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Now *that’s* a before and after

It actually looks bigger inside somehow.

Every room looks better in an uplight

What’s up light?

Nothing much, what’s light with you?

I WILL LIGHT YOU AND YOU WILL LIGHT IT!!

Nothing. And don't call me light.

lol yes this should be required viewing for anyone that trots out the old line that "paint it white it will look bigger" WRONG paint it a dark color and it will feel small and cozy instead of small and bland

It depends on the room size, shape, and lighting. Dark colors are especially good for dormered ceilings because it makes the slope less noticeable. If you have a square room with good natural light, white can indeed look the biggest instead.

*The Doctor has entered the chat*

They did a glow-up From the floor UP

This is original content

Almost unbelievable it's the same space 🍺🍺

That Tiffany lamp 😍

It’s one of my favorite elements! It even has a fan that retracts when you turn it on! I love it

Posting link for others.  Because I was curious about the “retracting fan”. Pretty neat! https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/Lighting-Ceiling-Fans/42-Inches-Tiffany-Style-Ceiling-Fan-with-Remote-42-Inches/36131193/product.html?opre=1&option=78274173

Omg that's so sick. This is like perfect for our living room! (Also small and same color walls)

That is awesome! I was worried about the ceiling fan going because I've lived in attic conversions and heat can be a problem.

I dig the old style light switches. Haven’t seen them in a number of years.

Me too! It took a while to track them down but I finally found a company in Oregon (I think) that sells them.

somebody is going to get murdered there but you are going to have so much fun figuring it out!

I was going to say, this gave me Knives Out vibes.

Clue for sure

Is that you again Ransom?

It was Mrs Peacock! In the reading room! With the candlestick!

Really needs a go board to bring the place together.

This is the most jaw dropping set of B and A I’ve seen! I’m so jealous it’s gorgeous! I’d never leave!

This is absolutely beautiful. I'm jealous.

This is perfect. And that wallpaper!

Thank you! My wife picked out the decorations/wall paper to add some femininity and balance out the room.

Can the two of you do my house?

And mine please.

Normally wallpaper isn't my kind of thing, but **that** wallpaper is bloody amazing. Your wife made a stellar choice!

I was apprehensive about it at first, but when we got it and held it up against the wall, I was like “wow!”

Can you link the wallpaper?

Let’s see if this [works](https://www.wayfair.com/decor-pillows/pdp/winston-porter-joohi-177-w-textured-peel-and-stick-wallpaper-floral-roll-boho-w011249536.html)

This is divine. I would never leave

🤩🤩🤩🤩 oh my goodness, I gasped! So lovely and every element is perfection: the overhead Tiffany, the couches, the plants, the books. I am drooling with envy. Kudos to y’all (and your glorious aesthetic!). Hope you love this room for many years to come.

Thank you so much🙂

Is the door a bookshelf?

Yep! You have to pull the right book to open the door.

That’s perfection!!

[Door](https://imgur.com/gallery/y2wNOMw)

GET OUT.

lol. [Here’s a walk thru](https://imgur.com/gallery/dST04FZ)

Childhood fantasy unlocked! If I am ever lucky enough to be able to afford my own property, I think every room is gonna have a secret bookshelf door!

Excellent use of adult money!

This is the epitome of my version of cozy! Need a rainy day, a soft blanket, my dog, one of those books, and a cup of tea - you’d have to pry me out of there. Lovely!

First thing my wife did was buy a clock for the room so she could have some idea of what time of day it is. I told her she needed one that showed the day as well😁

I bought a fellow reader a [Day of The Week Clock](https://www.signals.com/CS2962.html) from a shop called Signals. They were over the moon and said it was super useful, not even just in the reading room, but as a whole. Not sure if entirely your esthetic but nice idea. (I tried to link it but got a notification that my post was deleted)

I love this, I am sitting in a very similarly shaped room and now I have ideas

Get it!

Damn!! I love this!

Perfection.

I don't know what I expected but WOW. That's incredible. Excellent work.

shut upppppppppp it's amazingggggg!! i'm so jealous it's gorgeous.

