Farewell Pompay

The office is done (minus a few minor additions)!!!

This is what I did Monday.

Ok...Brace yourself for the before photos.

Our office is in the garage, had become the catch-all room, homeschool stuff room, etc. etc.

I had tried to keep it neat, BUT

I think we all just threw stuff here and there.

I am a bit embarressed to show you.

But here it goes...

I took the photos on a "messier" day so you get the idea just how bad it had gotten.

Ready?

Before

After

(getting rid of a BUNCH of stuff, painting, new curtains, chalkboard, some rearranging, etc.)

This the same corner as the second photo!!!

The lockers came with the numbers already!

Number two was covered with an american flag.

While I LOVE America, dear hubby took it off for me.

Now Thing One and Thing Two can have their own space.

Now for the behind the scenes photos.

Walls after one coat of Kilz.

Dear Hubby took one of me painting the first layer of Kilz.

The room took a total of 4 coats of paint!

2 primar and 2 Buttercream.

Can you say my body still hurts.  (I did it all!)

Dear son came in; I thought he was going to help me paint, but left me this instead!

SOOO sweet and helped my day go along!

I stashed some goodies in here. 

The coffee cans (free) have the pencils, crayons, glue and such for school.

I found this dresser on an online yard sale similar to Craigslist.

I feel in love with it when I saw it, but it was too much for me.

She lowered the price and bingo, it's mine.

I hadn't planned on hiding it in the cranny behind the door

(which stills need to be painted!)

but it just didn't look right next to the lockers.

All of the kids school stuff fits right into the lockers!!!

I was concerned that I wouldn't have enough room since we downsized so much

but it worked. 

Dear hubby made the shelves for the lockers while I painted.

Each kiddo has a locker (though most of it is shared supplies).

The wooden box on the floor I have had since before marriage.

Hubby had been using it as storage in the garage,

but after seeing blog after blog displaying them I brought it back out.

It now holds our library books.  (another clutter situation solved!)

The map is for school and is reversable.

So I hung it up like so.

Thanks for looking.  I hope you had a wonderful weekend!