallpaper project and started puttying the holes in the walls. We tried to paint and to our dismay it looked horrible! What to do?
We found some maestros who said they could come on Saturday to plaster and paint the walls (which had to be done on Saturday because the floors were being redone on Monday morning and the furniture delivered on Monday afternoon!)
Saturday morning came and went and the maestros didn't show up... we had to find another maestro. He couldn't come until Monday morning...
He was scheduled to show up Monday at 8:00, they got here around 9:00. They didn't finish until the following day. In the mean time we received a furniture and mattress delivery. Both of which we dumped in the living room (luckily the furniture wasn't assembled and we scheduled for them to assemble on Tuesday)
The maestros came and finished up on Tuesday morning, the flood guy came in the afternoon. They finished just in time for the furniture assembly guys to come and put the furniture together. About an hour later another technician came to hang up our new curtain rod...
By Tuesday the room was DONE but still smelled like new paint, so we didn't move in until Wednesday night

So, over a week to complete our room project that we thought would take a couple of days. Shows you what we know about remodeling! We are very happy in our new space and Chela (my mother-in-law) even made us a new curtain for the room! (she also made the Moises bed/bassinet that is next to the bed)

I got the baby clothes folded and put away and we are getting two sitting chairs delivered in early September (they are being made for us by Luriq Muebles). We picked out a rocking chair with a foot stool and it will be delivered early next week!

When we slept in our room for the first time we had new sheets, a new mattress, a new bed, everything new! I felt like I was sleeping in a fancy hotel, it was amazing! Hooray for having our new little home all ready to go!

Here are some photos of the almost put together room (minus rocking chair, changing pad on top of the dresser, sitting chairs and small table) and the progression of the room as it was worked on.