Two Ladies, One Small Room

The last time we talked about the girls room it was...well...an empty shell. 

Since we don't make our kids sleep on the floor in an empty room, I figured it was time for a little update.

The rooms in our house are not the biggest. I suppose that is the cons of having an old house. We could, technically, split up our kids and have some of them downstairs, but they like sharing a room and I like having them on the same floor as me. The problem is, there is only one way the beds will fit into the rooms.

I wanted the girls to have their desk in their room, but with the desk and dresser it just wouldn't fit. So, we put the dresser in the closet to make room for the desk.

In all of my hurry to work on other things, the girls room ended up with bare walls for a few months.

Finally, I got around to hanging things up. Although it doesn't make a huge difference it does make it seem more like we actually live here, instead of being in transition. Plus, I was able to find them two matching white quilts for their beds. The yellow ones on them before were ones that came with the bed and although you can't tell, were quite worn.

Just because it is fun, and I can..

Before:

 After: 

Also, if anyone follows me on instagram then you may remember their desk before from here.

Girls Room

When the previous owner told us that he would leave a bed in the house for us, we thought...OK. 

Then immediately regretted it. That bed ended up being quite the beast to move. 

But one free listing on KSL for "a free bed" and we were bed free...too bad that it sat in our living room for so long prior to that. 

Laney and Penny's room was pretty much in the same shape as the boy's room. Only difference was the light fixture and in the girl's room the walls has white paint patches on it.

The light fixture was gigantic and heavy, and if we are being honest here...looks like something that belongs over an old pool table.

Blake removed the light fixture, then painted the ceiling.

We decided to leave the carpet down while painting the ceiling because we knew that we were going to tear it out anyways.

Then I painted the walls in a light green color, removed the carpet and patched the holes from the nails.

These floors, if possible, looked better then the boy's room floors.

Which made us very hopeful for the rest of the house.

We purchased some light fixtures from Home Depot and put matching ones in the both of the rooms.

We had two rooms under our belt and while it was so rewarding, I began to realize that it was going to be a truly exhausting couple of weeks. 

The summer days, ended up being long. I normally started my work at 9:30 and we normally stopped around 9 at night.

I started to feel it wearing me down, and I wasn't the only one.

But I am nothing...if not determined.