ReDo!

This was our office -I absolutely hated it. We have tons of books and projects that I have been working on plus Ian has his crayons and other craft things in here. It was just the room where everything goes. We have boxes and boxes of Tim's school things as well as mine. Not to mention just boxes -Tim has this thing with keeping empty boxes? Drives me crazy! Anyway, since we both had a break from work and school enough was enough...

We went and got a new desk that could hold plenty of books. Ian and Tim began putting it together.
After days of organizing we finally got it all put together.
Now there is a place for everything and anything. The bookshelf below the window is just for Ian. It has has his paints, playdo, crayons, games, and all of his file folder games. The bookshelf is full of books and fits perfectly. The closet is now functional and contains tons of paper and various crafts. Now I can walk into my office and feel at peace everything has a place and very functional!

Notice the gold framed picture from the before snapshot...
Not anymore...we painted the frame black and left a little gold edge. This picture came from my grandparents a while back. We don't really have any gold in our house but I have always loved this picture. So tada now it hangs in our bedroom. Which we also painted this weekend.

I am a little undecided. I have never been one to paint much of anything. I did not even pick out the paint in my own home (my neighbor Ruelinda gave me two colors without looking I gave it to the painter -love it). So we thought we would give this a try.

We painted an accent wall in a flat baby blue then painted clear glaze to make the vertical stripes. The blue is not quite the right color it is just slightly off but Tim said he would rather get a new bed set then paint the wall again. So for now it stays.
I like the stripes but we need something much bigger on that wall and I have no idea what to do -maybe next Christmas :)