Chuck finished the bamboo flooring treatment in the master bedroom. What a transformation! We love it. With about $200 in materials, some specialized tools, and Chuck’s design and fabrication expertise it all came together.
Now the whole room is a warm, cozy retreat. I love how the how the wood tones are reflected in the orange and brown wallpaper, along with more accents of orange and blue in the pillows, lamps, upholstery and carpet.
Our master bedroom suite is almost done. When we bought the house in December, we were pretty sure this unpermitted illegal room had to be demolished.
But we got lucky when our structural engineer and the Pismo Beach Building Division approved a simple fix: fastening the back corner securely to the foundation. We had to rip up the subfloor and remove sheetrock from that corner, but it was still much better than tearing down the entire room.
Wonderful, except that the walls in that corner are now unfinished plywood. It does have a certain post-apocalyptic chic, but it’s not ideal for that soothing retreat experience you want in a bedroom.
Next step is covering the plywood. Again, Chuck had an inventive solution. Remember the bamboo flooring on the living room ceiling? We had tons left over.
It’s $1.99/square foot at a nearby big-box store, and it’s an inexpensive way to beautifully cover a large surface area on a ceiling or wall. Chuck told me he would never actually use bamboo flooring on a floor because it scratches too easily. And the online reviews for this product bear that out, with many people giving it one star out of five, complaining that in a matter of weeks their floors were a beaten-up, scratchy mess. On our ceilings and walls this won’t be a problem. Here’s Chuck beginning this morning.
And here’s the near-finished result. Just a few pieces need custom angle cuts along the ceiling. Part of the trick is cutting the boards to different lengths so it looks deliberately random, not like we forgot to measure. The bedroom will be beautiful when it’s finished.
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