Category Archives: Room Redecorating

    I decided today to work with the boys on finishing the apolstry on their rocking chair.  I called it art, or maybe shop, maybe life skills?  I talked through how we organized the project a lot, so they’d see Continue reading Chair photos→

    Both boys had little fevers this morning, and were more than usually interested in snuggling before breakfast.  Ah, I thought, this is not the day we have great breakthroughs in understanding arithmetic algorithms, lets just move boxes.  They greeted Continue reading Re-Arranging the House→

    Well, here is the impact on the rest of the house.  First the living room: Now two views of the study, the clean, inviting functional view, and the distressing-boy-do-we-have-work-to-do view (with M to make it cuter). The boys didn’t Continue reading House Photos→

    We accomplished all our our goals for this Saturday’s workday here with friends; the final paint touch ups were done, the furniture was assembled, the boxes were cut up for recycling, the crumbcake turned out yummy as did the Continue reading It Never Rains but it Pours→

    At my Mom-in -Law’s suggestion, the boys took the dragon with them to Lowe’s and picked a paler color of the tongue.  The first coat is actually up on the walls now, it does make the room feel smaller Continue reading Work day and (have no fear) we used a different yellow→

    Well, here are the new fabrics, displayed on some moving debris, a sideways shelf about to be re-used elsewhere. The Green fabric will become Roman Shades, the Orange fabric will cover the platform rocker’s cushions, the dragon and rocketship Continue reading New Room Color Sceme→

    I took the boys to Joanne’s today to pick up curtain fabric swatches, in the hopes they can agree on a paint color.  We know they are going to hang up their IKEA dragon and rocket ship wall pockets Continue reading The word of the day is “Texture”→

    We were deciding this morning if we REALLY needed to paint the boys new bedroom or not.  The landlord gave us cart blanch within reason, so DH and I walked around the study/sewing/workshop and looked at the walls that Continue reading Latest Steps in Room move or “Oh the sun! I’m fainting!”→

    Well, Operation Move Rooms continues, even though it is the day after Christmas – if DH and Mom have to go back to work, and since we don’t want to do lessons or have bored little boys (AKA potentially Continue reading Presents put away→

    Today I had my oldest boy work on school work he is likely to forget if he doesn’t get daily re-enforcement, then took them both shopping, for their grandparent’s presents.  They get great delight from getting to pick out Continue reading More Sorting→

I don’t remember exactly where we read the 3 bag principle of sorting, maybe on a Focus on the Family broadcast, but so far that’s what we do when we have really, really full closets.  Right now I just finished Continue reading Sorting Stuff→

    I took down some 4 year old art projects from the kitchen wall to cannibalize the sticky tack.  Then we put up the 40 or so paint chips that we picked up at Lowe’s yesterday.  Some of the paint Continue reading paint chips up, room redeco started→