Or maybe just craziness... I'm not sure what else you'd call a man one week post-surgery and a nine-and-a-half month pregnant mama rearranging the entire upstairs in one morning. But, that's what Tuesday morning looked like around here: Both of us trying not to let the other lift too much weight or work too hard. In the end, only one piece of furniture up there survived the move without finding a new home, but we're already feeling like things are much more functional and (for the most part) open.
Of course,
somebody was already moving stuff around before I even finished doing the breakfast dishes, so here's as close as we got to before photos, in the form of horribly lit, please-don't-run-me-over-while-I-take-this iPhone pictures.
Our room:
The guest bedroom, with electrical tape on the wall from pre-furniture-move measuring:
AJ's room, after the contents of the armoire had been dumped on his bed and the armoire dragged into the hallway. It used to sit in that corner, to the right of the electrical outlet:
We hadn't discussed this furniture-moving plan until Tuesday morning, when we both confessed to each other that we'd had this crazy idea
("that I know you won't like, honey") come to us on Monday night. What are the odds? So, needless to say, we were both on board. We knew we wanted to completely switch the boys' room and the guest bedroom, since one of those rooms only gets any action one week out of the year and swapping them would make a
huge difference for AJ (and later, his brother). That means that the guest bedroom is a bit cramped, but since we're working with what we have, here... It's cozier than the couch, right? We'd still like to find a duvet and hang some art to brighten up this space (and move the growth chart to the boys' room once I transfer AJ's height from the wall to the wood), but for now, it's functional even if it's (much) less than beautiful. Here it is in all it's we-haven't-picked-up-in-here-while-we're-working-on-things "glory":
Our room was the most difficult to figure out, just because we added a
(completely unnecessary) piece of furniture to what was already in there.
That wasn't exactly a unanimous decision, but since the armoire doesn't fit anywhere else now that the other two bedrooms have been changed around - and Craigslist is not an option after all the work we put into it - there it'll stay until the next place we call home. So, after shuffling things around four or five times to find the best fit for everything, this is what we ended up with:
This room is lacking so much of what we'd like to see in there (a bedskirt, rug, curtains, art, some
color), but we're kind of glad to let the boys' room - and the rest of the house - take priority. In all honesty, this room likely won't change much before we leave Hawaii in a year and a half. And that fan that my wonderful husband installed sort of makes up for the rest of it in its own lovely and breezy way. (Can you tell I love that fan?)
For all of our room's unfinished craziness, one room picks up all the slack: The boys' room. It was my favorite when we first put it together in its original location, before we started rearranging things months ago. Now that it's in the other room? Love. We've got some work to do, still, but it's so much more open and functional, and when it's time a second bed for AJ's brother (once we know if he'll need a toddler or a twin bed) will fit in here so easily.
That dresser used to live in AJ's closet in the other room, so having it out in the open is like having a brand new piece of furniture up here - minus the price tag. That definitely feels like a win to us! The shelves we just picked up from Home Depot on Tuesday night, and I spray painted the brackets before we hung them today to get a little bit of color in there after seeing
these shelves on Pinterest. Once we get things a little more pulled together (sheets, a big art print, etc.), we'll come back with a better peek at the best room in the house. Fingers crossed that it'll be sometime soon!
(Are these house updates enjoyable to read? I always like when other people do them, but if they're not so interesting, let me know!)
