Our three day weekend was unexpectedly busy and productive. While I hadn't planned on working around the
house, the stars aligned and we worked furiously redoing both Robby's bedroom,
our bedroom and the main family room. We didn't start out with ambitions of
redecorating all three rooms, but a snowball effect occurred as we shuffled
furniture from one room into another. Before I knew it, we were up to our knees
in clutter and chaos on Sunday leaving us with no options but to buckle down
and finish.
Our mini house makeover began with my spotting Robby's coveted
bunk bed frame on a Facebook yard sale site. Knowing that it was exactly what
he wanted, and realizing that we needed to act quickly, I contacted the seller
and made arrangements to pick up the beds. Before anybody had time to think,a
Scott and Robby were headed over to borrow Mr. Bill's truck to pick up the yard
sale acquisition.
While the pair were picking up the new beds, I set out to
dismantle the race car bed. It is now safely stowed in our garage where it will
be rescued and reassembled in a year or two for Timmy. With the race car bed
moved out of the room, I made the executive decision that the couch which has
been in Robby's room needed to be relocated to the living room. It is in much
better shape than the run down piece of furniture that we have been using, and
clearing it out of his bedroom would open up the space even more.
Unfortunately, in order to make it fit into the living room I
needed to dismantle and move our five piece sectional sofa. I should have
waited for Scott to come home, but I was feeling both strong and stubborn
(which is a dangerous combination) and decided that I could do it by myself.
Balancing the pull-out sofa portion on my shoulder as I tried to guide it down
the stairs I realized that I had underestimated the weight of the couch while
overestimating my strength. I began to
regret my moving enthusiasm. Somehow I
managed to guide it down the stairs unscathed.
By the time the boys returned with the bunk bed, I had
single-handedly moved and set up four of the five sofa sections downstairs.
After helping me with the final piece, we moved onto the next project. It took
all of us over an hour to sort through and clean up the obscene amount of toys,
dust, old food, dirt, socks, pens, coins and assorted junk that had accumulated
under the monstrosity of a couch. Timmy was delighted spending the remainder of
the afternoon playing with the large box of toy cars that were rescued during
the clean up.
With the area cleaned, Scott and I moved the couch from Robby's
room into the living room. We
immediately realized that the room needed more seating options than a small
couch, so we decided to move the couch that was in our bedroom playroom into
the living room. Of course now the
living room furniture doesn't match, but we now have ample seating on
comfortable couches while clearing up more room for the kids to play. I am delighted with the look of our newly
restructured family room!
After sorting through the various treasures that were lodged
under the bedroom couches, we were finally ready to assemble the bunk
beds. After five hours, four trips to
Lowes and a house call from Mr. Bill, the beds were finally assembled and ready
for Robby. Of course, because we hadn't
planned on putting up bunk beds on Sunday, we didn't have a full sized mattress
for the lower bunk. I quickly opened up one of the sofa beds in the living room
and relocated the mattress to the bunk bed. It isn't the most comfortable, but
it works for now.
Yesterday we spent the afternoon tidying up from our Sunday
projects. It took several more hours to get everything situated and
comfortable, but now we have three completely functional, uncluttered and newly
reorganized rooms. At some point I will
need to tackle the mess that has accumulated downstairs because of our efforts,
but right now I just don't have the energy.
In the meantime, I am just going to bask in the uncluttered happiness of
our rooms.
