More Office!

After Dustin agreed to indulge my crazy inclinations help me move furniture around between rooms (again), I got to work on the office again.

Most exercise equipment was moved to a seldom-used corner of the sunroom (best put seldom used stuff in seldom used places, eh?) and the love seat that we placed in the sunroom to sit on and watch deer in the field but ended up covered in perpetual junk was moved into the office.



Now I have a little reading nook in the office! Love it! I actually sat in there tonight and looked through my 2002 senior yearbook (ten years next year--eek!).

The only thing this office is missing is a desk. I'm really trying to stay away from particle board box store furniture from here on out. I'd rather save and spend more on a solid piece I'll have (intact) for years. Or better yet, buy a used piece at a thrift store for a song and refurbish it a little. I'm looking for something more in the "table desk" style rather than a boxy style with a million drawers or shelves. I know I'm sacrificing storage, but it's just my personal preference.

This is where the desk will go. Check out the crooked diplomas!

Office Bookshelf

After finally deciding that the bookshelf is best placed in one of the bedrooms we're calling "the office," I wanted to try my hand at some standard-issue home decor blog diy fun.

Here's our basic cheap Target bookshelf:



And after I lined the back with wrapping paper:

I would have preferred to use fabric, but I didn't have enough of any one pattern. Oh well.

And this is a 'relatively' 'easy' prjoject, but that doesn't change the fact that I nearly bashed this POS shelf into a million little particle board pieces.

Changing subjects now....

Look! Snow!

We got quite a bit on Friday. I wish I had taken a picture then, as it nicely framed the edges of these windows; classic Christmas scene. Others pay for that look, woot!

My next project will have to be the master bathroom. It's looking a little plain.



Imagine how much better it would look if those walls were an actual, you know...color.

First task

One of the first things we had to do when we moved in was get some sort of covering for the bay window in the living room. I'm really weird about people seeing in my windows at night, so this went up:


It's an orange sheet tacked up over the window.

We found a heavily discounted curtain rod at Bed Bath and Beyond (it had a faint scratch) and my stepmom gave me some curtains.

Dustin got to work:

(Erin won.)

Viola. Instant hominess.



The curtains aren't exactly what I would have picked out (and she knew this when she gave them to me), but they were free and they look better than thumbtacks and a sheet!

Moving Day

Moving is one of the most hated tasks in my life. Hopefully this is the last move for us in a long time. Special thanks to Rich for doing most of the packing. He and Dustin did most of the heavy lifting that day too (I got the smaller stuff!)

The UHaul about half full.

Some of our stuff in the apartment's "lobby" area.

Dustin carrying a chair (aren't these captions so helpful?)

Rich

Russell, wanting desperately to "help" with the moving.

How did we acquire all this crap?!

Welcome to Our Home

People often ask us how our new house is coming. We usually answer with a trite"good" or "okay" (depending on the day!), mostly because we figure people don't want to hear us ramble about ugly 80's wallpaper in the kitchen or how we spent most of Sunday afternoon contemplating the appropriate placement of a bookshelf.

Then I realized people probably DO want to hear about those things. And I have to admit, it is pretty exciting: you only move into your first house once. So I'll post it all here (complete with pictures!), so if they want to know all the details they can read it here (or not).

Just know that I may write two entries and abandon this project forever....we'll see.




If you look closely, you'll see our relator and myself. This was at our second viewing of the house in August.