Reader reno

How's this for a reader's reno! Lisa and her family stripped, ripped, roofed, windowed and walled. They painted and floored. Recovered old chairs and hung lights and shelves. They made themselves an attic retreat perfect for sewing and stowing, reading and chilling. Work your way down. It's well worth the scroll. A fabulous room and it once was a "hole". Sorry for the bad rhymes but well done Hobbs family!

  

  

  

  

Comments

[christi]

Loving the large scale herringbone!

[mandy]

I love it!!! totally amazing, I would love to sew in that room.

[Alathon]

Great!!!

[Sharon McKenzie]

Completely adore this what a wonderful use of space!

[Butters of Fish Pond Area I]

#offtopic. WTF? Someone needs to delete Rambo's batshit crazy haterade up there.

Also, love the reno!

[Desire to Inspire]

Gone and definitely not coming back. I agree. What was that? - Jo

[Linus]

Beautiful floor, well done!

[Soph]

I'm having a crisis with a similar timber panelled space. And I want mine to look like this. Please advise what sort of paint was used.
I live to hear.

[Decorating]

Amazing!!!

[Jen]

Hey, how fun to flip through my reader and see my lovely sister! I AM a little miffed that this is now HER room and not the GUEST room, but I'll live. The rest of her house is just as fab. And she can cook , too.

[Virginia]

What a project - we always start home renos with the best of intentions, mess something up then end up needing to call in a pro...

[Porkchop Sandwiches]

Interesting design. Hope you keep a fire extinguisher and integrated alarm up there...

[Emilie]

This is just incredible!

[Andrés Rios]

Felicitaciones, me gusta mucho la forma en que restauraron el ático, el parquet , el tamaño de la madera muy buena desición....los muebles son muy bellos la silla del escritorio es bellísima.

[Tanya from dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com]

WOW! So impressive. I really, really love those hardwood floors. Fabulous work.

[polish chick]

nice floors. where is this? the only time i've seen floors like that was in europe and i'd love to know that these kinds of floors have finally made it to north america.

[Shylo]

Love, love, love the floor! Kudos to them for going the extra mile for a truly amazing touch.

[Joy]

Wow! Great job! It's beautiful!

[Lindsay]

I too would love to know where the floor is from. What type of wood? Easy to install for DIYers? Just beautiful!

[Carol Maryott]

How fabulous is this photo : Operation Papercut. Love the bird photos with the real cat.

[callie grayson]

what a wonderful space! and that flooring I am just swooning over how gorgeous the floor turned out!
xx
callie

[Matt]

Great redo. I love this space. You guys do great work. I just found this blog and will be coming back to read more in the future. Keep it up.

Cheers,
Matt

[Cate]

Is it just me... or does the change of colours of the leaves outside the window between pics 5 & 6 signal change of season? So glad to know it takes others as long (to renovate) as it's taking us.
PS - love the floors.

[Lisa]

Hi. I'm Lisa. This is my sewing room. The floors are walnut, salvage ends from a local hardwood floor manufacturer. We have done lots of flooring and my hub is a woodworker, so the floor wasn't too difficult, but if you are a beginner woodworker I don't think I'd attempt it. It was.....tedious. Every board was cut at least twice. The paint is plain old Home Hardware brand... and, sorry, I can't even remember the color name....it took 5 months to finish (Yes, change of seasons...). The house is near Vancouver, Canada...not Europe, but that is the look I wanted so thankyou for that. Yes there is a smoke detector,extinguisher, and the large window opens for egress....
Thanks everyone for all of your kind comments. Really cool to see my home out there on the net!
Thanks Jo!!