The Raccoon Room

So here are two before pictures of the room we lovingly refer to NOW as the raccoon room.  The second photo here is actually from the real estate listing...so it actually look great.  It doesn't show the raccoon pee stains in the ceiling or the vintage art deco light, or how it dripped down into the carpet.  Lovely, I know. (We did not know this until after we purchased the house...because for me, that might have been a deal breaker.  It doesn't show the huge separation between the walls and the ceiling. or the ugly cracks on the wall.  Frank, armed with a pounds of caulking, patience (you heard me right people), a ladder, scrub brush, steam cleaner and paint supplies, focused and turned it into what it is today.  The old raccoon room is now complete with the last resort pull out couch, x-box kinect, lazyboy rocker/recliner and 2 rockband guitars, keyboard, drums and mic set.  Our first room completed.  Way to go Frank.  These photos are immediately following the ritualistic cleanse, and we have since added a few things, like the TV, xbox stuff, flip flop table.  This will be a room of fun, raccoons and lighthouse stuff, where we hope to have more fun then the previous raccoon residents.

  Here are pictures...one looking back to the day that Frank and Gracie painted the Raccoon Room, taking a quick break to watch the sunset, which is just 4 houses away :)  This last picture is also from the real estate listing, and it is what we look forward to this summer...the view of Lake Michigan from the front yard.  Well actually the street in front of the front yard. :)  Regardless, we will be there...well not in the street, but on the beach :)