The guest bed, crown molding, registers, and trim

We decided we wanted to spruce up the bedrooms a bit and Matt had the idea to add crown molding. Now, the ceiling in our rooms isn't super high, and the bedrooms aren't crazy big, so we didn't want to overwhelm the room, just add a little flair. So we went to Menards and had a look around and found some clamshell door stop that seemed like it would be a pretty good fit. It mirrored the new baseboard we put up without being too big. We we're sure out our baby trim would look, but we decided to try it out:

The colors make it a little hard to tell, but we thought it came out pretty great. Plus I got to work on my scarf cutting skills for the overlaps.

In addition, we put up new baseboards. While we were doing this, we put up the new register and replaced the vent. But when we went to put up the new register we noticed something: It wasn't as wide as the old one (in addition to being not as long, making it actually the correct size for the hole in the floor). So if we put it flush against the wall, you could see the gap in front, which made us sad

To correct for this, we cut a piece of wood to fit behind and bump it out a bit. Once it's painted, you'll never know the difference!

To put the new register up, we had to add a couple pieces inside the wall for the new screws (I forgot to take an after picture, but you can imagine. The only one I have will spoil the color surprise :) )

Lastly, once we took the baseboard off we realized something. In the places where we'd left the baseboard, there was now a bit of a lip because it protected the floor from the sanding job. Now, this wasn't an issue for putting down the baseboard because it just sat on the lip. 

But when we went to put up the quarter round, it was half on the lip and half off, making it look like there was a gap. So, we put our thinking caps on and our little dremel router to work. (We bought it for the hardwood floor and the splurged on a table saw instead, but it was only 30 bucks so we kept it)

It worked like a charm, you can see here on the top a routered piece compared to an unroutered one. The router gave us just enough space to fit over the lip without changing the appearance of the final look (as you can see in the second picture).