Project Complete!

In early August, we began the process of putting new carpet upstairs and moving Austin's bedroom into Nicole's old room. That project got delayed because the carpet was on backorder. During the delay, everything upstairs was boxed up - ugh! Come to find out, they had the wrong carpet ordered! Our choice was in the warehouse all along...soooo once that got settled, the ball got rolling again. It's never simple in the Ryan home, as we had two rooms to repaint and move in addition to moving everything out of all the bedrooms! Then Cary's flight schedule got busy, so we had to wait a few weeks to move the office that was on the 1st floor, up to the 2nd floor spare bedroom. Not to mention, we had to pick out new furniture for what would be a small living room, and I was perplexed. On the second trip to the furniture store, Cary made the executive decision that we weren't leaving until we decided. We finally decided (on my original choice) and we love it. I did some research on how to furnish small spaces, and it totally worked.

Here's the office after moving out one piece of the desk....this was soooo much work and so many wires and computers. Somehow, we still laughed all day, even while stuck on the stairs with a VERY heavy desk. Got laughing so hard, I never thought we'd get all the way upstairs with the thing!

Dust. Was. Everywhere.
Slowly making progress...

Notice little Toby on my lap. While repainting the office (after 2 coats of primer because it was so dark), if I was on the floor at all, Toby wanted to be held. He is like a toddler and was tired of not having our attention.

Once an office, now a quiet living space. I'm not completely finished - it needs window treatments and a few more things on the wall, but it's so nice to have it done.

These are the 3 pictures hanging on the wall - I found them for a steal in Kirklands and I just love them.

This room used to be Austin's, and is now the office. We added shelving to the closet, and it provides so much more storage for all the stuff that was crammed under desks and into corners. This closet goes deep on the sides and we still had room for all the winter coats on the ends. It's much more organized! We still have to finish hanging pictures in this room.

Austin's new room

I found these decals called "Sudden Shadows" for the walls and they turned out pretty cool - the paint color shows through them.

(Note: he does not have any cable or tv in his room - this is for his PS2 only :). We found this cool tool storage cabinet and thought it would be fun to house his video games.

Casey's room:

A few Fall details....

And I've been slowly doing our bedroom in an ocean theme, so here are a few peeks.

Whew! Time to enjoy it for a while now!