My Home Office

I got my home office rearranged and semi-organized after moving all the furniture around in all three bedrooms (one of which is my office). The bedroom that is my office is a bit of an oddity. It is small, has no windows, has a weird closet situation, and has three doors. It is like a pass through bedroom with one door to the hallway and one to the kitchen. The people that lived here before us had an opening into the great room and used it as a dining room which would make the door to the kitchen a good thing. When they went to sell the house, they closed the opening to the great room to turn it back into a bedroom. The third door is to the closet which is technically the closet for the master bedroom. If there wasn't so much crap stuff in our closet, you can walk through it from bedroom to master bedroom. If there is a kid in this room someday, they are out of luck and won't have a closet!

Anyway, enough about the bedroom and here are the pics of my newly arranged office.

The view from the hallway.

As you walk in the room.

My desk area.

My pictures and stuff above my computer desk.

I added a big calendar page under my clear desk protector to keep track of my new schedule of classes and working out for January.

My entertainment area (that is a bench that was in the house, not a TV stand). That is my husband's big, old, heavy TV and his old xBox 360 and the old Wii and a Super Nintendo that I bought him as a back-up. The original Nintendo is mine, but the stand was my brother-in-law's. The black computer is even a hand me down. I'm happy to have all this stuff, but do you see a reoccurring theme here?

Some framed Beatles albums and pics from the Paul concert that are above my entertainment area.

A dresser that I'm using for extra storage. It was my great-grandparent's.

I tried turning this twin bed into a "daybed." It was my old bed that I used throughout much of my childhood. The comforter and back rest are from my college days. The Sketchers backpack on the floor is newer though!

Unless I get to it later tonight, I hope to have a "New Years-ish" type post up tomorrow.

The New Master and Guest Bedrooms

Since we have gotten the new king size bed, I've had to shuffle around all the furniture between the three bedrooms. The furniture that was in the master bedroom is now somehow (minus two chairs) in the guest bedroom. I was lucky enough that the comforter set I had in their was really a full size one even though there was a twin bed in there before. I was able to keep all the décor in there but just move it around to new places. The only money I spent was for some fake flowers for a "vase" (really a toothbrush holder) and for an under the bed box for some more storage. By the way, it is amazing how much you can cram fit under the bed! Since I'm so proud of how it turned out, here are some pictures of the new guest bedroom.



The bed frame (of which I'm only using the headboard) was a 4-H project of mine.

This dresser is also part of a 4-H project.

This is also a 4-H project.

I've also gotten the master bedroom mostly arranged with the different furniture. There are still a few projects to do such as organization in the closet and dressers, some touch up paint, and finding/making a headboard. We also have a "nicer" comforter set, but I haven't broken it out yet, so there are no pictures of it yet. So here are the pictures of the master bedroom for now.

Yay, the king size bed!

I rearranged the pictures to match the width of the bed.

I'm not sure if I'm totally happy with this arrangement, but I can always change it later.

Notice how the hubs ended up with no night stand? Maybe someday I'll put some floating shelves on each side of the bed for a stand.

My night stand.

The closet doors drive me bananas! Since we decided we aren't doing white trim, I can't just paint them white. I will find some way to make these look better someday.

This is the corner behind the door, so no one really sees it. It bothers me that this stand (orginally for the bathroom behind the toilet but now fits well in this corner and over the hamper) is white and now there will be no white trim for it to fit into the room. I guess some dark brown paint maybe?

My dad made this cabinet for me with some leaded glass doors. I used it to display all my dolls as a child. Right now I just have a little bit of some of my old stuff in there.

My hubby's dresser (notice how he got the smaller one).

My dresser with my new jewelry box I got with a Kohl's gift card. The mirrors I got for S1 a piece from the Dollar Tree since I needed something between the lamps. The two pieces of artwork that flank the sides were my grandma's.

A close up of my dresser which was my great-grandparent's.

The New Bathroom

This is also something I've been meaning to write about for a while- our completed bathroom renovation. I started this as a simple cosmetic makeover that would cost a few bucks but a lot of my sweat equity. It kept growing until it was out of my realm and my father-in-law ended up doing a lot of the work along with my husband. They redid plumbing, installed the tub surround, installed a new sink, fixed the fan, redid the cabinet doors to the linen closet, installed a new floor, and the list goes on. I mostly did the prep work on the walls for painting, did some painting, a lot of sanding, removed wallpaper, and did more cosmetic interior design type stuff. This renovation as it stands now I could have never done by myself. My husband and father-in-law deserve a big thank you for doing all that they did to get the bathroom to look so nice.

So now it is time to show off and here are the before (pictures I took the night we got the house) and after photos:

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