room remodel progress

I’m here to say that we are making a lot of progress on the front room / playroom / home office remodel. It is taking fifty forevers due to a week of rain, the DAYS it has taken me to painstakingly paint my HUGE desk (one coat primer, two coats paint), and finding just the right accessories.

So … remember before?

You can see more painting/flooring only pictures here.

This week, we finished the flooring, installed the base molding, bought and hung a new curtain rod and curtains, bought a new floor lamp (since it is a formal sitting room in our house plan, there is no wiring for an overhead light, so we’re dependent on floor lamps), put up some vinyl wall art, and moved Emma’s toys back in.

Okay, imagine the desk top attached to the two trusses – that’s the only thing I have left to paint.

So much has changed already!!

Ken and I are both really loving how it turned out, and I just couldn’t be happier to have absolutely NO carpet downstairs. Our Roomba is in floor heaven.

I still have a lot on my to-do list, though …

* finish painting desktop and move office back in
* get pictures printed & framed to hang
* paint large bookshelf that will go in that back corner on the other side of the desk
* thrift/re-purpose small desk chair
* install crown molding
* install wooden blinds

I’m still not sure what art we’ll put in there. I don’t currently have anything that will go with the whole color scheme, so I’m thinking I’ll just get some pictures of Emma printed and hanged across that back wall. And then perhaps a vinyl mural of some sort behind my desk? I change my mind so many times, I’m afraid to go with permanent fixtures.

Now that I’ve spent all of this time and money in this room, Ken has decided to make himself a man-cave in the garage. Hey, as long as it’s a project that gets the garage cleaned out and organized enough for me to park in there, I’m all over it!