We're Painting the Roses Red

It has begun...

The other night Gale & Maureen came over for a lovely evening of dinner and remove the futon from Eric & Kelly's house. It was just as exciting as it sounds. We started off with a slowly grilled flank steak accompanied by a tossed salad and garlic bread. And finished the meal with an assortment of Ice Creams (yum).

After which Eric and Gale had the lovely task of moving the 500 thousand ton futon from our upstairs 'guest' room and maneuvering it through the skinny hallway, down the skinny stairway and somehow over/around/through the stair railing (which is really more of a wall, so I don't know how you'd go through it.... now that takes talent!). The best part of which was the fact that they originally brought it down backwards and then had to take it all way back up into the room to turn it around. Great fun eh?!?

The saddest part of the evening was after the futon had been loaded into the truck our cat, Braxton, went and laid down on it, tarp covered and all. He recognized that his bed was being taken and was showing silent protest. How sad!

Now that the futon has been safely removed from our 'guest room' we have been in the process of transitioning it into the 'baby's room', starting with.... paint! Having selected the bedding that will go in the room we chose two colors from the pattern and ran with it. The result looking a bit like this...




































Since there is still computer equipment and various shelving in the room we've only been able to do two walls at a time. The other two will be completed this weekend, along with the organizing of said computer equipment.

I'm thinking of mounting the monitor on an articulating arm on the wall, and replacing the desk with a deeper, shorter one. I need to replace the now wire frame shelves with some wood ones, similar to the ones downstairs, but that requires an IKEA trip and may have to wait. IKEA on a Saturday is a nightmare. However, I have found that if I'm able to get there at around 10a.m. its a ghost town. I do believe I've found the secret to IKEA shopping.... go EARLY!!! They open at 10a.m., and are plenty busy, but since they're so freaking huge you don't really notice the crowds until 11/11:30a.m.