Upstairs renovations done...almost.

For the past month our upstairs has looked like a war zone. When we purchased our home here in Decatur we knew there would come a time that some minor renovations would need to be done. There are 4 bedrooms upstairs but the previous owners had put french doors in between the master bedroom and the neighboring bedroom and made one of the rooms a walk-in closet/dressing room so to speak. So since we moved in 10 months ago there have been doors between 2 rooms and we had to remove lots of closet organizers/shelving from the master bedroom walls. This left lots of holes to patch and work to be done. Back in early January Mitch removed the french doors, framed the opening, sheetrock, mud and lots of work later it was finally done. Last weekend we set to work on painting the guest room that would soon become Leah's room. The plan was/is to move Leah to the guest room with her queen bed. Move Kiersten into Leah's old room and keep the nursery the way it is in anticipation for baby #3. Leah's existing room is pink so we went with a lavender shade for the new room and I am so happy with how it turned out. More importantly, Leah was super excited with how it turned out. Same furniture that she always had, curtains from her room in new Jersey. Some new bedding and a new picture on the wall and girlfriend is in heaven. I found the adorable "fairy" duvet at companykids.com and the pink fairy picture on the wall half-off at Hobby Lobby. Now Leah wants to play in her room all the time!!! I am so happy she loves it, and it is the perfect girly room for my brown-eyed girl.

Even more exciting is the master bedroom. I have been waiting and waiting to have a bedroom that doesn't have walls that are full of holes! The color of the existing master bedroom/former walk-in closet was a brick, rust red. It was a good color but it made our furniture blend into the walls and really didn't match the bedding I had bought just before we found out we would be relocating from New Jersey. Friday night after the girls went to bed, Mitch and I set to work priming and trimming the room to prepare it for a fresh coat of paint. We settled on a neutral beige shade that we knew would leave us options in the future. It's the same color we had in New Jersey but it looks much lighter here...we think because of ALL the natural light we have. We painted on Saturday morning. It was done by noonish so we set to work moving Leah's room from one room to the next. Furniture was rearranged, curtains and pictures were hung and she was officially moved around 5 pm...we were exhausted but got to work on our room and it feels so good to have so much done.

Still more to do though...There are no closet doors on Leah's closet. The previous owner had removed them (with a room for a closet next door, who needs'em?) and were using the closet to hold a large TV, whatever. We also bought closet organizers so we could keep it nice and tidy and make a place for everything. Also have to get to work on Kiersten's new big girl room. She is about to be done with her crib...trying to climb both in and out. We have her bed together, some of the linens, but pictures, curtains need hung and some of the linens are in the mail. It's going to have a really cute theme and I hope she will love it as much as Leah loves her room. Excited for the big reveal!!!