Ben is much better with no puking since Sunday night and since his school is open today on a late schedule, he's there and I'm at school getting caught up in prep for tomorrow. We got out yesterday for dinner, Target, and Lowes runs and are almost, almost finished with his new room. I feel almost like this has been a parallel pregnancy in the making the room habitable for someone 2-legged instead of 4-legged. Just to recap the process:
Added extra insulation last summer to help regulate temperature. Previous owners were home improvement enthusiasts in name only.
Put the aged, incontinent cats down
Massive clean out of the bonus/cat room and attic in prep to pull up carpet
All house carpet rip up, removal over Thanksgiving
Consult with a contractor replacing floorboards due to cat urine damage
Decision to do it ourselves armed with a charcoal, bleach, and a gallon of Kiz
Carpet replacement by Lowes
Marathon trip to Ikea for new bedroom furniture purchase on Christmas Eve morning
Assembly of furniture over New Years weekend
2nd trip to Ikea on trip to SC for returns and additional items
Slow progression of sorting, moving toys, books, and the farm of stuffed animals
Found a Cars Themed sheet/comforter on a big White sale
Found Framed Cars and Firetruck wall art at the Kids Exchange Sale for 30.00 bucks!
Remainder of room items bought at Target yesterday
What's left- Add large Cars themed wall stickers, brace the shelves under the white toy storage bins, add finger guards to the toy box in the window seat, move out Bill's final boxes, DVDs, lava lamp. Bring over all clothes for dresser and for the 2 under storage boxes.
Final task- Attached a note to the helicopter I bought at the sale from the Baby to Ben telling him that his big boy room is ready for him and leave sans "tooth fairy style" for him on the night before we plan the move.
2 comments:
Wow--it looks great. Love the Expedit shelf inserts. I want to get some of those for our playroom shelves. All of your hard work has definitely payed off! And I love the idea of the note from the baby to Ben. And do you still really not know if you're having a boy or girl? I love it!
Looks amazing!! We are talking about doing a big boy room for the boys but they need to start rooming together before that can happen!
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