The office begins

Look out, we're at it again. The office is officially our next remodeling victim. (Insert evil laugh here)

Yesterday, the room looked like this:

Complete disaster. Unpacked boxes of paperwork from the move and craft supplies strewn about courtesy of miss A - the room stressed us out because of its lack of organization alone.

Yuck.

As of a couple minutes ago, here is our blank slate:

The desk and chair will stay so that N has a place to plop down when he works from home. We'll just drop cloth them when necessary.

(The wallpaper "no turning back now" first tear: complete.)

We chose this as our next project because it's kind of a low-hanging fruit in regards to cost and difficulty. It involves a TON of painting, but not much else.

Our to do list:

- paint baseboards and door frame

- paint built in bookshelves and cabinets

- paint window and plantation shutters 

- hire electrician to add overhead light fixture

- replace pulls and hinges on the cabinets and shutters 

- replace light switches and outlets, guts and plates 

- remove wallpaper, paint walls

- furnish and decorate! 

That list seems short. Ha. I won't mention all of the sanding and deglossing and patching and priming steps we have ahead of us. :)

We will be keeping the carpet intact until we someday replace all the flooring on the main floor (prob sometime next century), and the beautiful paneling on the ceiling will remain.

Terrible photo, but it's so pretty, and it will be highlighted even more when the rest of the room is lightened up.

We're already throwing ideas around about new desks and storage options and paint colors and light fixtures. This is gonna be fun. ;)

Front door makeover is almost done. Photos by the end of the week, I hope.

Quick pic...sister time on mama'a bed. A reached over to grab EJ's hand, EJ moved and tried to eat it instead. ;)