Fun Sun Room Redo

INSIDE : See the step by step progression of taking a dull unused space and making it usable and fun with a simple Sun Room Redo project!

As I posted last week here our sun room was a dirty, unused, trash collecting place in our home.  I decided to take on the challenge and brighten + lighten it up.  Could I take it from dull to a place I actually like being in?  I give you the new and improved Fun Sun Room Redo!

Just a quick refresher for those of you who didn’t see the before pictures.  I give you… blah.

The kiddos and I have been actually playing in the Sun Room every day since I started some of the beautification process.  It just seems lighter and happier, I can’t think of a better way to say it.

The first thing I did was decide the uses I wanted in our sun room.  I wanted an area for the kiddos to use their sidewalk chalk.  I wanted an area for adults to sit and have munchies + snacks.  I wanted an area for kiddo #1 to ride her new tricycle and for kiddo #2 to play with his trucks.  Space planning done, it was time to get to work.

First item on the list was wrapping my ugly mustard yellow swamp cooler like a lovely birthday present.  For those of you who don’t live in a dry desert climate, swamp coolers are like the desert “air conditioning”.

The next piece of business sadly took way more of the week than I had thought it would.  Painting the two doors and their associated trim moldings was a job.  I could only paint during the kiddos naps and by the time they went to bed, it was too dark out there.  BUT, wows.  As everyone says, it’s amazing what a little paint can do to a space!  Major improvement over the weird raspberry brown doors and trim.

Next, I wanted to try and eliminate the huge blank stucco walls so I made paper garland.