Operation Spare Room is Complete
This weekend we completed Operation Spare Room, a mission to transform my office into an office/spare-room; move the futon down from upstairs and buy a bunch of new furniture to make the room a little more welcome and warming for guests.After a quick trip to IKEA in New Haven on Saturday I hastily set about constructing a sea of flat-packed furniture. The great thing about this furniture is it went together so easily and it felt really solid when it was finished. We bought a bunch of stuff from the Alve series. Quality, solid wood at IKEA prices; you can’t beat it. Last weekend I completed the shelving in the closet so after constructing an array of draws and shelves I set about re-organizing and cleaning. Perfect. The room looks awesome.
Next week, thanks to a head-start on our taxes, we’re going to totally re-trim the nursery. Greg is going to give us a hand with all the carpentry, it should look great! We’re going to try and organize a massive dumpster for the weekend and have an early Spring clean. Throwing out ALOT of old stuff; in addition to the old trim from the nursery.
We’re switching out the baseboard (”skirting board” if you’re in the UK) for a deeper style, adding some Long Island style wainscoting, chair rail, and some crown moulding (”coving”).
It should look great and I can’t wait to get started. I love building stuff and Greg has all the tools so no messing around. Nailguns, table-saw. We’re gonna’ rip out all the old stuff, patch and re-work everything. I think I can safely say I’ve started “nesting” before Jen has!
Anyway, couple of pictures from the spare room/office. The framed photo is some of my brothers handy work from Venice.
Operation Spare Room!
Today I decided was operation spare room; to convert the walk-in-closet and add some shelving. A quick trip to Lowes and we were all set with materials, and naturally some more tools !
The idea was simple; I just wanted to add some shelf space to the closet so that I could move a lot of what was already in the spare room out and tuck it away. Originally we’d planned a trip to IKEA to buy all the furniture with Emily, but with picture-postcard snow everywhere, driving a U-Haul van all the way to Hartford didn’t seem like a sensible idea so I decided to build the shelving instead.
Next week hopefully we can go to IKEA to really deck out the spare room. Should look good!
.. after a few hours work completing the shelves it took less than 20 minutes to clutter them up again! Job complete we then chilled out in front of the TV and watched Couples Retreat. My stereo arrived from England last week and I can’t wait for the power transformer to arrive. Airlink transformers in the UK have made me one and it’s busily winging it’s way across the Atlantic now. As soon as that arrives we should be in business !
Some Random Photos
Just some random photos we’ve taken this month.
The snow has begun, we’ve been forecast another 3-5 inches by morning! Jen scraping the car was taken this Monday, a great way to start the working week : ) The remote control car Jon sent over last month, with the tires being so big I wondered if the weight disbursment would be enough to take it for a spin. It didn’t work to well !
Chloe looking very chic in her Santa hat. We’ve also started to put the lights up in the trees outside, looks very nice. Very American!
The wonders of Brasso. Jen had never heard of this stuff before, but I found a bottle in the basement and decided to polish up our brass bell outside. Came up a treat!
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