I will warn you that the before shots are gruesome. It looks so scary that when I’m looking at it now I don’t know how I ever got anything done in this room. I’m so much happier now and I actually enjoy sitting in front of the computer sometimes.

Before – The Desk

Before – The Craft Station

Before – Storage

After the shelves were up and the ceiling and trim was painted bright white

Desks are put together and installed

The lighting in here is just gorgeous now, I actually open the shades on a daily basis

After filling up the shelves and putting in the computey

The desks are from Ikea, I get a lot of questions about them. I’ve heard positive and negative things about Ikea, personally, I love their furniture. It’s relatively inexpensive and looks great.

I still need two new matching office chairs, one for each side and some lighting then I would say this room is officially done. I use one side of the room as my office and the other side is for crafting, sewing, scrapbooking or whatever else I feel like making at the time. I always wanted a “craft room” and now I feel like I really have one. This room is so pretty now I feel like I could live in it, which is funny because I kind of do. I spend more time in this room than I do in the rest of my house combined (not counting the pool, of course).

All I can say is, thank goodness I know someone who knows what they’re doing. It does suck driving around with scratches on my rear bumper but all in all, they aren’t that bad. I’ll get them fixed soon enough.

Just a few small scratches

Some of you may have seen some recent tweets from me as well one last month that said I was in a car accident and another from a few weeks about my car not started because of the battery. Well, the car accident wasn’t in my car and I wasn’t driving. The battery is still having some issues and sometimes doesn’t want to start but I now fully know how to use a battery charger

Another issue that you may remember from quite a while ago is the ‘killer N key’ on my laptop. It officially met it’s demise about three months ago. So I’ll soon be in the market for a new laptop. I’d say the thing is almost 5 years old and due for an upgrade.

The N key is permanently retired.

Other exciting news, I’m moving into a place of my own that has a pool! It’s been fun being at home for the last eight months but I’m ready to be independent again. The new house has a pool. Just finishing up the financing and we’ll be all set. *excited*

My new pool!