Moving In!

This weekend I finally began moving into my office.  Thank you all for your kind posts and encouragement as I worked to create this new space to work in.  In fact, this is my first post from the new office!

I will post pictures once all the things are hung on the walls and the curtains are up (currently waiting for them to come into the store).  Things are definitely moving along.

For those of you wanting to see pictures of our snow from yesterday click here.  And no, I didn't drive into the snow to imprint my license plate-- we found that after we backed the SUV up!


How are things going for you??

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From bedroom to office (well, almost!)

Here is the day you've been waiting for!  The day you get to see my son's bright green room transformed into my new office!  Well, when I started putting this post together Sunday night (for the pictures) that's what I was hoping for.  I had no idea that it would take 3 coats of primer followed by 2 coats of paint (and I had to wait 4 hours between coats on the paint, which meant I had to do it across 2 days.)

Oh, well.  I am close to being done with it.  I taped off and started painting the trim tonight.  Two more coats of that, a quick vacuum followed by a wet vac, and it will be ready for me to populate this weekend!

So, for your viewing enjoyment, this is how the project has gone so far!


When my son was in kindergarten, he wanted his room painted green.  So he and I went to the store and he picked out the paint, and I painted it.  I cautioned him that he would have to live with it for several years, as we weren't going to paint again for a long time.

This is what his old room looked like:

With all his things in there, the bright green really worked.  But, it just wasn't going to cut it for an office.


So, I put primer on the walls:

And then, two more coats of primer later, we were finally white.   (I meant to take pictures and forgot!  But believe me, there was no green showing through when I was done!)


Then, I painted it Glass Slipper (I love the name of the paint!)  It is very light, so you might not notice the blue hue.

I can't wait until I get some furnishings in it and it begins to look like an office.  I think it will be a wonderful place to be creative in!

Are you sure there wasn't a natural disaster?

Well, I don't think anyone was more surprised about what was under my son's bed than I.  I mean, I knew he had things under there, and of course there was dust because we hadn't vacuumed in awhile, but this?

In fact, between all of the things from his room, and all the stuff we stored upstairs before the remodeling, my house looked like a bomb had gone off!  This is what my living room looked like from Monday until Wednesday night:

And my basement has been a disaster for most of the winter.  We are slowly making our way through the things down there, now that we have a place for them to go (namely son's new room!)

By Thursday morning, my living room was back to this:

Oh, what about my son's old room?  The one that is becoming my office?  Check back on Thursday for those transforming pictures!  You're not going to want to miss them!

Progress!

Hi all!  Sorry for being off line last week, but when you look at the pictures below, I am certain you will understand my absence.  We have been remodeling our upstairs into a bedroom for my son.  While it is not quite done yet (who knew one kid could have so much stuff to sort through!), we are a longs ways from where we were last week at this time.


Last Monday when I left for work, the room looked like this:

When I came home from work it looked like this:

When I went to bed it looked like this:

Tomorrow I'll share the transformation my son's old room has been going through (as well as the rest of my house!)


PS!  Special thanks to Regina for the blog award on Friday!  I promise to share more about it by early next week!