Room Number One Complete

This weekend, Lara, Zach and I finished the downstairs bedroom. After two weeks of framing, drywalling, sanding, painting, sawing, hammering, cleaning and decorating we have the room completed. If you do not know, this happens to be the largest bedroom in the house, so two of the three kids will go into the room. Zach was a huge help this weekend working along side of us to finish hanging the closet doors, sort through all his old toys and stuff for donations and trash, and moving furniture around. Zach has been very mature and open minded about giving up space (since this has been his room up to this point) and a fantastic help in the whole process. We know it is not optimal for him so we have to note a huge "THANK YOU!" for his willingness to work through all of this. If that were not enough, we had to downsize his bed as well, so went out and purchased a new full size bed for him. Perhaps not as much room for Zach AND the dogs to sleep in the bed all at once, but at least one dog will fit.

We also accomplished clearing out the upstairs bedroom (room 2) for painting and a general sprucing up. As with all transitions and the need clear things out for space, we put a bunch stuff on Craig's List for sale. There are already several people coming tonight to buy and take away the queen bed, a file cabinet, two chest of drawers, a coffee table and an air hockey table. Was thinking about selling the tread mill, but decided that someone may want to use it while they are here house sitting, so we will leave that until summer time.