As if my life weren't busy enough I decided to work on some changes in my home and see how inexpensively I can do it. Originally we had I bonus room that had a guest sleeping area, office area and all of my craft stuff. We also had a room for Jack and a room Katie and Maddie shared. Katie and Maddie shared the smallest room in the house. Well not anymore.
The past three days (starting Thursday) have been very busy. I took all of Jack's belongings and moved them to part of the bonus room. A few weeks ago I moved my work station out of the bonus room and in to the living room. Once Jack's room was empty, I patched all the holes from the stuff hanging on the walls, sanded, painted, hung new wall border, changed the ceiling fan, and moved all of the items I had for the guest room into Jack's old room.
Except for swapping the ceiling fan, moving some of the furniture and the extra hands it requires to hang wall border I did all of this myself. Tomorrow I will move all of Katie and Maddie's belongings out of their room and start prepping Katie and Maddie's old room to be Jack's. So far I have only spent $15.52 on this project. I will need to buy a few items but I am trying to do all of this for less that $250.00.
I know I will need to buy one can of paint, a few curtains and blind for one of the windows. There will also be a few painting accessories. Over all it will mostly be my time and energy that will be spent. The kids are so excited to get new rooms. Back in January or February I was out shopping and found a $55.00 bed in a bag marked down to $20.00. It is so cool. It has animals, lion, tigers, bears, etc in earthy blues, browns and greens. I was going to save it for Jack for Christmas.
However, Katie and Jack are so excited about getting new rooms I figured I would paint his room with some existing paint we already have that matches the comforter. I will be sure to post pictures when my changes are complete.
We are also getting ready for Maddie's first birthday party, Katie starts kindergarten in about 4 weeks and poor Jack, he is just waiting for Mommy to finish his new room. He is most excited about these changes because his room will now face the front of the house and he can see when Daddy gets home.
It has been along day. I still need to work on a project for Maddie's birthday.
TTFN
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