Project: the craft room

Now that Kaylee has decided that it's OK for me to make plans, I am able to get back to my original project for this long weekend: my craft room.

Our house has four bedooms (well, three bedrooms and a "den" - so called because it doesn't have a closet), and we really only use two and a half of them: ours, the guest bedroom (used almost exclusively by my mom), and the half: Indy's crate is in one. The other one and a half just tend to get filled up by junk.

This room, for instance:

It's worse than usual, admittedly, since right before my cousin's wedding a couple weeks ago, I couldn't find my glue stick and had to rip apart the room to find it. But that's part of the problem: I can't (obviously) find anything in here.

So, the book cases are now in Indy's room, and Jeff will be going through the junk in there, since most of it's his. The bed, one that Jeff's grandfather made and is a little on the shaky side, is going back to his parents' house. We used it once, and it's really just too big for the room.

I need to paint the walls, and I think I've picked a color (you can see the paint chips taped on the wall by the window). I don't want to paint the trim or ceiling yet (because I hate doing both), so I needed something that would go with both dark purple and white. The color I've picked is kind of a very pale pinky-purple called "Fussbudget" - I think I mostly picked it for the name. :)

I combed the thrift stores yesterday and picked up a bunch of storage containters (though I still need a few more), and we've got a table and shelving that we can move in there. White gauzy curtains (you can see them on the bed, actually) will go over the windows.

I can't wait. It really should help with keeping the house neater, having a place where all the stuff can go, rather than lots of stuff not really having a home. And if it gets messy, at least it's confined to one room and I can close the door. :)

"After" pictures coming later this week. :)

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