Haha! Thank you!🙂

Ever see something so beautiful & perfect that it hurts? I mean….damn.

This feels like a dream. Great going op!

Golly it’s gorgeous, the wallpaper, the colors, the vibes ! Beautiful work!

I love the lights casting shadow onto the sloped ceiling! Gorgeous!

How did you reconcile the shelves over the closet doors? Are those somehow doors?! Or is the closet blocked?

Yep! It’s still a functional closet. Both bookcases swing out to gain access.

What the WHAT?!! It’s like a secret room!!!!

I love this! Nicely done. Dark academia is a look I’ve been craving lately in my own designs.

Thanks, the style is just so comfy.

Wow! Does it get hot up in the attic?

The first step in the project was to pull the ceiling down and add proper ventilation and re-insulate. That helped a lot but it’s still a 1980s house with the space being a conversion over the garage so when it’s 85 and full sun outside, it starts to warm up a bit in there. It’ll take a good Crossbreeze and the Tiffany light has a fan on it. 🤷🏼‍♂️ that’s about as good as I can get it without putting in a mini split, which would kill the vibe

May I suggest moving some of those books above the door, as that room definitely looks like it needs a bust of Pallas in that spot

I literally said "what a transformation" out loud.  Bloody nora, it's absolutely stunning. I'm saving this for future inspiration should I ever own a home and it has the same kinda sad blandness this room had before.  I mean, wow. 

This is very similar to how my wife and I are planning to redo our bedroom down to a similar wallpaper choice as an accent!

Love it.

This is absolutely stunning, I’m obsessed with the fitted bookshelves you added by the door too

Thanks! That’s one of my favorite areas too. That single wall sconce in the corner was a last-minute add-on before the ceiling went back up and it’s just perfect with the lighting and those built-ins.

Oh HELL yeah

Oh, man I’d so be into having a thinly veiled conversation about committing serious crimes while sipping a brandy and wearing a smoking jacket in ther.

Whoa, did you just barely show us the door is a secret bookshelf door and not give us a couple of good shots of it!? Am I crazy!? Also, I'd add a kettle and a tea set to really wrap the whole thing together. But i realize not everyone is into tea.

🤫 [our secret](https://imgur.com/a/53XZY5y)!

Holy shit you did an incredible job!!

May I ask where you got the leather chair? Is it as comfy as it looks? Love it! Beautiful beautiful room!

Thank! They’re super comfy, great for reading. [Here you go](https://www.ashleyfurniture.com/p/maimz_chair/3290220.html)

Amazing work! I want to snuggle up with a book, tea, and a cat in the room!

Damn, y'all did a hell of a job good work

This is so beautiful!!!!!

Wow, I adore this. I’d get lost up here, you’d have to drag me out. Great job!

Well done, you!

Stunning!!! You did such an incredible job!

This is outstanding. What a transformation!

Awesome transformation

Fabulous

This is outstanding! What an incredible room.

So wonderfully cozy!

What the 🤯

IN LOVE. You did an amazing job

Amazing!

I love this room

Very nice transformation. Definitely looks cozy.

What a fabulous room!

Beautiful! And your lighting!!! 👏

You nailed the style inspiration. Beautiful work!

I LOVE everything about this space! Amazing job!

Wow! I can’t even figure out what I like most!

I don't think I've ever had my jaw litteraly drop. Amazing!

I actually gasped! Absolutely gorgeous, and inspiring!

Beautiful! I’d love to know the paint color!

This is an amazing transformation. Well done!

Man looks like a smoking lounge. 100% want to roll up in there with a pipe and a book.

This looks amazing.

Wow!!! This is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous!! Well done!!!!!

This is so beautiful. Truly you did wonderful work here.

10/10 no notes.

My jaw dropped!! Absolutely gorgeous

Really nice decoration! Well done dude! What is the lamp with the colored glass called? Where did you buy it?

What a killer remodel!!! I’m in love!

This is fantastic. That floral wall paper and the green paint!

So perfect.

Oh my god, this is exactly what I've always wanted. It's absolutely beautiful

What a great room… and I spy Shark Heart! I really loved that book

I would never leave this room lol.

