We've been a little busy as of late. And I'm not just referring to the past few weeks, but I am referring to the past few months. It's pretty standard for us to be constantly on the go, but these past few months have been absolute madness. Of course all of this madness will be culminating in birth of our son next month.
Up until now, I have felt horribly unprepared for his arrival. Primarily because he did not have a room. I would make statements on Facebook like "I can't believe we are "X" number of weeks away from the baby being born. We are so not ready!". Such comments would prompt people to reply "What else do you need to do?", "Babies don't require much, you'll be fine", etc. I would simply shake my head and think to myself, "Oh, you have no idea!".
Unfortunately, his room wasn't so much a bedroom as it was an office/guest bedroom/game room/storage/pile of crap room. The bad part about knowing that we would eventually be forced to tackle this room and somehow make it presentable was that up until that point, we continued to just throw stuff in there to be sorted out later. "That's next months problem" seemed to be our mantra.
In the intrest of full disclosure, here is photographic proof. (you'll just have to tilt your head sideways because cannot for the life of me figure out how to turn these pictures the right way)
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| Mountain of Crap |
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| More Crap |
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| Ok, this is getting embarrassing |
Not exactly cozy is it? It seemed like such a huge task that it was depressing to even think about tackling this project. What makes it worse was that we really didn't have anyplace to put all of this crap. Some would suggest, "what about the garage?" Well, this was my garage at the time.
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| again with the head tilting... sorry |
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| no imagine this back wall stacked to the ceiling with plastic storage tubs |
So we were in desperate need of a solution. After thinking about it for a while I decided to call upon the carpentry skills of a good friend and build storage units in the garage. The final goal being able to organize my garage some and move all of our stuff from the pile o' crap room to a new and organized place. It was a huge task, but necessary none the less. We built these units from scratch using plywood and our awesome boyscout skills. And clamps... lots and lots of clamps. In total, the project came in at under $350 for materials. I was very pleased!
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| awww... storage |
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| took approximately 2.5 seconds to fill them up |
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| fancy hanging system too! |
While I still feel like it's a little cluttered, it is light years better than it once was. Now that this project was complete, we could really get to work on the baby's room. Julia ended up getting a big girl bed so he could have her crib so we did a whole lot of shuffling of furniture in each of their rooms. After that we painted his room and I am extremely pleased to say we are pretty much finished! The transformation is pretty remarkable if you ask me! All along I've been telling Breanne that this child is not allowed to come until he has a bed to sleep in and clothes in drawer instead of boxes. Both of those are now complete so I suppose he could come anytime now! I shutter as I type that! Here are the final results!
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| we are doing "argyle and puppies" as a theme |
Alright little guy, I hope you like your new room. I was a LOT of work!