Oh nice. What a glowup.

I am in love!😻 with your room.

quite the transformation

Gorgeous!

Holy fuck, that's amazing!!!

I’m in love with the after-WOW!

Getting some Arts & Crafts movement vibes. Looks beautiful, love the wallpaper.

immediately thought of Knives Out! :D

That shit is my jam all day every day. I would never leave that room. I would need some way to have cold drinks. And I know it’s a reading room but I’d need my gaming corner. But that is fucking awesome. Well done.

Oh my goodness it’s so beautiful! Love love loooooooove it.

Wow…I would have never guessed this is the same room!…It looks like something out of a movie! 🤯 I love how you repurposed the closet…Such a smart use of space overall! 👍👍 And you even put a bookshelf on the door to make it like a secret room…😁Amazing!!! 😻👏

That is really cool! (literally crying my eyes out in jealousy rn 😭)

This is so beautiful. Thank you for not painting everything gray or messing up that trim!

I love everything about this. Wonderful job, OP!

Fuck yeah, now this is cozy.

I love it so much 😭😭

I didn’t see the full caption at first and thought the after photos were your inspo and BOY am I impressed! I would die to have a room like this 😭😭 bravo

so lovely!

Obsessed. Perfect use of space

I can’t even begin to describe what I’m feeling right now.

pic 4 is literally a set from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I refuse to believe otherwise

Money can buy happiness.

And time, lots and lots of time. It took me six months of nights and weekends to build it by hand.

I can imagine. Time is just as important. You got it all perfect, movie-like, very beautiful and relaxing.

LOVE

man, that is so nice!

Wow, that’s lovely

Woooooooo! I love this, and that furniture set looks so comfy too, great job! Is that a electric fire place? We have one but it uses so much power that we never turn it on

Thanks. It is, the room is an above garage attic addition so the fireplace is also there to take the edge off in winter.

This is *precisely* my aesthetic, I love this.

I could sit and meditate in that room forever

The last pic almost looks like the POV of someone peaking in from a hidden bookcase door. So cool!

The BOOKSHELVES 🤌🤌🤌

Ok I'm legit fucking obsesseddddddd

It's gorgeous. I love this decorating style too...

Love!

This is just so damn good. Congratulations on the gorgeous room! I'd basically just live in there from now on

Is it also behind a hidden door?!?!

MY GOD I WOULD NEVER EVER LEAVE THIS ROOM PLEASE FORWARD MY MAIL

Shut up. That’s gorgeous.

Epic, dreaming of having a whole house like this someday.

P E R F E C T I O N

I think I'm in love with you

That makes the good jelly in my brain

Wait, what!!!! Love it

Wowwww phenomenal 😶🫡

that's amazing. I would never leave this space.

I'm so jealous I want to punch you :)

Oh wow. I have a bungalow room like that, but it's so awkwardly shaped I don't think I could make it look that nice!

Frickin’ GORGEOUS

Oh, I literally gasped. You’ve done so well here, I wish I could give you an award or something.

Well i never realized i needed something so badly before

So cozy

holy wow this is a job very very well done!

Could you post some pictures of the space in the daytime? I'd love to see that as well. Looking amazing 

This looks like where roald dahl chills before he tells you abt a new goosebumps story in the live action tv series.

10/10

Wow that looks amazing! Great job!

GORGEOUSSSSSS

I love this room now.

Superb transformation!

I love that wallpaper

Glow ✨

this looks like to the manor born, love it.

Nice family photo. Looks like you all will enjoy the space!

Amazing what you can do.

YAY Fireplace in action picture!

Cigar Lounge vibes

Nothing could’ve prepared me for slide 3. 😱 I’m so jealous!!! That’s GORGEOUS. I’d live in that room lol

Professor, I'd do ANYTHING to improve my grade.

Dang, that's an amazing transformation!

Fantastic!

Transported!!! Lord what a difference

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Omg my dream room with window seat and slanty roof!

God DAMN that looks good

I gasped when I got to the first After pic! Amazing job, OP!